Commercial Art! Of A Sort.

So, first off, sorry to friends' blogs that I'm usually good about visiting, I promise I'll get to those soon. Second off, I realize the Hundred Faces Blog hasn't updated in like a month. I've honestly been too busy, it'll start getting back on track in a couple weeks hopefully.

Anyway, I was recently involved in a group that was making a magazine (yes, a real one, though as it's still technically a school project there will only ever be the one issue we've made available for purchase/in existence). Though each member of the team contributed an equal amount of article content, we also had our specialties--I was our illustrator, as it were. I've decided to post my favourite images here, for display and kicks.




Here's the magazine's cover, uncropped and sans title and article highlights (hence all the space). It's composed entirely of royalty-free stock images/textures, with some shadow/blending work in Photoshop.




This was done for a piece on digital communications. This and all the rest of the following images were created entirely in Photoshop. I realized only after we put it in that that one guy looks sort of like Fry from Futurama.



A bird, done for an opinion piece on Twitter.




This is actually a recycled piece, originally done for a project where I put together an album as a "soundtrack" to go with M.T. Anderson's sci-fi novel Feed. (I very, very highly recommend it.) There was a book review of Feed in the magazine, and so I removed some text from the old image and re-appropriated it for the article. The image itself is taken from a passage in the book that describes exactly this sign. The sign itself was in an unnamed, devastated third-world country, hence the rusty tin background. This was mainly made through playing around with filters in Photoshop, along with a set of custom splatter brushes. By the way, to lend a little context to the image, feeds (the technology that the book is named after) are implantable chips that basically make the internet a 24-7 presence in the user's mind. I think the symbology of the depiction, in that light, is pretty blunt.








These three cuties were part of a recipe section. In order, they're a S'more, a bowl of Oatmeal, and a Pesto & Cheese Sandwich. The S'more is my personal favorite. I like how I got the graham crackers to look.


That's all for this entry, I guess. There were other illustrations as well, but these were my personal faves.


Stay tuned eventually, hopefully soon, for an entry on advertisements.

Holden Out.