Goodbye Elys

I just finished my Elys. Forever. Wow. Now all that's left is printing, cutting, and mounting them to board and hanging them on Tuesday and attending the reception. Honestly, it was not bad at all. Especially considering how many said it was torturous. I'm not going to post the new images on here, but they will be on my website soon.

What will be on here soon is a brand new image for an article for the New Scientist titled 'How Your Face Betrays Your Personality.' I'm not going to post the finish yet because I still have more work to do- but here's the drawing and thumbnails for it. Don't know why you'd want to see thumbnails but you're going to anyway.



I found out today that my senior class, or some specific committee of seniors (I'm not sure which) , voted for me to be interviewed by a committee of seniors for the illustration portfolio day blog. I'm not sure why at the moment, but i'll let you know. I'm just as confused as you are. Other seniors selected were: Dan Hughes, Lawrence Burns, and Adrienne Langer. There are more but I don't know who they are. I'm excited. And flattered and confused. I've never done an interview before.

The next post should contain a finished and two revised images and maybe sketches.

Lots and Lots

Got a lot of stuff to tell about because it's spring break.

I just put the finishing finishing finishing touches on my Elys. If you are reading this and you don't know what the hell the "Ely" is, well, the "Ely" is the name of the illustration major's theses' (is that how you say it?) The reception is March 29th 3-5pm.

So If they are approved on Tuesday, then that is how they will hang on the following Tuesday. So excited! I also just finished up two other images I've been working on. One editorial piece and one album art image.

This is the editorial piece. It's titled "Born Believers: How Your Brain Creates God"

I think you can figure out the rest from there. Took me a long time to figure out how I was going to make the subtle deity figure look. I'm still not sure it works as good as it could. If I fix it i'll repost it. I wish I had saved screen shots of the progress, because he started off as a big featureless giant, then he slimmed down and got a face and a really ornate halo, and then I lost all that and went with this.

Above: Entire image. Six CD sized panels that fold out from the front cover and form a poster. Below: Detail of the front cover panel.

Below: Detail of the back cover panel with tentative titles tacken from the As Tall As Lions myspace. All titles belong to As Tall As Lions.

So it's designed as six cd sized panels that fold out from behind the back of the front cover. The type is subject to a little change.

I'll have these images up on my website soon enough and the new versions of the Elys will replace the old as well. I have a lot of sketching to do now, for the Uarts open house poster and from another editorial piece im starting titled "How your face betrays your personality" I'll have those sketches up soon.

P.S.
Go ahead and treat yourself to a mcdonalds shamrock shake. They're delicious.

Manning up

I guess it's time to man up and start blogging. I should have some images posted soon but for now this is just an introduction. In time there will be more informal images on here and not just the select few finishes that are on my website.

www.dansmithillustration.com.