(Top right) Spot Illustration for an article discussing the Most Expensive Retail Locations. I based my concept on the Avenue de Champs-Elysees in Paris, France moving up in rank on the list as London's Bond St. moved lower on the list. I represented Paris as the Arc de Triomphe (a boot [stepping on]) and London as Big Ben (broken toy). Done in gouache.
(Top right and bottom right) are based on an article about the rise and fall of the sun tan, an article from Flaunt Magazine. One is pro tan, on is against tanning. I love exaggerating hair, using the head as a platform to exaggerate (can be found a lot in fashion illustrators). I wanted to push that more than anything while executing the key points. I hope you can guess which reps the concepts they belong to.
Finally,
Final projects were based on a celebrity personality. I LOVED doing this one because my muse was Prince, one of my favorite artists. I admire Prince as a musician and how mysterious and really deep this guy is! I chose to use doves to symbolize him, If you're thinking of "When Doves Cry" good, but that was only the half of the concept. I've used "the love symbol" that he went by solely in the 90's to frame his body and played with opacity and layers in photoshop after rendering this piece traditionally in gouache and acrylic.
More to come.
