Dinking around with Photoshop and a brush ben drawing from my sketchbook. Prints and iPod cases available.

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So, this is our 2nd illustration in context project for the Hartford MFA Illustration program. Our assignment was to do a piece inspired by Southern California, particularly Los Angeles and Pasadena. We spent a week there back in November, got to see a lot of interesting things and meet interesting people. We had good opportunities to play too, and we ran around the city like kids trying to see and experience as much as possible before we left. Our first day there at the hotel we were hanging around on the balcony and snapping pictures. We made up a pretend indie band that Shelley christened “Jupiter Flytrap”, a band so underground that nobody’s ever heard of them – as goes with the typical jokes about indie bands. I likes the idea of doing a venue poster – kind of always wanted to do one – so I decided that Jupiter Flytrap, a fictional non-existent band – needed one. My classmates Shelley and Becca were models for the band members who I have decided to name Boots and Rhonda. Not particular on which is which. I imagine them as a kind of ManuChao-CocoRosie-FlightoftheConchords-ZiggyStardust mash-up. Yes.

Momiji was one of the first books I illustrated in 2003 while collaborating with author George Herman after Nine Dragons: A Contemporary Fable. It is now available to buy for the Kindle on Amazon. It’s some of the work I was doing when I was just learning how to illustrate. It’s also some of the goriest work I’ve ever done. Have fun!

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My visual design students’ first project is to create a piece that illustrates the concept of unity, shape, and value in black, white, and grey. This is my demonstration made with cut paper and ink. I got a little carried away. I guess it’s a visual joke on cut and paste, actually it really doesn’t make much sense at all. Unfortunately that won’t stop me from posting it all over the internet.

-Kit

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The Dancing Plague of 1518

I just got back from my first two week contact period at the Hartford Art School Illustration MFA program. I haven’t felt so overwhelmed, tired, blissfully happy, and creatively inspired as I did in those two weeks then I have in nearly two years. The first week with Bunny Carter and Dennis Nolan required over 300 thumbnails, 6 comps, and a color study of The Dream Assignment. It could be anything we wanted but had to focus on narrative and story telling. Very challenging but I have a revived appreciation for the process.

These are the new comps after Bunny and Dennis and 300+ thumbnails:

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I’m actually really proud of these. I think there is a greater focus on the immediate plight of the people afflicted by the dancing plague. Greater clarity, and I think these are also much more interesting.

 Week 2

East o’ the Sun and West o’ the Moon

Our second week was spent with Ted and Betsy Lewin making a 32 page dummy for a children’s book. No small task yet I still felt compelled to take a popular Norwegian fairy tale and convert it into an entirely sequential narrative. There’s an obvious drop in the quality of the comps as it neared 2am on the morning it was due and I began to run out of colorase pencils. Here’s the whole dummy done in five days.

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-Kit

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