Morlock Adventure

Morlock adventure can be found here! : http://pbckt.com/aR.FKQsR Group members were Jeremy Wilson, Steve Schiavello, and Nima Sadooghi

Artist Inspiration Assignment

For this assignment, we were given an artist to which we had to research their style, and create a piece of art in a way that was from inspiration of said artist. I was assigned James Ptterson, A.K.A. Presstube. A lot of his work is done in flash, so I decided to create  my work in a 'screen-shot' style. I noticed that a lot of his characters are very crudely drawn in a 'sketchy' and rough sort of way, usually keeping it black and white. I also noticed that his creations are not traditional art form or normal everyday things. They are usually imagined objects or creatures with similar resemblances to human or plant characteristics. I also noticed he likes to add weird hair and facial hairs to his characters. This inspired me to come up with this.

 It was somewhat easy for me to come up with this type of picture because I am not that great of an artist, and I feel I can better draw abstract things that don't need to look a certain way. What initially launched my ideas was one of his Flash projects in which a pair of forearms and hands are one of the first things you see.

From this I tried to imagine what was previously attached to these, and from there just used an abstract and weird guided imagination to create a James Paterson inspired picture.

Skateboard Work and Completion!

The inspiration for my skateboard design idea came to me while I was sitting in my hot tub. It was a cold night, with a very clear sky. I didn't even know where to start for an idea, other than the fact that it had to be 'Predator' themed. Even though it was a clear night, there were some passing clouds. the mixture of the heat from the hot tub, the steam rising from the hot tub, and the head of a lion I envisioned in the clouds all came together to conclude as my skateboard design. It was very hard the next day to put what was in my head onto paper, but after a few rough sketches, the idea took a physical form.



Once it was on paper, I began to implement it into Illustrator.

The style I was going for was the sort of 'child-like' styles on some boards in skate shops, and came up with a simple first draft. I left the lion head out as the final and most important part. To implement a texture that we had to make, I took a picture of ceiling stucco, and used that for the texture of the moon. The texture for the volcano was from Illustrator. I finished and refined pretty much the whole board until it was time for the lion head.

I had a tough time coming up for a design for the mane, and also had to reference Google images of lions to come up with a face idea.



I used many tools such as warp, crystallize, wrinkle, and twirl.



By mistake, in adding a radial blur and making a compound path I came up with an interesting alternative

But decided to stick with my original and mounted that to my board.