October 2009

posted: October 27, 2009

When I was in my sophomore year in undergrad, I remember being the only person that wanted to truely explore the the realm of digital art. I saw nothing wrong with artist that wanted to paint in traditional media, I just knew that it was not for me. I wanted to get in front of the learning curve and really understand the medium. Last September I was talking to my friend Graham, who has aspirations to being an illustrator/animator about how I wanted to make my bread and butter in Editorial and book jacket illustration, and nbspthen not long after, the economy crashed.
I created an entire book focused on targeting to market myself to the print industry, and a lot of places I had interest in are folding left and right. This isn't what I imagined when they said it would be hard to break into industry.
So instead of freaking out, just focusing on what is going on now, I am looking forward to what the future is. The future I see is in E-Paper, and in the Kindle's.
I believe that it's only a matter of time (like 10-20 years) before they stop printing books and possibly magazines and everything can be found on Kindles. What makes they more appealing than viewing them on your computer screens? As you will notice, your eyes probably hurt when you look at the computer screen. This is because when your looking at your computer screen, your looking at a 72 dpi display of whatever you got up. It's the lowest dpi that your eye can handle before the images are not translatable. Kindles on the other hand are rocking out at 250 - 300 dpi which is what print is typically seen in. E-Paper is the next wave of technology, made for magazine publishing and advertising. Folks in Japan are putting a lot of money into this because not only is it inexpensive, but it keeps a whole lot of trees from being cut down. Also E-paper/e-ink is pretty much the future in motion graphics on a low fi level to send out a message or advertise.(check out the link above.)
So what can illustrators of tomorrow do to prepare? Well for a class assignment, I was to create a Gif image animation made in photoshop, to illustrate/animate transportation/transport. Simple enough. This is the first image I have ever created that is animated, and it is something that could be the future of illustration. Low fi animated gif's for editorial illustration, E-paper advertisements, and a ton of other possibilities.

Edited Note: I updated the animation with a bird flying across recently. I had to save the image with less colors so it worked for the web. None the less it still looks awesome!

Personal Work, Worth Mentioning

posted: October 13, 2009

So over the summer, I got my book making on and I made myself a sketchbook. I have pasted these images already on my blogger this summer but I wanted to bring these into this blog to show what I do in my sketchbook. These were all little experiments to try and draw without reference. Heres just a few of my favorites.

Sketchbook

posted: October 12, 2009

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