Mohawk Community Builders

I want to create a logo of the Mohawk community "building" a home. Shown through making a puzzle.

Cultivate

I thought of farming when I saw the new word on Illustration Friday (cultivate). So I went with the stereotypical farmer, but made him more hick like.



I'm trying to find a good balance between realistic and cartoon. At the same time I'm trying to figure out my drawing style throughout all of these illustrations.

Stir

There have been a lot of natural occurrences going on, this made me think of more to come and storms stirring. I tried to make it look like it was just the beginning of a massive storm.



The funnel cloud in the sky is just starting to come from the clouds and the whirlpool in the sea has already begun.

Warning

I tried to incorporate a simple design with some detail to it. I couldn't really come up with many ideas for Warning, all I knew is that I wanted something humorous.

International Woman's Day

This illustration was created for International Woman's Day.
I used home pictures of my Mom and my family as reference. The final work has a 4" border with sticky notes about my Mom's life.



This image took several days to complete and I had asked for suggestions several times from my instructor Leif Peng. I think by the time I was satisfied with the look I had around 125 layers, I was afraid my Ps CS4 program was going to crash every time I made an adjustment to the illustration. All in all I think it turned out nicely and is a nice tribute to my Mother for Woman's Day.

Swarm

Here I created another cartoon image and created jpegs of the process. All of the work I have created so far has been on Adobe Photoshop CS4, using a medium sized Intuos 4 Wacom tablet.



This image took several hours to complete and even more time for the thought process. I thought of several different types of swarms before I fell onto this idea. I wanted to keep it fun and interesting.



The peanut and elephants are original creations, but in the background I used 3 different kinds of brushes I had found on deviant art. The clouds, buildings and grass were all brushes.

In the end I think this work turned out really well and fits together nicely.

Layer

I decided to go a different route with my drawing and created something more like cartoon clip art. It took longer for me to decide how I was going to create the work then it did to actually create it.



I went through several different possibilities before I came to this conclusion. The other illustrations looked to realistic to me and I wanted to keep the image simple and child like.