Wednesday, October 30, 2013

The All Hallows Project, Day 11

"Rise." Last poster! Saved the demon for last so I could close on something more iconic. It's been a fun 31 days, but I'm feeling a little poster'd out and I think it's starting to show.

And finally, on this, Halloween Eve. All Hallow's Eve Eve. I present to you the 31st image! This here's a Demon (English).

And that concludes the All Hallows Project! To date this is still one of the largest projects I've every undertaken, and I think a lot of really cool posters have come of it.

And hey! All posters can be purchased in a wide variety of sizes at this here link! So there's that!

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

The All Hallows Project, Day 10

"Power Dragon." Have we done logo design yet? This kind feels like an energy drink."Friendly enemy." Super cutesy today. I mean, c'mon. Even the stuffed doll has a stuffed doll."Echoes of wings left closed." Na na na na na na na na, na na na na na na na na... no, wait...

Deep in the Forgotten Woods, a demonic Click to Enlarge lies in wait...

Dragon (Slovak), Bat (Polish), Scarecrow (Gaelic).

Monday, October 28, 2013

The All Hallows Project! Day 9

"Enter." And yes, it can be solved."Wind, spirit, breeze, ghost, mind, shade (Hebrew has a crazy amount of ambiguity)." How is this different than a ghost, you ask? Well you see, shades are the ghosts of dead people. Obviously."Incubus and Succubus." Had to download a new Cryillic font for this, but it was worth it.

I Click to Enlarge you in your sleep...

Shade (Hebrew), Incubus/Succubus (Belerusian), Minotaur (Macedonain).

Sunday, October 27, 2013

The All Hallows Project! Day 8

"Man, Giant, Colossus." Finding a suitable language for these posters is a growing concern. Get it?"Fly." So it seems in addition to running out of languages I'm running out of monsters. Nothing against The Fly (1958 or 1986), but Slenderman doesn't even have any movies, and he's more universal."Witch." It's been a while since we've had a good black & white grundgy print. So here's that.

Click to Enlarge or Suffer the Consequences...

Giant (Icelandic), Witch (Korean), The Fly (Bulgarian).

Aw yeah! Day 8, baby! And it's just gonna keep going right up until Halloween! We're getting more week out of this week-long series than the nature of the universe allows!

Saturday, October 26, 2013

The All Hallows Project! Day 7

"Man-Bear." This probably should've been a yeti given the Tibetan style, but tomayto tomahto."At a glance." This was going to be a cop-out poster since I had an appointment to get to this morning, but I ended up putting a bunch of detail into it and it turned out kinda nice looking. Whoops."Siren Song, Devour." I feel like my song writing skills have gotten a little rusty. This song doesn't play very well.

The Click to Enlarge is coming from inside the house!

Cyclops (Estonian), Siren (Croatian), Bigfoot (Tibetan).

Friday, October 25, 2013

Thursday, October 24, 2013

The All Hallows Project! Day 5

"Under the bed." Okay, so, technically the bogeyman doesn't have a canonical appearance. But this seems like something a reasonable person would be less than excited to see staring at them while they lie in bed."Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Civil Law, Doctor of Laws, Fellow of Royal Society, etcetera." Well this one was interesting. I wanted to keep the foreign language thing going, but there's really no more quintessentially English monster than the revered London doctor. So instead, the caption is from the first chapter of the "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde," where Mr. Utterson is reading through Dr. Jekyll's post-nominal titles."Even death may die." Art Nouveau. Cthulhu. You're welcome. The blurb is from the Necronomicon passage appearing in The Call of Cthulhu, "That is not dead which can eternal lie. / And with strange aeons even death may die."


Stay Low, Keep Quiet, Click to Enlarge

Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde (English?), Cthulhu (Creole), Bogeyman (Traditional Chinese).

If you're wondering why there's a question mark after the word English up there, now might be a good time to discover the mouse-over text.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

The All Hallows Project! Day 4

"Bandages." Man, check out those sexy right angles. Even the gradient's got it goin' on. On a related note, there is apparently no pixel font for Arabic characters. Please excuse any errors in my 8-bit approximation."Swamp Man." Because apparently "Black Lagoon" in Portuguese is "Black Lagoon." I never did trust proper nouns."Bloodsucker." Symbolism? Or do vampires just not show up on posters? Wooooo...

As she bent down to pick up the meat hook, the last words she uttered, in a panicked whisper, were "Click to Enlarge!"

Day 4! Today we have the Creature from the Black Lagoon (Portuguese), Vampire (Romanian), and Mummy (Arabic).

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

The All Hallows Project! Day 3


"The Wild Hunter." And that's how I developed respect for whoever it was that designed the illustrations for playing cards!"Disappear." With a face like that, you have to be fashionable."Dead." 100% hand pixel'd in MSPaint.

 Click to Enlarge, Igor!

And here we have the Headless Horseman (German), Zombies (Japanese), and The Invisible Man (Norwegian).

Low-res pixel art sorta loses its impact when the image itself is tiny, doesn't it?

Monday, October 21, 2013

The All Hallows Project! Day 2

"Skeletal." This one took far longer than it should have, but I like it. There's something inherently skeletal about line drawings."Hydra." A little more cutesy today. Every kid on the block will want one! Which should be pretty easily accomplished, provided you can dodge those teeth and get a clean cut on the neck."Man is a Wolf to Man." Another exagerated self-shot, made all the more sinister by woodcut engraving. And wolf fangs. Those are sinister too, I guess.

I Was a Teenaged Click to Enlarge

The All Hallows Project continues with Hydra (Greek), Werewolf (Latin), and Skeleton (Spanish)!

As an aside, these were all done in PowerPoint, before I was introduced to Illustrator. It's incredible to look back on these, knowing what I was able to accomplish with such limitations.

Sunday, October 20, 2013

The All Hallows Project! Day 1

"This is a ghost that will lick you." Off to a really strong start with these captions."Grotesque Disarrangement." Lots of fun stuff about this picture. The face is my own, the gray splotches are pictures of various cuts and wounds, and the background is a low-brightness shot of open heart surgery. Sleep tight!"The Climbing Spider." Some people claim spiders aren't proper monsters. To these people, I would like to point out the skyscraper this spider is climbing.

Click to Enlarge, IF YOU DARE!!!

Presenting for the first time on Pixeldin, the All Hallows Project! A series of 31 monster posters I put together in October of last year to celebrate the approach of Halloween.

Last year I had enough free time to make one poster per day. I planned to do the same thing this year, creating an entirely new poster on the same theme just to show how much my skills have improved. But seeing as it's the 20th and my assignments are just now starting to ease up enough to actually post the old series, I guess that's not happening.

First up! Ghost (Italian), Spider (Dutch), and Frankenstein's Monster (French)!

Saturday, October 19, 2013

The Adventure Begins!

Let's a-go!

Here's some stuff for a thing I'm doing!

I was sketching out some pixel sprites, and I liked them so much that I figured I might as well make a game out of them. What kind of game is still sort of up in the air, but I'm leaning towards puzzle-platformer.  

The last time I coded a game from scratch was in middle school, so I'll be interested to see if I can still do things. Relearning all this stuff is going to be time-consuming work, and obviously my school work takes precedence, so I have no idea when I'll have this completed!

Stay tuned!

Friday, October 18, 2013

Poison Apples

I'll share a secret with you. This is no ordinary apple, it's a magic wishing apple...

These apples have been poisoned with the cruelest cinnamon, the vilest vanilla, the rudest rosewater, and lots of sugar. Really pleased with how these turned out, I'll have to get some better pictures when you cool down.

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Responsible Design

Remember kids, writing is dangerous.

Luba Lukova is a wonderful graphic designer who makes wonderful posters and prints along the theme of social justice, and as part of a class assignment I've made this fake exhibition poster for her.

The illustration and type was all drawn by hand and arranged/recolored in Photoshop.

The illustration depicts a hand gripping a large pencil.

The type uses letter forms spaced closely together to form groupings known as words.

I'm learning so much here.

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Driving the Duotone Diner

I love the fake return address on this: Darneder Truss is an anagram of "Return Address," 122 is OCT code for R, 116 is N, so the rest of it reads: REturn aDr.Ess re,TURN. So much yes.

Remember that Food Truck Festival poster I made a while back? One of the concepts is back as a sexy two-tone postcard for my Technical Processes class! The entire image is made from nothing more than Pantone Bright Red, Pantone 357 Green, and some various mixes of the two. These colors were picked because they're very common food colors that mix to a nice, healthy brown.

That prominent printing edge makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside and I'm not totally sure why but I think I'm okay with that.

I've always really liked limited palettes, if for no other reason than because there are only so many ways you can solve it. With total creative freedom, there's always the chance that whatever you do, no matter how brilliant, isn't utilizing the full available potential. This is just simpler. And it's lovely.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Eye Popping

If your eyes are bigger than your stomach you;re gonna have issues.

It has been a long, long time since I last made cake pops. Which is why I'm really pleased with how these turned out. They're made from red velvet cake, so when you bite into your tasty eye-on-a-stick you get a mouth full of red gunk! I love Halloween, it's so festive.

They were made for a Halloween party coming up this Thursday. I'm working on a lot more tricks and treats this week, so I'll be sure to keep you posted.

Monday, October 14, 2013

Hey!

I enjoy doodling. It has a lot of practical applications, from organizing the thought process to developing an early concept to relieving boredom.

Someone - I have no idea who - drew all these lovely little pencil sketches on the table liner at a nearby desk.

All these wonderful expressions and Catbug's just doin' his usual thing, huggin' some toast.

So, being a connoisseur of fine doodles and the owner of several pens and markers, I took it upon myself to ink and color one of the more interesting ones.

"One of these days, Navi. There's gotta be a bottle around here somewhere..."


Again, I didn't draw this, and I have no idea who did, but I certainly enjoyed coloring it in, and I think the finished sketch has a lovely, cartoonish quality to it, and it was fun to translate certain elements into a more color-friendly environment.

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Painting Wonder Woman

Color Theory class at this school involves a lot of painting. Subsequently, if I want to demonstrate that I know what primary colors are and pass this class, I have to learn how to paint. It's like the worst sitcom ever.

Here's Wonder Woman.

I don't read comics so I don't know what Wonder Woman talks like or if she has any catch-phrases or anything but if I did know those things I would put them here.

Here's a chunk of Wonder Woman's face using only blue values.

You know what I'm just gonna pretend I know these catch-phrases since no one could possible call me out on misquoting Wonder Woman: "Gadzooks! My flimflamity face has been paintulated! Blazes!"

Here's that same chunk of Wonder Woman's face using a chromatic triad.

"Paintulated again! Those confounded hooligans must be reckoned with! To the Imperceivable Flying Contraption!"

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Blindly Touring

It's perfectly natural for your glasses to be smaller than your eyes don't be absurd.

My stapler. I believe you have it.

Like some sort of scholarly ghost.

THERE IS NO REASON TO BE UPSET COME LET UNCLE FACEMELT HOLD YOU


These are blind contours. They're self portraits I drew whilst blind without lifting my pen. I waited until the end of the set to explain this because they're wonderfully devoid of any reasonable context.