CMYK Magazine's Top 100 New Creatives #54

 

I recently received my very own copy of CMYK Magazine's latest issue including their Top 100 New Creatives section which I landed 3 images in. Thank you very much to judge Scott Bakal for selecting my work and I also want to thank CMYK magazine for the opportunity.

First image: A Hoot & A Half

Second: Happy Halloween (2011)

Third: Beer Bottle Environment

Congratulations to all the winners!

Best of Show - Ottawa Magazine

Another illustration for the Ottawa Magazine for their food & wine edition. This illustration was for the article Best of Show by David Lawrason. It was conducted at the Ottawa Wine Challenge and experts had to find the best wines out of 337 bottles submitted.

I really wanted to play with this image because I love illustrations involving food/alcohol. I did so many variations for this assignment and I have some of them below:

Shameless Magazine - Making Your Own Medical Decisions

I was asked to complete an illustration for Shameless Magazine back in August for an article by Cate Simpson titled Making Your Own Medical Decisions.The title of the article is self-explanatory but I strongly urge you to pick up a copy. This magazine is targeted toward female and trans-gendered youth which I believe is very important in today's society.

This is a larger version of the illustration. I am very happy with how it turned out. It's a simple image but it really gets the point across.
  

I worked with the wonderful Sheila Sampath on this project and here are a few of the roughs for the assignment:

Ottawa Magazine

 I was recently asked to complete an illustration for the Ottawa Magazine. The article is titled 'Get A Real Job' by Fateema Sayani and it's about how modern day workers must rely on multiple streams of income to support themselves. 

I decided to play with multiple 'streams' being my main visual reference and work from there. Ultimately I am very pleased with the outcome 

Here are some other examples of roughs I completed. I had about 12 ideas and the art director narrowed them down to two:

It's a {Travis}ty!

-BEGINNING OF RANT-

So the new issue of travis magazine came out. The cover looks really awesome but alas, done by an animation student. Yet the issue is called the 'illustration' edition. I don't know if I agree with opening up the magazine to animation students... a lot of the professors were rather displeased with it. A lot of students work got blown up too big and became pixalated while others, myself included, had their work cut up in the gutter of the page.

Like it's an honor to be published in the magazine in the first place and I'm very grateful but it sucks that my image was destroyed by the gutter. Why would the person who was in charge of the layout of these pages do that? The entire concept of my image is in the woman's face... there isn't really much of a point to it if it's just going to be cut out... I dunno.

- END OF RANT - lol

Magazine Class

I am really into my new illustration elective: magazine illustration today. Each week we're given an article from a magazine/newspaper and we have to illusrate it. My favorite part of the class is that we each have different articles so critiques don't get boring. Above is a piece I did for an article about a True Gay Exoricsm. It's about how men volunteer to have the gay 'exorcised' out of them because it is their belief that their gay thoughts are the result from demonic possession.

Next is a portrait assignment we were randomly given. I got Anne Hathaway as Catwoman. Catwoman will be played by her in the new upcoming Batman installment.