alice een color

does this look familiar? earlier this year (winter '10 semester), i decided to take my alice digital for jake parker's digital painting class. i could definitely go back and fine-tune this, but i'm not going to worry about it for now.

alice een vundaland!

...dunno where the german accent came from. has nothing to do with anything.

i just realized i never posted my 'alice in wonderland' dummy book from last year. here it is! in reality, i drew with blue colored pencil on green-tea colored paper (like the paper in this post). love drawing on toned paper. awesome in real life = weird on screen. so i made 'em b&w. and it's folded like a book, hence the crease marks in the scan. if i have time, i'll photoshop them out. or maybe it helps to see the crease. for now, ...meh.

wee square cards

first of all, sorry about the posting hiatus. i was planning on posting more often but, well, life happened.

anyway -- check out my new business cards! what do you think?

i thought they turned out pretty decently for the little time i had to design them (when i was on "vacation") -- of course, there's already half a dozen things i'd change about them. i wanted to get them done by tomorrow because i'm doing another TOMS event (like the one i did last time)! i'm excited. you should be excited, too.

ps, notice it says 'illustration and design'...do you know that i also do graphic design and photography as well as illustration? those have actually been taking up a good amount of time recently so you might see some of that on this blog soon. just a heads up...but i'm not making promises. :) art really is a way of life, you know?

drawing is my favorite.

{except for writing this sentence, i'm skipping obligatory "sorry for not posting for so long" preface....}

this past semester, i took a head painting class. as part of our out-of-class sketchbook assignments, we had to draw portraits with different lighting situations. i decided to draw them bigger and with nu pastel and conte crayon because i miss figure drawing. so, here they are! it's been a while since i've drawn, so it makes sense that the consecutive order of the drawings were also, in my opinion, good --> better --> best.

the two pinkish ones are self-portraits in nu pastel and it was fun to draw from the mirror. the others are drawn from photos in conte.

yeah. the paintings will be posted soon, but drawing's still my favorite.

estefaaaaann

well, pre-production for estefan is wrapping up! it's been a really fun journey to be a concept artist for the film and i've learned a lot. here's just some REALLY EARLY preliminary work from the film.

clockwise, from top left: style studies, refined prop study, quick salon shape studies, environment light & color study. we...study...lots

part of the 100 quick sketches we were asked to do at the beginning, just to explore ideas and directions

more quick sketches for estefan

these might look familiar...more refined sketches and my final estefan concept

studies for clara

part of rough style guide

yeah. not the most aesthetically pleasing portfolio ever, but i pulled it together in like...an hour? and a half, maybe? but, IT'S DONE. they just wanna see that i've been working. ...i have.

btw, this film is gonna be RAD. our director, design lead, producer and story lead are just rock solid (i work with them most) and such great people. some of my favorites. we also have such a fun crew working on the film. at times it's been stressful for sure, but when everyone works together, there's some crazy synergy that goes on. 

style your sole!

if you aren't familiar with TOMS shoes, you should think about fixing that. {read here to see why you really should buy a pair.}

this past saturday they had a promotional event, style your soul, where customers could purchase shoes and then artists would paint them at nordstrom's.

together with fellow local artists and friends hannah, sean, colt, jordan and hilary and others, i painted, markered, and drew on shoes for six hours. it. was. a BLAST.

within half an hour of the event's opening, we were already at full capacity for the waiting list of who's shoes would be painted. we would have loved to stay forever to paint shoes, but we weren't in charge of how that went down.

[this beautiful piece work work is hannah's]

unfortunately, i didn't get shots of all the shoes i did. but here are cool details

soooo....
if you have a pair of unworn shoes that you would like custom painted, we will paint some for you!

...they don't have to be TOMS shoes (but way cooler if they are, or course)
...and YOU can choose your design (or just give us a vague idea and we'll paint some Awesome).

let's talk: kgull.art@gmail.com

i brought my camera and went snap-happy. these photos were taken by me, sean and hannah. for more pictures, check out hannah's post about the event.

jack became my best friend

...over the past week.

forgive my blog hiatus. this is why:

this is work for my concept art class, taught by jake parker. if...you couldn't tell, it's jack and the beanstalk.

i most definitely did the majority of the work for this in...well...a few days? i sketched and inked them by hand, then took them digital. the film kind of took over my life this semester and the jack stuff was a huge push at the end. but i'm not done. i am calling it good for now; check back soon and you'll hopefully see better inked figures and such.

feedback is encouraged and welcome!

didn't davinci say something like, "art is never finished, only abandoned at an interesting point"? well....yup. guess that's how we roll.