1st assignment of 2011

Whew! It's been a busy week for me. I'm pretty beat, considering I've been staying up late working on my various illustration projects, especially today when I got 1 hour of sleep, haha. Anyways I'll begin to post my work slowly in the upcoming days.

I'll begin with my first project of the spring semester for my Illustration Essentials class.
It's a visual metaphor portrait of another student we had to "interview" or get to know during class.

4 x 4 inches | 0.05 micron ink pen

Hybrid Family

Below is piece I did that will be part of my last Illustration project for this semester -- Artist Book/Portfolio=)
It started off as a doodle in my sketchbook as just some little hybrid picture that I thought was cute. But then as the composition and concept evolved in head, I realized that what I was ending up with could also be a metaphor...but that is up to your interpretation as always=)

finished product

original sketch

Technical info: 
 the finished illustration is done on 8.5 x 11'' paper
& was drawn with 0.1 and 0.05 ink pens