A Process

step 1:
Sketch the image, here is me hanging out with the Beatles, beautiful n'est pas?

Sketch

I'll upload the next step as I get on with it

Color Fixing

Here's that same piece I posted last week, but with a few changes to the tone and colors, just to bring the whole piece more feeling. See if you can tell the difference : 

Old Piece

New Piece with color changes

I made an online portfolio!

Pretty much the same stuff that is on my blog, but now it looks so spiffy and concise!
http://annaliseolson.carbonmade.com/

Alejandro Jodorowsky stories

Class assignment: pick a short story by Alejandro Jodorowsky, a very imaginative man, and reinterpret and illustrate it. I picked a story called "Wedding Night" basically about a man and a women who get into bed and take off their wigs, glass eyes, fake ears, one arm and leg each, and in pieces they fall in to bed but feel as if they are one because of their great love. That's just me paraphrasing, but I came up with this image as a reinterpretation of that story:

this is done in watercolor

Words On Wheels Poster

Baltimore Metro, Baltimore City Schools and MICA have a project they do every year where Baltimore City students, in elementary and middle school, write poems that are illustrated by MICA students and then winning images are chosen and put into Baltimore city buses!
I'm working on this project in my Illustration class this week with Whitney Sherman.
I have a poem called School Lunch, so I went to the store and bought a bunch of condiments, ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, relish, jam, and even tater tots and chips, and wrote the entire poem using realy elements and then photographing them.

My finished poster

I had to write the poem on my friend's roof in ketchup

My Inspirations

I thought it might be nice to show some images of artist's work that I continually reference and look at.
Just a reminder: This is NOT my work, just work I love looking at.

Fay Jones

Sean Qualls

Chris Appelhans (correct me if i'm wrong please)

Scott C

Serge Bloch