Climate Change

a bas relief assignment to illustrate climate change.  I thought the best metaphor for today's and the future climate would be a lot like children performing a play.... chaotic, unpredictable and will only get worse with the performance.
I think its always much more fun to take a serious issue and turn it slightly more lighthearted.

Final piece, I choose to construct out of cardstock on wood, I thought paper would seem more whimsical and fun like flat props on a stage.

plus the rest of my preliminary sketches to help work out the final idea

Mary had a little....Lamb?

a project in my Illustrating Literature class to illustrate a sequential piece.  I decided to play with the "Mary had a little lamb" nursery rhyme.

 initial character sketches

at first I wanted Mary to be a little girl obsessed with sheep who dresses her dog like one.

then Lamb turned into a wolf wearing one of Mary's stuffed sheep toys to convince her to play with him

I really liked playing with borders in this one, alternating the movement of the characters in and out of the scenes

I also wanted the piece to work well as whole image and not just as individual scenes

and fin! it all became stitched and buttoned together