Of missing persons

These are the first five pages for my comic book-assignment at Ringling. It was the last one, and it had to be done in six weeks time. The fifth page is just composed of the imagery I managed to finished, no lay-out, and none of the pages has got any text yet. There is a sixth page, but I'll upload it when I've finished all of them, and then I can start on the second half of the story. I'm not gonna write down what it's about yet, since I don't want to spoil too much yet.

Rude boy

Next assignment was a CD cover, and the choice of artist and illustration was completely free. At the moment Rude boy by Rihanna had just come out, and I was kind of addicted to it. I took elements from the clip and arranged them to my personal taste. What I wanted to come out most was the joyful and playful eighties vibe, together with the vibrant colors and African motifs.

Jennifer Connelly

In this assignment we had free pickings of whichever singer, actor/actress, or person in the spotlight we found interesting to illustrate. The idea was to depict that person in such a fashion as to illustrate a certain aspect of their life or personality. It was to be more of a symbolic portrait than a full-on photographic rendition. I chose Jennifer Connelly because she is one of my favorite actresses of all time, and I put her in a surreal setting surrounded by silhouetted strangers. These actually represent her filmic love-interests; she has a knack of playing a heroine who falls for freaks and aliens. in this case The Hulk from the movie with the same name, Keanu Reeves in The day the earth stood still and David Bowie from Labirynth, way back in the day.

Movie posters

This is the first asignment I had over in America, we had a list of cult movies we could choose from to make two posters of... I chose One flew over the cuckoo's nest, where I put an older Jack Nicholson in the straight jacket since I had the impression he was becoming more and more cookoo with age... The second one I opted for was The magnificent seven. The type was somewhat rushed because we had so much work following this assignment, so I'm not terribly happy with it. Of course, if St-Lucas had ever done the effort to actually teach us typography and lay-out, I might be somewhat further, but oh well.

Amelle Len

Amelle is an Enabler. She can activate any text containing mystical encoding or magical programming. To outsiders it looks like an invocation, but in fact it's much more complicated than that. It's considered a rarity to have the insight into the complicated and abundant data surrounding even a single word of such incantations. Everything is important here; the correct intonation, the right mind-set, and the complete and utter concentration on the subject one is handling. Here she's just summoned one of her favorite elemental familiars: Maelach, an earth dragon. She's not wearing her bright yellow prescription glasses because she sees way better when there's magic activity-pollen in the air. Amelle is very down to earth, keeping somewhat to herself most of the time, but it's not hard to surprise a smile out of her, since she's always genuine and has the best intentions for everyone. When she gets angry or frustrated she's almost completely unable to physically express that stress because of her gentle nature. This internal tension can then causes certain natural or physical elements around her to become unbalanced, which sometimes results in very dangerous atmospheric discharges (or some very strange occurences, like goldfish raining from the sky. This actually has happened twice) So in those moments she has to isolate herself until she has calmed down.

-Favorite food; Anything with fruits or lots of vegetables

-Favorite music; Capsule, Perfume, SNSD...

-Favorite label; All Saints

-Catchphrase; "Uh, I guess so.."

Stretch (Aka Kyle Dorton)

He's from a small town in Texas, Colorado, called Chanceux. He was lucky to live out his youth in a very tolerant community, where his ability earned him the nickname Stretch. Not only can he lengthen and twist his limbs to incredible proportions, he's also able to modify his molecular structure into any other substance he wishes. He can, for example, become hard as titanium, increase his volume by three times or even change his features and anatomy to match that of anyone he chooses to mimick. And simultaneously, as well. Sometimes, though, going through too many changes in one day can lead to periods of regression, not uncommon to the people with abilities. He then has to lock himself up for half a day in a dark room and suffer through horrible migraines. He has medication that soothes those ailments, but a cure hasn't been found yet, and scientists fear it's genetic. All of this has made him cautious, as opposed to his reckless youth, and less volatile. He tries to compensate for his varying strength by exercising. A lot. He still is very open-hearted and a goofball, and sometimes he can be quite clumsy. He is probably the most steadfast of the gang though. Admires Myra for her fearlessness, and might have a crush on her... Maybe. He's very secretive on those things. No-one really knows much about his personal life. Oh, and speaks with y'all and all and ain't it the darndest thang!

-Favorite food; Chickin!

-Favorite music; Wolfmother, Jimi Hendrix, The Pixies

-Label; Whut?

-Catchphrase; "Now I don't know if tha's sucha good idea... "

Cornelia Bachmann

Myra's grandmother.  On a sidenote, it's not as if Myra is one of those typical orphaned heroines, her parents aren't dead, they just don't have any abilities and are therefore not of interest right now.  Cornelia is something of a dimension-manipulator.. Don't know what that translates into yet lol.  I just know there's a lot of floaty glossy cubes and geometrical stuff going on.  And as for her appearance; she is wealthy beyond reason, so she cn afford to buy the most extravagant outfits straight of the runway of the underground avant-garde.  She won't find anything of her liking anywhere else anyway.  She's very doting on her granddaghter.  The only person other than herself she'd spend money on..  She and her husband have a kind of stiff cease-fire going on, they're both too proud to divorce.  He never was fond of finding out she had powers.  Having gone through some hardships has made her tough, though she's less severe than you'd expect, and she's not devoid of wry humour.  And still creepily spry for her age.

Favorite food: Anything from a molecular restaurant

Favorite music: Moby

Label: Pugh, Margiela

Catchphrase: "..."