Nature Project Final

It is easy to consider mankind to be separate from nature. We oftentimes seem so distant from it, cut off from the natural world. In truth, however, we come from nature, we are a part of nature, and eventually we will return to nature. Upon starting this project, what immediately came to mind for me was an old abandoned house I had found previously. The walls are broken and bare, the ceiling caves in, and slowly but surely, nature is beginning to reclaim it. Thus, my project served to illustrate this fundamental concept of the cycle mankind faces. The diptych style of the project allowed me to create two separate views, one from inside and one from out. Both appear to continue endlessly, repeating in on themselves as the house goes on. In this way, I have visualized something not often thought about, working with ideas of decay and creation simultaneously to create something unique.

Almost Completed

Here are a last few images, stuff I either didn’t use or before it was added to the main compositions.

Some in-progress images

Here’s some of the in-progress images I was working on before moving into Illustrator. 

Apples

Used the Gradient Mesh to recreate an apple in stunning 3D detail. Definitely. Yeah.

Another illustrator test

An incredible hand-penned cake illustration.

20/20

Here are the 20 images for our current project. I photographed this old abandoned building in the middle of the woods, and although some are kind of blurry, I’m pretty satisfied overall with how they turned out.

A Late Night Illustrator Post

Here’s some things I did while working with some Lynda tutorials. The first is a cartoon bear face with soulless, haunting eyes and the second is a group of flowers that are probably flower-colored.

Another spooky post

Skulls seem to be a returning motif for this class. Just a small skull + bones done on illustrator.