Better Late Than

I have yet to become the blogging master that I aspire to be. As you may have guessed I have finished Knight quite some time ago. 

The final stage of this illustration was to paint digitally on top of the final collage. I  have found that using textures and shadows helps the drawn and painted pieces become more cohesive with the photographed elements. I ran into some trouble with the knights. The final drawing of the knights had both too close in proximity. I realized this dilemma when I was fitting the pieces of the final collage together. I spent a decent amount of time on the knight drawing and the main nurse figure was blocking a good portion of their hands and swords. I decided to fix the problem in photoshop by splitting the knights into two, and then moving them further apart which allowed for more of their details to be seen. On the downside, the sword's edges and directions no longer matched up on both sides. I then had to redraw the knights' swords in photoshop in order to get their relationships to match. Overall I am happy with the final image. I believe I have stayed true to the original idea of the first sketch.

For my next project I am going to create an illustration based on a few lines taken from the T.S. Eliot poem The Wasteland:

Do

You know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember

Nothing?

  I remember

Those are pearls that were his eyes.

Are you alive or not? Is there nothing in your head?

                   But

that Shakespeherian Rag.

It's so elegant.

So intelligent. 

I intend to create and photograph as many elements as possible for this illustration. The head will be made of red yarn, the fish will be made of clay, and for the first time I am going to try to build a miniature cityscape.

Welcome to the Aaron M Kober Illustration Blog!

Hello and thank you for visiting my new blog. My name is Aaron Kober, and I am an illustrator. My art is a combination of drawing, photography, installation, sculpture, and digital art. The photo-composite style that I work with was inspired by years and years of watching cinema. I enjoy the narrative qualities found in film, and I try to set up my illustrations as if they were a movie still.

The purpose of this blog will be to introduce the process that I use when creating my illustrations. The first piece I will be working on is the untitled sketch shown to the left. The initial sketch is the most important step in my process. The sketch itself will act as a blue print for the rest of the illustration elements. Most characters and objects in this illustration will be drawn or photographed separately. The first step will be to photograph the model, rocks, and random objects for textures.

Also I will be introducing some other fun projects that I am currently working on. The first being What the F movie? WTF movie? celebrates that moment of channel changing or room entering when one sees a scene of a movie totally out of context, and in that one glorious moment makes a viewer say something along the lines of "WTF is this??" The first movie will be Witness starring Harrison Ford and bad guy Danny Glover. The other project that I will be introducing is Fairly Comic. Fairly Comic will take fairy tales and turn them into vintage comic covers. This project may take place in the more distant future. Thank you again for visiting.