Tuesday, March 08, 2011

GONI vs. LOWERY // remix project

I've been lucky for the past year or so to share an office at SCAD with Goni Montes,
a really great illustrator with a style very different from mine.
I came up with a little idea for a project/exercise and here are
the results.

The premise: Since we have such different styles, I wondered what
it would look like if we swapped our rough pencils, and the other
artist had to take them to a finished illustration. We had to choose
images that we had NOT seen the final art on. These were real
projects, done for real clients.

Goni gave me this (a project he'd done for Tor books):



And I gave him this (a project I'd done for a Disney iphone app):



Again, neither of us had seen the other's final illustrations,
which looked like this:

Here's his final image for Tor:



And here's mine:



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The results:

I did this based on his sketch:



I completely read the water snake things wrong! I saw them as planets!

He did this based on mine:

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