I'm Moving!!!!!!!!

Hello Hello,

To my followers, and you random browser.
After trying out Tumblr, I have found it much more accommodating to my style and needs. So I have decided to relocate there. I have moved my best work to Tumblr, and will be adding new work there only. So don't look for new work on this blog anymore. Thanks for everything blogger, but I must move on.

My new Tumblr can be found here:  http://rjames22.tumblr.com/

Thea-Thea-Thea Thats all Folks!

-Ryan James

Winter Quarter 2012

The Fisherman's Trinket

Self Promo Postcard

Work from last Quarter

So I've been a busy busy bee last quarter, the reason why I haven't updated in a while, Im currently working on a traditional painting for commission, im just waiting for the final green light so I can get all the materials I need for it. So I decided to update this thing and show off some fresh work. Hope you like.

These are from my Type and Image class

Illustration for Romeo y Julietta cigars, I designed a cigar box based on this illustration

This is my Alter Ego Self Portrait

These are a series of narrative images I did for portfolio class.

Olivia Wilde

Well I dont usually do realistic stuff as you can probably tell by, I dunno looking at anything ive done before... but I thought I'd try my hand at it, to see if I can do it at all or not. And who better to try it out on than the lovely Olivia Wilde? This took me approximately 5 hours, but yes I did work from a photograph so I do feel a little dirty... but it was a practice of execution not creativity so I dont feel that bad lol. I did have alot of fun with this actually, rendering all the minute details and the textures.... I could definitly do something like this again.

Megan's Endless Fall

So I held a little mini competition on my facebook, and the winner gota free illustration of whatever they wanted. My friend Megan won and wanted me to illustrate her in the game Portal in the middle of "the endless fall."

I was kinda nervous because I had never done a commission like this before, and although I wasn't getting paid for it, it was still supposed to be a "prize" lol so It would of been pretty embarrassing if it came out like crap. All in all though I think it came out pretty good, and she liked it alot and allowed it to grace her profile pic on facebook lol. So maybe I'll be open to commissions in the future :)

:D

Not much to say bout these really... Experimenting with a new way of coloring that my professor showed the class one day. Changed up a little of the finishings to make it my own, but yeah Im pretty happy with how the final results look :)

A Day at the Beach

(Bromance)

Summer Peach

Although very little....the majority voted Peach, so we got Peach! lol....

Overall the whole vote for a subject thing was not very successful haha so ill be removing the illustration "vote for" feature of the blog for now.

Ofcourse its all in your head!.... But why should that mean it isn't real?

God I loved the last Harry Potter soo much, I just had to do something to commemorate it, especially being the last installment of the series! (zomg sad face) When i read the book so much things struck me hard on an emotional level, and I was wondering if the movie would be able to tug at the same heart strings, and it was extremely successful... loll

So for this piece I wanted to include some of the scenes that were really special and outstanding to me, being, Harry's mother speaking to baby Harry before she's murdered, Ron and Hermoine's long awaited kiss, and the Dementors looming over Hogwarts. I also felt it was important to include the duel between Harry and Voldemort, because its become the series' trademark since the 4th movie. I wanted to include the horcuxes but I felt it may of cluttered the piece so I just included the snake, (and I suppose Harry if you want to count him lol) I have Snape and Voldemort next to each other because they represent Harry's protector and killer.

Also, and this is probably for the most astute observers but I did want to include the Deathly Hallows symbol in the piece, so I arranged the composition to make the shape. Harry, elder wand and where the spells crash is ur straight line, tip of the want down the sides making your triangle and Harry at the center making your circle. Anyways nuff of that, hope you like.

Next update will be the Princess Peach spread as voted.

Today at work....

Well its my last day at work, and whilst finishing the last of my projects here at work i started doing a sketch of a dude, decided to make him ugly and scary, then I decided he bore some resemblance to Gannondorf... so I rolled with it, and straight up made him Gannondorf. And I saw that it was good, so I decided to make Zelda and Link too, and on the 3rd day I rested.

I do not own Gannondorf, Zelda or Link, they are copyright nintendo.

First update for the Summer (and in a while)

These are just some quick warm up sketches that I did while at work not working, that I took to finish on a lark, I had no intention of finishing them when I started haha.







This one actually started off as a cover design for a judiciary annual report, however my boss didn't like showing the full butler, so the idea was scrapped. I personally really liked how the butler looked, so I decided to recycle it. :p

New Works

WELL I've been lazy....

I havent been updating as often as I should of. Soo I'm going to make up for it, with aaa super update! all the works ive done since the last update.

Wolf in Sheep's Clothes


This one was just for fun, a pin up of a friend of mine.

Sabre


This was also done for fun, an experiment with a slightly different technique.


Redbull Poster


This one was done for class, we had to do a poster ad for a product or a service. Seeing as last term I was knocking back redbulls like it was nobody's business... it seemed like the logical product to pick lol.


Environment Speedpaint tests


This was also for class. A concept art class. We were doing an environment assignment so these were done very quickly as practice to get more acquainted with painting environment.


Horror Scene


This was one of the final environments I did for my concept class. We had to illustrate a room where something terrible has happened.


Character Line Up


These were done for a scifi/fantasy fighting game assignment. My concept was: All planets of the solar system have intelligent life, each planet has a fighter representative to fight in an intergalactic tournament to see which planet has the best fighters.

Earth Character Development


Process work for Earth, I basically crossed him between an astronaut, a cowboy and Russel Brand. I wanted him to be a sort of "Devil may care" character, Badboy "doesn't give a crap" type personality


Venus Character Development


Process work for Venus, Basically my concept was Men are from Mars women are from Venus. So for her I was thinking, "What would be the perfect hybrid female, so a planet full of tall feminine aliens. Long legs, long elegant necks, long fingers, mysterious eyes, pronounced cheekbones, etc.


Pluto Character Development


Process work for Pluto, Pluto would be our "Unlockable" Character seeing as Pluto isnt technically a planet anymore. Her whole character is basically a whiny, somewhat bratty little girl, she would whine about how Pluto IS a planet.

Skateboard Decks

This was a piece I did for my Vector Illustration class. A short series of board designs, using mostly my own logo: "The Jester."
I always wanted to design skateboards, snowboards, surf boards etc. When I first designed the Jester logo my initial intention for it was to be an extreme sport brand, much like quicksilver. Billabong and No Fear. So this would be my first swipe at going into that vision. The Jester itself as a logo, I think is a great story, I've been redesigning it, perfecting it, rebooting it, for about 6 - 7 years, and I think it has reached a point where its pretty final... Time will tell, I'll do a specific post about my logo later on, for now I hope you enjoy my decks.

First Post of the First 2011 school term

Phew, well I've reeeally gotten into all my classes this term, I think its gonna be a great 10 weeks... I'm currently enrolled in Illustration for Concept Art, Vector Ilustration and Survey of Illustration, and I already I have work to show off :)


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