July 15, 2008

Ocean on the edge


OSP2_thumbs, originally uploaded by owenfreeman.


OSP2, originally uploaded by owenfreeman.


Just finished this poster proposal piece for an ocean science exhibit at the Aquarium of the Pacific. Still a work-in-progress, but it went from sketch to here relatively quickly it seemed like it might be worth posting. (Also, if anyone knows how to post more than one side by side images from Flickr that would be awesome.)

July 3, 2008

Silky Shark


LA_Thumbnails, originally uploaded by owenfreeman.



LA_Silkscreen, originally uploaded by owenfreeman.

Thought I'd post this process sheet just to blow whatever spontaneity the final silkscreen may exhibit. The concept was sort of a love letter to Los Angeles, the beauty and toxicity of it all, for a three-color silkscreen assignment. At the left are the thumbnail roughs, taking the Super Fly approach for a minute, then something about water, then some type. From there the three rough color sketches revealing how increasingly muddied the idea had become.
Finally I went back to try some ink sketches in the hopes of salvaging it using the limitations of three flat-colors. The far right top and bottom ink drawings became the basis for the black and violet screens, and the cropped final silkscreen, the second from the bottom right was one of the alternate color compositions based off those drawings.

June 16, 2008

Birds


Birds, originally uploaded by owenfreeman.

Two-plate etching/aquatint assignment for printmaking.

May 29, 2008

Intaglio


Dracula's Pajama Party, originally uploaded by owenfreeman.

Hand etching and aquatint print I just finished.

May 17, 2008

Columbia


Columbia, originally uploaded by owenfreeman.

Finally got some figure painting hours in today, can't wait to do it again.

May 7, 2008

SOI/AI

pool SmokeRing
Sorry for the slow news week, here are few sketches from the past few days, falling back in love with the crowquill pen of all things. Also found out that I had pieces selected for both the Society of Illustrators Student Competition and this years American Illustration annual, which was a great surprise and honor to be included alongside such killer work.

April 3, 2008

Serious play



March 20, 2008

Get Up

March 3, 2008

Ten Trophies

Here is a series of illustrations I just finished for an article in Aeroflot's In-Flight magazine on the "Ten Oldest Sports Trophies."

March 2, 2008

Marching ahead

Sorry it's been a bit since I posted anything. New work has been happening in fits and starts, but still doesn't quite seem quite presentable, but here it is anyways. Also, after 600 consecutive days at Twango (which has now become some weird tool of Nokia) my daily drawing project has migrated over to Flickr and will stay daily here until I finish school, or school finishes me, whichever comes first.




January 5, 2008

Happy New Year!

Hey, hope the new year finds everyone well. Here are a couple pieces from a series of illustrations I finished last month for Aeroflot Premium in-flight Magazine. Also wanted to mention I'd added a second page of work to my portfolio site, and also plug the good people over at Molokoplus Magazine, who were kind enough to include me alongside some really cool artists in their latest issue.

December 16, 2007

Pulp covers

A series of Pulp magazine covers loosely based on Los Angeles landmarks.

        

Assorted studies

   
  

Medical tourism

November 27, 2007

Raymond Chandler

November 2, 2007

Envy


October 22, 2007

Beastie Boys

October 20, 2007

Ink+wash studies




October 17, 2007

Lucky Jones

October 12, 2007

assorted newness

Working on some new pieces, but for the moment the only heat seems to be showing up in brush studies from life...



October 8, 2007

I (heart) L.A.

October 6, 2007

Hollow men fin.

September 21, 2007

hollow men process

The first few pencil, gouache, digital stages on a new piece. Still have to work out the placement of the jumper, I'm thinking the top edge will frame the whole thing better...

September 11, 2007

observation

September 7, 2007

dirty study

September 6, 2007

Guest_finata

daily sketch [ink/photoshop]

September 5, 2007

pressure0001

September 2, 2007

few daily sketches





So I've been doing this "Draw something every day" thing for the past four hundred thirty-odd straight days over on my twango page, it's been a hard but good challenge to try and maintain, and just simply by volume there end up being a few sketches I'm happy with, or at least ones that pique my curiosity.

August 29, 2007

Moon Knight


More cover sample practice

August 28, 2007

Perseus

A few pages of my color theory for entertainment final, adapting the myth of Perseus, which I ended up approaching in sequential format rather than widescreen key-scenes. Also just updated my folio site with some new pieces.





August 9, 2007

XXXX

August 3, 2007

Pegg

July 27, 2007

clapped

July 19, 2007

Some studies

  

July 13, 2007

corporal

War Child International {painter/photoshop daily sketch}

June 29, 2007

So much water, so close to home v.2

June 22, 2007

So much water, so close to home

{watercolor/photoshop} illustration assignment based on the Raymond Carver short story.

June 14, 2007

Virtue and Vice

Narrative assignment to illustrate concepts "Virtue and Vice." After some sketches the concept of virility (partial root of the modern definition of "Virtue") in it's double-edged-ness as an allure and simultaneously a threat to bonding seemed to be the most interesting approach at the time.

June 7, 2007

SuperGod

Phase2: photoshop

SuperGod

Phase1: watercolor

May 28, 2007

in the dark

May 22, 2007

alien

May 15, 2007

chopper

May 13, 2007

Juniper

May 8, 2007

Wizardry

May 1, 2007

Captain America

More of an uphill process in terms of editing this down to a strong balance between all the elements. Also realized that my thumbnails need to be a lot tighter so as to not come back and bite me in the ass so hard..
© Marvel

April 26, 2007

Weapon X

working on putting together more comic cover samples to start sending out. Also trying to post the process stages, just because I really appreciate it when other illustrators do this.
All characters © their respective owners.

April 23, 2007

1,2

Study for first of a short series of comic covers I've got to do in the next few weeks. More to come.

April 22, 2007

the Dive


just finished drawing this on wednesday.

April 21, 2007

revenge