Saturday, February 18, 2006

Proactive Hitman

Mixed Media and Photoshop 11.25” x 11.25” Strathmore 500 Board

This is an assignment I did in pencil, pen, water color, gouache acrylic and oil for Kent Williams' Image and Idea class. For this assignment we had to either create a spread or a partial spread for a short story in a magazine article he had just illustrated. Of course we didn’t get to see his piece ahead of time and had to interpret the story for ourselves. The story is basically a crime thriller mystery about a proactive hit-man who collects stamps as a hobby (notice the eyes are stamps with cropped 100$ bills in them) and goes out looking for a new client in order to pay the bills. The wrench is the weapon used at the climax of the story.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

WOW! Your paintings and drawings are amazing!!

sponie said...

Really like the last two additoins, the wrench piece and the princess character. Great expressions.

nickwatson said...

great stuff craig

John T Quinn III said...

are you taking some "continuing education" stuff at night, or are you back in school? looks like fun! nice work.

Craig Mackay said...

Hey, John! Thanks for your comments. Although I am trying to continually educate myself, I am not back in school. This piece was done and posted a few years ago when I was in school. I'm working over at Disney Internet Media group in North Hollywood as an Illustrator for Family.com. I utilize the IRC and DCP library a lot for my projects which is why you see me around the office a lot still. Well, catch you later and See you around!