Sketches

It's high time we post on this blog again!!

Here are a few personal drawings/sketches I've done lately. (sorry for the photos, I haven't had a chance to scan them yet.











all work copyright Karen O'Bryan 2009

Children's book illustrations

Bullets and Octane poster - Final

Here is the final version of the poster with Bullets' logo.

Check them out HERE

Bullets and Octane poster

I just finished a poster for my friend's band, Bullets and Octane. They have a show coming up in a couple of weeks and are having a little contest, if you design a poster they want to use, you get free tickets.. woot.

Pool Tradeshow - Palmercash

This is another t-shirt design I did for the guys over at Palmercash for a tradeshow they've got coming up. It's for a competition they are entering so I'm not sure if it will be chosen or not. (I hope so!)

Anyway, it was a nice break from working on the children's book I'm doing. Sometimes it's good to work on multiple projects at once so you don't get burnt out.

Enjoy!

- Karen

Nadal

Did this for a friend of mine who loves tennis. Later I found out she loves Federer more...

Poster Gig

So one of the projects I have just recently completed was creating the official poster for the Revenant Film Festival!
My good man Geoff at Revenant Magazine hit me up a while back, and here is the monster we have created!

This project was a fuckin' blast to do, and I am pretty pleased with the way things came out. Below are a few process sketches and color-ups, and I wanted to work in an homage to Forrest J. Ackerman's Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine covers, so that was fun too. Anyway, if you can make it up to Seattle for this momentous, gory, brain-splattering festival of Undead Cinema, get info and tickets HERE! Thanks again to Geoff and everyone at Revenant for the great opportunity!

Initial rough sketch and color idea:


Sketch for final piece:


And this is what I had originally intended as the style, but when it was in process I knew it was just going to be too goddamn muddy and confusing, so I reworked the sketch and colored it up in a more graphic style for the final. I hate how this one looks, except for the blood and guts, they look alright. Too dark and confusing on the rest.

Breckenridge String Quartet

Here is a poster design I did for my brother and his quarter this summer.

Metropark/Obey Public Works Competition

Yes, yet ANOTHER entry for ANOTHER t-shirt design competition. I am really happy with how this turned out, so if you are too, vote for it HERE!!! All consideration is greatly appreciated, as I could use the exposure!!! Thanks for checking it out!

Sketches

I thought it was about time I share some work I've been doing the past week or two. These are all sketches from the Children's book I'm working on with my Mom. Some of these are revisions from previously posted sketches.

The way I work usually is by sketching out some rough ideas in my sketch book then when I decide I like how something looks, I go over it carefully with tracing paper, eliminating the rough, gestural marks. I then scan in each image (separately) on the tracing paper and compose the entire scene in Photoshop. (that is why most of these images appear to be see-through, and have a 'ghostly' quality to them) When I do the finals, I work on each layer separately, and erase the tracing paper around the sketch.

Enjoy!

Enormous Tiny Art

My work is now up for sale on the ETA site. Check it out!

https://www.enormoustinyart.com/Artists/m-o/O-Bryan,-Karen.aspx

Dream Catchers and Feathers

Sketchy McSketch

Mutant Alien Birthday Cake

This is a flyer (flier?) for a co-workers birthday. I have been asked to do a few flyers lately, and they are proving to be some really good exercises.

Prrty Food in COLOR

This is a piece I did for my good friend Joe, the mastermind behind Prrty Food, for his new anthology he and Ric Schuster are putting together.



OPEN UR MIIIIIIIND!

PLEASE check out all of the Prrty Food work these fellas are doing. The characters are absolutely amazing, and the whole comic series is hilarious.

Prrty Food + Skeleface = DIE.

New Works

This is a sampling of works from my new series, Spookshow.

costume prrty.

Gig Poster

This is for a local show coming up out here. I had lots of fun with it.

Lion

Hair

Commission

This was commissioned by a friend from high school, actually, for a friend's birthday. I give you... Leopard Fox.

Green Eyed Monster Contest #2

Hey everyone, here is the image I submitted to the Green Eyed Monster tote bag design contest. Winner gets $500, so I would appreciate all the votes I can get! DAMN THE ECONOMY! Anyhow, you can vote here. Thanks!

Sketch

PS Publishing Illustration

This is an illustration (sketch and final) for a story an upcoming publication by PS Publishing. I am on vacation, so I will post more details about it later. ENJOY!

Reaching for clues

Spot illustration for the children's book I'm working on

Cake and Goodies

Yum!

Final

detail