Rachael Hunt Illustration

Gloves

2012-01-15T19:40:00.000-08:00

So much surprise.

Caterpillar

2012-01-13T13:38:00.000-08:00

I colored a character sketch from my sketchbook for fun :)

Thesis Illustration 4

2012-01-10T09:53:00.000-08:00

This is my fourth thesis Illustration for my fall thesis Thistle and the Pie Prince! The two characters are at the base of the monstrous king's mountain castle. I sure hope they are good climbers.

so i started to play kingdom hearts II

2012-01-05T11:14:00.000-08:00

obligatory kingdom hearts fan art of sora!

a warm sweater

2011-12-28T13:13:00.000-08:00

Winter!

thesis illustration 3

2011-12-08T17:04:00.001-08:00

This is my third Illustration for my Thesis! Thistle is all ready to go save her nation but the Pie Prince is not ready to leave- he needs to bake some more pies first.

link!

2011-12-04T21:40:00.001-08:00

Hey! So I drew Link! I thought I'd give keeping my pencil lines a try this time, and I think I like how it looks! I usually use a textured brush for my lines anyway, and this way I end up keeping the looseness of the original sketch. I think so anyway!

thesis environment 2!

2011-11-13T15:27:00.001-08:00

This is my second environment/vignette for my senior thesis! I feel like I'm learning a lot doing these :)

Here's a close up!

thesis environment

2011-11-03T13:03:00.000-07:00

My first environment for my thesis from the world of Thistle and the Pie Prince! I began it with not only the world itself but also shape design aesthetics in mind, and I really like how it turned out! I plan on using this approach for a while :)

hp

2011-10-22T12:52:00.001-07:00

it's harry!

senior thesis!- Thistle and the Pie Prince concepts and finals

2011-10-20T11:24:00.000-07:00

Oh man senior thesis! Here is some of my progress for mine! I came up with my own story and I am in the process of doing concept work for it as if it were going to be a cartoon short. It is a tale about a girl who turns out to be the hero and the prince who didn't. These are the two main characters of my story, Thistle and the Pie Prince! (that is also the name of my story as of now) Much more to come!

giants, unicorns, and the happiest centaur

2011-10-18T19:42:00.000-07:00

In my professional development class we had to made an illustration for a mock poster job. Basically, it was just an excuse to draw whatever we wanted, so I drew unicorns, giants and a joyful centaur running towards some dragon hills. Yes.

story boards, cupcakes, and pokemon

2011-10-18T19:32:00.000-07:00

Hi there! I know it's been a while, but I have been keeping super busy with stuff like my senior year of college! Here are a few of the things I've done for school, and some things I've done for myself.

This was the first story-boarding assignment for my story boards class! We had to story board a childhood memory. Our teacher wanted to see what we knew, so he didn't explain how to do story boards before giving the assignment.

This was our second story-boarding assignment. Our teacher gave us a bunch of panels with random black shapes that we had to use. We had to incorporate all of them into our own narrative.

Our third story boarding assignment! This time we had to use cut-paper and story board someone or something eating. I chose a barbarian with flowing hair eating a giant boar.

The cupcake king and an oddish for fun. More fun things to come :)

a wild SKETCH BLOG appeared!!

2011-08-10T09:35:00.001-07:00

http://rmhunt.tumblr.com/

i started a sketch blog for all of my sketches that i don't post here ever!

herp

2011-08-03T11:42:00.001-07:00

derp :)

style dolls 2

2011-07-27T08:55:00.000-07:00

week 2!

"paper" dolls

2011-07-19T14:01:00.000-07:00

So for the rest of the summer I will be doing at least one set of paper dolls a week. This is an assignment given to us while I was auditing Daniel Krall's Lifestyle Illustration Class last spring. I wanted to give it another try so I made new dolls :) But anyway, the idea is to dress the dolls in clothing that already exists, like an outfit from a designer's collection. I am doing this to expand my mental library of clothing so that I can have more variation when designing my own characters outfits in the future. Whoohoo!

flash animation exercises

2011-07-06T14:01:00.000-07:00

Here are some practice flash animations I've done here at FableVision Studios :) The first was an exercise where I was given two flat characters that I had to prepare for animation and then animate them walking on screen and greeting each other. The second is just a blue blob I did in preparation for animating the pink guy in the first animation. I have learned so much about flash and using it to animate!

flash

2011-07-06T11:49:00.000-07:00

At my internship at FableVision Studios I have been working a lot in flash animating and illustrating. Here is a flash doodle :)

vend send mend!

2011-06-24T22:12:00.000-07:00

Hey! It's been a while! Life has been busy, but hopefully I will start updating again more often! This is my submission to an awesome tsunami relief art auction called Vend Send Mend. http://www.vendsendmend.com/

It is crow quill and watercolors, and it was really fun to do something in traditional media for a change!

orinoco vignette

2011-05-03T10:53:00.000-07:00

this was the final assignment for my advanced concept art class. we had to do a vignette of our world including the main character in an environment. so, this is the heroine descending into the poison miasma to search out a way to save the floating islands :)

star kisses

2011-04-25T14:41:00.000-07:00

just a personal doodle :) it's been a while!

junior thesis part 3- Master Elodin and the Draccus

2011-04-24T20:51:00.000-07:00

These are the final two characters for my Name of the Wind project. The first is Master Elodin, the slightly off master at the "magic" school that the main character goes to while he is a teenager. The second is the Draccus. It is a creature in the book that isn't actually a dragon, but simply a lizard that happens to breathe blue fire. The sacks on the side of its face contain the flammable liquid that it ignites. The Draccus was my first attempt at a lizard creature. It was fun :)

my first walk cycle

2011-04-23T13:12:00.000-07:00

So I gave a silly walk cycle a try :) the top one is faster and the bottom one is slower and features a creepy rabbit.

Orinoco main character designs

2011-04-18T08:26:00.000-07:00

These are my two main characters for my world i'm building in Advanced Concept Art! The first is the village leader. As penance for some great sin, he shackled himself with all encompassing bird manacles- that is why he isn't going to go save the world himself. They are heavy and he cannot do anything with his hands. The keys hang from the bottom, but he cannot unlock them because, well, his hands are useless. His bird friend takes care of small things for him. The second is the heroine. She is not a trained fighter, and at first is not a good fit for her role, but eventually she grows into the part. This is a new way of finishing things, which was fun :)

and those are the thumbnails I did before the finishes :)

junior thesis part 2- Bast

2011-04-10T10:03:00.000-07:00

Here is the next character from the book The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. This is Bast, Kvothe's student who is actually not human and is actually a 150 year old mythical creature named Bastas, son of Remmen, Prince of Twilight and the Telwyth Mael. (sorry, spoilers) He has cloven hooves that look like cool boots to the average passer by. Awesome.

common-folk character designs

2011-04-04T11:54:00.000-07:00

Here are some final designs for some random common-folk who inhabit my world. They are a few chosen from the character thumbs a post or so down :) Their colors were based off of birds so that made them super fun to color.

and these are some of the other thumbnails/designs :)

junior thesis part 1- Kvothe

2011-03-30T20:03:00.000-07:00

So, for my junior thesis in my concepts 2 class I am doing character designs from the book The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. It's a great book. You should read it. Anyway, this is the first set of designs: the protagonist, Kvothe. The first is of Kvothe as the reader first meets him: as a lowly innkeeper. However, we later find out that he is actually an awesome guy; that is him being an awesome guy in the second character design.

common character thumbnails

2011-03-28T17:20:00.000-07:00

These are character thumbnails for my Advanced Concept Art Class. We had to do designs for the common characters that populate our worlds. The first few are bakers, the next are the people who cut the grass on the roofs of the houses, after those there are the glider nuts, and finally there are the bird enthusiasts. :)

props!

2011-03-23T17:49:00.000-07:00

colors :)

props sketches!

2011-03-21T17:44:00.000-07:00

For the next assignment in my concept art class we had to do a set of 8 props for our world. This was fun!

new sketchbook updates!

2011-03-19T20:53:00.001-07:00

click me :)

Hurray! A sketchbook update! Have a flip though from the new pages!

Or, start from the beginning by choosing a sketchbook from the list on the right :)

enviornment nook n' cranny 2

2011-03-15T20:51:00.001-07:00

Here is my second "nook and cranny" of my world for concept art. This time I zoomed in on part of the village and the tree. I decided to try the line art route this time around instead of the painterly one. It was fun :)

urban legend monsters gift wrap

2011-03-14T19:21:00.000-07:00

Here is my finished urban legend monster gift wrap featuring the Yeti, Mothman, and the Jackalope! I used mixed media for this to try out something new-ish. It's acrylic, crow quill, and photoshop! :D

silly gift wrap practice

2011-03-08T15:01:00.000-08:00

Today in class we learned how to make a repeating pattern for our gift wrap project due after spring break. In class we had to do a practice pattern based off of what we will eventually do for the finish. The teacher had us do it traditionally by actually cutting and taping the paper together to create a repeatable image. Last week we were all given specific topics and I got lucky. I was given "everyday" which basically means I can do gift wrap of anything. I am doing something along the lines of retro-inspired cute monsters from urban legends. This practice is just of a yeti eating ice cream and moth-man smelling a flower. It's not perfect, but that's why it's practice :)

nooks and crannies

2011-03-02T08:08:00.000-08:00

This is the first of the next assignment for my advanced concept art class. We have to do two concept pieces of "nooks and crannies" from our worlds. This first one is of the agricultural tiers in the middle of the floating island of Orinoco. The next (due next week) will be a close up of some of the village. I think I'm getting better at this :)

sketchbook #2 update :)

2011-02-27T18:53:00.000-08:00

CLICK TO GO TO MY SKETCHBOOK

I just scanned a bunch of new pages from my sketchbook :) Have a look!

words, worlds, and dolls

2011-02-24T13:44:00.000-08:00

Here is some more stuff I've done for school. The first two are for Words on Wheels, a partnership MICA has with the Baltimore grade schools. The students write poems and then some are given to the students in some of the Concepts II classes to illustrate. The size and format are very specific in that we were not allowed to alter the font or shape of the student's poems. The first image is just my illustration and the second is with the student's poem. We are going to submit fully formatted prints of our work and they will be judged and the winning illustrations will be printed and featured in the city buses :)

The next image is of the "paper" dolls that I made to dress for my Lifestyle illustration class. Each week we are supposed to dress the dolls in clothes from any designer of our choosing.

The last two illustrations are for my Advanced Concept Art Class. That class is built around world building. Each student is creating their own world from scratch and each project is meant to explore that world. The illustrations are of a tentative map of my world and also a "beauty" shot of the environment. This is a huge learning experience for me because I have never really worked with concept environments before. I am learning a lot. Both illustrations are actually second tries of my first attempts. In a nutshell, my world is a planet now covered in a poisonous cloud. I am focusing on one of the three villages that were able to escape to the skies before the entire world was consumed by the poison. The inhabitants use gliders as a main form of transportation between the floating villages. Pretty cool.

Society of Illustrators

2011-02-11T19:21:00.000-08:00

Society of Illustrators!

My etsy knitting illustration got in! Yay!

potter

2011-02-05T19:06:00.000-08:00

Another assignment for my Concepts II class. We had to chose any news article and illustrate it and then put it on a t-shirt. I chose the story about the man, Adam Potter, who fell 1000 feet while mountain climbing and made it to the bottom basically unharmed. He was found by the police on his feet reading a map. Done with crow quill and photoshop.

Adam Potter, the man who lived. Harry Potter, the boy who lived.

hipsters

2011-01-30T18:30:00.000-08:00

For the first assignment of my Concepts II class we were each given a chapter of the Hipster Handbook and had to do a full page, half page, and quarter page illustration for our chapter. I got the UTF (unemployed trust-funder) hipster. Oh, hipsters. Done with crow quill and photoshop.

hangin'

2011-01-13T14:07:00.000-08:00

Just something for fun before school starts up again :)

stuff from the fall semester

2011-01-10T20:51:00.000-08:00

Here's some more work from last semester. The first thing was my final for Concepts I. It was a secret santa final in that all of our classmates had to write an assignment for us on a slip of paper and then we had to randomly draw a slip from a folder and do it for the final. I drew "cute food" and decided to do it as a short (very short) children's story. I just had to do 3 page spreads, which is why it's very short. I did it in acrylics.
The last three illustrations were for my narrative color class. For our final we had to choose a story or movie and illustrate 3 scenes from it and use color to help tell the story. I did a Russian fairy tale called Sadko. The tale is about Sadko, a musician, who plays at the wealthy merchant dinner parties. One day, he isn't invited to one so he goes to a lake and plays in sadness. A water elf pops up after he is finished playing and tells him that, since he entertained her dinner guests with his music, she will tell him a secret. She tells him that there is a golden fish in the lake that, if caught and eaten, will grant eternal life. The next day at a merchants party the wealthy men are boasting about their wealth. When it's Sadko's turn to boast, he says that though he has no wealth, he does have a secret about a golden fish. The merchants do not belive him and say that if he can catch the fish they will give him all their stuff. He catches it and becomes a rich merchant himself off of the bet. He has his own fleet of ships, a palace, and a beautiful wife. Eventually through a series of events, Sadko finds himself on the bottom of the ocean at the Sea god's palace being forced to pick a wife from a line of girls so that he will have to stay there forever. The water elf from before shows up and tells him to choose her sister because she will return him to the surface and to his wife. Sadko does this and he is reunited with his real wife and lives happily ever after.
That is the condensed version of the story as I fit it into the required 3 illustrations for the class. :)
As usual, just click the thumbnails to see the illustrations at full size!

some quick lifedrawing and little sketchbook update

2011-01-08T21:22:00.000-08:00

Here is some life-drawing stuff that we did one day in my Advanced Character Design class. They were super quick and fun :) I like them.

Also, I added some pages to my sketchbook on Flickr: HERE!

in da hood

2011-01-05T17:47:00.000-08:00

another colored doodle of mine :)

chicky

2011-01-04T19:17:00.001-08:00

just messing around :) I'm trying to figure out another way to color my work.... I'm really not sure how I feel about it yet...

sketchbook goodness

2011-01-03T13:05:00.000-08:00

CLICK HERE TO LOOK THROUGH MY SKETCHBOOK!

So I finally was able to scan in the current sketchbook that I am working on so people can look through it without my having to be there in person to show it to them! Just click the link and use the next buttons on the page that opens to stay in the slide-show mode (or use the arrow keys on your keyboard). I hope this is a good idea :) More to come!

foxy goddes

2010-12-06T18:37:00.000-08:00

Pranks and Accidents

2010-11-21T19:22:00.000-08:00

For my Narrative Color class we had to Illustrate a practical joke using a primary color scheme and an accident waiting to happen using warm and cool colors to separate parts of the illustration. The accident waiting to happen is pretty self explanatory and the practical joke is based off of a prank that my friends pulled on me during my freshman year of college. They had found a mannequin head out in the bushes of Baltimore and thought it would be funny to put it into my bed. My roommate at the time was pretending to be asleep but actually was under her covers video taping my reaction. It was horrifying to pull back the covers and find a disembodied head there. Yeah, my friends.

These were relatively quick because I only had one week to do both of them.

Inside Job

2010-11-19T12:19:00.000-08:00

In my Concepts I class we were each assigned a different movie to go see in theaters. During the film we had to draw/take notes from the movie to later turn into an illustration to represent it. The print size for the illustration was to be 3 x 4.5 inches because it would accompany text were it for a real job. I was assigned the Inside Job. It is a documentary that explores the economic crash in the USA and what caused it to happen. A big part of the film was describing the corruption of the major banks and of the consumerist system in general. In short, the documentary made me very angry and frustrated with the way things are run in the world. The quote that stuck in my mind most from the movie was from a French woman (I cannot remember her exact status) who compared the U.S government's response to the impending economic crisis as say there was a tsunami coming and all they were doing was deciding which bathing suit to wear. Another aspect of the film that particularly made me upset (there were many aspects) was the fact that the higher-ups in the main money corporations were very much into hiring prostitutes... and paying them with taxpayer money by writing their own invoices. It is a combination of those two things that I chose to illustrate.

Gosh, it makes me so sad how corrupt people can be.

map of male encounters

2010-11-16T20:20:00.000-08:00

For my Concepts I class we had to make a map of something. It didn't have to be of a real place so I decided to take a more personal route. I made a map of my male encounters inspired by old ocean maps. Each "creature" represents one of my awkward/weird/notable/bad guy experiences. All of the monsters have attributes reflecting my experience with them (shape, color, etc.) Also, the key around the edge of the map, if you follow it, says how old I was when I encountered each person. I am the little teal boat and the red dotted line marks my journey.

This is traditional media- watercolors and ink

god king

2010-10-21T21:53:00.000-07:00

This is the process and culmination of the next phase in my character design class. We were assigned a main character from our group's story and had to do 30 thumbnails and then one final of that main character. I designed the god king. He has flowy eyebrows. (the god king, in the story, kicks the main character god out of heaven. I illustrated him in the act- his emotions control the weather)

caramel apple

2010-10-18T20:28:00.000-07:00

This is just a fun doodle that I colored for myself. It's been a while since I've been able to do that :)

the sign of etsy.com

2010-09-26T14:41:00.000-07:00

Our second concepts I project was to create new zodiac signs based on issues of the 21st century. We were split into groups for this assignment, and my group chose to do The Age of the Internet. Each of us picked a website and had to not literally illustrate the site, but more or less create a kind of world representing it. I decided to do etsy.com and focused mainly on the crafty aspect of the people who use the website. So, this is an illustration of an etsy hipster knitting her world :)

character design!

2010-09-22T21:40:00.000-07:00

For my class Advanced Character Design we are working in groups for the semester on a faux project about an existing story set to either a video game, an animated film, or a live action movie. My group is the animated film group and we are doing a Japanese story about an 8 headed snake, the village he torments, and the god turned hero who saves them. For the first assignment we had to do character designs for the secondary characters of the story. I did designs for villagers and monsters. Our teacher, acting as both the client and the art director, chose one of my designs for me to bring to a colored finish. He chose number 26. Since the design was rather generic I re-vamped the costume and put it on number 18. This made the design much more interesting :)

baked dough balls

2010-09-10T13:41:00.000-07:00

For the first assignment in Concepts 1 we were given a menu from a pizza place and had to choose one of the items on it for a cover illustration. We were told not to simply illustrate the food and had to stay away from cliches. I chose to illustrate baked dough balls as "sheep" being shepherded. This color pallet was as challenge for me because it dealt with warmer colors, which I'm not used to. :)

mecha design

2010-07-30T10:07:00.000-07:00

This is another commission for a friend of mine! He asked me to design a mecha for him, so this is what I came up with!

stuff for friends

2010-07-22T18:19:00.000-07:00

The first illustration is a commission for a friend of mine! It was done in Photoshop and was rather experimental :)

The second was for the youth pastor at my church and is done in acrylics.

doodle

2010-07-13T12:39:00.000-07:00

I just colored a little doodle as an experiment of sorts :) I've been sketching a lot and haven't been doing anything with those sketches beyond my sketchbook... I should really change that.

cupcake :D

2010-07-10T07:22:00.001-07:00

Here's a little cupcake painting I did for my sister's business cards. It's in acrylics on watercolor paper :)

bear hug

2010-06-11T22:09:00.001-07:00

just a doodle in acrylics :)

WHAT TIME IS IT???

2010-06-05T21:05:00.001-07:00

ADVENTURE TIME!!!

Yes. I am a dork.

(characters belong to cartoon network/adventure time with finn and jake)

Sleepy

2010-06-01T12:09:00.000-07:00

This was my final for advanced photoshop techniques. We were allowed to do whatever we wanted so I decided to do another illustration of the "leaving home" characters I had made :) I did this in photoshop on top of a pencil sketch.

robot sports skate deck!

2010-04-25T21:25:00.000-07:00

For my illustration II class we had to design a fictional skate deck. We were given a few fun topics and I chose robot sports. We also had to use our skateboard design on a t-shirt as well as incorporate a skateboarder's name from a list into it as well. :) I finally was able to do something that wasn't digital and it was so great! (not that there's anything wrong with digital, it's just nice to do something different. and painting doesn't make my eyes bloodshot :D ) The main illustration is acrylic on watercolor paper that I scanned into photoshop and fit onto the templates.

graffiti adventures

2010-04-23T10:24:00.000-07:00

The first illustration was for the assignment "leaving home" for my advanced photoshop techniques class :) I've been playing around with that way of working and I'm still not sure how I like the colors... anyone have an opinion?
The second was our final assignment for drawing with the tablet. We were allowed to use reference and also our imagination... so that's what I came up with :)

The Seven Ravens

2010-04-12T16:50:00.001-07:00

This is a series of narrative illustrations of the story The Seven Ravens :)

Deception

2010-03-22T12:31:00.001-07:00

For Illustration II we had to choose a podcast and then illustrate it. I listened to one about deception and painted a deceptive guy painting a dangerous snake to look not dangerous. Sneaky sneaky. This was done in photoshop.

Snailscape

2010-03-11T14:13:00.001-08:00

For my advanced illustration class we had to create a landscape. I painted this in photoshop :)

valentines day

2010-02-28T21:23:00.000-08:00

~Do find a creative way to say 'i love you'

~Don't wear hearts

for illustration II we had to illustrate two valentines day dos and donts :D

Capricorn

2010-02-13T22:54:00.000-08:00

The last illustration for the zodiac project :D This one had to be larger (5x7) and had to be of our own zodiac sign. Aside from hair being a theme in my zodiac series, personality trait is another. A personality trait of a capricorn is patience and so that's what I tried to illustrate.

still life

2010-02-08T17:51:00.000-08:00

This is a still life of a potato my roommate's mom sent her and a cup of blue watercolor water. I painted it in photoshop for my advanced photoshop class :)

and these are two portraits for my drawing from the tablet class.

Harry Potter!

2010-02-07T18:40:00.000-08:00

This is Greg. He looks like Harry Potter. The assignment was to do a portrait from the waist up of someone in photoshop in greyscale. If it was of a guy he had to be shirtless. That's why Greg doesn't have a shirt on.

Zodiac :)

2010-02-06T20:17:00.000-08:00

These are the five spot illustrations for the zodiac assignment in my illustration II class. We had to illustrate six zodiac of our choosing for a type of magazine. Mine are for some kind of fashion magazine and they are about hair. The five are Cancer, Pieces, Leo, Scorpio, and Gemini!

Versus

2010-02-04T09:52:00.000-08:00

This is an illustration assignment centered around the topic of 'versus' for my advanced photoshop techniques class :)

Hands and Feet :)

2010-02-03T13:45:00.001-08:00

Just another assignment for drawing with the tablet. We had to draw 2 hands and 2 feet from life using greyscale and one layer in photoshop. Both hands and feet are holding my cactus pup :)

Self Portrait numbah 2

2010-01-27T19:38:00.001-08:00

This self portrait is for my advanced photoshop techniques class :) The only limitation on this one was that we had to do it all from a mirror.

Grey Self Portrait

2010-01-24T10:58:00.001-08:00

This is my self portrait for Drawing with the Tablet. We had to do a greyscale self portrait from a mirror using only a hard round brush with different opacities :D

so i gave painter a try

2009-11-15T18:16:00.000-08:00

my first attempt at using corel painter! it was definitely a bit of a challenge but i like how it came out! yes, i did use a photo reference of my face :)

ok here's a post :D

2009-11-03T15:36:00.000-08:00

it's been a while since I've posted anything, so here's some stuff I've done in my Illustration I class! They're all watercolor, but the last one has gouache too :)

mhmmm

2009-08-06T17:48:00.000-07:00

yup. so i've jumped on the mica bandwagon.

.....im just sayin'