Lena DeSimone's Blog

    Here are some individual frames taken from my rotoscope animation. This project took a really long time because I had to individually draw each frame. I am super proud of the outcome of this project. 

 This is the logo that I chose to represent myself, along with my business card. I chose a word that best describes me then went from there creating mood boards to come up with the best idea. 

This project in my Digital Illustration class was to recreate a Garbage Pail Kid cover of ourselves. Historically, these vintage comics would portray some grotesque thing happening to a baby. In my case, I made myself burning over a camp fire with the title "Lit Lena." I sketched this first then I went into each thing in it's own layer playing around with the different brush type to get the ash effect. I drew everything by hand and chose a red gradient as the background.   

This is a project from my Digital Illustration class where we had to do different digitally drawn hands. Each hand is in a different style (top to bottom) painterly (photo realistic), cross hatching, line with hatching, and line drawing. I have never digitally drawn hands before so this project was a good learning experience for me.    

This is another piece from my Digital Illustration class. For this project we were told to remake any horror movie poster so I chose A Nightmare on Elm Street. I took screen grabs from the film and created this composition using different layers. I also chose to use a monochromatic palette with the accent color red to make it look spooky and to really make the colors pop. I had a lot of fun with this project it was a cool thing to do.   

Here is a still life I did in my Digital Illustration class. I used photoshop to digitally paint this still life that I assembled. I am very proud of how this project turned out. I drew each object in it's own layer so that if needed, I could easily move them to change the composition. I started with the objects in the foreground then moved back into the background.