Finals Are Finished

These are the Finals for my two illustration classes this semester. And now that these are done, its time to start designing www.alexlyon.com! SURPRISE!!!
That is just one of several projects coming up in the month to follow. Should be fun.

Christmas Alive!

This is the cover of the Christmas issue of Columbus Alive Magazine. I just added the alive logo as a place holder, to give you a better idea of how it would look published.

SteamPowered 2008 Convention

Behold. The latest and greatest Lyon Illustration has to offer. This became an illustration for the SteamPowered 2008 steampunk convention poster. Now I will say that this didn't turn out exactly as I planned but I am confident in saying that I am still happy with the outcome. Even though it has bridged into a more stylistic final (as most things I finish do) than I would have liked, I still think it was good practice in cranking out solid finished working illustrations. Sadly that is something CCAD just doesnt give you much practice at. Getting good finished work out fast...

Endangered Animal Alphabet????

This is just a little project we just finished in my Styles & Concepts class. I wouldn't say it was very interesting, I but i figured the characters were fun enough to post anyhow. I mean come on even the Rhino is cuddly.

The First Glimps at the New AOI

Keep in mind that these are only the two posters that I designed for our first round of posters. The idea that Mike and I went for was a totally type based begining so as not to show case winners from the previous year, a fresh start. There are a lot of other things that we plan to "tweak", so this is only the beginning of the new look and feel.

Keep an eye out if you are on campus! They are everywhere. All submissions are to be in by January so get crackin.

Washington's True Colors...

I like to think that this is something that Washington would have given Martha as a gift. But in actuality this is something I did for Humorous Illustration. It's a play on the Vanity Fair photo shoot with Miley Cyrus. Look it up, it makes it better. haha.

This is acrylic and color pencil, with just a touch of digital to pump up the contrast for that "rustic" look.

Tarzan Cover Final with a Side of Something Else...

This is my final book cover for the first project in Styles and Concepts.

I would say in all this is a ball park of like...20 hours ish in this as it stands now. I'm happy with it, though am still a bit iffy about the tree tops in the forground...But either way i think its a pretty successful cover redesign.




This second piece I posted is just something I started for fun and kinda hit a wall on so it is now open to a needed crit. Any suggestions are welcome I would hate to scrap it but I just may.