Project Peach in the style of Braniff

Braniff International Airways has some of the best posters the mid century has to offer. I decided to make this illustration sort of in that style with color and shapes.

Mid-Century Marvels: Fantastic Four

The Fantastic Four is classic. whenever I hear the name I think of "The Golden Age of Marvel Comics." Jack Kirby and Stan Lee at their best.
I made this Fantastic Four fan art for the 50 year anniversary of this awesome team.

 

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

This book was written in 1950 by C.S. Lewis, it's one of my favorite books of all time, and I recently reread the book and was inspired to make this illustration. The other books on the Narnia series are okay, but none of them are as good as this one.
I got the idea for the witch from the intro to the 1986 anime, Saint Seiya where the main villain shows up for the first time in the intro. Also from the intro to the popular 1992 anime Sailor Moon where it shows Tuxedo Mask for the first time in the intro.

"The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe"
(Feb 2012)

Mid-Century Marvels: The Amazing Spider-Man

June 1973 Marvel Comics released The Amazing Spider-Man #121. This issue changed comic book history. This would mark the end of the "Silver Age of Comic Books" (1956-1973) and begin the darker, grittier "Bronze Age of Comic Books." (1973-c.1985)

The Green Goblin kidnaps Gwen Stacy (Spider-Man's girl friend) and while fighting decides to hurl Gwen off the side of the George Washington Bridge (but depicted as the Brooklyn Bridge) Spidey goes to the rescue her and shoots his web to catch her. The web catches her leg and Spidey pulls her up thinking he saved her. But that was not the case, when he caught her the whiplash snapped her neck.

"The Night Gwen Stacy Died"
May 2012

Previously Unfinished and Unreleased: Star Wars

Like all artists I have some stuff that I never finished because I got caught up doing something else; didn't like it; or I didn't know how to finish. I also have some stuff that I never released because I didn't like it or I felt like something was lacking.
Sometimes I end up at the folder of an unfinished piece that I really like and has potential and I try to think of of ways to finish, but I rarely find a way or inspiration at that time.
So here is the Star Wars related work that I've done that is Unfinished and/or Unreleased.

The first image is the Tattooine mountains with Luke's landspeeder. I got the idea from an old record cover of the Grand Canyon. I don't know why but It just didn't turn out as great as I had hoped.

 Here is the Star Wars gang. The problem was getting a background done good enough for this. I love the way the characters came out, especially Chewbacca, I'm sure this will be finished sometime soon.

Here's another attempt at Tattooine, this time it's Luke, Obi-Wan and the droids looking over Mos Eisley Space Port. This one is better, but I feel that it's still lacking something.



with this semester wrapping up, I'm sure I'll be posting more, I have a lot of previously unfinished and unreleased work that I want to show, and maybe get some advice, ideas or suggestions on how to finish. Also I have some more new work that I'd like to post.

Four for Forty: part 1

In the fall of 2011 my photo instructor, Suda House, asked me to create a flier for a program they were starting for a photo lab on the weekends (since we lost our weekend lab time thanks to California school funding being a joke)
The program would be that you could buy four lab days (two weekends) for forty dollars. This would be for either our wet/ traditional lab and our digital lab.
I came up with the flier above, which is a watered down version of what came out of these two figures.

The digital lab full version was okay and even my instructor dubbed the guy in it one of our photo teachers, Paul Tournet.

The wet Lab full version is what is now considered one of my most favorite illustrations that I've ever done. it's stylized and very mid century. Suda liked it so much that she dubbed the girl as herself, but thinner and with a pony tail. To me this was like catching lightning in a bottle, but it's lightning that im sure I can catch again with no problem.

Theodore Roosevelt

Being on a ship for 7 month can drive someone nuts. I spent that time as a sailor for the navy from 2008-2009, but also spent that time working on my artwork. I had a limited amount of reference sources. When we would get to port, I would photograph as much as possible and take as much source materials that would interest me. (The best was England of coarse) Since I was a graphic designer on the Ship USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) working with journalists, photographers and pretty much welcome wagon to guests on the ship, I got to know and see ol' Teddy A LOT. I even got these portraits of good ol' "Teddy Ruxpin" done
The first one was just a quickie I did and became a poster for our print-shop, sort of a way to show what can be done there.

This was probably the most popular one on the ship and was used on the cruise book, kind of a ship's year book for that 6-9 month cruise.

This one was my favorite one, but wouldn't you know it, no one else really liked it. My theories are that the sketchiness of it made people think it was unfinished. Also that most people in the military aren't artists and only want things to be hi-tech, new and "perfect."

Logos

Here's some of the logos that I've worked on as a freelance graphic designer.

1. Image and Idea (2012)
-Patch for Grossmont College's Image and Idea class
2. The Echo Wall (2010)
-Folk band from Washington DC
3. Rough Rider Radio (2009)
-USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) radio station
4.Locked On (2010)
-Photographer Peter Chen
5. Twins of A Gazelle (Unused) (2010)
-Folk band from Washington DC
6.F-Stop Society (2010)
-Online photo group
7. Death Match (2013)
-Online comic

Diamond Fox

Diamond Fox is where you will find the illustrations and graphic design work done by me, Raz Holly/ Raul Zamora.
I will be posting some behind the scene stuff like sketches and "outtakes" I will also be doing some back tracking on some of my work. It will be dated to keep up with my progress and the growth of my style and technique.