Egg and tomato basil on toast with black pepper.
NASA Lunar Sample #96824. May also be a strawberry chocolate brownie.
Blueberry bagel with icing.
What was supposed to be a baked potato with beans, chives, and sour cream.
So I did little isometric foodcubes because I forget. Really subtle linework scattered here and there. Turns out I can't draw food textures really well. I'd totally call this group "Samplers" if I was gonna be witty.
I like how you explored the different textures and brushes. The colors look great and natural. They look very stylized and work well together as a collection. I think your egg one has a lot more shadow/highlight contrast that's lacking in the other pieces. It would be great to see more highlights and darker values in the other three.
ReplyDeleteYour approach to this assignment is really amazing. I really enjoy your use of textures, you used them effectively to create your "sampler" cubes. I like your use of color as all of the elements that you included bring together the illustrations in a very cohesive way.
ReplyDeleteYour food cubes look amazing. It's an interesting way to display food. I want to know how you got those textures to be so believable. Also, your overall color palette has a soft quality to it, which makes these seem more inviting. The only thing I think that could be improved would be the baked potato one. Maybe showing some of the peel texture would help.
ReplyDeleteThe tops of your food cubes totally look like little food landscapes. so rad. The color blending and use of texture in this is fantastic, really impressive.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I would fix is maybe the blueberry bagel because its shape looks a little wonky.
These are super cool! I love the different textures of these - particularly how you used the brushes to get some really great differences between the green sprigs on the baked potato and the texture in the side of that one, too. The painterly quality of the brushes is really nice as well and although it doesn't look like you were trying for a really atmospheric look or anything, the transparency that you get in the way the icing on the bagel, or the sour cream- it makes each piece that's in your drawing feel really intentional and well though out. I also think that the colors that you chose for the lighting - for how the cubes turn in space looks great. The lighting across all 4 seem consistent, and still gives you a sense of the color of the light that's hitting them. Great job on these! love that little black pepper!
ReplyDeletethe amount of texture and detail on these is insane! the naturalness of the is just amazing. you have a really great sense of light and shadows. the colors and the cube shape of the food really unifies these.
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh! RAD FÜD CUBES! It really reminds me of the work of Sachin Teng. The texture of them is very visually pleasing, however I'm wondering how the actual qualities of the foods could be introduced to push these so a whole 'nother level. Would love to see more in this series.
ReplyDeletethese are totally awesome and they are 100 percent cohesive. they really make a great set that can easily be made into a sweet pattern. i think showing them all from the same angle was a good choice with these. they have some awesome texture and great color. awesome job!
ReplyDeleteI was literally just about to mention Sachin Teng and Chase beat me to it dangit. I dig the idea of isometric food cubes! It's really refreshing to see takes like this on traditional food illustration and its also a great way to examine texture and quality more closely. The grainy brushwork creates a nice transition from color to color and thats honestly the only thing I can really pick out because everything looks executed so seamlessly. I'd love see different food drawn this way as well. Great work!
ReplyDeleteYou definitely win the award for most interesting presentation- I keep thinking minecraft blocks looking at these and I've never even played the game. Seriously though, you did good with everything- the colors all play to each other and augment their own respective subjects. The food themselves look really tasty with the texturing and use of the brushes- the one drawback is that the cubist presentation backfires in one sense: I just assume they're all cake deserts. Once I read over what each was, there was the moment where I lived out the scenario where I bit into the last piece thinking it's cheesecake only to get socked with a hearty dose of baked potato. It's an odd piece of criticism, I know, but something to know!
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