Parody cover I designed as a gag gift for my wife.
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Before people start labeling me as as a.....*shivers* Twilight lover... Pay attention to the gravestones in the foreground. Setting that formality aside, I made this cover as a joke.
My wife wanted the newest LEGO harry potter game and I am never one to go the direct route... Since my wife and I are not fans of Twilight, I thought it would be a fun joke to make a cover for a fictitious (but believable) Twilight LEGO game, buy the game she wanted and then replace the actual cover with mine.
I built and painted the main illustration from a sketch up. Everything else (but the main illustration) on the wraparound were elements I researched and gathered from the internet (including the final wii template). After printing the completed wraparound, I replaced the Harry potter LEGO one with it. Visiting the nearest used game store, they wrapped it up in cellophane as a favor, so that it looked BRAND NEW. Before heading home I packaged it up in a used Amazon box, brought it home, announced my gift for her had just come, and immediately wrapped it with gift-wrap so that upon opening she would never suspect it had been tampered with.
How did it end out? My hard work paid off. When my wife opened her gift she was so convinced the game was real (just from the front cover) that she didn't even bother looking at the back, handed it to me and said, "You're going to have to send it back." I had a hard time keeping a straight face and not laughing. I asked her, "you mean you don't want to play it?" haha. "As IF," she replied, "besides we wont be able to return it!" For about 10 minutes I had her going and finally pulled the cover to Harry Potter LEGO out and had her open the cellophane on LEGO "Twilight" and we had a good, long laugh after that.
Blake Family portrait. (Watercolor and colored pencil.)
If Christmas break wasn't busy enough (between my normal job and finishing the Twilight cover) I ended up making 8 postcard sized illustrations and an 8x10 portrait of my parents and siblings IN LESS THAN ONE WEEK! Starting on monday last week I completed 2 postcard illustrations everyday except for friday and saturday, which was when I completed the family portrait. Honestly despite the stress to get them all done it was alot of fun to go back to traditional illustration. I might even go back to traditional for a little in order to develop a simpler portfolio.
I included a couple of my postcards below. I will probably post the rest on my Deviantart account. Each of my brothers and sisters, and their counterparts had to fight over them in the white elephant gift exchange we did this year. It was alot of fun!
As a final note my generous wife purchased several things for me, including THE ART OF Peter De Seve (Sketchy past). I sat down for HOURS and just basked in his amazing glory (and stressed about how inadequate I am in comparison to him 0_O haha )
That cat's face is beyond epic.
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