Moar Illustration

This week's illustration project: convey sadness, anger, or joy through an illustration devoid of figures, animals, or clothing with a monotone palette. I decided to try and tell a story in my image to accomplish this, perhaps of a man receiving a letter with devastating news (a break up, a death, etc) who drowns his sadness in alcohol. Or something like that. It's open to interpretation.

Note to parents: Fear not, I do not own the bottle depicted in my painting. I extrapolated from this image I found on google.

Gouache on Bristol, approximately 14"x15.5"

Back at the Rhodes School of Island Design

Well, here I am back at RISD, into my second week of classes. Feels like home. Anyway, here's my first assignment completed this year for my illustration class. Prompt was to evoke a single word with any type of illustration.

Spoiler: My word was "lost"