Easy 3d box comps in illustrator!

I just wanted to post this because I just figured something out really cool in illustrator. If you draw a shape, like a box or whatever, and use the effect > 3D > extrude & bevel. You can map your work onto it. All you have to do is make whatever art you have into a symbol just like in flash (hit F8). Then on the extrude options hit "map art" and chose the symbol you made... and you can do stuff like this...

24-Page Book: 6 Rules for the Unruly

Here's the book Chia and I put together.  Below are the screenshots, but you can also flip through it in one of those nifty .SWF files for the browser.  Check that out here:

6 Rules for the Unruly

Iron Man poster for the competition...

This is the poster I submitted for the key art awards... this was made from a scan of a brass etching.. it looks more like a painting, but I liked the image of Iron Man on this was a bit better than the first one I did...

Etch-a-sketch trial 1: Poster ideas

So my poster is going to be pretty basic... I'm just going to use a modified image of one of my etchings .. and put the normal poster stuff on there.... Here's some quick comps I made... The brass etchings came out like they were supposed to... but the bronze one that got eaten up looks the best to me... i'm going to sand these down and see how they look as well...

Etch-a-sketch trial 1: Bronze ain't Brass

So I had this concept of making an image of Iron man out of rust for my poster.  To quickly rust metal I found out you could use this stuff called Muriatic Acid, but the stuff is basically diluted Hydrochloric acid and it can be pretty dangerous.  During this research I came across a tutorial of making etchings using this stuff called Ferric Chloride... which you can get at radio shack suprisingly....

So I decided to attempt to make and etching... the tutorial was for making and etching onto brass.. and I found some small sheets of brass and bronze at Hobby Lobby for a few bucks...

I guess I wasn't paying attention, and I didn't even realize I bought bronze... I thought I had just gotten two different brass alloys that had different colors... I was definitely wrong...  anyway... so first I had to sand then sheet of metal down and clean it with acetone (nail polish remover)

I made a stecil-like image from one of the photos we got from the movie and to get the image on to the metal I scanned it in and printed it onto an acetate transprancy... 

Here's the sheet of bronze in the package....

after printing out the image... I ironed the image onto the metal.  When you lay it in the acid bath, the acid should eat away everything around the image so for this first attempt I made 2 images... one was inverted.. and i covered both sides of the metal...  The tutorial said I should leave it in the acid for about 3 hours... agitating it every 15 mins... well.. like I said.. I did use brass.. and this was bronze by mistake...

the acid tore right through this stuff.. I should have known since the brass was A LOT thinner than the other sheet of metal that I have...  so this is what it created... 

This looks really cool actually and i'm sure I could photoshop this and make it look decent.. but I'm taking another stab at this using the proper brass sheet of metal... I hope it turns out ok...

This picture below is actually BRASS...yea, there is a big difference... wish me luck... 

Collateral Damage / Temp Tatoo

Here's so layouts for the new (and final) direction for the 24 page book.  We decided to have a theme of RULES to making random designs... It's not really that thought out, but I tried to think of some clever headlines for these rules.  I also decided to scrap the hand drawn type and use real typefaces to created some illustrative blocks of text.... they start off kind of hard to read, but I'm going to tone them down a bit like in the last few I did... whatcha think?


These aren't done but this is my logo idea for "Requiem for a Dream" and my temporary tattoo is going to be a wilted rose which has a stem that turns to veins....