Outdoor Life Magazine Illustration 2

Here is the next "This Happened to Me" comic for Outdoor Life Magazine. A pretty crazy story this month-- and a fun one to draw.

Feature Film Project

Along with my illustration work, I've also been working diligently to make a feature length movie for the last six months. It has always been my dream, and last fall I decided that I couldn't wait on it any longer. I just had to go out and make a movie.

The project has been steadily picking up momentum, and last Friday we were able to shoot the opening sequence as a test. I thought I'd post it because I was really pleased with the results. We are intending to complete the film by the end of 2010.

Below is a link to view the opening test sequence. The music is a placeholder for now but I will re-post once we create the actual soundtrack. Also, it may take a minute or so to load (its a 79 MB file) but I didn't want to show a small, compressed quick time and lose the imagery we worked so hard to capture...

http://www.charliegriak.com/film_test/opening03_23_10.html


There are definitely a lot of unknowns between here and the completion but I'm confident we can bring this vision to life.




Below are the some of the storyboards I made for the shoot...

Minnesota Monthly Illustration

Thanks to my friend Robin Eley, I illustrated this month's cover of Minnesota Monthly.

The final product...


And the original sketch...

Outdoor Life Magazine Illustration

This illustration was created for Outdoor Life Magazine's "This Happened To Me" feature. I'm scheduled to do this feature for the March, April and May issues.

Vector Leopard Illustration

Just playing around here...



I love simple, graphic, poster-like illustrations and I'm always trying to improve and fine-tune my approach.

American Express Illustrations

I spent a large part of last summer and fall creating these illustrations for an American Express web site. I was really excited to be selected for this project.

Unfortunately, I don't think I can share the link to the actual site, because the site was a promotion for card holders. If I find out differently I will post a link.





Because many of the elements were animated I had to create multiple version and states for most of the elements for the animators. Each element also had to be created in its entirety, so as one thing moved it wouldn't leave a blank area in the illustration.

Sketchbook

I haven't posted any sketchbook work in awhile and I had these images all prepared for the VLP forum.

Just my usual value sketches, my way of practicing to keep my eye sharp...