Water

Finally finished my most recent portfolio piece. This was my secondary idea for a snowboard design project I did in my illustration class several months back. Liked it so much I held onto the sketch and built up from there. 

Pitch Package

Pitch package cover for a tv series I'm putting together; an animated crime-fighting comedy marketed for dirty and cynically minded adults. 

Mez Final

 

Here's the final piece I did under the mentorship of the awesome illustrator Lee White. Loved how this came out. Thanks Lee!

Mez Sketches

Some preliminary sketches for my latest illustration piece. 

Zombie Bride

Finally turned my zombie sketches from Costumed Figure Drawing into a final piece. Did this one just for fun and it turned out to be portfolio-worthy.

Mind-Control

This is one of my favorite pieces. It depicts my evil sorceress character using her unholy magic and blasphemous alchemy to control her demonic abomination. 

Breach

This is a piece I finished a few months ago. My favorite aspect of this pic is the warning notification at the top; it just made sense to me that a military base that dealt with inter dimensional monsters would have an alert setting worse than red. 

Kithra

This is a piece I started and finished last week; a sci-fi character from a story I'm working on. Interrogating her prisoners proved to be a total failure; her masochistic demeanor dictates that she must punish herself. 

Porno ABC's

These are pieces I did for my illustration class two terms ago. I wanted to do dirty illustrated letters while making the characters rather cute and innocent; this way they would be fun and quirky rather than just nasty. If nothing else I think they're at least funny. 

Character Poses

Yet another project from Costumed Figure Drawing. We were given five different cartoon characters and had to choose 6 poses to put them all in. Loved how this one turned out.

Costumed Figure Drawing Sketches

This is a collection of my favorite sketches from Costumed Figure Drawing. The models had some interesting costume choices including a zombie bride and a a bizarro Queen of Hearts. 

Costumed Figure Drawing

These first Images are school projects from my Costumed Figure Drawing class. So far as style goes these deviate a lot from what my characters usually look like but they were lots of fun to do. Plus they allowed me to explore deeper into exaggerated poses and shapes. 

Introductions

My name is Corey O'Brien. I am about to graduate from the Art Institute of Portland and become a freelance illustrator. I'm also passionate about writing stories and hope to get into publishing, an interest that my art almost always reflects. This blog's primary purpose will be to post my artwork and projects. My official website is www.coreyobrienillustration.com