Cameron Stradling's Portfolio: Illustration/Concept

Insectoid alien concept that I used for some cover art.

This was a fan art concept piece for Firefall. I was trying to create a melee type battleframe for an art contest.

Scarab warrior concept

For my senior film entitled, "Play" I did a quick mock up of what it will look like when I take it to color.

In background painting with Lou Police I chose to do a theme of The Wizard of Oz but with an Egyptian mythology.

Animal drawing with Marshall Vandruff was a lot of fun. For our final I decided to study semi-aquatic mammals and create instructional pages of their specially adapted features.

In visual development I chose the story of the Nightingale by Hans Christian Anderson but with a style influenced by Russian folk art.

In character design with Lou Police I did an interpretation of the Gingerbread Man fairy tale. I was influenced heavily by the Blacksad comics and so most of the characters are anthropomorphic animals and the story is set in WW2 Germany. The Ginger Bread Man instead of being a cookie shaped like a man is a redheaded baker who becomes a rebel leader in Nazi occupied Germany and the other characters from the fairy tale are interpreted appropriately as antagonists.

This is my interpretation of the pig from the story. He is the butcher in the same town as the Ginger Bread Man who reports him to the gestapo for insurrection.

This is the fox who in the fairy tale offers to carry the Gingerbread Man across the river on his back and ends up eating him. In my story he is a seedy dock worker who the Redheaded Baker pays to smuggle him across the river to freedom. He is eventually betrayed by the fox to the Nazis as he is vulnerable during the river crossing.

This is the old woman in the story of the Gingerbread Man that he runs away from. I imagined her as a Nazi concentration camp director who is after the protagonist for starting a rebellion.

Early sketches for the Baker.

This is the final color concept for the Baker. He escapes from a concentration camp and manages to start a resistance in Nazi Germany but is later betrayed by the Fox and becomes a martyr for his cause.

This is a master study of Michelangelo's sketches for Lybian Sibyl.

Figure Drawing samples.

Final project from perspective class.

A quick painting I did recently from a sketch in Animal Drawing class.

Character and prop design from Digital Painting class.

Graphic Novel pages I did for Marshall Vandruff's Visual Storytelling class. I did a retro-scifi/inception/1984 version of Little Nemo in Slumberland.