TILLMAN DESIGN
Architectural & Graphic Design
Portrait at Breakfast
A Photoshop composite portrait that crafts a persona and environment for one particular feline gentleman. The client was so happy with the end result that she (eventually) married me.
Exploring Digital Illustration
This series showcases my earliest attempts to build my skills with digital illustration using a drawing tablet and stylus. In order to encourage exploration and imperfection, each of these illustrations was created within a short timeframe, ranging from 15 minutes to an hour at most.
Radial Symmetry
Because digital illustration allows for easy repetition and symmetry, it’s given me the opportunity to explore new mixtures of drawing styles that would be very time-consuming on physical media.
Animal Self-Portrait | Concept Art Class Project
An assignment to create a melding of my own physical and emotional characteristics with an animal that exhibits similar qualities, with the solemnity of the barn owl highlighting my own reserved nature. The illustration was created from a template of multiple composite images of myself and pictures of barn owls in order to get the textures, colors and details right.
Otto the Automaton | Concept Art Class Project
An undying companion to a lonely inventor, crafted from household objects and everyday materials, still by his side long after everyone else is gone.
The Doctor Is…
Concept Art Class Project
An assignment that called for an iconic character to be portrayed as a pin-up girl led to this reimagining of Lucy from Peanuts, adding a fair dose of humorous innuendo through the use of her iconic psychiatric role.
Vantage | Concept Art Class Project
Drawing from the evocative-yet-sketchy storyboard style of Pixar, which they use to quickly convey action, tone and emotion, I put their technique to use in this trio of images, which illustrate the life of a shy creature from the stars that curiously observes our world from atop a streetlight overlooking a public park.