Tuesday, June 08, 2010

"Lilo"-cized Environment








Location designs I did for my friend Tony Bancroft on a project he worked on a few years ago. The task is to "Lilo"-cize (or add a Lilo & Stitch flavor on) the environment. So I grabbed my good old prismacolor pencil and vellum paper (and a touch of PS of course). There were two different location design styles. The first four illustrates the "real world" where shapes and silhouettes are more rounded and friendly. The last two personify the "fantasy" world where it's sharp, pointed and dangerous. It was fun. 

All images ©Armand Serrano.

59 comments:

Adam Temple said...

Amazing! I love that store interior.

Mark McDonnell said...

INCREDIBLE . . . you're INCREDIBLE!

Wow . . .

MAC

Tom Scholes said...

Grade A Serranooooooooo.
Goodness.

Alexander said...

uuuuuooooooo----amacingggggg.....Really good backgrounds..

A. Riabovitchev said...

Awesome work Armand!:o)

Calader said...

Amazing locations!

Nikki Lukas Longfish said...

Just beautiful! Truly amazing.

PFC said...

Armand,

You amaze me. You make me thank God He gave you such talent.

Paul

Joe Kresoja said...

bootie rocking good!

Jordan Lamarre-Wan said...

Oh, watch out, Armand smacks down another set of AMAZING backgrounds!!!!

thanks for sharing dude!

Joshua James said...

inspiring!

Unknown said...

These are STUNNING!!

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Anonymous said...

Wow! Your background are really amazing i love all the enviorement

SILVER KNIGHT said...

beautiful and inspiring work! :)

Ty Carter said...

Mr. Serrano, you inspire me! WOW!

Marco Bucci said...

MAAAAN these are good.

James O'Shea said...

also looks like you added "open season" to the enviros as well. very nice, armand!

Toby Lewin said...

These are stunning, really inspiring work :D

Hans said...

Whoahohohwwwow! These are just amazing!!! I'm super inspired, thanks for posting:). On another note, I know you're a gladiator buff, so I was wondering if you've heard about the gladiator grave they have uncovered in England? Cool stuff.

Hope all is well,

-Hans

Alfred Llupia said...

Amazing Armand,can' t stop watching and studying this artwork.Greetings from Bristol.

Michael Mercer said...

Ya I like these a lot! Great design, beautiful drawings. Thanks also for explaining the basic design philosophy. That is always helpful too!

Gracia said...

lost for words!
I looove this landscapes and the artwork you can generate just with pencils!!
Awesome!
thanks again for sharing
:)

Armand Serrano said...

@all: Thanks for the comments everyone.

@PFC: Thanks Paul for the humbling comment. Truly, apart from Him, I can do nothing.

@Hans: Thanks, man. I checked on it and it's very interesting. There was a similar gladiator graveyard dug in Ephesus a few years back. History Channel investigated it and was able to make a movie about one gladiator in it. Maybe you can check it on iTunes. It's titled "True Gladiator". Cheers.

Carolina said...

IMPRESIONANTES...!!!

Thanks for sharing! it´s always a great pleasure to visit your blog.

Bravo.

Dave Dick said...

Wow!!! Such beautiful details!!!

abhishek singh said...

AMAZING these are:)
love the clarity of flow within these layouts:)
SUPER WORK:)

fatemeh kashfi said...

oh,I impressed how you set up these details.

Marcos Mateu said...

These are great Armand, the 'hut by the lake' shot is just phenomenal

Unknown said...

Amazing works. I follow you.

Anonymous said...

Great draftsmanship , strong images !

Cheers Armand .

Jose Ramos said...

Are awesome dude! , i like it a lot , especially lilo´s movie is my favourite!

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Brandon Warren said...

Armand, I was around Tony's office when these were coming in, but i never got a chance to tell you how awesome they are... As always, great job man. you give us "young guns" a benchmark to try to succeed and eventually surpass. Thank you for the inspiration buddy!!!

Kendra Melton said...

These are stunning, they kind of took any words I had right out of my mouth. Beautiful!

Diego Martín Puente said...

Absolutely amazing, congratulations !

Jenn. said...

wow!!! just wow! They are just amazing.

Armand Serrano said...

Thanks again for the comments everyone!

Martin Bergquist said...

These are fantastic, your sense for values and composition is outstanding...

Stephan Royer said...

You are a pencil ninja... :O
Just amazing work and detail, there's an immediate presence to the locations. Thanks for posting.

Anonymous said...

The store is my favourite with all those little details, so wonderful!

dubai rental property said...

This is really nice work. I always appreciate the work like this. As it is quite difficult to make painting beautiful without using the colors.

Chris Iliff said...

Just stumbled on your blog and loving it so far. Keep up the great work, it inspires us all!

Gabby Zapata said...

your artwork is faaaantastic! this leaves me speechless! amazing :)!

Vladimir Bursać said...

What an awesome works!!!
Fantastic!!!
You are a great inspiration! Thanks for posting!
Best! :o)

janmenjay said...

wow,harttouchess work...u know who the artist my fev...? U

Andrew Bosley said...

Fantastic Armand! As always!

Marcelo Vignali said...

Gosh, these are wonderful!

Anonymous said...

you are a luxury only Disney...or Sony,can pay. Congratulations.

shivanand khanore said...

Absolutely stunning job, armand!! I was always fascinated by pencil work.
Amazing skills man Great ! each and every artwork is superb!
thanks for the inspiration.

Andrea Pucci said...

Marvellous! So nice shapes!!! Great Armand!

Unknown said...

these are sooo awesome!!!!!

Marco Bucci said...

I keep coming back to look at this post, Armand. Just awesome and inspiring.

Red Fox said...

Clap clap
Chapeau!

SEILER said...

These drawings are beautiful . . . Geez!

janmenjay said...

excellent over excellent work....

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Martin Fagan said...

It's always inspiring to see amazing artwork like this.

binturlu said...

great post thanks

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