Here are also some more sketches I did for my thesis project scanned from my sketchbook!

These three are my top favorites of this round.

These are some random doodles that aren't going to make it to final but I thought were amusing.

And this was something that I thought was so delightfully silly that I turned him into a little fabric sketch. 

Tee-sis

Hello agaain! This is my beginning-of-thesis-holy-crap update. So I've decided that my thesis project is going to be (*drumroll please*)

Portraits of Extraterrestrial Monarchs (cue some punny wordplay on the word "monarch"..... spawnarch? mon-alien? Overlords? Underlords? weak, I know.)

Why that, you say? Well, I started out knowing I wanted to create characters and make embroidered/appliqued fiber portraits of them. So I was thinking of stories to do and I was not coming up with anything I was excited about. So, I thought about the things that I got excited about doing last semester and I thought about my Concepts II dolls project and my Character Design 70s Alien project. And, what better way to combine the two than to create stuffy, pretentious, (hopefully) humorous portraits of quasi-human-like alien creatures in ridiculous costumes ?

I am also secretly (or not-so-secretly) poking fun at the concept of Monarchy and the unbelievable amount of pomp and circumstance that goes into being king and/or queen (I also may or may not be obsessed by 17, 18, and 19th century costume). Many of the "planets" I came up with are also parodies of human economical systems and how flawed they are. Probably the most important thing is that my sense of humor is appeased and shows through, and I hope it shows in these drawings that I did when I was fooling around and conceptualizing:

this little dude is my absolute favorite ^

these are just some funny little doodles when I was researching costumes: 

 

 

That one on the left was the one that inspired my screen printing queen below! 

This is the original collage thing for the cake cover :)

just thought it was interesting. Again, drawings from my sketchbook collaged together and colored :)

I did some sketching in my little "YOU'RE NEXT" sketchbook from ICON :) Unfortunately, it was not under the best circumstances, as I sketched my grandpa in the hospital bed and my dad in

the waiting room.

dad

grandpa

It's nice to try to get documentation of things other than photographs. 

More sketchbook updates!

Here are some more sketches that I was doing throughout the summer!

Langham pool again :)

Notes during John Mahoney and Yuku Shimizu's lecture

A quick sketch when I was at the hollywood bowl! 

Notes during Todd Oldham's speech. 

I am not sure if I should be posting some of the pictures I've been taking... but I have been posting them on my other blog, bass-ackwards-blog.blogspot.com. 

Alice Neel

Here are some studies I did of Alice Neel paintings I was fortunate enough to see when I was in Venice beach at the L.A. Louver Gallery: (edit: ICK, i saw this on another computer and noticed that the colors are all purple and stuff. My scanner sucks :( )

I really love Alice Neel. Her paintings have such an organic quality and ease to them that I really admire.

ICONFEST

Sorry for the lack of updates... Summer's been pretty unproductive. However, recently i've been super productive! I think ICON inspired me.

That said, I've just spent the past week volunteering at ICON6: Sunny Side Up in Pasadena! It was a great week, I really had a blast meeting all kinds of people and getting inspired by great illustrators. I just wanted to update with some sketches in my sketchbook that i've been doing this summer!

People lounging by the Langham pool :)

these are just some doodles i did during various speeches - I didn't get to hear every one, but i heard some awesome speeches by Wayne White, Craig Yoe, Thomas Blackshear, Yuku Shimizu (sp?) and many others :)

Doodle doodle doodle

Some silly things from this summer that I doodled on my tablet. :) Click to enlarge because blogspot makes them mini-size!

a Cartoon of me and my brother Morgan!

a beer that I ..cough.. didn't drink

aaaaand those things we put on our boobs.

Visual Journalism!

Here are my favorite pages from my Visual Journalism final! (phew) They're all collaged pages, people and compositions from my sketchbook, with some selective photoshop color thrown in :) There were 16 spreads in total...