Here's a little thing I did over spring break to keep my watercolor chops up... also it is a birthday present portrait for my grandpa. Funnily enough, it's not a school assignment but it's one of my favorite watercolors i've done yet. I'm slowly learning.... :)

I am going to photograph some of my portrait drawing work soon and post it here... it's some of my favorite work that I've done all semester.

Here's a cute little animated thing I made for EMAC last year that  I just found on my computer :)

oh, EMAC. Ohhhh, being a freshman.

There's No Place Like Home!

This is part three of a three-article-illustration assignment, this is just the one that I have scanned/like the best. I'll post the others later, when I get my lazy butt over to scan them.

Anyways... the series is movie-themed... This is a piece in reaction to this article, about how a british snake-oil salesman sold the Iraqi government $85 million dollars worth of bomb detectors that are essentially total crap and do not work. And despite recent devastating bombings and everyone yelling that the detectors are fake, the prime minister (Malaki - shown in illustration as Dorothy) keeps on buying them. Hilarity Ensues - not.

revengeeeee of the kittens..

Here is something that I just completed for Illustration 2. This assignment was to conquer our "illustration fears" and make a piece about a subject matter and with a medium that you hate/are scared of. So that explains the slightly-sketchiness. As you can probably tell, I don't like drawing animals or cutesy kitschy things, or action scenes, and I also am afraid of watercolor. Although I'm slowly getting over that fear.

Anyway.... here's Kitschy Cute Animals in Action, or

REVENGE OF THE KITTENS!!!

Honestly, I'm on the fence about this one. I like the puppy. The puppy I used for reference, although you might not be able to tell from this, is absolutely THE cutest puppy in the ENTIRE universe. It's just a little fuzzy ball of fluff. sleeping on the floor. So that made it a little better.

The weird stylized cats though... I don't know. I guess that was me trying to get away from my thing about realism, because when the cats were drawn realistically, they were just super creepy, definitely not cute at all. Jessica helped me out, recommending that I make them super loopy with the eyes really far apart, a little chibi-ized (I shudder to admit), etc. Hmm.

What do you think? Cute and adorable or vomit city?

well THAT's not what I expected!

Here's the first assignment we did for illustration 1 - the final sketch and the final ink. The prompt was: "well, that's not what I expected!"

I have to say, looking up reference images and drawing zoot suits and creepster hairstyles was pretty entertaining.

I like the sketch more, but that's just me... what do you think?

Weapon of Awesome

Here is another thing I did for inking last semester that I really like :)

I haven't done anything totally substantial that I want to share yet really this semester but soon I will, probably by next week. All the first big-shot assignments for this semester are due then. Until then, Here's the coolest, funniest actor with the sweetest dance moves: Christopher Walken! (in stipple.)

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.

StalinMouse

Here is an assignment for my Illustration 1 class. We had to illustrate a short short story, and mine was about a dictator who dreamt he was a mouse, and it ended with him throwing himself into a well to get closer to the moon. So, naturally, I painted a portrait of Stalin, as a mousetator. With a moon. The colors for some reason uploaded rather washed out..

22"x30"

watercolor and acrylic on paper

Haaaaamleettttttttt... Iiii ammm yourrrr fatherrrrrr's ghoooooostttt...

Here is my project from Inking earlier this semester! The project was do to a poster for the movie Hamlet with the theme "robots." I, of course, forced myself to watch the (incredibly long and painful) Kenneth Branagh version of Hamlet. Branagh's idea of acting is looking tragic and yelling in anguish a lot, so Hamlet was perfect for him!

So.. It's pretty self-evident. The quote is "Something is rusting in the state of Denmark."

pretty funny huh? (oy vey)

ALSO! While I'm here... I'm going to have to do a shameless plug.

Take some time and visit the blog of the talented and lovely photographer Elle Perez! :)

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...

ohhhh finals.

This is my final for Illustration 1, colored in photoshop. I really like how it came out - my class wanted me to put a light warm overlay over it but I like it better this way. Just personal preference.

final for inking!

it started as a random train of thought... I bet everyone would quit smoking if whenever you crushed a cigarette butt on the ground it turned into a little cigarette monster and attacked your head!

click to enlargeeeee!

Wish You Were Here

My final for Illustration 1!

The assignment was to do an illustration based on song lyrics.

Mine are from "wish you were here" by Pink Floyd:

"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year, running over the same old ground, what have we found, the same old fears, wish you were here."

woo!

Here are some random pieces for John Malloy's inking class: