Sketches + Final!

Oh hey kids I decided to scan in the sketch along with the final for this next piece. It’s not very exciting. I came up with a handful of ideas, but wound up doing the first one I came up with… I didn’t really feel strongly about it, but I guess it gets the point across…and that’s about it. I could have gone with one of the ideas I liked more (or a new one) but I wanted to see how this turned out. The finish only took about two hours, so there’s that. ANYWAY, it’s for an article about postpartem depression. Sad lady + crib. WHO KNEW

Oh, here’s a doodle I did of the lab while at the lab.

First happy project of the semester!

I’m just finishing up the first round of assignments for the semester! Some of them were successful, others not so much… Here’s one that actually worked out pretty well for me. I’ve got some cleaning up to do, but here it is as of the critique:

MEEEOOOOOW.

Paintings / Collages

Remember the paintings I posted a while back? Well, they’re all done! Well, they were, as of the end of last semester…and the next one is about to begin. I guess it’s time to show them all off! I’m not 100% satisfied with all of them. I’m probably going to wind up painting over some of them…or digging into them digitally until I’m happy. Anyway, here are the paintings, and the collages they’re based off of. Enjoy!

In the end, though, I think I like the collages more than the paintings. OH WELL.

what i’ve been up to this summer!

Aside from making many many empty promises, I’ve been designing shirts!

What kinds of shirts, do you ask?

MEME SHIRTS.

Now, thanks to my wonderful employers at Know Your Meme, you can clothe yourself in longcat, ORLY owls, and a few other memes!

The first design available for immediate purchase is my looooooongcat design:

Here’s a detail. You see what I did there?

GO BUY BUY BUY! Help pay back my student loans at shop.knowyourmeme.com!

Sketchbook

I need to learn to buy sketchbooks that actually fit in my scanner. This one spread took six scans to put together.

It keeps me from scanning more pages at once, haha. Anyway I’ve been playing with the I-don’t-like-the-way-this-looks-so-i’m-just-gonna-throw-some-shit-on-top-of-it approach to sketchbooking…and in a 10×14 book, there’s a lot of room to do that… So I get fewer pages done. But bigger is better, right?

One of the things I like about working big and scanning at high resolutions is being able to see little bits of nonsense that are sometimes a lot more interesting than the piece at large. Here’s a bit of the above picture, at 100% in a 300dpi scan:

Twitter?

Hey guys, sorry for the lack of updates! I’ve got some pretty cool work coming up, so hold tight. Until then, I’ll be doing a drawing almost daily using twitdraw over on my twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hellolittlefish Follow me!

Postcards

Set of 6 prints, four colors apiece. Postcards! I hope to send them out to many people…. once I get some addresses together. These were made for my Silkscreen final… here are some kindof-okay scans for you to ogle at.

Sketchbook

More sketchbook work. more fluorescent paper, more collage, ink+brush, etc.:

maybe one day I can have this much fun with my finished illustrations

there is some paint too

Pratt collection now on flickr.

Yesss, our Library can be a little bit awesome sometimes. They’ve put their digital image collection of 1600 + pictures overrr here. It includes historic photos of Pratt, fashion plates, and tons of bookplates.

Here is one of them:

Look at these ladies move in a super old timey Phys Ed class:

fashion illustration is always mega-awesome:

Yeah. My own art is on its way once I buy myself a decent scanner. Any suggestions?

WIP

It looks like the computer ate the scans of what I did at the draw-a-thon last friday Until then, you’ll have to live with two pieces I’m working on for Illustration. They’re not very Illustration-y… no matter, they’re fun. And part of a series of five! Comng soon.