Life in Cartoon Form

Last semester i started thinking about portraiture and using the aesthetics of comic book illustration to push the idea of traditional figure drawing. The following are images that i worked on through the semester. All are ink done on watercolour paper.

"Donya", 15in x 20in

"Lizzy", 15in x 20in

"Mo", 5in x 7in

"Jasmine", 7in x 5in

"Sarah", 5in x 7in

"Bree", 7in x 5in

"Me and Serman", 5in x 7in

Knitting Obsession Project

For the sculpture class I took last semester, our second project was to pick something to become obsessional about and then just go to town. I chose to work with knitting because it had endless possibilities. I originally started with the idea of knit graffiti but then i became obsessed with the idea of apocalypse and being ready for such an event. I borrowed a bb gun and machete from Fran, bought a riot baton at an army surplus store and made a sheath for a part of the stairway at the 162 building. The following images are from that series.

Long time coming...

it has been a very long time since i posted anything and i am sorry for that. it is has been a crazy past 6 months and i am going to try to get caught up on everything as fast as i can.

Figure Drawing - Marathon to Final Part 3

This weeks piece was based off a photograph by Ari Marcopoulos that was on the new issue of ANP Quarterly. It is of Harmony Korine, the guy who wrote Kids and wrote and directed Gummo. I picked up this issue at Quimbey's and had the same thought as i did last week with the image of the kid in front of the bushes, "i have to draw this". Unfortunately, the image of my piece is not that good because i had to take it with PhotoBooth since i don't have a camera. But, the image is done in ink and an ink wash and Yoda is done with ink and watercolour pencil. Sorry that the image isn't better but once i get a camera i will post a better image.

Figure Drawing - Marathon to Final Part 2

So last week i found this awesome picture on the Vice Magazine archives site under their photo issue. It was a photograph done by Jonnie Craig. There were all these amazing pictures of these 20-something kids running through the english countryside. So i was flipping through the images and this one of a guy standing in front of a bush with a spotlight on him seemed so powerful to me and i just really wanted to draw him. So i took the image and put my own "comic book style" on it and here he is. This was done on watercolour paper with ink and an ink wash. (Reminder: to see the details, click on the image)

Birdhouse Initiative - Final Piece

Below is the final piece that i turned in for critique last week. It is a Quicktime Movie (i hope it works) that i put together and it was my first ever stab at editing any film. The shots of me working on the birdhouses were taken by my iSight on my laptop and all the stills were taken by my roommate, Lissie. The music is by Her Space Holiday. Pictures will be up soon, i just need to resize and lay them out, so for now enjoy the video.

Figure Drawing - Marathon to Final Project

This semester i am taking figure drawing from the wonderfully talented Karen Azarnia. For final project we are going to be exploring the idea of narrative in a piece of work. In preparation for the final she has had us pick an artist or artistic style we like and either copy directly from that artist's work or copy that style into a piece of our own. Her rational behind this exercise is for us to take an artists/artistic movement we like and break it down and kind of discover it hands on. We had to produce one piece a week and it could be any size, but she did specify that she wanted the final piece to be on a large scale. So what i chose was the artistic style of comic books, in particular the simplified shapes and forms of Seth, Craig Thompson, Daniel Clowse and others from the D&Q posse. I decided to start off doing direct copies so i chose to work with Seth's graphic novel Clyde Fans No. 1. Since i missed a week due to my grandmother's funeral i ended up turning in the following two pieces. One is a copy of the cover and the other is a copy of i believe page 5 in the book. I chose these two piece because 1) i really wanted to work on portraiture which is my biggest weakness and 2) i really liked the flow of movement in the second piece and the lack of dialogue.