King of Trash

"If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!"

-John Waters

Dual Personality

Lines done digitally this time and digitally colored. I usually balk at doing everything digitally, but after discovering stumpy pencil I may have enjoyed myself. Assignment for Studio Portrait to display the dual personality of one person. I often feel my main dual personality is between then in Texas, to me now in Baltimore. I know, I drew my bison skull again. If you had one hanging around I bet you'd do the same.

Pugz

Because my final junior illustration assignment was a "secret santa" and/or my peers wrote in ideas for my final project, I have a whole bag full of ideas written with attention paid to what I could do well or would like to do. One of these was to do 5 dog expressions, which seemed really out of nowhere at first. The more I thought about it the more it seemed like a really fun exercise. Still not sure about these colors, but I did this relatively quickly to get warmed up for next semester.

50 Things

We were assigned to draw 50 individual organized items for a poster, and I really enjoy doing little drawings of desert plants. I would have preferred to have the time to hand-make this via printing, but Thanksgiving break cut down on my time before deadline.

However, I did spend a little time turning this into a pattern. Making patterns is actually surprisingly easy to do in photoshop, and I'm definitely going to experiment with this more in the future. Hopefully I'll get into screen-printing next semester and I can start handcrafting instead of relying on digital painting.

I'm Not Sick But I'm Not Well

Cd Booklet design for Junior Illustration. The cd sleeve part is at the top of the drips of the cover. The belly band would protect it from falling out. I mainly wanted to create a design that was as much something you would want to hang on your wall as well as something to document the track list, and I tried to draw in a stream of consciousness style so that you could continue around the whole thing in a fluid way. When I listen to music, especially these songs, I can see so many images, many of them not syncing up perfectly, but somehow working together. I also prefer to draw this way, rather than cutting up images drawn or found separately. The prints are on white arches cover, and the belly band is chartham.

The title of my mix CD is “I’m Not Sick But I’m Not Well.”

Track list is as follows-

All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down - Elliott Smith (covering Hank Williams, Jr.)

Saturnine - Polaris

Harsh Realm - Widowspeak

Broken Horse - Freelance Whales

Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger

Quick Fashion Illustration

45 minutes from idea to final. 

Clothes from Betsy Johnson RTW Fall 2011 and Emanuel Ungaro RTW Fall 2009.

(based on the shape of a heart)