"I'm never real. It is just a sketch of me. And everything I made is trite and cheap, and a waste of paint, of tape, of time."

this used to be one of my favorite songs. and sometimes you just gotta come back to the classics.

a small study I did a while ago

"last few months I've been living with this couple.

yeah, you know the kind that buy everything in doubles?

oh, they fit together like a puzzle.

and I love their love and I am thankful

that someone actually receives the prize that was promised

by all those fairy tales that drugged us.

and they still do me.

i'm sick, lonely,

no laurel tree

just green envy.

will my number come up eventually?

like loves is some kind of lottery

where you scratch and see what's underneath...

'it's sorry.'
just one cherry.

'play again.'
Get lucky."

Oh, I know it goes on, it gets old...

Coming to the sad realization that time is going to be in short supply this semester. I spent my weekend taking an online test, and doing these two paintings...my life is sad.

Here we go:

In Control

22X15in

Watercolor
[i think this painting is stupid]

Something is Missing

15X11in

Watercolor, sharpie

(my sketch of this was a lot better, but ohhh well. i still like this one a lot.)

"Something is Missing" Detail

I like the little fun textures... we'll see how this holds up with the profs.

"If we were honest and both wrote a sonnet together

a sandwich with everything on it,

at least we would know that the sparks didn't glow

but we owe it to ourselves to try,

so we aim and ignite!"

Sketch Book Stuff

Alabama, Arkansa...

Friends

so this one time, one of my best friends got in a dangerous accident. Thankfully she walked away with only minor injuries. I made her a card with this little drawing on it.

So apparently this is a little hard to understand. Failure on my part...I apologize.

But basically it's about building something together...you know, in the spirit of belated v-day and all. So hopefully that helps. :)

And for some reason scanning this made the red look washed out. It's a little brighter than in this image.

But most of all, most of all

...it's built to last.

So I realize it's kind of lame that I put all this energy into these drawings that won't go anywhere, but what can I say? I enjoy making them, and it's the closest I'll ever get to sketch booking.

Anyway, I was actually working on this for valentines day, but I got caught up in other things, so I didn't get any ink on it till now. So, happy belated v-day!

The Sun and the Moon...Finished?

- "wasted time. I cannot say that I was ready for this..."

Here it is:

The Sun and the Moon

24X24

Mixed Media on Panel

This is what I turned in. It is kind of a weak painting as of now. I'm trying to figure out what I want to do with it still. Maybe I'll never finish it.

BUT! One super exciting thing about this painting that I forgot to mention before is that I made the panel myself. And when I say I made it, I mean I built the cradle...that you can't see in this photo. haha.

Drawing Final Project

So I posted these in order from when I did them. The ones of Lori aren't finished because I've decided to start a third one of her - just not for the final which is tomorrow. The first two were more expiremental...I was just trying to figure out what worked and what didn't...so a lot of it is what didn't work.

These are small, I can't remember the demensions exactly, but there less than 11X15 for sure. Micron Pen and Ink on Stonehenge




Hannah's turned out to be the best in my opinion. Especially because it actually looks like her.


Emily's eyes are just weird. One is huge, one looks evil. Idk. but besides that I think it turned out alright.

As for my self portrait? Weird things were happening in this as well. the lips, the hair especially and everything under the chin. The pictures I used for reference were a bit difficult to work with seeing as half of the stuff I drew, you couldn't see in the photographs. Oh well...

Hurray for the end of the semester! 2d Final will be posted soon.

Two More

black & white

Color! I had a limited selection of colors, but I think it may have worked in my favor.

the end.

On the Steps of a Mayan Temple

...They will Crown us King and Queen.

This is a side project that I'm currently working on. It is about ten times more exciting than actually working on my Final Projects. If you can name the song+artist it's referencing you'll get points.

Until next time. ;)

Highlights from Drawing Portfolio 2

1 Point Perspective.


Box Still Life.


Cubist "Informed" Drawing 1


Cubist "Informed" Drawing 2

Highlights from Drawing Portfolio 1

We had a portfolio due a while back and we put everything we worked on, in class, out of class, inside. Most of the stuff wasn't very good, so I didn't bother taking pictures of it. I'll toss it all probably after the semester is over.

Rock Canyon Drawings -

We took pictures at rock canyon and then used to pictures to make these drawings. We had to do two, although I feel like they're pretty similar. I like the first one better.

First Week of Drawing

So this is an assignment we did in my drawing class a while back. First we put down a thin layer of black oil paint on a sheet of plexiglass, covered the plexiglass with a sheet of stonehenge, drew a blind contour of wilted sunflowers on the back of the stonehenge, and then the image transfers to the front of the page.
We were trying to get interesting line variations out of it. It was entertaining, but not my favorite thing to do.

Blind contour on the back of a sheet of stonehenge.

Black oil paint on the sheet of plexiglass.

The transfered drawing.

These next ones are just a few that I liked. We had to do this for 3 to 4 hrs as homework, so these are the best of the bunch, in my opinion. The last two have ghost images on them from pressing the paper back down after already using the paint on the glass to transfer an image. There's some nice detail that went through on the last one, especially.

and that's all I've photographed since the beginning of the term. haha. :)

START THE MACHINE

This was a nice break from all the technical stuff i've been having to do these past three weeks.

ah, creative liberties. :)

The Experiment

so this is something I did to help out emily for her advertising class. she told me what she wanted in the boxes and asked me to make a story board for her commercial. I've never done one before, so it was an interesting experience. I think it turned out alright. haha.

it's supposed to be a gaterade commercial. the guy pulls off his skin and turns into an athlete while trying to catch a frisbee...trust me. it sounded ten times better when emily explained it.

Bored and Angsty. Woot.

So, I really like the song Breathe by Taylor Swift because to me it sounds like someone actually had the balls to write a song from the otherside of the fence, ya know? The break-up-er, rather than the break-up-ee. It's refreshing. And so... a tribute. Nothing special, it was designed to be part of my wall of craziness (my wall is covered with pictures, drawings, magazine clippings, whatever can be stuck on it with tape...)

I put all the lyrics of the song on it, that's what all those little lines are.

Haha, it got a little crooked at the end there, but oh well.

Design Markers = Heaven.

So we did a project about every 2 weeks in my drawing for animation class. we got scored 1-10, 10 being the best. There was always a theme that we voted on...and for the record, whatever theme I voted for rarely won. It'll be pretty apparent in some. haha.
So here it is...
Stuff for Joe's class:

I took out Assignments 1,2 and 10 because they were horrific.

Assignment #3 - Charly Harper
So this guy uses simple shapes to draw all sorts of stuff, mostly animals though. It's kind of cool I guess, but I wasn't very good at imitating it.

Theme: Insects
Score: 8

Assignment #4 - Design Principles
So we had to pick a sillouette of whatever we wanted as long as it was iconic and demonstrate 4 design principles.
My four principles - Asymetrical balance, contrast of scale/color, variety, focal point by isolation

Score - 10. the one in the upper right hand corner is kind of washed out, but it was just a really big duck in 10% (contrast with the black).

Assignment #5
This was to work on composition and it was kind of a follow up lesson for the design one.
Theme: Me and My Imaginary Friend. (so 'me' in child form...interesting.)

This is me breaking up with my imaginary friend because I have to go join the real world. Heart breaking isn't it?

Personally, I think his metal arm is the coolest thing. ;)
Score - 9

Assignment #6 - 1 point perspective.
And thus starts the 3 weeks of agony...
Theme: Where to hide a body. (Okay, this was a sweet theme. haha.) Mine focused more on the actually death part...because it's not a very good hiding spot.

So, I always have this weird day dream about being killed in a bathtub. Don't ask, it just happens sometimes. I would not have chosen to draw a toliet in perspective if I could've helped it.

Score - 8

Assignment #7 - 2 point perspective.
So this is kind of my pride and joy of all the things I did in Joe's class.
Theme: enchanted forest structure. (Not so hot on the theme though.)

I guess the only reason its enchanted is because the trees are actually part of the building...that's kinda cool right? haha.

Score - 10

Assignment #8 - 3 point perspective.
Theme: Interstellar Monster Battle...(Yeah, no. Didn't care so much for this one either.)

But yeah, I totally owned on the spaceship part. My alien, not so much.

Score - 8

(there was a #9, I didn't do it. oops!)


And that's it for joe's class... (My midterm and final should be on here somewhere...they were part this.)

Midterm and Final for Joe's Drawing for Animation Class

I don't feel like either of these were good enough. I don't work well under pressure. :/

In any case, here they are.

Midterm: the Toy redo. The original theme was historic/literary figures. I chose Che Guevara. Then on the redo we added the theme of viking raiders.

Final: Theme - Git yer ma an headta the cellar. Include the farmer and an anthropomorphic side kick.

One day I'll scan the other stuff...

AP Concentration

So this is the concentration section of what I turned in for my AP porfolio. My concentration was Fairy Tales. And to bring it all closer together, they're all done in scribbles on black paper with colored pencils. They're considerably larger than what most people turned in, which was definitely hurt my cause because I had so much more to do, but I don't regret it really. I like things on a larger scale.

Anyway, this is only an excerpt of it...there were 12 pieces, but these were the best in my opinion.

Alice in Falling through the Rabbit Hole


Zeuz and Hercules

Sword in the Stone

Snow White eating the Poisoned Apple