Here is my 10 of spades prelim sketch and color rough. I am still trying to decide whether I should work on it in oils (for the good of the auction cause an actual painting will sell better than a digital print I think) or do digital cause damnit, it's easier. I may just paint it and then play with the digital version later on. A little nervous to paint, it's been a while and my oil experience is very limited as I hate all the ventilation hooplah. So wish me luck! Feedback and insults welcome :D jk insults not possible.




On another note, I recently started an etsy store to sell some prints and shall be adding more stuff(including the new pieces I am finishing below) within the next few weeks.

Here are a couple pieces I am working on right now. The actual sketches are both pretty small but color makes everything more special! Really just trying to practice and work on making better color choices even though I know I like crazy colors that are wrong sometimes. Feel free to leave some thoughts, would appreciate the input. :)






and no I have no idea what I'm doing with these silly labels. one day I'll have enough entries for it to count?

This is just a little sketch I have lying around. I think soon I am going to throw this into photoshop and do some color practice with it. Will post progress soon!

I posted these fun little sketches on SYDFO a while back but wanted to add them here as well. This was from the local craft night event I went to with Heather. I used my good old water brush pen and some ink and pencil. Really just playing around with no pressure for it to be awesome!

Alright I guess I had better get back to posting on here. Moving was total craziness and soon I will be posting some illustration I did for a book along with some other random fun along the way. I think one weekly posting is a good policy but I might have a lot to post in the next few weeks!

For now I just joined the Hallway Show blog, it was a sweet thing some of my fellow classmates started at CCS and I never participated for some dumb reason (probably because I was too absorbed in homework and stressing unnecessarily). BUT NOW, I wanted to get in on the fun and comradery so here's my first contribution for the Fonz.



More posts coming soon! I live in Portland, OR now and I can't wait to have a good meal and some good local brews when I get paid!

This blog is the best thing I ever saw.

Also posting the work I did for the Somerset Collection bag design competition and the Detroit Zoo Contest. Didn't win or place in them but I had fun coming up with something that fit the bill and was still me.

Now that graduation and everything is over I'm just going to take my time and do more work on my portfolio. For my reviews one big suggestion I got was to try working with media to really refine my form turning. I know that I love ink work so I will continue to use that but I am going to do some playing with oils a lot this summer as well as trying out some new digital approaches. Drawing is where I'm most comfortable and I'm excited to work with oils and see what I get out of it; plus at least its summer and ventilation won't involve sitting by a cold window like last winter hah.

Anyhow here's another work from senior studio this last semester on an article about female metalheads. I don't know if I'm cool enough to call myself a metalhead but I do listen to a few choice awesome metal bands and you bet I listened the hell out of them while I worked on this. I think this is a good example of a media issue and I am going to probably transfer this drawing and try to tackle it with oils this time.

oh my god! so happy I found this again. Hell yeah Diamanda Galas.

Here's a piece from junior year and some recent sketchlings. The painting was about skuld and her sisters the norns of fate. It was really fun and it makes me want to do a whole new version now...perhaps now that I have some time to work on stuff without the stress of fast deadlines.

So here's some oldies I just wanted to post. Newer stuff is on the way but I just started a move and didn't bring my new archive drive. Did these for fall semester in Object Drawing. It was my way to say wow this assignment of drawing an illuminated object sounds boring...I'm going to make it into something I love instead. They were definitely a nice experience as far as working with digital techniques (used the sketch and photoshop for them) and I think having the drawing figured out well made it easier.

Also it was pretty cool that I was simultaneously taking Diane Voss's class on optics and light reading up on the history of light and scientific theory. And that's where I figured out the titles! Lux and Illumines.