doodles from between periods of the nashville predators home opener against the blue jackets.
these are some costume sketches i’ve been doing for Paula Rogers. she’s a costume designer, and wanted a way to help her film and tv clients visualize her specific intentions for various characters before building the actual costumes, so she’s been hiring me to do artist-renderings based on her designs (some of the ones below [...]
tonight in thesis workshop, my classmates and i all did short presentations about our artistic influences. this is the diagram i made to explain myself. (click through for larger version.)
the fruits of my summer class! v productive: i learned what a t-square is for, which white ink is most opaque, and what an ‘ames lettering guide’ is. also managed to shoehorn two of my favorite things– hockey and opera– into a 16 page comic book! click on the image below to read the whole [...]
i just found a self-portrait from four years ago, comparing myself-then to myself-four-years-before-that. i’ve updated it with myself-now, so everyone can enjoy how little i’ve evolved over the last eight years of my life.
playboy asked my class to submit illustrations for the winner of their college fiction contest. my entry wasn’t chosen for publication, but it was still a fun project! this image is from a scene from the story, in which our protagonist licks a fellow rehabber’s feet while she’s passed out drunk on the lawn, because [...]
i originally drew this for a call-for-entries contest to design an aids awareness poster. i never actually submitted it, because i never came up with a good way to make it have anything to do with aids. instead, it stands as a monument to my deep deep love of drawing string. and hands. i like [...]
drawn-type experiment, from a poem i wrote last month. click here to see the full series in my illustration gallery!
for my drawing class, we were assigned to do a series of drawings centered on a specific location or theme. i chose live music, and used the project as an excuse to hang out in bars and clubs. featuring Pete’s Candy Store in brooklyn, the High Watt/Mercy Lounge in nashville, and the Bowery Electric in [...]
i spent most of my first semester at sva in a trembling panic over whether i was going to get this done in time for the student show. to my own shock and amazement, i came into the spring semester not JUST with a scary caffeine dependency (sleep? not while there’s art to be done!) [...]