Fake Book Cover

Image I made that is of a fake book cover. The concept is about being attached to something that has abandoned you, I guess it's my way of trying to empathize with people who are born on soil that they call home, yet their country abandons them. Printing out dark images is the hardest thing to do, with the cost and the hell of going to the print lab is probably the worst thing on Earth. Hope sall good.

Halloween In December!

This was my submission for the MICA halloween poster contest. It wasn't chosen likely due to my stubbornness of not actually having any Star Wars characters in the image. All of the characters I drew were implied from the characters I drew, I just didn't want to have another Star Wars fan art thing circulating out there. I remember being really frustrated as I worked on this piece. Anyway hope you like it.

Digital Painting Sketch

Since I'm too lazy to upload any real illustrations to this blog, here is a half hour sketch in photoshop. I've been doing a lot of linear drawings in my sketchbooks and wanted to repeat this in the way I paint. It's interested limiting my colors and using the pressure sensitivity sparingly.

More Good Stuff!

I got the scholarship to the illustration master class this summer and really I can't say much besides thanks to Cathy and Arnie Fenner for offering this scholarship. I'm incredibly excited to have the opportunity to study under so many amazing illustrators and painters. I still can't believe that this happened.

As far as illustration goes. There are new things coming up next week after finals are over.

Updates Pretty Soon

Good things have been happening! Turns out I didn't throw $90 down the drain. I have a lot of work I've been sitting on that I'm not quite ready to show, and I want to make my blogger more accessible like y's. But that also means I'm going to be going through lots of yelling at my laptop for not accepting the coding and whatnot.

Also I'm going on the Mary Kate and Ashley Dream Vacation™ in Iceland this week and I can't wait. I'm working on a booklet and an accordion foldout as promotional material that is probably going to feature icelandic landscapes in them.

Hour long concept sketch

I had a really long weekend of working on this poster and my body is physically drained. I took a break of doing serious illustration to see if I can draw the figure from my head and draw some futuristic soldiers and robots. It was a nice hour long break of drawing stuff for fun, I might turn this into something real one day.

Digital Identity

For some reason I don't feel like uploading new work to my blog anymore, maybe it's because I'm waiting until I have a proper website to show my new stuff. Anyway, here is one new thing I've finished. I have 2 others from the summer done but I'm really waiting to finish the third so I can upload like a 3 pack. You wont be seeing a whole lot of concept work for a while (maybe a good thing?) so here is the first of my thesis pieces. It's about the concept of someones digital identity replacing their physical. Internet based identities have always perplexed me. It's easy to assume it's more detrimental, that people are uploading a fraudulent identity and masking themselves from the real world. But the opposite is equally true, where it's also much easier to show who you truly are online than it is in the real world. So this is what I wanted to explore with the piece, how the line is blurred. I hope it reads decently, I could go on about every nuance and metaphor in the narrative but I already paid you 50$ to look at my blog and your probably not reading this.