Honest Abe

Color Studies

My most recent piece for Ten Paces and Draw, "Folk Art"

Meat and Skin

For some reason, the colors are odd on my screen unless you click on the image. I don't know about you guys.

Anyway, let's see what happens with these.

New Sketchbook

New sketchbook, bros.

FACT: I used my hands as reference. Hey boys.

Rooster

Hey look.

For my Illustrator class (or Digital Graphic Illustration, but that's a bit of a mouthful, and I'm clearly too busy and important to be bothered to say it) we had to make a t-shirt design for Product(RED). 

So I put a bird on it. 

Original drawing.  I had too much fun working on it. Really!

Or a rooster, which still qualifies as a bird. We had to make it traditionally, then live trace and paint it. So I did just that.  

This shirt isn't a lame joke attempt for a serious cause. Cough, what?

A Bug's Life

This here is my final final that I'm posting. I also had a paper about early 20th century women's' fashion (which I don't even want to look at again, so I'm sure none of you want to look at it even once) and a portfolio website I designed and coded. I think I want to tweak that though and actually use it, so you champs can just WAIT. 

Man has terrible life. Man becomes bug.
Man has even worse life. Man dies.
A real uplifting story for the holidays. You're welcome.

We had to design book covers for the Kafka story The Metamorphosis. I wanted to keep it simple and a little dark. I also wanted to combine graphic and rendered elements (I know, big surprise). I tried a different palette than usual, which was a nice challenge (Where's the yellow? WHERE'S THE YELLOW?). So here you go.  RESULTS.

I did this in acrylic with the exception of the lettering, which I hand-drew digitally.