4/7 Sins

I'm currently in the middle of a semester-long project--themed spots for the Seven Deadly Sins. I've done four, and have three more to go (yeah, I know math). I went for a circus/sideshow theme.

Greed

Gluttony

Envy

Pride

i like ink

Some alternate versions and unposted things.

 Mohawk color variation

The final version of my SOI piece.

Colored bottle

Foliage drawing from the fall that I never posted for some reason?

Be sure to click on them.

Shit's getting crazy, guys. 

shel

What the WHAT. It's a traditional painting. Oil and acrylic BABY.

For my portrait class, we had to do a portrait of a dead person (not like the person in the picture is dead, but just of someone who has died). I jumped at the opportunity to do a portrait of my favorite illustrator, Shel Silverstein.

Just how I like my men--
bald, pantless, and with hairy, skinny, pale legs. 

The idea here is to show his two sides. The kid-friendly and the inappropriate.

He's probably most famous for his children's books--The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up, and so on. He got his start, though, in more adult work---working as a world-travelling cartoonist for Playboy magazine (where some of my favorite work by him comes from) and writing gems like Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book.

So, from this a pantless Shel Silverstein emerges. Playing guitar in front some little kids. Super cute.

It's what I aspire to.

Painting leg hair is tricky.

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?

SOPA, Not Soup, Google

The one in the 3rd row on the far right is the cutest.

What? Again? Sorry. I just happened to finish a few things at the same time/remembered a few things I had forgotten to post.

This here is a mock-cover for Time magazine based on the whole SOPA business for my digital painting class. I definitely had the classic Soviet propaganda posters on the mind (Maybe it's the time of year. At this time last year I wrote a paper on it. Some people think about Valentine's Day. I just think about Eastern European/Asian politics of the 20th century?) and wanted to play around with pattern and repetition to convey some sort of overwhelming and uniform force.

Look at me trying to explain my thought process.

Here!

I'm still here! Clearly not updating for almost two weeks (gasp) means you should be concerned. Things have been getting busier and busier, and I'm in a flurry to finish a few things before spring break (more so because that's when they're due, rather than me having plans to accomodate---sorry to disappoint anyone who thought I was the glamorous jetsetting type).

In addition to homework, there have been some other cool things going on, for instance, I had a piece accepted into the Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Competition Show! Myself and three other super awesome illustration students at CCS were accepted. Check it all out here and here!


Anyways, here's a little personal piece. I should have some other work ready to post soon.

Look Familiar?

I decided to revisit this.

Don't get too jealous about how I spend my Friday nights. I did this Thursday.