I graduated!

How about that! To prepare myself for this new school-less life ahead of me I decided to tiddy up my room and found an older sketch pad with a buncha life drawings in it from my anatomy class.
This'll probably be the neatest blog post, and the one with the most images.

Tomorrow I suppose I start the job hunt. Oh jeez. Kind of a little bit nervous about that

Drawing for my Business Card. I didn't plan ahead and think about where the titles and my contact info would go. So it gets a little crowded when I slap all that information on top of it. Maybe I'll spend more than five minutes and figure out a better solution. Might just print that stuff on the back.

Graduating in 3(2) days. Oh my! I can't wait till I got tons of free time to draw and get better at drawing. Maybe coloring too. Cause this piece is really splotchy.

gonna go to a slayer concert on the 5th

On my last term of art school. Things are going pretty well.

So I'm in this illustration class, and it's pretty darn cool. They got me doing this assignment where I draw a celebrity and their "pet" for a hypothetical Rolling Stone article. I chose Alan Moore because I think I got a fetish for wizards. Which probably stems from my beard lust.
Here's the final sketch, I think I'm probably going to finish it in water colors.


















Speaking of water colors, the teacher of the illustration class did a demo on water colors and I got to mess around with water colors for the first time since like 1st grade, and it turned out pretty neat! have a gander.

Doing a podcast tonight with some pals.

Today, using a sophisticated number graph grid thingy, I took up the challenge of drawing a character of my choosing in a style that would be determined by fate and the cosmos.

What I did was use this image. The numbers at the top and side correlate to the last couple of numbers on a forum post. For you at home I suppose you could roll a pair of dice or use the last two numbers of your favorite relative's birth year.

But you pick your character that you like, and I think it works best if you choose a character with their own unique style (definitely more difficult). Then you use the chart to figure out what style you're drawing them in. If I don't know the person I google them and look at their drawings.

You win if you're character is recognizable as well as the artist you were copying. In my case I think I failed to match the style. I got Skottie Young, who I think I kind of draw a lot like in some ways already, but the guy's got that like ... pixar magic? His shapes are just really good for things. It's really simplified but he draws stuff so sketchy like. Ahhh I'm going on and on.

Here's the picture, and the guy's Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star

P.S. he's supposed to be kicking the guy in the face

Filming, editing, and uploading silly videos is a good waste of a day.

This guy's older than everything on this blog, for some reason I never uploaded it. It's from my early beard lust period. (not that I'm implying that period has ended.)



Also Stumptown Comics Fest '11 happened this weekend and it was neat. I'd elaborate more but it's 3 in the morning and I gotta write some prose poetry before 12:45 pm.

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I ran into a car on my bike, and it fixed my handle bars.

Hey. It's 2011! I recall my mother saying it feels weird that it's 2011 because it sounds like a year from a science fiction novel, and I think I agree.

So I had a pretty good holiday season, I didn't do much but that was the plan all along. Two different friends of mine got married (not to each other), which is pretty neat but also bizarre all at the same time. Am I allowed to hang out with them anymore? I don't think bros before hoes is justified if it's their spouse. I'm just kidding, I'm happy for them. Congrats!

One thing I did do over the break was draw some Mighty Thor as a gift for my mom, I'm still working on it however, and it's kind of past Christmas... but it's coming along nicely. I've decided to show you all the bad sketches I've done that finally got me to the final composition. There's also a Jacob Brown original that I stole without him knowing.





Billions and billions of hands because I couldn't get the right vicious grasping look I wanted. I wanted it to look scary but still look like a natural way to grab at something. All for nothing too, because I ditched the first composition I decided on after looking through this Frazeta book I got and saw how he used this triangle composition a lot and decided to use it.




Thor. 'nuff said.




A doodle Jacob left at my parent's place that I kept. I think it turned out pretty neat. I ruined it by coloring it.