Charcoal Head studies done for Anatomy class Junior year. The self portrait and the sideways woman are from life. The child is from a photo of my little cousin. The lower-left is a Leonardo master study. Life drawing done for Anatomy class Junior year. Life drawing done for Anatomy class Junior year. Pelvis and leg bones drawn for Anatomy class Junior year. Life drawing done for Anatomy class Junior year. Life drawing done for Anatomy class Junior year. Head studies done for Anatomy class Junior year. One is a Reubens master study, the other a pencil drawing of my friend Kel. Landscape done of Flagstaff Hill for my 2-D media class from first semester. A pretty crappy scan of a slide of the image, unfortunately. A charcoal pic done from life in 12th grade art class. Graphite Lifedrawing done in Anatomy class Junior year. Four head studies drawn from life for Anatomy class Junior year. Another lifedrawing done in Anatomy class Junior year. Foot studies drawn for Anatomy class Junior year. Two head studies drawn for Anatomy class Junior year. One's a (poor) Duhrer master study, the other a (less poor) Ingre study. Some ribcages drawn for Anatomy class Junior year. Surly-lookin' self-portrait done for my 2-D media class 2nd semester of Freshman year. Life drawing done for my 2-D media class 2nd semester of Freshman year. Word to the wise: 'Life drawing' means its of a nekkid person who volunteers to hang around our art class while we draw them. Quicker life drawing of the same model done for my 2-D media class 2nd semester of Freshman year. Life drawing done for my 2-D media class 2nd semester of Freshman year. This guy played "God Save the Queen" while he held this pose. He's a silly model. That silly model again. This time he was dressed a cowboy. Another life drawing done for my 2-D media class 2nd semester of Freshman year. Guy dressed like a ragman. Another life drawing done for my 2-D media class 2nd semester of Freshman year. Old lady at a sewing machine. Oil 6'x4' portrait of my pal Mike. I used the 80s / early 90s neon aesthetic to illustrate his totally dudcal nature. Sadly, a very crappy photo of my most favorite painting from painting class sophomore year. The icon painting style embodies the power of iconic abstraction, and reflects why I work with cartooning and stylization. It also works as an fully-formed visual language for depicting the holy/sacred. Painting myself eating dinner with my friends Andrew, Rye, Kelly, and Ryan sort of represents the idea of Christian humanism, whereby God is humbled by becoming man, man is exalted by becoming God, and everyday occurrences are all sacred events, and it takes an act of utmost self-control not to collapse in religious ecstacy simply at the experience of living. Also, I think it looks neat. 5'x3' self portrait done for painting class spring semester sophomore year. Rather bleak 3'x5' landscape of the Cathedral of Learning done for painting class spring semester of sophomore year. Now that I'm finally in a painting class, I'll get to make new paintings! This was our first big still life assignment. Still lifes are boring. My solution? Make it into a bizarre portrait of sorts! I also put it on Mars. It's called "The Guardian of Olympus Mons" now.Here's the painting next to the actual still-life. Spring 2003. Oldish oily painting of that Beck fellow all the kids are buying PEZ dispensers of these days. From summer 2000, I think... Equally old, but even worse old oil painting. This one's ostensibly of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. I like the character designs (esp. War), but the rendering in this image is pretty awful. Wood! This was the second half of a project for my 'weird-ass'concept art class. Basically, after being presented with a list of the questions a classmate of mine (who we'll call...Princess Crouton) compiled during a project she made, I had to, without seeing the piece she did, make a piece of art reacting to her list of questions. A somewhat fickle artist, she started making a self-portrait, but wound up making a chair. So I ended up making a self portrait out of 225 little hand-made, hand-painted chairs. My project for wood sculpture class. An hourglass, with sand, sans glass made of wood. This photo is of it in its current resting place in my room, being attacked and rested against by all manner of toys. Ink Contour drawing of me from second semester freshman year.. Blind contour drawing from second semester of freshman year. Illustration I did for my High School paper, the Courier, for a centerspread I had to write and layout on INTERNATIONAL DANCES?! Sorry, that's how I've always punctuated it since I was given the assignment, since that was sorta my reaction at the time. This could very well be your first time seeing the original version of the image, as the staff thought it more appropro to remove the Kabuki guy's 'facepaint' and make him smile, totally undermining the Kabuki mask designs of ancient Japan. Apparently they felt the traditional, accurate design could be construed as offensive by our Asian-American students. I personally don't think any ethnic group could be collectively that dumb, but I'm not an expert on stupid, self-defeating political correctness. Watercolor My final project done for 2-D Media II second semester Freshman year. It's 12'x3,' pencilled, inked, watercolored, colored pencilled, pastelled, and acryliced over an exorbidant amount of time. It's essentially an illustration/mural/thing espousing the meatatarian lifestyle, cleverly rendered on a roll of butcher paper. Since it's so huge, I had to take the photo froma bit of a distance, and its not as quality an image as it should be, so here are details of each of the image's vignettes: Detail 1 - Detail 2 - Detail 3 - Detail 4 - Detail 5 - Detail 6 A watercolor painting from a life-drawn ink sketch done in 12th grade art class. CG Space Ape done for a side project.. B/w sci-fi type illo for that scholarship thingummy mentioned earlier. Silly painty doodle for an activity at the Eatpoo art forum. It's the sinister blue monkey god of unfulfilled sneezes. I need more practice at rendering highly magnified nasal passages. And mine are that hairy... Silly b/w Sci-Fi illustration for some scholarship thingie. This thing took a long time, since its designed to be printed out, and thus I worked at a high resolution. Another side effect of this aspect is that when I shrunk it to a web-friendly size, alot of detail was lost. Here are two full-size details of the pic, to give an idea of the working scale: 1 2 Maybe this should go under a new subheading of photography, but the images were arranged digitally... Anyway, this is a project involving photos taken at Frick Park here at Pittsburgh for my concept art class, with comrade Eva. Generic Photoshop picture of an atom, done for my computer art class. A somewhat morose scene created in Photoshop for my computer art class. Illustration for the school newspaper's centerspread on black history month. A few notable historic figures. Cool, tiger-striped dragon. Pencil As opposed to the old 'pencil sketches' section below, this a more recent first semester 2-D media studio assignment. Drawing of the view thru the archway of the Maggie Mo Carnegie building. Another crummy slide scan. Acrylic Van Gogh's Vieux Paysan recreated on a tie in acrylic. My French IV teacher had us do the oddest projects... Landscapes bore the heck out of me, but I figure it's important to be well-rounded. This isn't that realistic a picture, it looks more like something they'd use as BG art in a cartoon or something. Ink Illustration I did for my Hish School paper, the Courier, for a centerspread I had to write and layout on INTERNATIONAL DANCES?! Sorry, that's how I've always punctuated it since I was given the assignment, since that was sorta my reaction at the time. This could very well be your first time seeing the original version of the image, as the staff thought it more appropro to remove the Kabuki guy's 'facepaint' and make him smile, totally undermining the Kabuki mask designs of ancient Japan. Apparently they felt the traditional, accurate design could be construed as offensive by our Asian-American students. I personally don't think any ethnic group could be collectively that dumb, but I'm not an expert on stupid, self-defeating political correctness. Colored Pencil This is the Thundercats. Kinda. I've watched their cartoon antics and played with their high-quality playthings since I was knee-high to a grasshopper, and did these quaint little illustrations, taking all sorts of artistic license with the character designs. The redesigns were meant to emphasize their specific traits to a higher degree, for example Tigra, with powers of stealth/invisibility, is more ninja-like, etc. Slash Gigas, a monster designed for a visual basic game a friend of mine was working on. Pencil Sketches (all pre-1999) Cell plus-que-parfait. Not surprisingly, Dragon Ball Z took its one unique, kinda neat-looking character, and had him evolve into a pretty dumb-looking character. This is my renditon of what Cell's ultimate form SHOULD have looked like. Western-style horsemen of the Apocalypse, loosely inspired by the Red Dwarf episode of the same name. El Chupacabra! A drawing of the quaint central American goatsucker. A sketch of Ash, of Evil Dead fame, made with little to no research material. Samus Aran, again, with little to no reference material. A Locust of the Apocalypse.. Cool, RPG-looking monster. Looks kinda part lion, part warthog, and part alligator. Mayhaps I'll CG him, and name him Ralph... My take on the Toho monster Gigan. I made him a bit more feral and less clumsy-looking. Unfortunately, his legs don't look very well positioned. A tyrannosaurus rex. They're all dead. And the gecko isn't. Tyrant king of the lizards, my arse. A mech suit. Evil-looking, spikey dragon, with a bonus doodle of Mojo Jojo. Picture of a nondescript female person drawn in response to a challenge that I could only draw cartoons. Rush job. You're wondering who I am. Machine or manican. With parts made in Japan. I AM THE MODREN[sic] MAN! Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto. Mars Attacks alien. Utahraptor eating a certain yellow, electric, rodent... I was at a youth mission church thingie a while back, and the guy speaking at it was talking about the angel Gabriel, and how he told Mary she'd have Jesus and all that nifty crap. He made Gabriel sound like a REALLY silly guy, so, upon return to my abode I drew this pic of an angel grinning like a maniac. A gryphon. Big, scary, Frankenstein-ish monster, with a giant gun arm. The last guy you'll ever meet. With his buddy Manny Calaveras. A somewhat silly looking dragon. Almost cartoony. Illustration done pseudo-recently, concerning a fantasy story written eons ago in the 6th grade. Wizard, Gryphon, Pheonix, Dragon, and a Dwarf. Cool sabertoothed cat. Big, scary ogre, with big, scary arms. A couple of dragons, one of which is a li'l kiddie dragon. Try paper-training THAT. On second thought, don't. Oh no! Duckra is coming! Scream and gesticulate wildly! Oldish drawing of a biker guy named Jurgis.
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