Amy Preview

What are you talking about? Amy Sedaris looks exactly like this! (I'm working on my last assignment for portraiture class, picturing my personal idol. Just so happens I'm very happy with the way this is going and because of that I couldn't care less that it's totally unrecognizable. Come on man, rodeo bunny!)

Kink Preview

Just a little taste of what I'm working on in my printmaking class. I'm saving the "ew" parts for later.

Skinny Jimmy

For another portraiture assignment- one where we were given randomly generated sentences describing various characters. It was a tossup between Jimmy and some giant lady who ate cigarettes before "she came," and I like my Jimmy sketch more. Plus I'm doing kinky old ladies for another assignment...

Skinny Jimmy Sketch

I love drawing old people.

Doodle?

For someone. :)

Sweet Tweets, Take Two

After critique I tweaked some things with my birds, so here is the final final result for all eight spots. My favorite just might be the bike messenger guy.

Tweet Spots

Some of the spots I did for new class competition for an article about Milwaukee tweets for Milwaukee Magazine. Sorry they're a little blurry, I just took some quick screen shots before going to bed. I'm not sure if I like the offset background or the centered one yet. Here are some of both.

More Kindergarten Quotes

Upon request, here are some more Q & A's from "Our View on Life Topics" for my kindergarten class. The first batch are here.

What does the President of our country do?
Kallin: Give money.
Mariana: Makes everything fun.
Lucas: Abraham Lincoln talks.
McKenna: Tells other people what to do.

What do you want to be when you grow up?
Jordyn: Four-wheel driver with a plow in the front.
Adam: Worker man.

Where do you want to live when you grow up?
Cal: With my mom and dad.

What kinds of things make people happy?
Adam: Snow, snow forts, fire.

If you had a lot of money, what would you do with it?
Alex: Go to a store with my mom and buy fruit.
McKenna: Throw it up in the air and be happy.

Who are you going to marry? How old will you be? How many kids will you have?
Jordyn: My poppa/I'm going to try to be 99/ 10 kids
Lucas: My baby sister when she grows up/11/4 kids
Emilie: Andrew, my baby brother/9/10 kids
McKenna: Someone named Derek/23/2 kids


Those are just some of the funnier answers- there are also incredibly sweet ones that remind me just how intelligent these kids are considering they're only five or six.

What do you like about yourself?
Hannah: I like how I am different from everybody else.

What do you want to be when you grow up?
Julian: Librarian and paleontologist.

If you had a lot of money, what would you do with it?
Kallin: Save it for college.
Bella: Buy something that costs too much.

Bus Driver Offerings

Because some teachers are cruel, they assign things like "illustrate an embarrassing moment you've had while going to MIAD" and then I end up drawing things like this... because I am a pervert. Chelsey had forgotten her bus pass so I was merely making the suggestion that she offer the bus driver something else in exchange for his services, however I managed to do so while a big tour of potential MIAD students was being led right past us in the illustration studios. My bad, heh?

These were my two options for how to illustrate that equivalent of shouting "blowjob!"- popular vote elected the second.

Before, when the lines were all brown and stuff.

Finished version. Some things I want to change, but overall I'm happy with it. I changed my embarrassing moment late in the game so that coupled with Easter caused me to rush a little bit at the end, but for something that was primarily done in one night, I like it.

A Peek at the Patterns

For my "mini thesis" project in Illustration I've been designing four tiling patterns, each based on a different decade. These are the initial work ups that I pasted together from some sketches- there are still definite changes to be made. At the moment the '50s is my favorite. (And if you have any suggestions for '80s items, feel free to hit me up! Anything that can be recognizable sans human. So... not leg warmers. Thanks!)

1950's

1960's

1970's

1980's

Kindergarten Perspectives aka Genius

In my spare time I've been typing up a book for my kindergarten class featuring answers each of the kids gave to simple questions- What does the President do, Where you do want to live when you grow up, etc. I had a copy of last year's, which while very amusing featured a front page full of clip art. I set out to make this year's a bit... dare I say it, better? It was done quickly, but I didn't want anything too sophisticated, obviously- the majority of contributors were five. Oh, and that's supposed to be a hawk there. It's the school's mascot.

Here were some of my favorite answers:

What do you like about yourself?
Jeremy: I like my head.

What does the President of our country do?
Adam: We pay taxes and he gets the money.
Emilie: He sits and waits for people to come to him.

If you had a lot of money, what would you do with it?
Maya: Buy Taylor Swift if I could. Buy my brother and sell him to the gypsies.

Two Chairs

I've been experimenting with photo polymer etching in my digital printmaking class. For these two I made two separate channels for each of the colors, and then erased parts so that I'd have part that were pure blue, pure yellow, and then a mix of the two where they overlapped. Then I printed each channel out on a transparency and exposed them on top of a plastic plate with film adhered to it. After developing the film, there are little grooves in the plate wherever the black on the transparency was, and from there on you can ink it up like a normal etching. These are two of the more "perfect" ones.

Ford & Flowers Finished

Here's one of the finished prints from my original design. This one wasn't included in the edition for the print exchange because there was no way I was going to be able to duplicate that slightly messy background, but I do love the way it looks. (For some reason when I scanned it in the background bits that were a smudged sepia just look yellow and weird... *needs a new scanner*)

Last Pee-Wee, I Promise

As per Marisa, here is the Finished version of Mr. Herman, with the line work tweaked.