Fall in love (your funeral)

Ok, so here are some projects I finished off with for the semester:

This was for my photoshop final, a self portrait. I wanted to capture all of my influences and inspirations in one picture and I think I pulled it off well. Just look at that pug!


And this was for my printmaking final. I did a series of odd little monsters and silk screened them onto sticker sheets and then varnished them to make them nice and permanent. I made about 60 stickers altogether and handed them out to everyone on the last day.

And my last little comic for the art club I run at NIU.

Overall I felt I finished off the year nicely and I am definitely growing as an artist. Still, I don't know if I am pushing myself as hard as I should and I really need to be a lot better by the time I graduate next year. It's time to really get in gear this summer and hopefully have a ton of updates here on this blog. YEAH!!!

And for music, I've been listening to that Badu chick a lot lately. Here new album "New Amerykah Part II: Return Of The Ankh," has been pretty fantastic and gives me hope for soul again.

Such a catchy song, don't even realize it's six minutes long when it comes on my play list.

UH UH UH UH

Ok guys, I got behind again so your reward is more doodles!




Next update, which is hopefully very soon, will be some of my illustrations from the end of the semester as well as something more, text wise, to bite into.

But for now, more music:

Sleigh Bells is the best maniac doodle music!

Rum Hee!

It's been awhile, so you can imagine there is going to be a lot of art to dump AND YOU'RE RIGHT! So this post is for all my sketchbook pages since the last update.










And let's post a nice, good song off Shugo Tokumaru's new album to go with it all!

See you in like 8 hours.

You know, the dance floor isn't there no more

I had an interesting, fun weekend going to C2E2, a new comic con they just started in Chicago. Me and my Illustration class went to check out the artist alley which included me getting to chat with Mike Mignola and have him doodle on the first page of my sketch book. CHECK IT:

Later that afternoon I went to Topatoco's table and bought some stuff from KC Green and John Campbell as well as Anthony Clark. Me and Kc Green talked a bit and I got to awkwardly joke about how I killed that blog we were once collaborating on together... ah good times.

Anyways, time to dump some art:

Another photoshop illustration for class. This time I did as if it was an advertisement for the famous opera der ring das niblungen, also known as the ring cycle.


This was an editorial piece I did for Illustration to accommodate an essay Woody Allen wrote for the New Yorker in 1977 on ufo's in religion, history and pop art. Over all a very funny article but he wrote about Goethe and his experiences with witnessing UFO's so I went with that.

That UFO sure is having a good time, he loves dem hats.

And hey, new apples in stereo album is coming out/already leaked. Now with a healthy slice of Elijah Wood.

FANTASTIC!

Constant Surprises

Alright, more silk screen stuff!


I seem to be enjoying it vastly. The last three projects I've done for school have been nothing but silk screen. I am just feeling the flat colors and transparencies you get work really well with my current style.

Also some more photoshop stuff:

We had to do short story illustrations for class so I did one off of Haruki Murakami's Little Green monster. A delightful story of a creature that bleeds from the eyes when it's sad and it just gets stranger from there.

And as promised from last post, here's some music from Little Dragon.

What a fantastic voice but man, she needs some dancing lessons.

Little memories, marching on.

Oh my goodness, sketchbook dump!







And for good measure, my last silk screen project:

It's suppose to be based off the character Malachi Constant from Vonnegut's Sirens of Titan. It's a bit crusty but I've been in this phase of doing grimy sketches and drawings and I am quite enjoying it. I swear I'll get back to pretty things, one of these days.

Also my last photoshop doodle, a little odd Martian landscape based off the coyote buttes:


Woo, look at all dem doodles! I really do need to start posting more than twice a week.

As for current music, the new Gorillaz album "Plastic Beach" just came out and it has blown my socks clear off. I've always been a fan and the band is a cool concept but this time it's just so tight and well crafted it reminds me why Damon Albarn is one of my favorite musicians. Best track off this is definitely empire ants:

The female vocalist that guest on this is part of Little Dragon, an amazing band I discovered thanks to this album. I'll post about them next time cause damn, too much stuff in one!

Smooth Waters

Man I really need to get in a better routine than posting twice a month cause I am starting to get backed up with art and things I want to post about. I mean I orignally started this blog to get me drawing and to get my ideas out of my head on to some surface, not to explode them across it violently a brief few times a month. Though I do have to say that is a fun mental image.

Anyways, finished that silk screen of my little monster, Glasbermass:

Also the finished illustrations of that model I made of that other little monster:


Man it sure has been a monster month.

Also been doing some drawings in photoshop, trying to get better slowly with it:


And let's top it off with a little Vonnegut:


As for music, I've been obsessively listening to washed out:

Everything about this song and even the video remind me of growing up in Flordia. These terribly long winters make me wonder why I am out here still in the midwest, other than the good family and friends ordeal of course.