Odds & Ends

A bunch of random things I have lying around on my computer in this post;

A personal sketch from freshman year,

A personal sort of fuck-around in Photoshop with layering and texture techniques our teacher taught us in a class. It's okay.

Drawings I used to draw with / for friends of 'hell' sort of demon characters. From Paint BBS / paintchat and Open Canvas 1.1 mixed.

A Paint BBS drawing from years ago of a cannibal character lamely referencing the Oingo Boingo song.

A bunch of digitally-done life drawings from a semester or two ago.

Screenprinting assignment; this is the negative, the gray would also be black but is lightened here to reflect a better simple image.

Next post maybe I'll upload my sequential art work. It is not very good, a lot of practice things... We'll see.

~Toodlez~

Erotic Drawings

Some drawings from my Erotic Drawing class this semester. They're drawings of an erotic nature.

These first ones are some recent makeup life drawings I did of Anna. Jose e-mailed everyone the night before class informing us that we had to have our 2 hours of makeup work "TOMORROW YOU HAVE HAD AMPLE WARNING <333". (and yet of course we were the only people who did this makeup work whatever)

Some drawings from a model in class.

This assignment : draw your personal fantasy. Just drafting pencil.

This assignment: an erotic drawing using line only, no tonality.

This was the first assignment we got, where we could do literally anything. Jose said this drawing was not erotic at all but I think it's pretty bromantic. Crow quill & sumi ink.

 This photo is horrible. It was a drawing based on the style of another artist - Klimt in this case. I used Stacey because she is naturally Klimt-ish minus the huge fatty tatties. Just drafting pencil.

 Another drawing that had to be based on the style of a master; this one was Schiele. Tom modeled for me obviously and I used just some charcoal and some gesso. Yaya. On brown paper.

More models from class. Mix of faber-castell shit-pens and regular drafting pencil.

 This one was ballpoint, though.

 We had to use colored pencil in a few.

They were mostly sessions between 20-60 minutes long. This is only the first semester's load of work. Yep. 'til another time, amigos.

~Toodlez~

Baltimore Book

A Visual Journalism final. I might post up some of the other sketches I scanned from that class a long time ago... but this final was to take our sketches or take new sketches we had accumulated and craft a book with it. We could self-publish thru Lulu, xerox it, or do whatever we wanted to create a book representative of the sketches within or that presented them in a good way.

Sooo in high school I learned how to do a basic book binding, and I used that technique to put together a simple little cardboard book. The covers were brown and I painted and inked over them. It's about 5"wx8" tall.

Yeah... reeeally simple. I had decided about that time that I REALLY loved comics and I wanted to DO comics, so I made this final sort of sequentially-oriented. We didn't have to do anything like this, and it was a big baby overachieving lame leap, but I got super into this and tried to create a loose narrative atmosphere with my sketches.

The layouts aren't really crooked, it's just odd to scan in a book of this size...

I did pencil sketched layouts for the pages, sketched in new backgrounds and contexts, took some new observations, and then I went over it with some ink, white marker & tombo pens. There are 20 pages in total, but I'll have to scan the rest at a later date because scanning this little book is time-consuming and horrifically inconvenient.

'til a later date, duders

Sketchbook Scans

Some less lackluster sketches from the book I carry around. They're more enjoyable in full view, I think, because I draw quite small. Click them to enlarge.

 

They're all just mechanical pencil and ballpoint pen drawings. I think sometimes I used a small marker. DAT'S IT, TOODLEZ!

Some Gay Stuff

Yep this is pretty much my favorite sort of crap to draw in my spare time. I dunno. It's pretty gosh darn gay. They're my ORIJINAL CHARCATERS and they are lawyers because anyone who knows me knows I just love gay lawyers for some odd damn reason.

I wanted to draw my own self-indulgent bullshit for once. feels good man

SMELL YA LATER ~

Inking Work; Fall 2009

This class was all about learning about various traditional inking techniques. This was my first class with John Malloy and where I first fell in love with crow quill inking. :P More info accompanying each piece.

First piece, we were to use any inking materials we wanted to copy a photo of our choosing of an animal from a FLICKR photostream. I do not claim ownership of this drawing or any sort of creative... idk, property. I did this deer, he was qt. I used Tombo brush pens, Microns, and Copic fine liners to do this.

Next piece, we were to use ballpoint pen to copy a portrait / photo portrait of our choosing. I chose my BFF princess, Katherine, from a photo I took of her in California.

Then we had to do an architectural drawing, this time once again in inking materials of our choice. I decided to go for digital inking in Open Canvas 1.1; referenced a photo I took in California of a random house on a hill. This one was pretty easy peasy because I gridded it.

 

We had to do an ink wash illustration of an unconventional vampire next, w/ sumi ink. I did a comic about vampires that use Viagra I guess, idk.

One of the semi-final pieces (or final? idr) was a poster for Hamlet themed around a randomly assigned word. Mine was 'fashion', if I recall correctly, and I decided to make my poster pretty fashionable. Did it with crow quill.

well dat's all for now, so ~toodlez~!

Illustration 2 Work; Spring 2010

This was a class I took with John Malloy, who no longer teaches at MICA, sadly... his teaching style really jived with my working habits, I guess. I produced a lot more work I was happy with that semester. More info above each piece.

First piece of the semester, we were asked to do something like a square image that might accompany a band review - specifically, for Dan Deacon, a local Baltimore artist that has become rather famous for some god-forsaken reason. This was done in Open Canvas 1.1 (lines) and coloring in Photoshop with manufactured textures. All of the dancers are referenced from Look At This Fucking Hipster.

 

Next piece, we were asked to do a two page editorial spread on an article about the food riots in Haiti. Once again, I did my lines in Open Canvas 1.1 and colored w/ manufactured textures in Photoshop.

We were then asked to do a digitally painted portrait of either ourselves or a friend and I chose my best buddy Mike. We had to imbue them with 'toy-like' qualities and I got pretty goofy with it. This was all done in Photoshop with I think the Nagel brush series? The semi-dry brush style ones.

This assignment was essentially a 'beverage logo' wherein we tried to encompass the appeals of the company and drink and specifically shape the logo for a wrap-around. It also had to be acrylic using a technique which John demonstrated to us. This was just acrylic. The animals kind of look like they've been skinned, huh? That wasn't intentional, actually. It was just supposed to be unifying... welp

Semi-final assignment was a band poster for a band of our choosing, had to be done digitally with work on typography. I chose Amon Tobin.

Second to last assignment: book cover illustration. I picked my FAAAVORITE BOOK EVER, The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle. Did this in crow quill w/ walnut ink and very light acrylic washes. This piece could have been much better, sadly... but there are definitely a lot of things I feel good about with it.

For the final assignment, we could literally do whatever we wanted. I wanted something to flesh out my portfolio a bit, so I did ... five? I think? I can't count, whatever - character sheets for these characters I call the 'unpopulars.' They were all done in Open Canvas 1.1

 

Well dat's all folks, ~toodlez~ for now!