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.
'til a later date, duders
Sunday, September 26, 2010
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
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.
'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!
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 ~
I wanted to draw my own self-indulgent bullshit for once. feels good man
Monday, September 20, 2010
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.
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~!
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.
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!
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!
Illustration 1 Work; Fall 2009
This work is from my Illustration 1 class a couple of semesters ago with Dan Krall. More information above each piece.
The first assignment was to take an album of music (of your choice) and do I think it was 3? pieces of art based on the 'vibe' of the music or something similar. I did Thanasis Papakonstantinou's 'Vrahnis Profitis' and decided to do a bit of concept art based on a character I derived based on the sound and sort of 'theme' of the music - classical Greek ballads and similar played with a contemporary twist. So I took a Greek Orthodox priest and tried to play with his contemporary qualms... I don't know how well that came off, but I think I got together quite a bit of decent art from it, although the resolution is bad. All digital, Photoshop + Open Canvas 1.1
This next assignment, we were to pick a celebrity and do first a couple of photo copies, a line piece trying to capture that celebrity's characteristics, and then a final piece of your choosing. I picked Keanu Reeves, and that's all I really need to say about that I guess. Open Canvas 1.1 & Micron pens.
Next, we had to do a contemporary & a classical take on a monster of our choosing - I picked the Domovoi, a Russian hearth spirit. These pieces literally now make me cringe. Eeeuuughh. Open Canvas 1.1
I feel like there were more assignments, but I probably did them all shitty because I had a stick up my ass so whatever. The final assignment, we were given a movie by Dan and told to do a DVD cover & layout + booklet w/ spot illustrations for it. I was given A Clockwork Orange, and I really tried to give this assignment my all, and it came out pretty all right! This was partly done in Crow Quill, edited in Photoshop & Open Canvas 1.1
A'ight, well that's everything from that semester. ~Toodlez~
The first assignment was to take an album of music (of your choice) and do I think it was 3? pieces of art based on the 'vibe' of the music or something similar. I did Thanasis Papakonstantinou's 'Vrahnis Profitis' and decided to do a bit of concept art based on a character I derived based on the sound and sort of 'theme' of the music - classical Greek ballads and similar played with a contemporary twist. So I took a Greek Orthodox priest and tried to play with his contemporary qualms... I don't know how well that came off, but I think I got together quite a bit of decent art from it, although the resolution is bad. All digital, Photoshop + Open Canvas 1.1
This next assignment, we were to pick a celebrity and do first a couple of photo copies, a line piece trying to capture that celebrity's characteristics, and then a final piece of your choosing. I picked Keanu Reeves, and that's all I really need to say about that I guess. Open Canvas 1.1 & Micron pens.
I feel like there were more assignments, but I probably did them all shitty because I had a stick up my ass so whatever. The final assignment, we were given a movie by Dan and told to do a DVD cover & layout + booklet w/ spot illustrations for it. I was given A Clockwork Orange, and I really tried to give this assignment my all, and it came out pretty all right! This was partly done in Crow Quill, edited in Photoshop & Open Canvas 1.1
A'ight, well that's everything from that semester. ~Toodlez~
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