Showing posts with label What's goin' on. Show all posts
Showing posts with label What's goin' on. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Greece

So Greece was amazing, we saw so many things and learned so much, not to mention met a great bunch of new people. We went to Athens, Corinth, Mycenae, Nafplion, Olympia, Delphi, Meteora, Thermopolae, Mykonos, Patmos, Rhodes, Santorini, Crete, and Kusudasi. It was a pretty packed trip, felt like it lasted months, but it was only about two weeks. 
Here is a small sampling of photos I took.







Beastly pieces of art

So, I finished all of my work graduated and moved out of Savannah last month. I wasn't pleased with my final project, but I have plenty of time to do other things now while I wait for my diploma to arrive in the mail. I had a crazy dream that my cat picked it up and brought it too me, does that mean something? Anyways here are a few selected pieces from the watercolor pages of the book I did for my project. Later I'll put up some photos of graduation and Greece, oh yeah, I was out of the country for 2 weeks. 


Monday, March 7, 2011

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Thursday, February 3, 2011

New Mini Comics & Superhero Comics Can Suck It

We handed out our third mini comics today in class, and they were all pretty funny not to mention just plain weird. But, that is what you have to love about independent comics, they are going to be some of the weirdest things you'll ever lay your hands on.
1/8th minis from last week

Unusal size minis from today, well now yesterday


Okay, so superhero comics. I don't mind them, but honestly I could care less about them, unlike most of my fellow nerds. Don't get me wrong they are beautiful, but a lot of the times I find that the stories are a bit week and strung out. So, yesterday I rediscovered the Graphic Novel section at the school library and decided to read as many of them as I can. Graphic novels and alternative comics seem to go almost totally unnoticed that any outsider who hears you draw comics will automatically think of Batman, and I'm sick tired of it. I guess with all these Alternative style classes I've been taking I've taken on a great appreciation of these kinds of comics and want to get my hands on as many as I can. Also, to try and help out in giving these hidden gems more of a voice I am going to write up a little bit about each of the artists or comics that I've read over on my Tumblr. Hopefully my small little voice will help add to the small din of noise.

Friday, January 28, 2011

Music



I've noticed that every day before I begin drawing I play this video, I don't intentionally go to play the video I just find myself drawn to it. I don't particularly enjoy the video, don't get me wrong it's fun, but the song has been keeping my drive going. Weird, I know.
On the same note, I can't stop listening to the Odd Blood album by Yeasayer. It is perhaps not for everyone, but you aren't being forced to listen to it while I flail around with a pencil.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Super egos, selective hearing & death.


So, in my last post I put up an image of Sopapilla, my crazy alter ego. Now here is plane jane old me, in all my frumpy glory. I've been playing around with how I use color, not much has changed, but I've been trying to make things look much softer while still keeping it simple as well as using my fair share of pastels (honestly, in my opinion, you can never use too many pastels) I tried to use the same color palette I used for Sopapilla, just making it more realistic, and after completing it I want to go in and change the color of my id's hair, not to mention that weird fox flying off into some weird direction. Now I can only hope that my daily journal will be interesting enough to contain such characters.

Also, it seems that I have acquired the most peculiar selective hearing. Now, normally selective hearing usually means you hear what you want to hear or you just pick up on the most absurd part of a conversation (well, at least that is what I have come to define it as), but I, somehow, have been hearing the craziest deadlines. Perhaps it is because I am not used to be fully functioning by 11 o'clock, but every time I have been given a deadline for a project in my Visual Storytelling 2 class I have heard it was due a class before it should be, now I even tried writing it down in my journal/planner/idea book, and even there it is written wrong. What is wrong with me? Who knows, I mean it isn't an entirely negative kind of problem, but it can start to get troublesome, especially when you have two other studio classes with projects all due around the same time. I'm almost positive that the amount of stress I have dealt with attending this school will shave at least 20 years off my life, at least it's worth it. 

Monday, November 15, 2010

Finals week,

so that means this exactly : I won't update after this for a week or two, and then there will be a flood of updates of all the projects I finished and submitted, as well as what I'm going to be doing next, hopefully it will be a productive break.