Drawing from the Tablet

This semester Im taking a class called drawing from the tablet. Its like life drawing but instead of charcoal and graphite, we use photoshop and tablets. Here are some self portraits. They are steadily improving as Im learning how to blend better and how to work more efficiently.

The Circular Ruins

The final project for illustration 1 was to create four illustrations for a story called "The Circular Ruins." The story seemed to me like a mashup of Frankenstein, Indiana Jones and Inception. I can see the cinematic influences in these pieces. During crit, what I learned most from these pieces is that I need to learn how to better contrast my warm and cool colors and that most people seem to prefer simple flat colors than my attempts at rendering and lighting.

Drippy Dancey Pants

Here is the first hand drawn animation I have ever done. I call it Drippy Dancey Pants and it parodies 1930's dance animation. The song is Ali Baba goes to Town by Raymond Scott. All in all, Im pretty proud of my first attempt especially since this was done for an electronic media class and not an animation class. Enjoy!

Latest illustration 1 stuff

All the work I've done so far for illustration 1 with Matt Rota

This assignment was to create an illustration based around another illustrator/artist. I choose animator, Dan Paladin, and I created a piece that dealt with new comedy v.s old.
A "family portrait"
An inkwash editorial assigment for a global warming articl. So far, this is my favorite piece.

Next, I have to "fix" these illustrations and submit for midterms. These will be posted soon!

Fine Arts!

Various life drawings from my life drawing class plus one I did in my spare time.

My last, and best, painting from painting 1. I call it Aliens in Candy Land

Summer Comics: Part 1

Yo! School starts today at MICA as well as my serious attempt to manage my blog. So far, I love living in Baltimore and I have met tons of cool new people. Anyhoo, here are a couple comics I created for a contest early last summer. Unfortunatly, I got no recognition but I really like the ideas I had for my comic series, Toddzilla. Class starts soon so I'll let the images do the rest of the talking..

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Last semester

Here some stuff from last semester. For the HCC Times, I made a three part comic story about a giant primate who is well past his prime, so he goes to community college!

These last 2 drawings are from my Drawing II Class with Mr. Adkins. He was definitely one of the best teachers I'de had so far and I consider these 2 drawings as the best ones from my class.