pennies

When I moved into my apartment, there were just pennies all over my room. I have no idea why.

The Agent

While I had a studio space, this was hanging on my wall. I drew this to have something to hang on my wall, if I'm being perfectly honest (sorry about the quality, no scanner).

I'd like to get better at caricature.

Brass Rhino/Radio City

From Entrepreneurship (if there's one thing that class has taught me so far, it's how to spell 'entrepreneurship'). A mock-up for the possible wall painting (inspired by the interior of the Radio City Music Hall) of an Art Deco/Jazz-inspired coffee bar concept that my group was working on. Hopefully the gods of Photoshop will forgive me for using the dodge tool in this particular instance of trying to make lines look like gold paint.

mahmoud

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Assignment: paint a portrait of someone in the news. I was reading that story about Iran finally letting the (American) hikers that were arrested a couple of years ago for accidentally crossing the border and held on spying charges go free. It led to a story about Ahmadinejad making a speech to the U.N. about how the rest of the world should start behaving as Iran does. Then I wondered where I had heard that one before...

Another year, another struggle

Let's ignore the drawing issues in this image and just give me a round of golf-claps for completing a somewhat successful digital painting.

Reference photo by the lovely Jordan Phillips.

MERKINS EVERYWHERE

This song has been stuck in my head for the past eighteen hours straight. Warning: this video contains a lot of crotch.



Amanda Palmer, you continue to blow my mind. If you just watched that video and were like "Whaa?" the full story can be found here, although you really shouldn't need more of an answer than "Because."

I just can't get over how delightful this video is. Admit it. You knew it was going to be good when you saw all those ladies lifting up their skirts. I like to think of it as a companion to the classic FOTC ditty, Sugar Lumps.

it wouldn't be illustration without...

...Edward Cullen and friends. Work from last semester. A supposed editorial illustration for an article we were given about one woman's search for the Balkan roots of vampire mythology. Oh how far we have come from this: