Homeboy/Homegirl

Photoshop, Wacom.

Speed scribble that initially started with no direction and managed to end up weird. Gee, who would have thought? Whatever.

I got something up for June, and that is what really matters. "For realz."

Swimsuit Season

col-erase.

And you thought you'd seen the end of the cephalopods. Ha!

Distress Signal

Photoshop + Tablet.

I've misplaced baby Lolita, my G1 iPod Nano. She likes to play hide and seek with me from time to time, but as of Monday, I cannot find her anywhere. I am in a fair amount of distress. I am very unreasonably attached to that little device.

To be realistic, it's not just the (hopefully temporary) loss of my iPod that's making me so upset. Just not having Lolita nor any clue as to where I left her just makes me feel that much worse.

So the sketchblog gets a photoshop scribble, done in an attempt to calm my nerves.

Befriend the Bee

bic pen, felt tip, sharpie markers.

Back to insect outfits? I don't know. I think bees are pretty cool. Just not the angry ones.

Bee-bee!

Big Bad Wolf

Photoshop + tablet.

Sól, Norse Solar Diety.

It's Spring Break! Awesome! Time for sun and warm now please.

More awesomely, I think I may have finally caught the flu!

Oh yes.

Rays

watercolor

I'm going to cheat and post this for February.

Lose Something?

col-erase, 03 zig technical pen

My somewhat lackluster contribution for January.

Dinner Plate Scales

Sharpie, blue and black bic pens.

My penwork needs work.

I'm tired but not sleepy. I'm bored and feeling particularly restless tonight.

Sleepwalker

graphite, sharpie.

Been falling asleep pretty early lately. Many nights, I'm out cold before midnight, even. I don't know why. Whatever it is, it's inhibiting my already meager social life and making me a total bummer.

Flotsam & Jetsam

col-erase pencil, ultra fine point sharpie

Brushin' off the cobwebs, trying to get my sketchbooking back in swing. So, here's some dorky eel scribbles.

Yay for Winter Break. About time.

First Prize

linoleum block print, oil-based ink

No time to draw, so I'm cheating and posting this instead. This was a letterpress project, where we all wrote a haiku and carved an image and made a book out of them, as a class. (The type is set in... I want to say 18pt Garamond Bold, but don't hold me to it.) I kept my linocut. It's special to me, because squid really are number 1.

...You've all seen that Discovery special where that octopus opens the jar to get at the herring, right? It's on pretty much all the time.

Studious

blue bic pen.

It's the end of October. Figured I ought to update with something even if it's complete trash.

Busy busy busy. (Buzz buzz buzz.)

Union of Knives

graphite.

This really has nothing to do with backstabbing or any sort of actual knife situations or metaphors. I think I've just been listening to too much Emily Haines.

No arms because I can't draw them today.

Eerie Depths

Black felt tip, Photoshop

Just messing around. Got lazy and didn't care to finish. Typical. (Any slight similarity to a certain male model whom I tend to favor is entirely intentional.)

Been moving into my new apartment all week. I have very little furniture and more paper than any one person should ever possess in a lifetime. (in all sizes: drawing, tracing, construction, printing, decorative...)

School starts next Thursday. I feel unprepared.

Laurel

graphite, ultra fine point sharpie.

My insides feel all twisty.

Not Your Bathroom Floor

Linoleum block print, acrylic paint.

I thought I'd try something new that involved sharp objects and getting little slivers of linoleum all over myself.

To be honest, it's actually red on white, but the inverse looks way better.

Blah blah blah I'm a horrible person for never updating blah.

Rain God

col-erase, black gel pen.

I had a short discussion with my sister the other day about rain (and the absurd excess of it), and this image stuck has been stuck in my head ever since.

"for the clouds want to be near him, to love him, to water him"
(See So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish of the Hitchhiker's Guide Series)

I suppose it's also a reference to my least favorite Travis song.

Heart Swings

col-erase.

Nothing to say, really.

Fish Love Boobs

Indigo Blue Col-erase.

Coelacanth are just too cool.

Originally planned to have her wearing a billowy, Grecian-like minidress, but got lazy after doing the figure drawing. I almost wish I could claim some sort of conceptual, artistic reasoning, but I confess to having no such premeditation. So, for everyone concerned about the state of undress, I say this: Naked is so much less work.

You know me. Sloth to the max, Babies.

I wonder how many people checked out this post just for the title.

Just Curious

blue gel pen, sharpie, graphite.

I did this while watching that little rainbow pinwheel spin on the computer at the office. I dislike lag quite a bit. Sad thing is that now I can't even run to the video lab at the A&D.

Have I mentioned that I stink at perspective?