12.31.2007

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.

12.23.2007

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.

12.13.2007

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.

11.30.2007

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.

10.30.2007

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.)

9.28.2007

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.

8.09.2007

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.

8.01.2007

Laurel


graphite, ultra fine point sharpie.

My insides feel all twisty.

7.31.2007

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.

7.03.2007

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.

6.27.2007

Heart Swings


col-erase.

Nothing to say, really.

6.15.2007

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.

5.31.2007

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?

5.28.2007

Big Fish


col-erase pencils.

I love Coelacanth!

Apologies for the lack of artings. Haven't really done anything for the last month or so outside of life drawing class and the occasional bunny. The last bit of school there was kinda killer, in a not-so-awesome sort of way, but we all emerged alive and relatively unscathed. Hopefully I will be better with updating, as it is the summer. I'll do my best.

Currently, I am in Houston for an internship, which is exciting. I start tomorrow.


PS. Where is Forest? She has gone missing, and I am quite sad.

4.08.2007

Left of Center


Col-Erase, graphite.

I've come to the pathetic realization that my weekend life is really quite tragically lame.

4.01.2007

Of Fleeting Interest


graphite

Yeah. Not new, but I like it.

I've been ill with some viral thing since Wednesday, complete with fever, occasional nausea, and the appropriate aches and pains. In conclusion, I've decided that being sick is the pits, and I advise everyone to avoid it if at all possible.

3.27.2007

Cheeky


Graphite, blue fine tip Sharpie (on bristol).

The word was Flippant.

Together in class, we decided she was British.

On my own, I decided she would have no legs.

3.12.2007

Just Because


graphite

because I know how much everyone loves it when I post worthless filler sketches.

3.04.2007

Better Late


graphite.

I realize I skimped on February's guy quota. (Norman doesn't quite count.) So here he is in his great, although late, glory.

Current favorite word: ambiguity.

3.02.2007

Fwoosh


blue BiC Pen.

I haven't finished this one, and probably never will. Alas.

Through the Grapevine


graphite

I was thinking of doing Illustration Friday this week (Communication), but decided not to submit after finishing the sketch.

The weather actually had the gall to pelt wet chunks of snow at me this yesterday morning while I walked to class. I am just so ready for bikini weather. Seriously. Bring it on.

2.19.2007

Freefall Motion


graphite.

I dreamt once that I walked on air,
standing hundreds of feet up off the streets.
But what I felt wasn't freedom or liberation.
It was a horrible, cold anticipation,
because I knew gravity would catch up with me.
I knew that with every step I took,
I was risking a devastating plummet,
but I kept on, one foot in front of the other.

When it finally hit me, I fell hard and just fell apart
crying, sobbing, kicking and screaming
all while plunging downward
at an acceleration of 9.8 meters per second squared.


Illustration Friday this week is Gravity. Nothing special. Just felt like participating again.

2.14.2007

Hearts


Wacom Tablet + Painter Essentials.

Norman, the Valentine Squid, wishes you a Happy Valentine's Day.

XOXO

2.10.2007

The Life Aquatic



Col-erase pencils.

I have decided to finish out this sketchbook with the water theme. Sometimes, this means adding random sea creatures into a picture to make it more aquatic.

1.28.2007

Ribbons


various ballpoint pens.

Scribbled my way through some insomnia during the dark hours of the morning with a black pen. Came back and added the rest of the color & background later in the day while watching poorly made television movies. In all honesty, not too much brain activity went into this.

1.27.2007

???


graphite

Choose your own adventure. What happens next? Minimum 100 words.

1.22.2007

Entangled


blue BiC pen.

...I don't know. I don't have an explanation, really.

My pen ran out of ink before I finished.

1.21.2007

Tentacle Spectacular


blue BiC round stic medium tip.

Did this to waste time. I can't sleep.

Anyway, I miss the Dior Boys of seasons past too. I do love a good planky boy here and there. (Nicked the pose from the new SS07 DH campaign.) Thought I'd do a pseudo-throwback to SS03 ...but underwater with a giant octopus.

Continuing the underwater theme, because I've recently been kinda fascinated by things with scales or tentacles. So, between the Krakens, Giant Cephalopods, Leviathans, Charybdis, and all that, I doubt I'll ever run out of fun sea monsters to entertain me. Mmm... yay.

1.20.2007

Submerge


graphite.

I watched Discovery specials on squid and jellyfish the other day. Très intéressant.

Favorites from Milan FW07: Alessandro Dell'Acqua, Costume National, Moschino, & Burberry. (men.style.com) Thoughts?

1.11.2007

Harvest Moon


acrylic on canvas board.

I cropped out the ugly part.

1.09.2007

A Krill Lick



both (mostly) matte acrylic on 8x10 canvas boards.

See? I'm still alive. And instead of doing something useful, I painted these.

Come on, the peacock is sort of guy quota, right? It is a boy because it has a pretty tail.

The look in the second one is a little bit Salvatore Ferragamo SS07, but not really. ...moreso the girl than the giant snake with cow horns.