Sphinxing of You

Photoshop.

A exercise from last semester to do with comparing dated stereotypes with modern people.

Dracula the Party Pooper

Photoshop.

A scene from Bram Stoker's Dracula in which Jonathan Harker is being maliciously hovered over by the three creepy sister vampires, when Dracula bursts in and interrupts their fun.

Furry Cat Heads

Graphite Pencil and Photoshop.

...Apparently, according to this chart which calculates your cat's cat age in approximate human years, this means that these precious kittens are now roughly equivalent to 28-32 years old in maturity.

Please don't be upset if I didn't make you a birthday card. I only really make cards for cats, honest.

Pool Party

Photoshop.

Appropriately, a fear of water is called Aquaphobia. This is not actually to be confused with Hydrophobia, as that is a literal chemical aversion to water.

Worst Date

Photoshop.

Anthophobia is the intense and irrational fear of flowers. Floral fears.

Dogs in Space

Photoshop.

The time, it just keeps getting away from me.

Bird Island

Photoshop.

Done last quarter for the concept art piece from Computer Illustration class. Prompt was to imagine and depict a lost island civilization off of New Zealand with lots of unique lush vegetation.

New Zealand made me think of flightless birds. Lost island made me think of island gigantism concerning Foster's rule of evolutionary biology. Therefore giant moas still exist, and they do so in harmony with these native, undiscovered tribespeople. Obviously.

In this image, the eldest sister is waiting to be anointed by the moa on the forehead in a ritual called the "Blessing of the Moa," in which her younger sisters are witnesses.

(Also, sorry about March. Eek.)

Birds' Nest

Watercolor & colored pencil.

Well, guys, February is my birthday month, and it's clearly all about me. So here's a selfie I did for class last quarter.

Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech is likely one of my favorite books from middle school. "You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair." Only in this case, my birds are less birds of sadness and more like anxiety birds. Hence the grouchy squawking grackles.

Sittin' Pretty

Colerase and pencil.

Some sketches from a thing.

In other news, I'm considering a move. Tumblr, maybe. I don't know yet. I'll keep you informed.

Happy Season's Eatings!

Acrylgouache, ink, colored pencil, & Photoshop.

Now that the Holidays are over, I feel like I can post this custom Xmas card I did for my sister and bro-in-law, featuring their amazing pets.

Frosted Over

Photoshop.

Hope everyone had a fantastic Winter Celebration this year!!!

Hummingbirds

Mixed Media.

Saves time to just say mixed media, right? If you must know, it's the same materials and techniques as the last one, just with different results.

Did you know that a hummingbird's heartbeat can reach up to 1260 beats per minute? An interesting fact with no correlation to a Katy Perry song.

Halt! wHoo goes there?

Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Aging + Cracking Varnish, Oil paint rub.

Sort of an involved process, making the use of several tiny bottles with warnings about flammability and proper ventilation. Personally, I prefer to work more simply with less materials and less fuss, but I have to admit that this method yields some pretty interesting results.

It appears that Mr. Owl is suspicious of you. Appropriate for Halloween, yes?

Hands and Birds

Pencil Studies.

Some of you may be wondering what I've been doing for school. It's some of this, some of that, some probably undue amount of stress, and a whooooooole lot of coffee.

Hand studies are probably the most annoying thing about drawing classes. And it always me takes several pages of ridiculous failures in order to get back into the swing of it. Knuckles, psssht.

Also, here are some grackles being grouchy. Because that is all they live to do.

Guitar Sounds

Pencil.

Here's a line drawing for some class work. No likeness is intended, but it is based off a photo of St. Vincent that you may find here.

Complacent

col-erase pencil.

Is it almost next month already? Time is flying by. Oy.

I have sort of an obsession with drawing wavy hair.

Movin' and Groovin'

Graphite.

I spent an evening watching music videos and doing figure doodles of the dancers. Practicing simpler lines, motion and fluidity. Stuff like that. You know.

Beyonce's "Single Ladies" video still cracks me up almost 4 years later. Sigh.

Officially Summer

Photoshops.

Hope everyone had a glorious solstice on Wednesday!

Mug, Pear, Gourd

Graphite.

We're gonna pretend that I didn't do this last year in Basic Illustration, and that I didn't post date this post back a week, okay? All right. Sweet.

Triiiangulation!

The Pood

08 Zig Technical Pen.

This is what she is thinking just about all the time. She wants to be everybody's best friend—all the people, dogs, and other creatures alike.