randommmmm

I felt like doing some speed-painting today for no concrete reason. This took about 1.5 hours and is pretty different from my usual style. I took this photo in... not the best lighting, shall we say, and as if that's not bad enough I used my cell phone camera, so basically it's not the ideal representation of this piece but you get the idea anyway (I hope). I also added some jewels to it 'cause I thought that could be fun & sparkly & festive.

happy halloween y'all

Yeah!! Some of the apps I've been designing are up for download finally. One of them is a fresh Halloween-themed one which was a LOT of fun to design! If you have an iphone or are ultra fancy and possess an ipad, you can download it here.

Regardless, here's my most recent piece, featuring lots of traditional imagery.

more tentacles

Here is another painting from my latest acrylic series. I don't know what to name it yet, but I'm very happy with how it looks.

PROGRESS

This picture isn't done but it's pretty damn close...so I thought I'd post how it's coming along! Part of a new painting series of 4 30"x20" (ish? I forget the actual measurement and don't have a ruler...but anyway). It's always daunting coming back to acrylic paint after being out of practice for a few months, but also very exciting once everything starts coming together and I realize I haven't forgotten how to do it.

alien apocalypse

I was asked to do an alien themed/post apocalyptic illustration. I think it came out pretty successfully!

bugs & balloons

Normally I HATE bugs and find them disgusting, but they're also really interesting to draw! Throwin' in the really rough sketch too so you guys can see how it looked before I made it fancy n' bright.













Hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend! New, TRADITIONAL art (finally) coming soon, as I am currently beginning my fervent preparations for the upcoming exhibit I'll be participating in at the beginning of October (tune in for further details and updates). Get ready for a major gear shift. Until next time!

down by the bayyyyyy

Haha...hilarious project! 3 different scenes with 3 different sets of characters for the song Down By the Bay. There are a few rhymes I left out because they were kind of unnecessary. Good times working on this.

bluesssss?

I had to make some illustrations for a blues-themed music app, and I especially liked how these two came out. I'm kind of addicted to working with Illustrator. It's like digital artist crack. Yes.

freaky circus

Grungy & weird...but cool. This was a fun project.

new morbid things

So I guess it's interesting that my version of a job entails creating strange little illustrations all day...it's awesome. These are on their way to being turned into apps for the company SoundSelecta but for now I figure just the static images are pleasing enough to show as they are. Anyway, here's the latest batch of artworks (click the thumbnails to see close ups): there's a murder kitchen, some zombie hicks, and a magical voodoo tribal party of some sort. Yay.

hey there long forgotten blog

So...it seems that in the midst of finishing school once and for all, graduating, and feverishly working on new projects, I somehow forgot that I have a blog! Oops! I think now is probably a good time to start that up again (and maybe this time actually post consistently). Here's a little taste of the type of stuff I've been working on lately. Purposes to be revealed sooooooooon.

random play (...)

Late last night, I should have been a-nap but instead I was randomly overpowered by the urge to do some art with vectors. Maybe it's because I haven't used Illustrator in 2 months and freaked myself out thinking I'd forgotten how to even do...stuff...on it by this point. So I made this little picture just as an exercise to prove to myself I still know how to use the program (yup, it's vectors over a photo so this isn't so much a display of my impeccable drawing skills as it is...a colour/shape/composition exploration? Maybe?). Obviously the vines are hand drawn, I'm not THAT cheap. Anyway, I wasn't gonna post this because I often think it's lame when people vector over photographs and then think they're making *~*ART*~*~ but this kind of completely turned into its own thing and I liked the result.

Here's a few new things I've been working on:


Paris Hilton- a "flattering" caricature. Ehhh I'm still trying to get better at this stuff; I thought ms. Hilton would be easy to draw cause she's so wacky looking and has such intense features but it ended up being hard to get the resemblance cause she kind of already looks so weird without any exaggeration. I like the colours though.



Paris Hilton- "unflattering" caricature; the nosebleed is my favourite part for sure.



For starters, I'm gonna point out that I had to do this picture twice because the first one disappeared during my nightly bike ride home. Heartbreak and horror! I prevailed though...I THINK this looks better than the first attempt even though I'll never know for sure.
I guess I have to explain this picture or else I'll seem like a psycho for posting it: basically, we were given a song ("Coin Operated Boy"; duhhh Captain Obvious to the rescue!) and we had to visually re-imagine the lyrics of the song in a way that still made sense and pertained to what it was talking about.
Seeing as "Coin Operated Boy" is basically about a girl who's addicted to her dildo but realizes it's never going to fill the gaping void in her soul, I decided to make an uber Christian PSA poster...a warning to everyone that masturbation is just the beginning of the slippery slope towards Hell no matter how great it is in the moment (clearly I'm just using my art as another form of sarcasm but, I can see hardcore Bible-thumpers taking this seriously too).

graphic translation

Brush pen+tracing paper. Simple isn't always boring. Trying to wrap my mind around this concept.

Sketchhhhhh! Woot.

I was just doodling in class, trying to dress up a sketch that I'd started last semester that was sitting in my book just looking lame and incomplete. I doodled and doodled, and it got out of control in a good way; I think, for a sketch it came out looking pretty weird/interesting. It was a really big picture and I tried to piece it together after scanning but this proved to be tricky, thus there's a slight discrepancy in the middle, which I don't feel detracts from the image since it's so strange and random anyway. I want to colour it eventually, and keep developing it with more details but this is a nice first step into random-land.

An assignment I had for school. It came out strange!