Roommate Life Drawing

There's very little privacy in our apartment

Recent sketchbook pages!

mixed media

Don't Be a Square

My piece for VEND SEND MEND.


Graphite, Ink, Watercolor wash

Westernz

Here's a background and a color key for a personal project I was working on about a month ago. I've since scrapped the idea and am now brainstorming for my thesis project. I have a bunch of other color keys that I might post.




graphite, charcoal

Frenemies

ink, graphite

Small drawing I did today. That is all.

Baltimore Zombie Map

For concepts we were assigned to make a map. Naturally I chose a zombie apocalypse in Baltimore. I focused on key safe houses throughout the city to hide at rather than drawing each building.

Where's Waldo?



Graphite and watercolor on paper

Self Portrait for Life Drawing

Self portrait assignment done from a mirror. I've always enjoyed ridiculously snobby looking portraits. I think i should add a huge burly mustache.





HB, 2H, on plate Bristol.

Old Wives' Tale zine

One of my finals was the make a zine about anything. I chose 10 different Old Wives' Tales (kind of like an urban legend or folkloric belief). Here are the better ones from the batch. I basically just have a peculiarly strong affinity for bellybands.


"If you knit your hair into a garment, it will bind the recipient to you."

"If your cheeks feel on fire, someone is talking about you."

"If a bird tries to come into your window, there will be a death in the family."


graphite, matte duralar, ink

where i end and you begin

I was assigned to do an album cover for a specific song. Predictably I chose Radiohead. I'm having fun playing with the masking effects of duralar. . I think I'll use it more here shortly.


graphite, oil, matte duralar

Shellac-filled fun!

Graphite, gouache, acrylic, amber shellac.

This is a four page spread in my sketchbook. That's right, not two but four. Had a lot of fun doing this. It's sort of a preview of something I'm working on for narrative class.
Unfortunately the scanner was converting them to black and white despite it being in color mode. I'm not too good with the machines, so I'll upload the color version at some other time.

Sketchbook pages

This is a prelude to the sketchbook remix class I'll be taking next semester. This was great to do in the middle of other projects during finals.


Placemat from Chinese Restaurant, acrylic, watercolor, matte medium, sandpaper
I realized I need to know how to draw ears from memory, so I drew a few of some friends and a few of mine. I also really enjoy painting with oils on unprimed rives. I kind of emulated a few of my favorite pages from James Jean's college sketchbooks.



graphite, oil, acrylic, colored pencil.

This is on the last page of my current moleskine, but I think im going to work more with my homemade sketchbook now (the one above). The three women on the right are actually from the same image by Norman Rockwell. It's one of my favorite pieces by him, so I spent a lot of time redrawing the same portrait, trying to capture her perfect expression. The middle one is the closest, but I still didn't get it completely.





graphite, acrylic, gouache.

John W Waterhouse Master Study

So I drew this master study of Waterhouse's The Danaides in Critical Inquiry. It was great to loosen up because lately I've been slaving over the technical aspects of my work so they seem pretty stiff. I'm really drawn to the lighting and composition of this one.

graphite on large moleskin
I can't find the exact piece i replicated but here's a very similar version. I guess he did multiple versions.


Here's a website with great documentation of his work
http://www.jwwaterhouse.com/

Sketchbook 2

Some decent and not so decent attempts at drawing friends.

graphite