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Landscape

It's been awhile since I did a landscape without any figures.  Brings me back to that assignment with Mark about color and how things go back and come forward.  It was a very frustrating project because I had never though about color that way, but fortunately I learned a lot from it (though I will never fully understand his souped-up color wheel and theories about it).  I was worried that I broke the space too evenly (1/3 1/3 1/3 from top to bottom), but I actually ended up liking it that way.

 

 

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Here's the piece I did for Mark junior year.  It's funny how I was trying to solve the problem of perspective in such a mathematical way back then.  Now that I work digitally, it's more of a gut feeling.

Flyin Deerz

An interior piece for the children’s book I’m working on.  I needed some reference for how to make the sparks, so I checked out my old teacher’s painting of an uppercut.  http://www.drawger.com/tonka/?article_id=10090

Savant

Drew a face, drew a brain, then I came up with an idea... talk about working backwards.

"Savant-like skills may be latent in everyone and have been stimulated in people by directing low-frequency magnetic pulses into the brain's left hemisphere, which is thought to deactivate this dominant region (in at least 90% of right-handed people) and allow the less dominant right hemisphere to take over, allowing for processing of savant-like tasks"-wikipedia!

Book Updates

Book Cover-redone

Another Owl

Finally got around to finishing the colors for this Drink-and-Draw piece.

Drink-and-Draw

We had a drink and draw night at my friend Nikkis.  Couldn't think of what to draw, so I just went to the default= whatever I've been drawing lately.

Book Cover

Children's Book

The third spread for the book

Children's Book

First two finals for the book!

Yet Another Face

Tree House

Tree House (click to enlarge)

   
    Here's my tribute for The Autumn Society.  I believe cartoon network is collecting art from them based on the show Adventure Time and putting it in a book... or something... I should probably read the email again haha.


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Bubblegum Punk

Bubblegum Punk (click to enlarge)

    I've been a huge fan of Kick-Ass since I first saw it last year, so it's about time I did a piece based on the movie.  I'm also a big fan of Hit Girl and Chloe Grace Moretz. 


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Amp Head

Great Grey Owl

    This piece is about how Great Grey Owls and their amp-shaped heads that provide a sonar while hunting, making them very effective killers.

Portrait of Adora

Portrait of Adora

Put Your Thinking Caps On!

I've recently been commissioned to do a portrait of someone's child.  I could do whatever I want with it, so I wanted to illustrate how kids are sometimes smarter than adults.  Owls are often called "wise", so I decided to add it to the piece.

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Eos

Ely

So here are three out of the four Just-So-Stories illustrations for my senior thesis here at Uarts. I decided to submit the top one to illustration friday because the word this week is "surrender."

From top to bottom:
How the Rhino Got His Skin
How the Whale Got His Throat
The Elephant's Child


And here is the revised Ely Poster

Illustration Friday- Caged

This is another piece I did for Tom Leonard. It is related to the other piece I've done. There is not written part of the story, but Tom described it as a progression from no color to full color. The story is about a girl in a boring monochromatic world, and her fish is the only thing colored. As the story goes on, more and more things become colored and weird plants and animals start coming out of objects. This is the middle illustration, so there is a balance between colored/painted and monochromatic/drawn. I thought that it would fit "Caged" because of how the little girl was breaking out of her world and into a new one.

Ill Fri-Satellite