Volunteer project for my church's art department. The original idea was to how a broken, wrecked life could come to new life. Took a while for me to come up with a concept that would capture the idea well. Its such a difficult thing to really show.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Changed By Jesus Project
Volunteer project for my church's art department. The original idea was to how a broken, wrecked life could come to new life. Took a while for me to come up with a concept that would capture the idea well. Its such a difficult thing to really show.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Woodland Park Zoo Sketches
My first trip to Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle since I've come back home. I love sketching hippos and komodo dragons. Their skins are so fun and wrinkly. Oh, and they don't move much :)
Siamang monkeys. This guy comes right up to the glass and sits next to me almost every time I visit. Its sort of fun to have your subject right there just observing. I flipped the book towards the glass now and then out of courtesy.
Graduation Day
Got bored and pulled out my sketchbook at my cousin's graduation ceremony. Random professor....
...and the happy graduating students. The only thing I really remember is that a lot of the ladies were wearing very fancy shoes. I give major points to the one girl who came up in her snazzy neon converse sneakers.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Final Project
Third piece of thesis project. William and his brother have been given a bunch of animals, and now that they are all grown, things are getting a little crowded.
Final Project
Fourth piece for "The Twin Brothers". William visits a town and talks to the innkeeper, who tells him about a dragon that has been terrorizing the village. In the next part of the story, he battles the dragon and saves the princess from being eaten. Hurray!
Final Project
Last piece for "The Twin Brothers". This was taken from a part of the story where the princess is carried off by the evil marshal, after he cuts off poor William's head :(
Monday, March 29, 2010
Thesis: Character Design
This is one of the early character designs for the Princess in my thesis story, based on "The Twin Brothers" from Grimm's fairy tales. I wanted to make a character that was a little tougher and more competent than the original story dictated. I think the world has seen enough fainting heroines and it is time to move on.
Three Volume: Birds of India 2
Indian Peacock
Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
Greater Coucal
Common Hoopoe
Three Volume: Birds of Africa 2
Helmeted Guinea Fowl
My aunt actually raised these for awhile. They are the ugliest things I have ever seen fly out of the chicken coup.
African Spoonbill
African Pygmy Kingfisher
Three Volume: Birds of Asia 2
Golden Pheasant
Demoiselle Crane
Japanese Crested Ibis
Black-Winged Stilt
I think the Stilt is my favorite. They are so cute.
Three Volume: Birds of Africa
These are the ink wash drawings from a book I created, entitled "Birds of Africa". It is the first of three books we had to create for a bookmaking project.
Marabou Stork
Yellow Billed Oxpecker
Van Der Decken's Hornbill
Secretary Bird
Marabou Stork
Re-do: First Bookmaking Project and COSMIX show
Finally got around to taking the Artist's Book class, and the first assignment was, in my opinion, a criminal act. We were asked to find a book, then read it to figure out what it is about, and then tear the entire thing apart and then rebuild it as a sculpture. Using the ENTIRE book. It was incredibly painful to rip up a copy of Mother Goose, and the less said about that, the better. I am trying to block it out. But here is the concept sketch:
The sculpture is in the COSMIX III show at the South Florida Museum at the moment. This year's theme was "The Artist as Storyteller".
Barn Owl
Playing with gauche, which I've never had a chance to use before. Oh my goodness, they are expensive little tubes of paint!
More Nonsense
Moving on to the current sketchbook. This one is crammed full of book making note and thumbnails for thesis. But the occasional sketch can still be found:
The Frog Prince's mustache was added by my teacher Patrick Lindhardt, who claimed he could not resist. Amphibians are on his banned animals list. But this did not stop me from starting this one on his drafting table. Then I realized what I was doing, thought it was too cute to destroy, and moved it into my sketchbook.
The Frog Prince's mustache was added by my teacher Patrick Lindhardt, who claimed he could not resist. Amphibians are on his banned animals list. But this did not stop me from starting this one on his drafting table. Then I realized what I was doing, thought it was too cute to destroy, and moved it into my sketchbook.
Pure Nonsense
I'm not sure why my style changes sometimes, but certain days are just sort of meant for cuter things.
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