Spectrum

I thought I'd make a post to thank everyone for their overwhelming support and congrats. Recently, I found out I won a gold medal in this year's Spectrum annual. I've been getting a lot of emails lately, and they all mean a lot to me! The piece that won the gold was the koi fish piece I did while at the Academy last summer.

Now, I'm just waiting to see if any of my other entries (4 in all) made it into the annual. Good luck to everyone else who entered as well! Saw some damn good talent this year.

On Monday I went to Dr. Sketchy here in Baltimore and a good time was had by all. Also, I saw Annika there for the first time since the Academy last summer. The model was Lady Vile, who was awesome and definitely gave us some great poses.

This one was for the first contest which was to draw with our opposite hand (my right hand). Martin and I were both chosen the winners and got free shots. It was pretty exciting, and definitely a nice way to start the evening, especially since it was my first time at Dr. Sketchy.

I'm definitely gonna try and go to every class. It feels great to finally get some life drawing in again.

Weekend Sketches

This past weekend, I went and bought myself a bunch of new art supplies, which in turn got me all amped to do some new work. I started a self portrait in oil, which I'll hopefully be posting soon, as I get further along. I also did a couple drawings.


Also, digging through some older stuff, I found a pencil drawing I did while at the Illustration Academy in Florida last summer. It's an illustration for the story The Tortoise and the Hare. It was sort of a secondary piece for a double-assignment week, which explains its unfinished state of being. Not sure if I'll go back into it or not. I kinda like it as is. Anyway, thought you might like to see.

more powdered graphite

Hey you. I did this the other night in the cold with that good stuff they call powdered graphite. There's still a lot of experimenting I've got left to do with it, but it's incredibly fun. Especially switching back and forth between dry and wet. I'll try and post some illustrations soon enough, but for now, I hope you guys enjoy this! Added some quick washes of color in photoshop.

Portraits

Here are a few recent sketches. I've gotten back into drawing faces again. Faces are just something I've always been interested in. These are portraits of no one in particular.

This one has some tones added in photoshop

Thought you guys might like to see this. Something I dug up from my last year of mica when I took a screenprinting class. I desperately want to do some more screen printing. So much fun. I took a less serious approach to the work near the end, and did bright, colorful pieces, as well as t-shirts.

4 color screen print on paper 11"x15"

I saw 'Let the Right One In' last Thursday, and I'm still thinking about it to this day. Such a beautiful work of art. If you haven't seen it, and it's playing in a theater near you (not sure if it is anymore), you should definitely go check it out. And no, I haven't seen Twilight..



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Also, a friend has recently reminded me of this scene from 'Coffee and Cigarettes' featuring the amazing Taylor Mead. Now I can't stop watching it.



Art and stuff coming soon.