the Deluxo

I came up with this image of a burning car* for a video game cover design. It is for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. I remember playing this game and driving the cars around and shooting guns though I can't remember anything about the story.


In a lot of ways I like the way cars look like when they are on fire. It always seems like its an arresting image in that when you watch a car on fire you inevitably seem to await its explosion.


Something like that.

Christian the librarian gave me a printout of a car on fire which was inspiring in an unexpected way.

*one of the cars you can steal in the game is this, a blue "deluxo".

I did this one with gouache, pencil, color pencil, and paper cut-outs

Garrets Sketches

These are sketches for my concept art class. We were supposed to design the two garret-homes described in the Snow Queen story. They are done in pencil.

Fluke

Hello,

So I drew this the other day and I like it because I feel like I learned a lot about myself when I finished.

Most of the time when I draw I just learn about my deficiencies but this wasn't like that.

Autumn is coming. Call your parents and say hello.

Monkey King or just Monkey

This was a piece I made for fun.

Converse Ad(vertisement) Assignment

Here is an ad I'm working on for Converse-All Star shoes.

I also have to give credit to Craig Bowers for teaching me how to color things in photoshop.

From sketch to near finish:

Recently I've been really digging into Yuko Shimizu's work and so I felt inspired to try working a different way. Something about getting to do the drawing by hand and color by computer seems like a comfortable spot for me. I'm trying it out.

In addition to Yuko I've been looking through American illustration annuals, finding images I like and copying them into my sketchbook. It works well as a method of documenting what I like and I often find that redrawing images I like helps me explore different ways of handling medium (since I have to imitate the original artist's hand).

I have a few flies in my sketchbooks too which I keep from decaying by covering them with tape. This is a good way to track the number of flies that you have murdered with the pages of your artwork.

If you don't already know them, check them out:

Yeji Yun

Liz Lee

Patrick Takashi Shiroishi

I put drew these for you Patrick actually they were for a class sorry.

Click on the images to enlarge!

These are from my current sketchbook, studies from American Illustration 27 and some drawings from when I was taking a walk in a Mount Vernon neighborhood.

Hobgoblin

For my concept art class we had to read "the snow queen" (the first story about the looking glass) and then come up with character designs for the hobgoblin mentioned in the story.

The image below is my version of the hobgoblin. He is about 3 feet tall and makes a lot of noise in the form of grunts and scoffs. He has four arms, two of which he uses to make inventions and the other two he usually uses to scratch his head or gesticulate in frustration.

I haven't posted anything in a while and I feel a little funny about it.

So I will post more often then, I suppose.

I ran over a rat this summer with my friend Michael in a pick-up truck.

flying monkey

yea