Some newer work

It's been awhile since I've posted, thanks mostly in part to my broken scanner and lack of a functional camera. Anyways, the Spring Semester at CIA is in full swing and I'm working on 4 simultaneous assignments currently.

For my storyboard and sequencing class, we were instructed to take a Nursery Rhyme and alter it slightly, and then storyboard it. Coming from a television and video background, this is a very fun assignment. I have written a shorthanded script and altered the narrative slightly in order to create a slightly more interesting story than the song's lyrics would suggest. My main parameter, however, is the limit of 20 frames. Therefore, I will either cut scenes or cut shots. I'll possibly even storyboard only a portion of the story, if given permission.

Anyways, here were some quick sketches of Mary and the lamb. Nothing too concrete. There are others, but this should suffice your curiosity for now...

I'm also working on a Julian Casablancas poster (even though I'm not currently sure of the state of his solo endeavors). We are making posters in graphite and light washes with handwritten type and I've got this one all layed out, it just needs some rendering. There are dozens of reference photos featuring me and a microphone in various dramatic stage poses that I hope nobody ever sees.




(NOTE: These are obviously rough sketches/layouts)



In addition, there is a Fine Art assignment in which I can do anything I want. Therefore, the project is so open I'm trying to decide if I want to do a new set of woodcuts, a silkscreen (I'm thinking of silkscreening graphite), a collage/painting on a mixed media canvas, and the list goes on. So many choices, so much work, so little time.

Here's more sketchbook stuff from over the past few months...

(I was messing with a few ink/paint techniques for these quick portraits, so Tiger doesn't really look like Tiger since I had to make up a lot of the lighting. I drew these in pencil at work and colored them days later at home.)

More work

The end of the semester is nearing and I'm sitting on piles of work that needs to be photographed, scanned, or still completed. Should be hectic. Anyways, here are some newer sketchbook pages.

Lots of work on the way

I have been working on a lot of stuff lately, all of it should be posted soon. Anyways, I got a new sketchbook yesterday and filled the first page.

MP Flyer

My band is playing our first show in over a year and a half, and to "celebrate," I made a flyer, which I haven't done in quite awhile. The show is going to be very low key, in fact, I don't know if I should have even made a flyer because I'm expecting everything to go wrong technically. Anyways, the show is on Halloween, and I scrapped all original ideas of doing a Halloween themed flyer because I figured I'd use this more for a portfolio piece than as an actual promotional piece. Also, I plan on getting to work on some silkscreens soon, just need to get back in the groove.

Anyways, my first flyer in forever, here ya go...
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I'll be working on Woodcuts over the next few weeks which I plan to push a few aesthetic concepts as well as many regurgitated ones from my Drawing course last year. Should be interesting, they will be very playful, and less focused on concrete imagery and narratives and more on pattern play/overlap, color and layout. We'll see how that goes.

Some more sketches

St. Vincent Editorial

For an upcoming project, I'm doing an Illustration of the lovely Annie Clark of St. Vincent. Death & Taxes Magazine recently did a feature article with the sub-headline "Annie Clark Takes Center Stage," which focused primarily on Annie Clark's history as a supplementary musician in other bands before finally having the opportunity to step out into her own. Therefore, I depicted her pulling duct tape off her mouth. Yes.

Now, I rendered the originals in 2 parts on Arches paper, something like 24x36", so it took a composite scan of 3 parts to actually get a full, completed image. I used graphite for the line-work and decided to color the illustration digitally after a horrid attempt to "paint" traditionally on a form of Mylar. Anyways, here's what I've got so far, there will likely be minor changes to come, and I still have to incorporate text and place the Illustration in context, within the 2-page spread.

Sketchbook (Updated)

Here are some scans of the sketchbook images I poorly photographed last time.