It's about bloody time!

..that I updated this thing. I've been pretty busy in the last few weeks, here's some of what I've been working on:

Molly, my professor for illustration 3, gave us two options for our last assignment. Option 1 was illustrate your own book cover for an existing book, or make 3 drawings to enter in L. Ron Hubbard's Illustrators of the Future contest. After I expressed concern, Molly reassured me that the contest had nothing to do with the Church of Scientology. So Me and the entire class but one student chose to do the contest. Entries are supposed to be either sci-fi or fantasy, and each piece has to be of different subject matter.
First up: Deer-mother wants your babies!!!!! art to scare your family and friends with. Hope this isn't too weird for 'em.

 Pen and ink w/ ink washes on bristol board. Been doing a lot of this lately, having a lot of fun too!

 And a runnin' robot. Based on a sketch from my sketchbook that Molly saw and said would be good for the contest. I used a photo of an alley in downtown Grand Rapids for reference.

The third one is this wizard... i don't really like him that much. I drew it in life drawing and Molly said I could use it for the assignment, but I'll probably do something different to actually submit to the contest. The due date was Nov. 9, but the contest deadline isn't until the end of December.

I think it works as a life drawing (yes, we really did dress the model up as a wizard.. but I added the beard in the drawing) but for the contest, it's a bit clichè and boring. Oh yeah, I added ink washes to this guy, too, but didn't bother to scan the finished piece.

For all of these I drew them on bristol, inked, scanned, then printed them out on bristol to do the washes. This way if I goofed, I wouldn't mess up the original. This was a bit of a challenge, because our school's printers are notoriously finicky bastards. In the end, the printouts ended up with a small margin of white space that I couldn't get to go away. no big deal, though.

I've started designing and printing my own stickers for the hell of it. And possibly to sell at some point, too, but so far I've been handing them out like candy to my friends. Want to make friends in an art school? just walk into a room and start handing out stickers!
I only have a few designs and limited supplies of sticker paper right now. Looking to expand soon.

 

My first design. Obviously an Hòmage to the Friday the 13th series and Full Metal Jacket. For the horror fancier.

 

The Deer-mother. I draw her a lot for some reason, this is an earlier drawing I thought would make a good sticker.

 

The Weird Walrus. An old favorite dug up from the bowels of my hard drive.

 

2 newer ones, my "horny ladies" hyuk hyuk. The one on the left is drawn with Micron markers, the right with a nib pen. Can you tell the difference?

Mohawk lady possibly NSFW, depending on where you work.

I've been cutting out all my stickers by hand with an x-acto, and colored a few by hand too.

Ok, that's it for now, gotta get started on some other projects. More to come soon, I'm thinking about putting up some work from my Illustration Life Drawing 4 class. It's a lot of fun, we work with costumes a lot, as you saw with the wizard drawing. 

See ya later!