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PHOENIX preview!

2011-11-29T23:05:00.001-08:00

Here's a sneak preview of the foldout for the comic I'm working on for MoCCA! I'm really excited!!! It's about a jungle boy! MORE TO COME... SOON!!!

2011-10-19T16:30:00.000-07:00

WOW it's been a while! I've been doing things, I promise!!! I'm working for the super awesome Daniel Krall as a studio assistant doing his photoshop gruntwork and eating lots of pizza. I've been posting fun things on my tumblr like these! I'm also working on a comic for MoCCA! SNEAK PEEK HERE ONLY SPARKLE SPARKLE!!!!

Baltimore Super Heroes!

2011-08-18T21:44:00.000-07:00

So!!! If you stop by one of the orange newspaper thingies in Baltimore and grab this week's copy of the b newspaper, you will see some of my work! I did 8 super heroes/villains that are native to my beloved Baltimore to celebrate Baltimore Comic Con, which is tomorrow!!! Stan Lee's gonna be there!!!! COOL! SO CHECK IT!

Toxic Marge
A tourist who fell in the bay and became a BAY MONSTER!!!

Captain Raven
(Secretly Ray Lewis, dun dun dun!)

The Misappropriator
(Sheila Dixon)

The Hitman
(Omar from The Wire)
Cheerios are his super power

Rat King
The scourge of Baltimore!

Federal Hill Fratboy
Popped collar: +20 on all stats

Ms. Above-It-All
MICA Hipster, irony deathglare

The Incredible Filth
(John Waters)

The Hunt For the Seven Gentlemen

2011-05-21T22:35:00.000-07:00

For Fantasy Art we did covers for fake novels, which was pretty cool. We teamed up with kids from Washington University taught by John Hendrix for critique time on Facebook every week. I figure that since this was such a critique-baased process, I'll show a little of the work that went into picking an image.

Thumbnails:

I obviously am an amazing and talented person, as you can tell by that last beautifully thought-through thumbnail on the second page.

Next some larger sketches for 3 I liked:

Aaaaand the final! A lot changed!

The Encounter

2011-05-21T22:29:00.000-07:00

"He had heard the door handle rattling and flipped the light switch. She had hoped to sneak back inside unnoticed. Her lip rouge was worn and her cheeks were flushed. "You're standing really close to me," she said nervously."

The First Guest

2011-05-21T22:24:00.000-07:00

"He was late. Everyone was late. She had been there since 5:30. She was certain the ceramic dog had moved.

The Vice

2011-05-21T08:28:00.000-07:00

"She spent the early part of the evening telling everyone who would listen that she hardly ever touched the stuff. She spent the rest of the evening touching it."

Ballerinas!

2011-05-21T08:09:00.000-07:00

BIG UPDATE TIME!!!

Here are some character designs I did for Fantasy Art class based on a Russian fairy tale about some ballerinas who get magic'd into a big fat lady!

There is also this nasty piece of work, who gets some plastic surgery to look like someone else and steal their money! Sneaky!

And here's a quick environment sketch! Click to see it bigger!

BLUH BLUH

2011-03-19T15:46:00.000-07:00

So this is a thing that happened. For Fantasy Art we got an assignment to draw some SWEET HARRY POTTER FANART to submit to Gallery Nucleus' HP tribute show. For some reason, I decided to draw all of the quidditch teams of Harry's second year BECAUSE I AM INCREDIBLY SILLY. So here they are for your viewing pleasure. I'm probably gonna clean these up some and make prints for MoCCA, which I will be attending in April!

The Wine

2011-03-15T18:20:00.000-07:00

He told the man that the joke had gotten old, but there they were, standing in a pool of wine that was worth at least twice as much as the carpet.

The Curtain

2011-02-19T12:52:00.000-08:00

"The room was unnaturally cold. He offered her his jacket but she declined, softly brushing his arm away. She didn’t want anything to dull the experience. At long last the curtain was being drawn."

Feather Island

2011-02-10T09:13:00.000-08:00

Another piece for Fantasy Art of some sexy bird ladies. It's based off of a 1700's French novel describing a resort island where there are only eternally young women and the noble ladies grow feathers instead of hair and hatch out of bird eggs and stuff. Pretty sassy.

A Coven of Witches!

2011-01-26T12:06:00.000-08:00

I'm taking Fantasy Art this semester with Jaime Zollars! It's super fun so far! Our first assignment was to pick a cliched fantasy stereotype and make it our own! So I drew this picture of some super cutie teenaged gypsy witches or something! Woo!

Click that sucka for a closer look!

Style Dolls

2011-01-09T19:09:00.000-08:00

For Dan's class, I was doing these style dress-up dolls every once in a while. They were pretty fun, but a little too time consuming what with thesis and all to keep my interest, haha. Check 'em out!

Over break, I bought some new clothes and made a style doll for me!

EVERYONE IS CYLONS

2010-11-21T14:53:00.000-08:00

Oh hey, welcome back, life! Here's a couple of posters I did for Dan's independent study on the theme of a vice and a virtue! I chose "sloth" and "diligence" because I like drawing lazy sexy ladies and comically burly men.

I'm pretty pumped about these!

Oh yeah

2010-11-08T08:09:00.001-08:00

I've been doing things, I promise. Here are some backgrounds I've been working on for my thesis project. OH MAN OH MAN, working title is "Virtually Famous" (GET IT, GET IT?) I give mad props to my bro Daniel Krall for that rad and tubular title. Also it's 90's week in my brain, we watched some Sailor Moon last night and listened to Limp Bizkit.

Mac's Garage where they practice

Ji's bedroom, where she tries to teenage rehab her little girl bedroom

Other characters!

2010-10-31T14:14:00.000-07:00

More secondary characters from my thesis pitch!

Here are the Rock Band in-game avatar characters that the main characters created. They describe a little more about each character's personality...

And here are Ji's angry Korean parents:

and her annoying little brother who also happens to be a super genius:

AND MOST EXCITING OF ALL, THE RIVAL BAND!!! They are jerks sort of.

Left to right they are the ranked Korean Starcraft player, the Rebel girl (who Ji not-so-secretly wants to be), the pushover GameStop worker, and the douchebag guy who plays his guitar in the cafeteria and has a gig playing bad RHCP covers at the local coffee shop.

OH MY!

bunch of baby ducks, send them to the moon

2010-10-20T08:48:00.000-07:00

I've been marathoning Adventure Time and The Regular Show and you should, too.

In other news: THIS!

For my lifestyles class with DK, it's a drawing for a cutie couple's night out! They are wearing designer clothes, I do not wish to go into detail.

ALSO THIS:

It's some cutie people for my internship over at Port Discovery Kid's Museum! They will get turned into window paintings hopefully!

Lifestyles and Whatnot

2010-10-03T10:08:00.000-07:00

I have been doing some art. Here, let me show you it.

I'm doing an independent study with Daniel Krall where I am drawing many sexy ladies in fabulous clothes. These two pieces were for an assignment to pick a specific place and clothes to fit in that scenario. I chose to draw a schoolyard rumble, because what is better than bloody bitches? Nothing. Clothes are from Alexander McQueen Spring 2005 RTW and Hermes Spring 2010 RTW. Pretty great collections, I tell you what.

This assignment was to do a fashion illustration based on a movie coming out in the next year. I was on a roll with my bloody bitches and chose Red Sonja, legendary for her chain mail bikini and bloodthirsty badassedness. Her outfit is from a thousand different places, but the bathing suit is Max Azria and the shoes are Christian Louboutin.

It is so much fun to draw skulls.

thesis work!!!

2010-09-27T16:09:00.000-07:00

I started my thesis work a few weeks ago! After three weeks of sketching and fiddling and fine-tuning and writing tons of episode ideas, I am almost ready to finalize my character designs.

What's that? You want to know what my thesis is about? WELL I'M GLAD YOU ASKED. I'm doing a pitch book for a kid's animated series, like something you'd see on Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon. It will include character designs, episode synopses, environment studies, and a little bit of promo art, all bound neatly into a delightful little booklet that can be given to art directors to pitch my idea. Along with this, since I am an animation concentrator, I will be doing some animations, either for the cut-to-commercials or for the opening theme song. COOL, HUH?

The show follows Ji-Young Kim (Ji) and her best friend Aiden Wier, the two best Guitar Hero players in the state, as they discover the video game Rock Band and create their own ragtag team of gamers to compete in the arcade's Rock Band Tournament. They meet their drummer, Mac McMurphy, and their vocalist, Rosalyn "Raz" Stimpson, through some very strange circumstances, and have to grow together to become the ULTIMATE VIDEO GAME BAND!

I started with the character designs, because without characters, where would an animation be? I did a ton of sketching, and when I had a good idea of the characters I did a test group illustration to test colors with. Here are a few that made it to the finals:

After a lot of helpful advice from my crit group and my thesis teacher, Whitney Sherman, I finalized the characters to theseeeeee:

From left to right: Raz (makeover edition), Raz (normal), Mac, Aiden, Ji

I have gotten a ton of mixed reviews on Mac! What do you think, internet?

AND SO IT BEGINS!!!

HARRY POTTER

2010-09-17T18:39:00.000-07:00

now it is complete

the time is nigh

YAY

2010-09-01T15:17:00.000-07:00

What's that you say? The last post was the most boring post ever, you say? YOU'RE RIGHT, I'M SORRY. But HOWEVER you are now in for a treat. And this treat is Harry Potter and other sexy people.

Harry Potter and Ron Weasley are the best. Hermione is there, too, I guess.

Ink~

Pompadours. Big eyes. Glasses.

Beautiful people.

NOSEBLEEDS. BRUISES.

Two characters from my senior thesis~ MORE WORK TO COME!!!

Game Art Pt. 2

2010-08-27T11:45:00.000-07:00

Wow, Game Art class came and went pretty quickly, then Pre-College again, and moving in to a new apartment. Where did my summer go!? I figure I'll finish posting all my work from Game Art so that we can get to the FUN STUFF AKA HARRY POTTER FANART.

Here are some concept sketches from the very beginning. The class chose between these/ combined some of them to create the ULTIMATE MONSTER!

More ZBrush details...

Diffuse Map

Spec Map

Normal Map

My wireframe with all the maps applied! Yay! They look pretty deadly!

Sorry the video is low-quality due to blogger sucking. I'll upload a better version soon. Awesome!!!

THY NEXT FOE IS...

2010-06-09T16:43:00.000-07:00

This summer I am taking a summer class at MICA called Game Art, which is run by local video game company Big Huge Games. We're spending the month-long class concepting a final boss character for an imaginary game titled "Nightmares" and modeling the character's weapon. The inspiration for the character was the boogeyman, and we were told the character design should be in line with the fantasy artist Paul Bonner, who is the imaginary art director. After a few hours of Wikipedia research (heh) I came up with this:

Horrifying. The idea is that the player goes through the game, once in a while crossing paths with a merchant-type character who wears lots of thick robes and sells CREEPY THINGS. When the player gets to the final boss stage, who should be there but THE MERCHANT who throws off her robes and unfurls into this beastie! She's made out of childrens' body parts stacked on top of one another, and she can use her giant scissors to both slice up children and stab at our poor hero. Like I said, horrifying.

So then we worked on our models in 3DsMax:

And now ZBrush:

There you have it!

PS I beat Shadow of the Colossus today! Killer!

Jay Z is on SNL right now

2010-05-08T21:23:00.001-07:00

I drew a picture for Dan Krall. And here it is. It's based on this palette from colourlovers.

And here's another that I drew for one of my really good friends, Nicole M, aka bunkun using this palette.

SUPER CARTOON POST TSUBABABABABA

2010-03-25T23:28:00.001-07:00

Annnnnnnd here's the stuff from my sketchbook AKA not classwork~

GIRLS WITH GLASSES
I LOVE THEM

OH MY WHO ARE THESE FINE UPSTANDING CITIZENS

Can't not draw heads.

So many cute Asian girls here.

A CHALLENGER APPEARS!

Getting ready for Project Rooftop's Black Canary contest... I spilled cafe au lait on my page. :(

ALSO FUN FACT I am sending out internship emails now. Fingers are crossed. So many fingers.

SUPER JAPAN POST GO GO GO

2010-03-25T23:09:00.000-07:00

What's this? Japan work? Who? What what?!

Please excuse the HORRIBLE PHOTO QUALITY, these were taken on my cell phone. COUNTERPOINT: Japanese cell phones are awesome.

So here are my final two color variations on the Amaterasu piece. NOTE: There is no such thing as a registration sheet.

Live model #1, the stately older Japanese woman.

Live model #2, the Japanese dancer! He had a scar on his chest, it was pretty rad.

And the final pieces for my self-portrait.

WINK.

Updating is hard when you're in JAPAN!

2010-03-23T06:51:00.001-07:00

HELLO EVERYONE! こんにちは! Have you missed me? I haven't been posting because I haven't been doing illustrations, I've been having a GRAND TIME in JAPAN! All this semester, don't you know.

So I'll post some of the things I'm working on here, and the finals will come when I have a camera to post them with!

Here's some process photos of a print I just finished. The idea was for it to be representative of the sun goddess Amaterasu from Japanese legend. Story goes that she's all pissed that her brother, the trickster god, is messin' up her stuff and throwing dead horses at her handmaidens and stuff, so she locks herself in a cave for a while. Without the sun, everyone on earth is way bummed, so they decide to trick her by throwing a rowdy party and singing her praises to lure her out. Ammy gets curious and peeks out and sees how much everyone misses her and decides to come back out and everything is hunky dory and the flowers all bloom and stuff. Anyway:

And here's my paintings I've been working on. This first one my still life painting. It's a ring I bought from the AVAM that's clear plastic with three flowers preserved inside. I was feeling very Mad Men, as you might be able to tell.

And here's the main panel of a triptych self-portrait that I'm working on. It's me! SCANDAL IN THE SCHOOL I'M NAKED KIND OF OH MY.

Suffice to say I've been here awhile and I have a ton more work to post, but I'll get to that when I get to it. AKA when I'm not writing papers or exploring Japan or eating delicious Japan foods or, uhhhh, shopping. Okay, well, signing out for now. <3 じゃまた!

Season's Greetings

2009-12-13T11:12:00.000-08:00

Happy Holidays! Yay! This was for Allan's class. We had to make a holiday illustration based on a quote. I chose "Christmas isn't a season, it's a feeling." Cute warm and fuzzy times! :D

Hurry Up, Mr. B!

2009-12-05T12:36:00.000-08:00

Cover re-do for my most favorite game, Bioshock. Too bad I'm gonna be in Japan when the new one comes out. >:(

Keepin' it creepin'.

Footware Aficionado Cover

2009-11-24T09:13:00.000-08:00

I did this for my GD 1 class. The assignment was to create a magazine cover, so I chose Footware Aficionado, as I really enjoy their art direction. (c) Abby Boeh 2009

Thanks to Nick Iluzada for all his input.

Go Green!

2009-11-18T22:49:00.000-08:00

This was my submission for the (mandatory) poster competition put on by the MICA Illustration Department and the Baltimore Office of Sustainability. It was supposed to evoke the spirit of Baltimore and show that everything you do to help the environment benefits everyone in tons of ways! I personally try to recycle things and turn off the lights and whatnot. If it saves me money, why not!

Anywho, I missed cartooning hella lots, so I was pretty fond of this poster, and though it didn't win anything, my pal Nick Iluzada did, and my bfffff Cailin Nealon got runner up! Swell!

THE FLANNEL GHOST: HIPSTER SUPERHERO

2009-10-29T18:05:00.000-07:00

YES! Props to my girl Sam for this great idea!

...

2009-10-29T10:12:00.000-07:00

Some work from this semester.

These images are from my Concepts I class with Allan Comport.

An editorial piece for the novel Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon. I did it in gouache and the colors got a little weird and then I tried to fiddle with the levels in Photoshop and... well, you know. Shrug. Freakin' Daniel Krall's piece totally blows the ones from our Concepts I class out of the water. Sigh.

A piece to go with an article about wines for different occasions to go with a pamphlet for the movie Sideways. Apparently there are appropriate wines for doing exercise. Who knew?

These are from my Eros class with Jose Villarrubia.

A piece to go with this article from Savage Love, a sex advice column.

A piece involving romance. What's more romantic than football players in locker rooms?

A poster for our school's guest speaker Annie Sprinkle. The print one has red glitter on the nipple tassels. :)

Lastly, a pinup of Wonder Woman. Yeah!

LOVE IS OVER

2009-10-13T22:29:00.001-07:00

Soooooo. This is what I turn in for grades. What is wrong with me.

This was for Allan Comport's Illustration Concepts I class. The assignment was to illustrate the word "killjoy." So obvious first idea was killing unicorns? I don't know.

Fashion.Heroes

2009-09-02T13:14:00.000-07:00

SOME STUFF!!! I got really excited by Project Rooftop and Jemma Salume this summer when I had some free time, so I decided to try my hand at it. Also I reread Paradise Kiss by Ai Yazawa and wanted so badly to draw fashion things. Therefore this post is happening.
Sketch for Wonder Woman which I plan to finish one day. Obligatory Sailor Moon.
Power Girl Vampirella, girl Robin, and Wolverbean. Supes!

From the JCrew catalogue.

So there you have it!

Scooby Gang Redesigns

2009-08-27T12:59:00.000-07:00

I was being a TA for Greg Houston (http://greghoustonillustration.com) who is a badass, at MICA's Pre-College program, and one of the assignments was to redesign a classic team of four into a pro-wrestling team. I got really excited and decided to try the assignment out, but I got so wrapped up in redesigning the characters that the whole pro-wrestling bit went out the window.

Fred and Daph are the worst. I mean, just look at them. The worst.

So I also re-watched the live-action Scooby Doo movie (the first one, which is awesome btw) and Fred says the EXACT WORDS of this picture above to Velma. I secretly am totally rooting for them to get together because Daphne is kind of useless anyway. All in all I really REALLY love drawing Fred. A lot. Too much, maybe.

Star Trek! (and other less important things)

2009-08-26T21:23:00.000-07:00

So me and my bro are really into Star Trek. And we talk about it all the time. Seriously, we make references to Romulans any chance we get. Stupid Romulans. I think this might be my father's influence. I have heard rumblings that growing up in Kansas is very boring, and to stay entertained, my dad would marathon it in his basement with the A/C turned all the way up and pretend he was in space. Just saying.

I'm feeling better about comics than I have all year. Most comics now, I feel, are kind of TERRIBLE. The same old same old over and over, and even the good ones fall to cliche and poor writing (or poor development, maybe). Especially being at MICA, where everyone is influenced by all the same artists, authors, ideas, and peers, it's nearly impossible to break away from the norm. Being away from that all summer has renewed my faith in comic-kind. Don't let me down, world!

PS] I love Beyonce.

Summer Stuff Part 2

2009-08-02T21:43:00.001-07:00

HAHAHA HOO BOY. Brian Ralph had us do a comic in another artist's style, and who else would I pick but my super faves, Hellboy and Scott Pilgrim (there's a movie coming out, check it)! Yeah, so this is a page right out of Hellboy. If you pretend that I'm Brian Lee O'Malley, it's totally cool, right? Also, I did a character study before-hand so I could make sure I knew which end of the brush to use (it's the end with the bristles) which I thought turned out pretty ok, so here it is for your viewing pleasure!

Summer Stuff Part 1

2009-08-02T21:28:00.000-07:00

Here's my final comic for Brian Ralph's class this summer! You can't see the rest of my comics until I can sneak into the studio and get at the big scanner!

Anyway, I only had time to color the first page (and shoddily at that, oh ho ho), but angry tiny nerds are great. (SECRET: THE COOL KIDS ARE BASED OFF OF MIKA NAKANO AND BRIAN RALPH TEE HEE.)

NO

2009-06-07T15:48:00.001-07:00

I AM PROCRASTINATING SOMEONE STOP ME.

Character Design

2009-06-06T09:47:00.001-07:00

These are for my Sequential/Character Design summer class with Brian Ralph. The top is a rabidly riteous pilot and the bottom is my odd couple, Black Scarf and Yolene. When my scanner stops fritzing out, I'll post my comics and transformation assignment. :D

YEE HAW!

2009-05-05T13:43:00.000-07:00

My deck of old west funtimes playing cards done for Daniel Krall's Illustration II class. I like shamans and sad dudes in jail.

Environments

2009-04-13T12:38:00.000-07:00

Marie Antoinette's bed chambers before and after the revolution to convey "ordered" and "chaotic." Or "decadent" and "humble," although it doesn't fit those as well. This was for Daniel Krall's Illustration II class.

So many hours spent on this... /dies

CAT PARADE

2009-04-09T17:05:00.000-07:00

Probably the greatest drawing I have done to date.

ATP Poster

2009-04-02T11:52:00.000-07:00

Poster for a concert in the UK for John Malloy's Advanced Photoshop Techniques class.

Man, I discovered powdered graphite, which may be the greatest invention ever. Ever.

Frazetta Copy

2009-04-01T12:46:00.000-07:00

I cry 100o tears. Frickin' Photobucket deleted this for being copyright infringement or something... D:

Okay, just to reiterate: this is a Frazetta MASTER COPY done in Photoshop entirely by me to learn to paint for John Malloy's Advanced Photoshop Techniques class. And sexy ladies are awesome and Frank Frazetta is the man.

Op-Ed

2009-03-30T14:31:00.000-07:00

An Op-Ed Assignment for Daniel Krall's Illustration II class about the death of Hollywood and the film industry. You know.

Valentines

2009-03-29T14:22:00.000-07:00

Valentine's Day Dos and Don'ts for Daniel Krall's Illustration II class.

Legs

2009-03-28T22:34:00.001-07:00

My favorites of my series of illustrations of legs for Wet Media class taught by Rachel Salomon.

Horoscopes!

2009-03-27T09:45:00.000-07:00

These were for Daniel Krall's Illustration II class. The assignment was horoscopes for a women's fashion magazine.

Snakes in a Ballpit

2009-03-27T07:47:00.000-07:00

So I figure I ought to put some work up on this thing.

This was from last semester in Illustration I with Jose Villarrubia. The assignment was rather complicated to explain, suffice to say giant snakes and pirate children were involved.

I have a blog now. It's time to whine about my life.

2008-10-29T17:59:00.000-07:00

This site is a porn.