My cover for Adventure Time with Fionna and Cake: Issue #3!!! SO EXCITING! If you’re sitting there being like, “hey, that looks familiar,” you’re right! It’s a parody of the famous Conan the Barbarian cover done by the almighty Frank Frazetta. Thanx to AD Adam Staffaroni of Boom! Studios and, of course, Fionna/Cake creator Natasha Allegri. Go pick one up at your local comic shop around mid-January!

Baltimore Super Heroes!

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

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

"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

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

The Vice

"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!

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

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

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

"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

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!

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

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

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!

bunch of baby ducks, send them to the moon

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

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!!!

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

now it is complete

the time is nigh

Jay Z is on SNL right now

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.

Season's Greetings

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