Thesis Wall

I'm in the process of transferring all my sketchbook images onto a wallpaper to go behind my other paintings. If I stay within the provided 4 feet maximum width for the show, I have to go up to 8 feet to accommodate all my images, not to mention that most of these will get covered up by other paintings.

.... Dear God, I'm really tired.....

Ok, work time!

Thesis Continues!

Just two more images from my Senior Project. I put together a book of most of my images and travel stories and I have also made some limited edition cards for people to bring into their own homes and enjoy!

Feel free to contact me if you would like to purchase a book or have one set aside for you before the show!

Bearberry

I couldn't resist.
I've been working on my new story idea; a quick story about baking delicious treats for all the lonely teddy bears living in the wild. The idea is extremely rough right now, but I'm cranking out props and environments and characters like some gouache-in', photoshopin', sketchin' lady!

In Search of Monsters

A new story that I'm working on. I have a few quick environments and character ideas to post. It's about some kid that goes off into the woods looking for the monsters that everyone says are out there.

Wood Stoves

Just some concept shapes for some fun wood stoves. I'll go back in with color and paint these up.

Bridge Fun

Just having fun with photoshop and bridge silhouettes.

Krakow

I will be the first to say that Polish people are pretty amazing character studies. Some street musicians plying their trade and yes, that man is his own horse. What are you going to do about it?

Spelunking

This man in full Medieval Moravian regalia was making coins with a giant hammer and talking about the vicious alligator (crocodile?) that was eating people and oxen in the 14th century. Now a wooden sculpt of it hangs in front of the Town Hall.... next to a wooden wheel. Anything goes here.

Yeah, I wish. But I was in some really stellar caves in Moravia (southern half of the Czech Republic) and I loved it. Especially when they turned off the lights and played Ave Maria on a boombox circa 1996 and it sounded so fantastical.

Prague Puppets

The Czechs love puppetry. Huge fans. You can even watch an entire, elaborate recreation of Mozart's Don Giovanni performed by marionettes. Very cool. But most of these puppets are befitting of their Czech humor (ie. creepy or ironical).

Leisure time...

I couldn't sleep, so I just wanted keep my hands busy and relax my mind. I couldn't trust myself to work on anything serious, but I do enjoy some of the fun of this piece.

Thesis Preview 2

Sneak previews into some of the sketchbook work I've been doing for thesis.

Robot Worker Needs a Union

i feel his pain.

The Flirt Animatic

This is the animatic I made for my The Flirt story. Its fun to see it with music.

Thesis Preview

These are a few small and unfinished images from my in progress thesis. I had a good discussion with my teacher, The Patrick Fiore, and I need to start pushing this work much, much more. I'm relying on reference too much that its limiting my own memory and experience with the individual pieces. Just have to keep working and hope that it all works out.

Realization

We've entered that stressful time of year and its easy to get bogged down. I was worried about a character concept, when it hit me: I'm drawing robots. How can I be worried when I'm allowed to draw all sorts of fun anything and call it homework?

Lesson learned. Let the fun resume.