Illusions

Some impossible optical illusions I was doodling. I've always been fascinated with optical illusions because they mess with your mind and always look so rad.

Sketch book peek

So, once again I have not been uploading much! It's not that I am not working, I just don't scan stuff. However, I took the time today to scan my sketchbook and upload it here. These sketches include drawings for school projects and random doodles when I am bored. I recently had a felt pen and marker obsession because they are great for coloring solid spaces fast and the colors are always so rich. I had a lot of fun doing those jacket drawings because they were so spontaneous and intuitive.

Piano Lessons Poster

Over the weekend, I threw together a poster for Chris Arrific to promote his piano lessons! He originally wanted the new words over the old show poster design I did for him a while back, but I opted for a similar concept that will be able to accommodate tear off numbers. I kept the piano's keys as teeth, but this time they double for number slips as well! Doing this poster let me escape from doing boring design homework.

Sketchbook 2009 Updates

Wow, once again I am tardy at uploading stuff onto this blog! It really is pathetic that my latest entry was in August or something. I shall blame it on blogspot not being as user friendly as I expected. I would like to try out wordpress or something because uploading photos onto blogspot is frustrating still.

Anyways, these are some sketchbook drawings done over the summer while I was gallery sitting at Little Mountain. These were based off photos in National Geographic, and it was a great method of trying out watercolor tricks.



Some of you may recognize this door! It is the door to Little Mountain Gallery.

Fundraiser for Fundraisers Sneakpeek

The art show at Little Mountain Gallery is coming up in less than two weeks and I am very excited to see how everything is going to unfold. The show will consist of Tevis' and my artwork, along with many donated pieces from various artists. I am very amazed at just how helpful and generous the people around us can be, and for them I am very grateful. Without them, there will certainly be no show.

I am looking forward to this show because it is a great chance for many of my friends who donated work to finally show off their talent to the public! The great thing about these shows is that you never know who will see your artwork and what reactions they will have towards to your work.

So, in anticipation of the show, I am posting the process of a piece that I just finished, entitled "Let's Ride Together!" Done with pencil crayon on tracing paper and paper.


Final composition with tracing paper overlay.
Pencil crayon underneath.Pencil crayon on both sides of the tracing paper. Tracing paper is magic, I swear.Sketches. I discovered that working on graph paper helps a lot, even for doodles.

Old drawings from here and there..

Library drawing/painting that was done in half an hour. I really enjoyed the spontaneous process and the little Fido Dido lookin man.
Gesture drawings from first semester. I don't really know if I am improving or not!

Portrait of Shaun Mccord for my self-directed drawing project from first semester.

School Artwork - Drawing Class

These are the drawings from my drawing class, which contain drawings of still life and models. I have selected the better drawings, some not so good ones, and some just alright.

Some 2-5 min poses..



..And then some 30 min poses