Out the Window

This is 1/2 of my final illustration for Allen Brewer's summer illustration class. Our assignment was to bring in a story from our childhood to exchange with another student in the class. Then we would create illustrations based on our partner's story (the writer working as the Art Director).

As we are an even numbered class, it would have worked out well, except the person who was supposed to be my partner didn't show up. Which worked out for the best! I got to exchange stories with Allen, and illustrate his story while he did mine. My story was about how I broke my arm (various times) in 8th grade. It's a long story. His story was about a visual phenomenon he experienced when he was about 9 years old. It ended with him questioning life and death, and his faith.

DEEP STUFF.

Here is my piece:



I wanted the image to feel really 'in the moment'. It's sort of about letting go of your childhood, and also about letting your self explore possibilities in the world. It's a big, open and quiet room. Very self-reflective and mysterious.

I'm still working on the other half of the assignment. For that half, we're supposed to illustrate the same story but from our perspective (the first one being from the Art Director/writer's perspective). I'll scan that in soon.

Also, P.S.- I saw Allen's illustration of my story. TOTALLY AMAZING. I want to buy it off him.

Love

These pieces are about the five senses. And also love. For my illustration class!

I really like the idea of 'home'. Going home, or finding a home. I think it's always been an important theme in my work. I like drawing houses because of all the things they represent.

This series is about my home, and all the things I love/loved about being at home (in Wyandotte).

Poster!

I was recently asked to be in a bike poster show at The Bikery . The theme of the show is Local/Euro: european-inspired cycling posters. Super exciting!

I decided that I wanted to screen print my posters, which turned out to be quite a challenge (I haven't screen printed in about 4 years). But thanks to my good buddy Lucas of MouseSaw, it went well! He seriously is the nicest guy ever, and totally made the whole thing possible. DEFINITELY check out his work too, he is a master!

I don't have pictures of the final yet, but here's my photoshop file:



I didn't manage to mix these colors, but the background is orange and the linework is a darkdark brown. I think it looks somewhat vintage/european. Mostly because I based it off this poster HERE.

I really like the simplicity of the image, and thought the typography was nice. As you can see, I was VERY inspired by it. I like the modernized figure though. Rolled up pants and a sweet tank top! The cap is a little throwback I suppose.

PRINTS WILL SOON BE AVAILABLE! I only got about 30 solid prints, so a very limited run! I'll take some real life pictures soon.

Some new work

Just a few things I've been working on lately. I'm taking a summer illustration class taught by Allen Brewer and it's super great! It's good to have a regular schedule of making things. I'm noticing that I work in two different, but maybe not that different, styles. One is loose, lots of pencil lines (I love how graphite looks). And the other is more geometric and colorful.


Space Collage 01. Just some sketchbook work.



Space Collage 02.


She and Him.


Searching outer space!


A conversation about the creation of man.

Greetings

I love images of outer space. Aliens!

I Like 2 Bike

I'm so so so glad to get back in the studio again. It had been a while. I was looking back on some personal work, and the Frick this Shaz piece is one of my favorites. So I wanted to explore that style again.



I really like the final result, and I think I need to make this into a portrait series.

The Album Artwork that Could Have Been

This has been an active posting month for me! Hopefully I can keep this up.

This is a rejected concept for the debut Communist Daughter album. I'm not exactly sure what happened, but they ended up going with something else at the last minute. I have my own theories.

It's going to be such a great album, and I'm pretty bummed that they chose not to use this artwork. You should definitely check them out though. They're super talented and they're great to see live.