So I switched over to blogspot.  Hopefully I'll be updating that thing much more often than I have this Livejournal.

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So I'm still down here at the Illustration Academy working my ass off, and it's been an incredible time so far.  Here is a small update of what I've been up to, work wise.  Sorry for the crappy photos.  I'll try and get these scanned soon.

This assignment, given by Jon Foster, was a portrait of a fictional literary character.  I chose to do one of ( Read more... )

So I'm down here at the Illustration Academy in Sarasota Florida right now and I've been here for a week now.  I'm here with Sterling Hundley, Jon Foster, and some amazingly talented artists.  Might post some photos of it at some point, but for now, here are a couple of life drawings.


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Last assignment for my fashion class.  This one was given by the amazing Frank Stockton.  He brought in a bag full of fortune cookies to class, and as we were all munching them down, he told us that our next assignment would be to make an illustration dealing with the fortunes we got.  Mine was literally "you will be blessed with long life."  Kinda ( Read more... )

You may have already seen these on my site recently, but I thought I'd post them here anyway.  These were small watercolors done for Fashion illustration.  The assignment was to redesign the three face cards (King, Queen, and Jack) however you wanted.  I chose to have them as bums.  Really tried to push the attitude and props of each individual ( Read more... )

This one definitely took way longer than I had intended.  I'm pretty happy with it though.

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The business cards finally came in the mail.  Really a nice feeling.  I feel like Patrick Bateman.


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This week, for our fashion illustration class, Sam Weber wanted us to illustrate a poster for a Shakespeare play of our choosing.  I picked A Midsummer Night's Dream because of the interesting imagery throughout the play.  This started out as an acrylic and pastel painting on Rives BFK, and I took it into photoshop to finish it off.  Original size ( Read more... )

This is a watercolor piece I did for my thesis class.  I'm illustrating short stories and folk lore from around the world.  This one is an Icelandic tale about changelings.  Click on the picture for a larger version.


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Man, this thing hasn't been updated in ages.  Sorry about that.  To get the ball rolling again, I thought I'd start with something simple.  Here are a few life drawings from my sketch book.


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