Street Portraits

So I saw this guy hanging around a few doors down from the cafe I was headed towards, so I decided to make a quick drawing. He was all slouchy and languid, and looked sort've like Mugen from Samurai Champloo. (Not really.) 

In other news, Baltimore is melting. Thought y'all ought to know.

Slow Progress

Comickiiiiiiiiing! So hey, dudes. This is what I've been working on....more to come rather soon, once it's officially finished. I wish I could work on it and all the stuff bouncing around in my frizzled headspace all the time....some day, my friends. Some day.

Barnburner

Yeah, I think she won that one. A warm-up sketch from last week which essentially amounted to me super-wishing that I was boxing again.

In other news, school's out for the summer! (My last student-summer: what a strange realization.) This being said, I'm gonna make the most of it by rolling up my sleeves and getting busy making all kinds of crazy stuff. More updates to come...see ya when I see ya, dudes.

Bean Nighe

My junior independent, or mini-thesis. I've always loved the spirits and monsters that inhabit celtic/gaelic folklore, so I decided to write a story about a Scottish banshee, or bean nighe. Also called 'the little washerwoman,' a bean nighe was a portent of death, and could be seen scrubbing the bloodstained clothes of those who were soon to breath their last. Not too much is known about where the washerwomen come from, though there's a range of speculation: some traditional legends suggest that these ghoulish harbingers were once human women who died in childbirth, cursed to carry out this role for the duration of what would have been their 'full' lifespan. This story offers my own take.

Primordial Seedling

This one was for a pretty rad project. My teacher drew from a science book featuring a series of questions compiled by children about the world we live in, and the answers were each written by experts in a corresponding field. The specific prompt I got was "Where did the first seed come from?" and the answer, by a botanist, was fascinating. She discussed how some of the most primordial plants (such as ferns) reproduce by spores instead, and then when early plant life later began developing true seeds, they were similarly hardy. Most grew a tough, waterproof outer-casing: so durable that they could actually make long journeys over sea. (Think of how coconuts travel!) Pretty unbelievable.

My piece featured a gouache painting, and that graphic purple seed was done digitally, then printed on a transparency layer that went over the traditional painting, and revealed parts underneath. This presentation was inspired by a children's book about animals published by Nobrow. A gif seemed to be the only way to translate the work for online viewing, hahaha.

The Standoff...

Hey, all! I've got some nonsense to unload on you good folk over the next few days...mostly stuff that got done over my semester. (Second to last, and it's already almost in the past tense. Life is pretty good!)

This one was for an editorial assignment...I was given an article about the first amendment, and how people have been trying to bend the law to censor rap music. I like to think this judge is doing so because he's a metal-head....that is no wig, my friends.

More to come soon!

Rink Rash Abound...

Dang. I can't stop drawing roller derby girls...it's the most splendid compulsion. They're just so goddamned fierce! Like if Amazons knew about toe stops. I have so much admiration...playing in a bout is my secret life ambition. There might have to be a future comic featuring a derby team.

Anywho! More to come in the future...I still have buttloads of comic pages that just need to be cleaned up and scanned from before the holidays. (Gah! So lazy!) Stay tuned, y'all... 

The Counter Run

One of my favorite things that I've made this year. Yet another from my Sequential Arts class...our assignment was to make a fight comic involving four or more people. I don't think I'll ever love anything more than drawing unabashedly shitty punk kids.

Wildfire

So here's a quick little thing! An in-class assignment for my Sequential Art class. It's dedicated to my friend Anna, who likes sloths a whole lot. Hang onto your butts, though! Big, hulking posts ahead. Gratuitously sized posts that probably nobody wants to see, yet I shall inflict them on you all still.

¡Viva Los Lunchadores!

Finished inking this guy last week, but never got a moment to post it until tonight. And now back to inking the interior. Black and white, fifteen pages! I'm psyched. Are you?

Squidinking and the Wooliest of Socks

Inking a thing...a secret thing. Hush puppies, hush.

Naw, it's no secret! This is going to be the full color (eventually) cover for my fourteen-page Sequential Arts final. Can't wait till the comic's finished and I have time to scan it all. You fine people will be among the first to see it.

I'm extra pleased to be inking away today 'cause it's snowing prolifically here in Baltymore. Making it even cozier inside my apartment by comparison, where I am listening to a Holy Fuck EP, drinking green tea, and wearing the wooly socks I nicked off my man.

He'll get them back in the spring.

Aaaaaaht Maaaaahkit!

Oh my goodness, I am ten kinds of excited. Today I got my groggy ass out of bed at six and finally finished printing, binding, pricing and packaging all my merch for my school's Art Market. It was my first time printing up a zine, and it was exhausting but also tons of fun. It's comprised of a few short comics following the travels of a bare-chested barbarian elf chick. She's a gruff sellsword who doesn't suffer fools. The title is Wärgänn, because umlauts.

Aaaaanyway! If you guys are gonna be in good old Baltymore, why don'cha come up and see me sometime? I'll be tabling with the rest of the good folks in our Illustration Department.