Gustav

Severance

The artwork for a short story I just finished about a guy trying to leave town to quit his numbers job, and a scrap handgun he can't sell.

It Was a Very Good Year

Ocean on the edge

Just finished this poster proposal piece for an ocean science exhibit at the Aquarium of the Pacific. Still a work-in-progress, but it went from sketch to here relatively quickly it seemed like it might be worth posting.

Silky Shark

Thought I'd post this process sheet just to blow whatever spontaneity the final silkscreen may exhibit. The concept was sort of a love letter to Los Angeles, the beauty and toxicity of it all, for a three-color silkscreen assignment. At the left are the thumbnail roughs, taking the Super Fly approach for a minute, then something about water, then some type. From there the three rough color sketches revealing how increasingly muddied the idea had become.

Finally I went back to try some ink sketches in the hopes of salvaging it using the limitations of three flat-colors. The far right top and bottom ink drawings became the basis for the black and violet screens, and the cropped final silkscreen, the second from the bottom right was one of the alternate color compositions based off those drawings.

Birds

Two-plate etching/aquatint assignment for printmaking.

Dracula's Pajama Party

Hand etching and aquatint print I just finished.

Columbia

Finally got some figure painting hours in today, can't wait to do it again.

SOI/AI

Sorry for the slow news week, here are few sketches from the past few days, falling back in love with the crowquill pen of all things. Also found out that I had pieces selected for both the Society of Illustrators Student Competition and this years American Illustration annual, which was a great surprise and honor to be included alongside such killer work.

Serious play