Personal Work

A sketch I did two years ago from a book of pose references. It's always fun to try out challenging angles.

Comic Book Media: Final Project Idea

I started reading Elfquest when I was 14, and it has been one of my major influences. Wendy Pini's linework is very intricate and detailed, every character is uniquely designed, and each page is beautifully composed. The story is wonderful too. I wasn't able to post any actual pages from the comics, but they're all here: http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics3.html






I'm a big fan of fantasy creatures, especially fairies and goblins, and Brian Froud is one of the best fairy artists around.



After sorting through many story ideas, I finally settled on one. Geoffrey, a young peasant, is told by a couple of noblemen that he is actually the long lost son of a lord, and they have been looking all over for him since he was betrothed to a princess when he was young. But after he marries the princess and they move into their little island castle together, he discovers that she is violently insane and that he isn't actually a lord's son at all-- it was all just a ploy by the princess' family to get rid of her. So here he is, trapped in this spooky castle with a crazy girl. . . what will he do?

I still need to figure out how long it will be and whether or not to try to color it. One thing I really want to work on is sticking to a consistent character design.

Scratch

Is not uploading. :( "Your image is corrupt or is in an unrecognized format." Hmm . . .

Visual Research

A man rides a swan-shaped paddleboat around a flooded area of Rio de Janeiro. Such boats are usually used for recreation, and the image of a swan evokes peace and tranquility. You would normally expect to see them in at parks. But here the boat is being used for a practical purpose in a scene of catastrophe. This could make the photograph take on a darkly humorous quality: since the swan-shaped boat suggests leisure, it could look like the flooded city is being used as a waterpark. In reality, it was probably just a handy and available means of transportation.

Visual Research

Snoqualmie Falls, Washington by Bill Hinton. Featured in National Geographic. This is actually a photograph, even though the soft textures and intense contrast of light and colors give it the look of a painting.

Picturing the other

Myself, someone I know, and an "other". The "other" is a street preacher who was spreading his message downtown this morning.

Personal work

My dad found this beauty washed up on the beach when we were in Yachats. The seagulls had pecked out its other eye, but once we flipped it over and rinsed it off, the other side was pretty much intact. I cut out some of its teeth to make a necklace.

Visual Research 1

Here's a dog with sunglasses on its butt. The humor lies in creating the illusion of a face. If this were simply a picture of a dog facing backward, it wouldn't be as interesting. Once the sunglasses are added, however, it changes the whole image. The human eye is drawn to images that resemble faces, even if the resemblance is simple and caricatured. Of course, the poor dog doesn't have a clue what's going on.