This is an illustration project that I am doing for Berklee College of Music. Well, its a draft unfortunately, but I will be sure to put up the final image they choose to use.

This is for my exhibitions class. It is an unorthodox business card, however I am thinking about getting quite a few printed professionally for my own promotion as an artist.

For this project, I am concentrating on my form.

studio4 critique

This past Monday, my class had a critique on our work thus far. I really like hearing what my classmates have to say because they always point something out that might not have ever crossed your mind. A few people commented on how my pieces are nice and all, but my craftsmanship is poor because of smudges which wouldn't look very presentable in a portfolio. I recieved many flattering comments that boosted my confidence about materials I struggled to work with. I LOVE my studio 4 senior class!!!!

This is the close to final product for my senior grant project. It is also the first of a series of 3 comic strips addressing school issues.

New project!

Soooo...Ms. Osediacz has decided to pass on a challenge to our senior class. She assigned us an independent project. How independent? Do whatever you want, whatever medium you want, whatever scale you want, as long as it follows the theme of food. For my project, I am making a comic strip about school lunch. I drew out the layout with panels and such, and I'm setting up each frame's composition with pencil. After I draw out the whole story, I ink the final marks I want and then erase stray pencil marks so they don't show up. Then I scan my images onto photoshop and do all the coloring and crisp editing on the computer. When I finish, I'll be sure to post the strip on my blog!

These are all projects I'm working on. Except for the little girl cooking. Thats supposed to be me!!! Well, kinda. It was a homework assignment for school.

I've had success in capturing the form.I've had trouble with the letters matching that form and making value with graphite.

This is a comic strip I did last school year using prismacolor markers. I didn't have a sense for blending at the time but I still really like the bold colors.

Junior Year figure drawings and a tattoo design for my best friend

This is the tattoo design I started for Cristina.

Every year in VA, Ms. Marsh teaches a self portraiture course. This was my second one and by far my most rendered for such a large composition. I was able to blend all the midtones and lighting by mixing black and white charcoal to create a grey tonal scale.

I'm pretty sure this was my last figure drawing for my junior year. Mr. Edwards taught that semester I believe.

My first set of pieces to post!

<-- This is the last piece for the walnut series which is still in progress. My teacher encouraged me to continue rendering what should look like a surface under the walnut in the top right. She also wants me to add more texture to the walnut itself by adding more lines and not worrying too much about blending.

This is the first piece I did for the series which was done with an ebony pencil and then rendered over with an ink pen.

<--This is the second piece I did which incorporated pen and charcoal.

This was done on the second week of figure drawing this term with Ms.Osediacz.

Hello there!

You are about to experience my senior porfolio thus far! Right now...there is not much to show.Please don't judge me, I'm a newb.