I graduated! (last year)

Here is the announcement card that I created last year to inform family and friends that I had finished college. The idea behind the card was to take what little I knew about the movie The Graduate (at that point I had not seen it, I have since and think that it is an amazing movie) and to do a spoof of it.

Sketch 01

This sketch was based off of what I thought the movie posters were before I actually did some research and saw an actual poster.

sketch 02

(Based off of the movie posters I researched)

I asked friends as well as my Mom which to use. My mom said the second one. And every one else said the first because it was funnier, so naturally I chose the first one.

(The out line for the drawing that I did in Photo Shop)

(The colored version)

And the final version that I e-mailed to everyone

Here is the version that my mom sent to family and relatives, as I did not have time to produce a PG version what with graduating and all.

My first Blog

Here is the beginning of my art blog. These blogs will be chocked full of sketches as well as finished art. You can bet that not much will happen with most of the sketches I intend to post, but fear not! Enough will be finished that it will be all be ok. If you are wondering what gives me any right to have an art blog, just keep visiting and you shall see. And if you’re looking for some informal credentials then here goes; I have been and avid drawer since the age of four, and just recently graduated from the Art Institute of California, San Francisco, with a degree in Media arts and Animation in December of 2006.

From what I am about to post it will become painfully obvious (though I will state it now), that I like Vikings, zombies, and the weird and horrific. I enjoy drawing my friends, and drawing them as I see them, which usually results in something more fantastic than what a lay person might see at a glance.

I’m fond of a variety of mediums, from simple pencil sketches, to pen and ink, to watercolor as well as gouache. I have just recently started to dabble with acrylic paint, and I also use a variety of digital media including Photo Shop, Illustrator, and Maya. One of the purposes of this blog is to document my process in the variety of mediums I engage in, while chronicling stages of specific pieces, for both my readers and myself. And in that light,

Let the postings begin!