MiniThesis

For my Concepts II final, we spent five weeks working on a MiniThesis of our choosing.  I chose to draw a four-part series illustrating different scenes for this one bearded girl.  I think she's adorable.

Tel Aviv Hearts Bauhaus

Our latest assignment in Concepts was an 11"x17" travel poster.  The one on the left is what I turned in this morning, but after my critique I adjusted the background to create the one on the right.  Not sure which one I like better...

Finals

It's getting to the end of all my major projects for the semester and I have some final products to share!

First off -- T-SHIRTS ARE DONE!!!  And ready to be sold at Art Market!  So, please stop by and check them out for yourself!

 

Next up is a holiday/promotional postcard that I made for Concepts.  I had a lot of fun with this (if you couldn't tell) and I'm actually having some professionally printed.  Hopefully those will turn out well - let me know if you want one!

And my final update for the day is a project that I've been working on with another student (Brittany Roger) for out Biodiversity class.  We made a three-dimensional energy pyramid for the kid's room at the Patapsco State Park Visitor Center.  The pyramid illustrates the four main trophic levels (producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers).  Brittany and I each illustrated five different species, and, yes, all six sides are covered for each cube.

 These are my final sketches for the five species that I illustrated (Indian Grass, Blue-eyed Grass, Foxtail, Deer-tongue Grass, and a Barred Owl).  Each species has three views.

 

So, those are my most recent finished pieces.  Now to complete the rest of my finals...  Winter break could not come any sooner!

Murals!

Here's another piece for Concepts that I just finished.  Our assignment was to design a mural for a building of our choice.  I chose the H. Furlong Baldwin Library which is part of the Maryland Historical Society and located in Mt. Vernon.

The proposed mural:

 What it might look like on the building:

 

Side note: I have begun t-shirt production on my faux-losophy shirts!!  But!... I overestimated my skills at screen printing and ended up ruining four shirts because I tried to screen print in my apartment in a makeshift kind of way.  So, from now on I'm going to not be lazy and actually make my way down to the Dolphin Bulilding so I can use the screen printing classroom in there.  Hopefully, I'll have better luck that way and not waste so many t-shirts.

Anyway, Thanksgiving is almost upon us and I can't wait to go home!!  I'm very ready to spend a little time away from Baltimore and the stress of college life.  Florida and delicious holiday food, here I come...!

Concepts

Sorry it's been a little while since I've posted anything - just the usual excuse being that I am so very busy making art all the time.  Junior year is definitely shaping up to be a busy, busy year, but at least it's busy in a good way.  I would definitely say I am enjoying myself.  And on that note, I will share with you some of things I've been up to:

All of the following pieces were made for Concepts I with Allan Comport.

This first piece was for an assignment where we had a week to create a finished comp for a full page newspaper advertisement.  We were given four companies to do an ad for and I chose the World Wildlife Fund.

The assignment here was to redesign the cover of a video game and I, being nostalgic and also not being a huge video game buff, chose to go old school with the Oregon Trail computer games.  I really just wanted to pay tribute to the '90s.

This was an exercise in which we chose a phrase or phobia from a list and created an illustration to go along with that.  I based mine off of the phrase "near miss."  I happened to be sketching on an airplane and feeling pretty relaxed when I came up with the idea, hence the rather zen guy.  Note: this isn't the best scan job, the scanner didn't quite capture the delicateness of my line work and shading.  Oh well, I'll just have to rescan it at a higher resolution sometime.

And this was what was due this morning...  Our assignment was to redesign a CD cover of our choosing, and being a big BOH fan, I decided to redo the cover of their second album, Cease To Begin.  I definitely enjoyed rendering the barn owl, and the Band of Horses font was fun too.

Also, since I'm in a printmaking intro class, I have all kinds of prints that I've made in the last couple months.  Hopefully soon I'll get a chance to document them all and post them on here.  But I am quite smitten with printmaking and excited to be taking more classes in that field.

Now I must prepare to present all of my t-shirt related things to the folks at the Double Dutch Boutique tomorrow morning.  Me and eight other students from The Lab class will be presenting our various project ideas for their criticisms.  Hopefully all will go well.  It's getting closer and closer to Art Market and I am getting more and more nervous and excited to make these t-shirts!  I can't wait until they're all ready to go!