Saturday, December 26, 2009

Cardboard Chair

Cardboard chair made for my 3D class. Yes, you can sit on it, yes it's made entirely of cardboard and yes, it's awesome.


Abstract Piece

Done in my tenth grade year, this piece sits on my desk where I can see it everyday. It was my favorite piece from tenth grade, but I got a poor score because my teacher said the overlaying black and silver lines made it too busy. He did like how the shapes that are painted on give the piece depth. I'm happy with it, and I like how crazy it turned out.

Acrylic on canvas. Yarn is covered in Elmers Glue mixed with india ink to make it black. Silver pen is used. Black and white buttons are glued on.

Detail of above piece.

Gum Wrapper "doodles"

The following are done with 5 gum wrappers. I peel the foil away from the wax paper stuff and press it on paper. These are each three inches in diameter. They hang on my desk above my computer so when my lamp is on, they shine :) The designs are pretty random, but I love them!






This one reminds me of a canyon at night. Can you see it?

Random Sketches


Random doodle I found on my desk today that I decided to include. Go me :)


Also done in my english class (sadly, I use that class for most of my doodling). We "read" God's Man which is a novel done entirely in woodcuts. I drew some of the faces that I liked the best from the book.

Done while talking to Jason on Skype. I got complacent with his arms and the rest of his body after I drew his shirt.

Single line squiggles


Done in pen using one continuous line while in my english class

Detail of above picture.


Done while I worked at Western Wats call center. The whole thing is done with one line that doesn't intersect or touch. When I needed to switch colors, I continued on the same line. To define the shapes, I colored over it with colored pencil.


Detail of above picture.

Sketchbook update


Helping my friend time monologues at the Shakespeare festival, I liked the judges profile a lot so I sketched it. When the monologue was done, my friend told me I looked like a creeper, staring at the judge. Oh well, I got my drawing so I'm :)


Done in the car with a friend over the course of a few days. Done in pen, free-handed. Super random, I know. Paisley inspired.


Penguins dream too! This is how I imagine a penguin's dream would look. Done in pen on paper.


Sketching on an airplane while by myself (scared to death). Random dude I made up. The woman next to me was so impressed by watching me draw him that she wanted to "inspect" my drawing when I was finished. She held my sketchbook up to her face for almost five minutes before slamming it back down on my tray table and pronouncing loudly that I was an amazing artist and she was proud to sit next to me. Thoroughly embarrassed, I didn't draw for the rest of the trip, but she and I had some good conversations for the remainder of the three hour plane ride.


Sketch drawn while sitting in my friend Squirrel's room. This is the resulting drawing. I also did a photoshopped colored copy of it as a gift for him, but I can't find it right now. I'll post it when I can :)


Initial sketches done in my English class. My prof saw them and liked them so much he commissioned the Zombie picture shown in a previous entry. Instead I gave him that picture because he got my copy of Coraline signed by Neil Gaiman. SO happy :)


My friend Phil loves his cat. This picture was done for fun based off his facebook profile picture.