Redo: Angel and Demon on the Shoulder

I intended to start this new section right after getting out of school but this took longer than I thought. This new section is called Redo where I take art that I did waay back before art school in my sketchbook and do newer versions of them. This is my first take at it.
The guy (Tai) is drawn with a pencil and scanned in and cleaned up. I decided to have fun and despite the mix not being perfect I drew the ladies (Lyra and Cassandra) all in Photoshop. A big feat for me is doing the line work on my tablet. I kept them simple since they are the ladies in his head so I felt the break in the styles was alright.

I made the mistake of not digging out the original I was basing this off of before starting it. I thought Tai was the subject but actually it was what goes in Cassandra's mind! As seen below there are little angel and demon copies of herself flirting with the little Tai in her head. Oops! Maybe I'll come back and Redo it correctly but for now I'm happy with this.

Day-to-Day: Interesting Tour Guide

For my friend Hannah's birthday last weekend we always go to the Folk Life Festival at the Seattle Center. Well she also wanted to be surprised so we added going to the Underground Tour of Seattle.

The tour was...interesting. I wish we got a different tour guide but it was an experience. I was hoping the tour would be a little longer also. Though this is what the gal was wearing no joke and looked a little haggard like maybe she normally does the night tours.

We did get a wonderful amount of innuendos about "seamstresses" to make it more kid friendly when talking about the prostitution industry.

Ooh and favorite thing at the Folk Life Festival....Shishkaberries!!!! Yuuum! It ain't summer till I get some!

Day-to-Day: Back in my old bedroom

Missed last weekend's set of updates but I'll call that my after college break. I am back and here is my first little update...
It has been strange being back in WA. I keep thinking any moment I'll have to go back to Oregon for school any moment. Still I am back in my old bedroom which is odd since while I've been gone it has become Olivia's bedroom and now we're sharing it. She's in the process of moving out while I am moving in so there's boxes and piles of things all around. But I am enjoying being back home with the family while looking for a job.

Thesis: Video and Graduation Remarks

My video of Blush Corp Performance.

This is the two minute piece I am showing on a continual loop at the Thesis Senior Exhibition at PNCA. I am very proud of it! Now it's not a perfectly edited masterpiece. Very choppy but I have to say with my limited video skills I am very proud of it!

I cannot tell you how happy I am with my overall thesis. I loved my mentors Sara and Martin. They were so amazing with helping me whenever I asked. Linda for getting me the room I needed. Sure it's only been a month since that performance but really it has gotten me looking forward to the future! I love the team I have back home they are amazing both as actors and collaborators!

I have learned and grown so much from this thesis. Blush Corp has given me territory to grow confident in myself as a person and as an artist. I use to think that I was the one that always helped everyone else bring their visions to life but Blush Corp is my baby and I brought it through its step one. I even got this video up on YouTube! Yeah YouTube! Never bothered trying that before.

I really am ready and think I earned that degree I get tomorrow but also am not clinging to being outside of school. With that drive to collaborate I know you'll hear from me soon. Hopefully also from these eevil villains! Keep in touch those of you that part ways as we leave PNCA! It has been such a wonderful three years working alongside all of you. Your lives, your art inspires me and my dear classmates you drove me to become better both artistically and personally. We are an amazing class of Illustrators.

Thesis: Whiteboard Doodles

Another little note on my thesis....during rehearsals my minions kept drawing things on the whiteboards. Here is an assortment of some of the things drawn:
The large Corporal was drawn by dear Hannah and the rest...I think was Tobi maybe Chase for the little figures at the top...not sure.

Still I have to say my thesis weekend of set up and rehearsals was so much fun! I was in shock and not even worried about it being my final enjoying the process with my crew! I am taking a little break on Blush Corp for now but can't wait to get back into it later.

My Art: Typeface: Delicate Curves

For my Typography 2 class the final was creating our own typeface. Now that I have had the opportunity to step back from it a little I must say I am rather proud of it. I am not sure I want to work in the program FontLab any time soon but maybe in the future I'll polish this one up.

I started using grid paper to create the initial typeface. I wanted something less nauseating than Curlz MT and loved the thin lines in fonts like Helvetica UltraLight. I knew from past works in FontLab that I wanted one stroke weight and one size for the dots. I worked in both Illustrator and FontLab to create this.

The final I am rather happy with but there are a few areas that I would love to improve. I didn't get to creating the numbers for my typeface. I really want to improve the capital and lowercase S and would love to put more work into the spacings between them. Add some kerning especially with the lowercase f.

My Art: Rest in Peace Puma

This was my final illustration for my Literature Seminar class The Aesthetics of Ugliness with Trevor Dodge. It was my commentary on how an attachment to objects can become an ugly thing since we become rather sad loosing something we come to consider almost a member of the family. Done with charcoal, conte, sharpie, and brush pens. I had way too much fun making this little piece.