Nature Concentrated

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Long Awaited Update

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Long Awaited Update

  It’s been a while since I last posted. I just realized that there was a problem with the blog’s permalinks that resulted in a 404 error. I’ve fixed that today.
The PSU in my desktop pc “asploded.” Money has been tight since I was fired a couple months ago, so I have been [...]

Secret Santa Update

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
Secret Santa Update

  Mood : okay  Listening to : The Killers – When You Were YoungHere’s the result of that Secret Santa art trade back in December. I didn’t get to work on it as much as I had wanted to, but I did manage to get the coloring done pretty quickly. For a quicky, I’m not too disappointed in this [...]

Memphis Polar Bears

Monday, August 20th, 2007
Memphis Polar Bears

  Meet Ursus maritimus. Completed over 2 days spent at the Memphis Zoo, by far my favorite place in this armpit of the South.
This piece could have been much better. I could have employed more perspective into it, which is definitely the weakest part of it. My scanner is just barely too small for the [...]

More Zoo Sketches

Sunday, April 15th, 2007
More Zoo Sketches

  Another sketch from the zoo. He only sat still for the first couple minutes of the sketch before getting up to go do zebra stuff. That’s the only thing about drawing animals: you have to work fast and have a good memory.

Zoo Sketches

Thursday, April 12th, 2007
Zoo Sketches

  I walked over to the zoo today for my illustration class. These are some quick sketches I did. While drawing this one, I overheard two grown people wondering aloud if Komodo dragons really breathe fire.

I think it’s time to lay off the OC and change the channel to a documentary or something, folks.

Silk Screening

Friday, March 9th, 2007
Silk Screening

  I recently started collecting the necessary materials to start silk screening. I took an intro printmaking class last semester, the last assignment of which was a silk screening project. I wound up spending more time on that assignment than any other done for that class.
Now that I have my massive drafting table, I have the [...]