Another!

I am pretty much shirking off all my responsibilities to do these. Oops. But they are so enjoyable to make.
This one contains two Marisas. And one Phil.

Digital illustration & collage.

Thought I'd work digitally for once. Man have I missed it.

Don't be alarmed if you recognize yourself. It's because I love you.

Graffiti Fun

Facebook is cluttered with mostly useless, benign applications. The one exception in my books is their Graffiti application. I can really wrap my mind around the idea of leaving little illustrations on friends walls. Here are a few of my more recent graffiti adventures:

This one I drew to myself as a form of de-stressing a bit while writing an essay.

To my friend Gaia, just to say hello.

Last but not least, a strange koala to my lovely boyfriend.

Bleekly's Birds - Another First!

For my mass communications course I created a mock children's book! The project was fairly open in terms of the types of media we could use to show awareness about issues like consumerism, advertisement and the effects of industrialization. The printed version looks exceptionally sharp too! My lovely boyfriend, Philippe, helped greatly with that.

Here is the link to the story. It's a little too abrupt, but I had a very limited amount of time to complete this project. I will very likely go back and elaborate once I am finished my summer semester and am settled into the next apartment that Phil and I will be moving into on June 30th.

Hello Handsome

Sort of inspired by Yi Chen and Jenny Saville, though it doesn't appear so (because it sort of sucks). I think I just need to be more extreme with the distortion. Why am I never extreme enough?
Here's the original image I used as a loose reference.
Sleep time!

Practice...

My first digital doodle in oodles of months. I kind of hate it, but it's important to show progress or some bologna like that. This was a very random drawing...not inspired by anything and only continued to some sort of conclusion out of frustration. Anyway, it was kind of nice using my tablet again. I should make an effort to continue using it, do at least one sketchy digital painting a week...or something like that. Maybe that will assist me in getting out of my aforementioned 'funk'.

Urgh, I bet when I look at this on my laptop monitor (as opposed to my super high contasty and bright computer monitor) it's going to look so dull, which will also frustrate me.