collaboration and coffee

Friend and designer, Emily Oswald, had a bunch of us contribute designs for coffee sleeves. Her project is tatoo themed, so I did the sleeve below. It was a lot of fun!

sketchbook pages

julie & julia







random




cartoon character skeleton - study of Disney/Glen Keane's Beast:



cartoon character skeleton: study of Bill Waterson's Hobbes:

head studies - some of these are from my head and some are from movies/photos and studies of other artists' work, like Sergio Toppi, Al Dorne, Leyendecker and Stevie Lewis.

life drawing



Kirby studies

bunch 'o stuff.

Thesis piece

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Thesis update

I can say thesis is moving along slow and steady, with lots of story kinks to work out. a little preview of a rough:

I'm getting a little obsessed with Ronal Searle and 1950s UPA stuff. I think it's starting to show through in my drawings, and it looks like the project will be taking on a visual language I haven't really delved into before. I am looking forward to the final art with excitement but also a little anxiety, as this is all new. It's been a real blast so far, though. :)

Society of Illustrators Student Annual Competition

My painting of Sophie made its way into the 2010 SOI Student Scholarship Competition in New York! I guess taking out the speech bubble and hearts helped. :)

This is very exciting news. My buddies Kirsten, Mike, David, and Jon got their work in as well! Congrats to all of the winners - you deserve it!