LONG TIME NO POST!

It's been a while since I've posted here... So I'm about to post a bunch of things!

I'm taking a comic book class with Paul Karasik. Our first assignment was to make a How To comic without any words. Here is How To Put on Contact Lenses (with Cyclops).

Our second assignment was to illustrate an Aesop's fable. Here is my version of the Tortoise and the Hare. They have dirty dirty mouths.

I'm also taking a character design class with Shanth Enjeti. Our first assignment was to design two characters that describe a personality trait of ours that is positive and one that is negative.

Mine were "Organized" and "Indulgent".

Our second assignment was to do the same thing but with other people's personality traits. Woo! I did "Enthusiastic" and "Mopey". Although right after I did "Enthusiastic", I realized that I totally ripped off a Jon Vermillea print. I guess I pulled a Liz Lemon with Dale Snitterman.

That's it for now. I'm working on a bunch of screen prints that involves elephants popping out of skins, and yetis riding snow yaks, WITH GLITTER!!!!!

new moon

Finals are over!
Here's the final piece I did for my independent study with Chris Buzelli. It's based on the new Twilight movie, which I haven't seen but got a detailed summary from my little sister, who is a certified Twilight expert, so I'm pretty confident about my knowledge of what went down in New Moon. Also, I thought since I'd already finished a piece for the first movie, it might make an entertaining, if not interesting, topic for a series if I kept up with the saga. Plus, I felt to need to reintroduce lasers into my work. Just to clarify: the lamb is Bella, the lion is Edward, and the faceless wolf is Jacob.
For the color palette I wanted to give a sense of night without having to make a dark sky. I think I'm pretty happy with the result. Oh, and this is the first time I'm using watercolor for a piece, and I think I'm going to use it for under painting from now on.

tame foxes

here's something i finished recently for my independent study with Chris Buzelli. I've been doing a few things based on podcasts (mostly radiolab), and this one is about tame foxes in Russia. they are my new favorite things.

oh yeah and i got into ohger.com. check it out! ohger.com/zesansan

elephant run

so here's a little test i did for the running elephants. i uploaded it with my iphone because i suck at computers.

Degree Project

This year I'm going to be working on my degree project for animation. It's going to be hand drawn and based on these comics that I'm going to make. Here is the first one, not totally finished, it's based on a summer camp song.

The Magnetic Fields

I'm doing an independent study with Chris Buzelli this semester, and for the first project I decided to give band posters another try. I chose The Magnetic Fields since they are all about ironic, bitter, humorous, and creepy love. Also, they use a lot of synths and i think ukuleles are cool.

Anyway, I did a bat shooting love waves at an owl, which I think is pretty ironic. Plus I've always really wanted to use an owl for something, so double win for me.

Here's the inked transparency so far, I'm going to print it this weekend and see how it goes.

The Bun Merger

Here is the comic that I did for my screen printing final. It's the longest comic I've made (6 pages)!!! I only made 4 editions for this one and gave out three copies. So feel special if you have one bitches. There are two pages on each big page.