Senior Year

So senior year is just around the corner. I'm hoping that this will be my most productive year in college for art. I've got a lot of things planned: drawing, painting, print making, sculpture, and working more in depth on my comic Frank und Stein.

Here goes nothing

Camp

I leave tomorrow to work for seven weeks straight at Camp Sinoquipe (a Boy Scout Camp). I'm hoping I'll be able to get a lot of drawing time in and post some fresh stuff on here in a couple of weeks.

Until then enjoy some bikes.

sigma nu tattoo

I've been throwing this idea around in my head for a few months now and finally took the time to make a color painting of it. its not perfect but, I want to get a tattoo of it some day soon.

frank und stein 001

Here is my first attempt to color a comic strip. Its not bad but I need a lot more practice. Enjoy.

Cookie Cutter Art

Someone please tell me how hard it is to redraw a cartoon character or how strenuous it is to draw faces on random fruit and take snapshots of em. Really you call this art? Why can't people come up with something fucking original. The fact that people buy this cookie cutter shit as art really makes me wonder how the hell anyone is really supposed to make it as an artist. I understand that people learn to draw by recreating other artist's work. But there comes a point in time when you really need to step away, grow up, and prove that you can be original to some degree. I like to feel that I learned to draw by looking at anime and manga, but it took maybe a year or two for me to start coming up with my own characters. They were shit of course, but at least I threw the cookie cutter out. If you have nothing original to share with the world, maybe you should put the crayons down and try out for American Idol, I hear they are in the business of cookie cutting.

Thoughts?

Some exciting news!

So I was informed a few days ago that my graffiti piece (the one I filmed) Is going to be featured as the cover of The Mercury, Gettysburg College's Arts and Literature Magazine. I always doubt my artistic ability, but moments of recognition like this keep me moving. It is a great aspect for one to be humble about their work. But this characteristic cannot survive in this world without something pushing the artist forward, otherwise I would just sit in my room drawing my life away, never showing my work to anyone. So as the title states I am very excited and inspired to push myself.

too much time.

So I finally sat down to clean up a sketch I made a while ago. I currently have a comic strip in the works, it's scanned and cleaned up, I just have to decide if I wanna go with grayscale or color.