What's going on

So I've started off my last semester of under-grad school. I'm rather nervous but yet I'm ready to graduate. These past few years have been a lot of fun and I will remember them as just that. But I'm ready to move on. I'm ready to get started with a career, rather then fill my days with classes that I don't really need and drama I don't feel like putting up with.

As far as art goes, I'm waiting on supplies to get my senior studio project started and I'm developing ideas for my painting class.

For painting, I want to return to some old political art that I've made in the past. My focus will be to combine canvas size painting and my love for street art.


AS for my senior studio class, here is a sneak peek at the cover for my comic I will be working on.

New semester

So I've decided that I'm going to make an intro to a graphic novel for my senior show. It's playing off of the whole "Iron Robot" thing except the robot is human sized and piloted by the main character. This winter I really returned to my roots and it has taught me that cartooning and comic books are what I have always loved and I need to stick with that.

This project will be a kind of self portrait; a character based around myself, set in a rural environment (I live in a cabin), with robots, aliens, and cool fight scenes (I had a wild imagination as a kid).

This is gonna be fun.

thoughts 01.06.12

So I had written a post about my life and what the good and bad times have taught me. But I deleted it because I don't think I gave the good and bad times justice. It got me thinking that maybe I should write down some memories from when I was a kid and start sketching them out, both the good and the bad. Just a thought.

thoughts and tattoos

So I've had a sort of revelation. For the longest time I've been trying to find something new, something better then what I used to do with my art. What I have realized is that, I don't need to find something new. Rather I need to return to my roots and do what I love, I just need to draw. With this in mind, I've decided that for my senior show, I'm just gonna bust out drawings all semester long and then decide which one's I want to put into my show. I'll combine sketches and inked/colored works. It's who I am and what I do. Why change that?

This is my latest version of my Sigma Nu tattoo design

Here is another tattoo idea. It combines the tools I use in my art with a sort of motto; write on the walls, get your ideas out there and don't be afraid to express yourself.

My thought's on returning to my roots provides the idea of going into tattooing. I don't have to come up with my own ideas, but I get to do something that I would love; draw on someone and leave a mark for everyone to see.

Christmas and Frank und Stein

I got a Robotech Battroid Valkyrie model for Christmas. I found it online a while ago. But what I didn't realize was that the model was from 1990 (it's as old as me). I was hesitant to build it, but that was the reason why I asked for it, to build it. The problem I've run into now is what paint to use. Here's a picture of it.


I've also been thinking a lot about what I want to do for my senior show. Character design is something I've done sense middle school. Also, I'm constantly throwing story ideas around in my head. With this in mind I decided to revisit "Frank und Stein". I made some minor changes to the characters; still a very simple style. We'll see how they develop over the next few weeks.


Going off of the character design thought, I put some ink to a sketch of a comic page a drew last year. The story is about a character I made in high school named Six.


The image is a rough idea, considering there is no background.

I'm returning to my roots and I'm excited about art for the first time in a while.

Kim Jong-un

So those who have woken up by now should be aware that Kim Jong-il, the former ruler of North Korea died yesterday (or today, time zones are confusing). His 27 yr old son, Kim Jong-un has been named as new leader of North Korea.

His young age got me thinking about what male Americans are doing at 27, compared to running a country.


Decided to add some color to this one. (I photographed it instead of scanning, like I normally do, because my scanner is back at school)

bye bye freedom

So I've started messing around with some comic stuff (strips, political, and a book idea).
These two images are just some sketches.

I sketched this idea out a week or so ago. It is my take on the Occupy movement. Honestly, if you are blind to the fact that this country is run by corporations, not citizens then you truly are the citizen the money grubbing whores want you to be.

This strip was drawn tonight after I heard the news that the new defense bill passed. If you are not aware, there is a clause in this bill, which grants the military the right to detain U.S. citizens with out due process.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm going to practice my rights (what little is left of them) daily. Even after the government has sold my soul to wall street and denied me the very freedoms this country was built on, I will speak up. This is of course not the current state of this country, but I fear we are heading down that road.