Songs

Done at various train rides as I listened to music. If you can read it, you can tell which bands I was heavilly into during that time.

Happy 20th

More signs

Why would I put a fish in my pocket?

From a series of hand lettered posters a while back.Don't bother askin about what it means. Too long to explain.

smug ones love cake

Birthday card for one of my friends. It's an inside joke.

Also, a tin teardrop!!

I'd been listening to Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica a lot, especially this one really nutty song called 'Pena.' I wanted to transcribe the whole song into a few pages, but after three I lost interest because they weren't turning out the way I had imagined.

Birthday Card Series part 2

Megaphone Blast

Here's a quick sketch I did the other day while taking a break from getting my portfolio together.

Fuse/Sawblade

This one was one of the harder assignments from my Typography class last spring. The teacher brought 4 different manila envelopes for picking. Each envelope contained 2 random, seemingly unconnected items. When it got time to picking our envelopes, what I got was a fuse and a small sawblade. The assignment was as follows: make something and bring it the following week.As easy as that sounds, it wasnt. It was a little hard to think outside the box at first. I scanned both items into the computer and literally tried to make "things" out of them. All I could think of was making the blade an arm of some sort and the fuse as its joint. I spent a long time just trying making shapes but it felt like all I was doing was making tinkertoys. Finally, I came up with two spiralling patterns: one circular spiral and another triangular. During critique I mentioned that I liked the circular one, but everyone agreed that the triangular one was more dynamic and therefore more successful.