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.

Christmas post

Happy holidays! Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Haven't really done much with the sketchbook action, but here was a quick thing that I did. It's not exactly a sketchbook piece, but it's in the same vein as the birthday card stuff. It's a quick Christmas card I did in Illustrator for my three nephews. I know it's not hand-drawn, but I wanted it to have that construction paper cutout feel when I worked on it in the computer. I definitely had the most fun working on their scarves and "teeth."

Birthday Card Series 1

I started sending out birthday cards this year. Here's a recent one. It's filled with "happy birthday" in different languages, but in trying to fill up the page and fitting the words against the "happy birthday old lady" lettering, I didn't even bother trying to make them legible. The letters from happy to birthday to old lady gets thinner and thinner by a happy accident. I should have just lied and said I did this on purpose. Also, my apologies to the person I sent this to; the card wasn't this long so I had to distort the image when I printed it!! I'm sorry!