dead things

Went to the natural history museum yesterday to sketch:

work as usual

As promised, here are the process shots for my last piece. Ive gotten a lot of feedback for this one and i want to thank you. Ill be posting another image in a day or so to start the summer off right. Ive been getting a lot of commission work atm so I'm really trying to balance my personal stuff with business. but either way, it'll be pouring out at this rate :]

this was in graphite with an overlay of digital coloring. One of these days ill get around to posting my digital coloring process too if enough people would be interested in seeing it...

keeping things short and sweet

heading home for summer tomorrow. I plan on getting into my next project as soon as I cross the state border :]

in the mean time, I'll post an image I havent had the chance to that I did back in February.

love & bile

So this piece I am posting is pretty important to me. If you have time, please read over the statement i wrote for it. Ive been really pushing my art towards a personal level. In particular, this piece has to do with that sickness feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when you get stricken with a low spot in your life. If breakups are good for one thing, it has to be generating creative juices. I'll put up process shots in a later post.




A physical state and a mental state become synonymous when tragedy besets. This image illustrates a living autopsy of literally taking out your insides and displaying them. The mirror is a reflection of everything that effects on our own decisions. One’s state of mind and physical state are directly correlated, so your body becomes physically mutilated when events ravage your mind. Mirrors are all relative to their host in terms of what they see as ‘hurt’. This makes mirrors objects that are solely individual. They are selfish. A relationship can only exist between one individual and their reflection.

Everyone is formed by their own experiences, which in turn, reverberate externally through actions and conscious decisions. The reflection of pain becomes clearest when you feel the physical sickness in your belly. In order to see the problem in its true form, you must carve out your viscera. If not, you can only lament over your mistakes and sorrows, which build up like a cancer. However, the more times you rip out your guts, the more scar tissue is built up. This eventually leads to ruining a natural beauty, by searching for non-existent perfection.

thanks.

greed.

a little editorial project i illustrated for an article about government stealing back slave reparation lands.
charcoal and chalk on BFK Rives.

commission

Had a little extra time about a month ago and was able to knock out a commissioned piece. Thanks Sierra!

(if you would like to inquire about a potential commission, feel free to email me)

Wither & Woe

So I think for the time being, the majority of the personal work that I want to pursue is going to deal with emotions and personal things in my life (hence the term 'personal' work), so that maybe I can transfer some of that pent up energy and emotion (that everyone seems to carry around and relate to) into my art. Not like I have much time to personal work to begin with, but I want to stay on track...

I draw things to understand them, and I feel like it's the same way with actual problems. If i put the issues onto paper, I have to dissect them and then can understand them.

This piece was done for the Discover a Muse challenge over at Jon Schindette's Art Order Blog. It had to be based off Veronika (the ref image I used was taken by Scott Caywood).

Although the challenge called for a likeness to the model, I ended up modeling it more towards a personal piece, as I stated above. Not much more I can really explain here.
Graphite on Stonehenge