Lion

I felt like drawing something from a photo reference.
Sadly, it has been awhile since I've done something like this. Haven't had the time!

I was drawing while watching Beauty and The Beast (I confess!); I think my subconscious wanted me to pick a movie with a lion-like beast in it. (And I don't own the Lion King.)

Speaking of Disney, I'm feeling like the mane became subtly influenced by Disney Princesses' hair texture... especially near the bottom of the drawing.

(Graphite on bristol board)

Tiny Tully: Secret Place Book

This project was a "secret place book." The way this book works, as you can see, is that it can be viewed as individual pages, or it can be opened up into a stand-up shape. This shape works really well as a room, box, cage, window, etc...

I used colored pencils, ink, pastel, paper collage (with painted paper I made), card paper, and illustration board.

Overall, I really liked this project. It was really neat to think 2-D with a 3-D aspect: kind of like a beginner's pop-up book!

 

 

Lie Like A Child

 We all feel displaced or disconnected once in awhile. Suddenly the way we saw something in our lives changes dramatically.

This comic-strip type of project was about a time in which I felt this way; it is a very personal project, but it deals with how I found out about a close family member's Diabetes. Suddenly, this person was no longer "immortal" as she had been in my child's mind. However, I was also hit the with realization that I could be an important source of support for her.

(I should note that I see this experience overall as a revelation, and not as a traumatic event. At the time it certainly felt chaotic and scary, but reflection has made its educational value concrete in my mind. Now, it is just a dynamic, personal story I have been able to illustrate like this.)

I know some of the details may be tricky to see, but I hope you can click and zoom, and get the information you need to understand the story!

30 Days Of...

This was a project called "30 Days Of..." I chose emotion, and sketched how I was feeling (with marker or watercolor) on a roughly 1" x 10" strip of paper every day for 30 days. I also wrote the date and a little blurb of info about my activities and the weather that day. (I noted, by the end of the project, that my mood is definitely heavily influenced by the weather, and whether or not I had homework to do that day!)

It was not only an exercise in habit, repetition, and series-making, but certainly also a lesson about abbreviation, in my case. I limited myself greatly on the amount of space I was allowed to use each day, and I tried to keep my drawings abstract (or maybe that was just the easiest way for me to "draw emotions"). It is also really neat to see how color, variation, pattern, shape, and line all played into how I chose to communicate each emotion/ each day.

In the end, I displayed them together by attaching them all to a piece of string. I really liked the way it looked like a mobile, and so the top picture shows it hung up.

Overall, I enjoyed doing this each day. It was a nice mini challenge to keep myself on track for a whole month, and now I want to try it again. However, I think I may use a different subject... Something external for a change, for sure.

Welcome!

Hello everyone! This blog will be primarily a place for me to submit current work I'm doing in my grad degree, as well as any other personal work I'm fiddling with. Basically, for now, this is the stuff that doesn't make it to my (more professional) online portfolio, or to my Lesley University key assignment portfolio.

Hope you enjoy what you see! Please leave comments if you'd like. :)