Kiba Saves Furby!

I just finished my last piece for the semester, and I am actually pretty pleased with it at the moment. There are a few things that I think need work but I am going to give it a day to decide what to change. For now I am happy. This is the first time I have drawn my new kitty Furby. I rescued her a snow storm two Christmas' ago- tried to find her a home or find out if she had one but to no avail, eventually we convinced my parents to let us keep her. Unfortunately, my cat Pyewacket died about 6 months after we got Furby and because of that loss I really had no interest in bonding with Furby, so this past Thanksgiving was the first time I spent any real time with her since I rescued her. I am sure she will soon become as popular as Kiba is in my work. :)

Revisions to 'Chucks'

This is going to be on my promotional postcards that I will be sending out soon! The image unfortunately looks much better on the computer than printed out.

Revisions to 'Kiba saves Christmas'

I have been working and working and working on this to attempt to get a finished piece I actually like. It has been hard, but no where near as hard as uploading it has been. My apartment complex advertised itself as luxury campus living, but instead I got sub par living with internet that is slower than dial-up. This is probably the 8th time I've written this paragraph- it that helps you understand how frustrating this is. On the bright side, I am no longer stressed about the painting... oy...

also: the first one is a screenshot.. some how the file was corrupted during my million attempts to upload it so all i have is this- its also not right because the mouse is in he right hand corner and the lighting is off on santa... OY

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Lots of new work to show! I know I am forgetting a bunch of stuff but when the semester is over I will upload everything i've forgotten!

October-November 2011

Just a quick update- lots more to photograph and upload, I just haven't gotten around to it yet!
First is a digital painting and some concept work for my Concepts Class. We all picked Greek Gods to illustrate, I picked Athena. Below those are some life drawings I did recently in my Drawing Class with Jerome Witkin. Also, I am going to re-upload my video portfolio because it doesnt seem to be working... hmmm.

Above is a video Portfolio I completed for my Business of Freelance class! I found the song a royalty free music site- its pretty good!

October 2011

At the suggestion of my favorite fellow SU illustration major (Anna Rettberg), I bought a moleskin sketchbook. It has been great so far, its easy to carry because its so small. I have been drawing more because I can bring it everywhere with me! Here are a few pages from it so far. Nothing too great but its certainly better than my other sketchbook!





Last week I was lucky enough to get to work in a script writing workshop with Rob Edwards (scriptwriter for Princess and the Frog and Treasure Planet). It was amazing, I learned so much about what it takes to create a successful story for film. There were only about 8 of us in the group so we all got some one on one time with him. Below is some sketches from a story I started thinking of while in the workshop. Of course its about dogs, and of course the main character is Kiba the Shiba.




For my Concepts class I had to design Athena (the greek goddess). I have been having some trouble with it, I am not really in love with any of my ideas so far but hopefully by next Monday I will come up with something good.


This is the finished painting I did for the NYC Bus Trip Poster. The Poster itself looks good, but different than I had anticipated. I thought they would take advantage of the white space I purposefully left them, but they didnt. Hmm.



This is the cover of the two-page comic I did a few weeks ago.


This is supposed to be my promotional piece for my postcards, but I sort of hate it. I don't think I'll be getting any jobs with this one! Haha.