reviving the Boom.

Dining room table at my friend's apartment in Jersey City.  

View from my cousin's balcony in Manhattan's Lower East Side.

Both done in June 2010 in my sketchbook with pen and watercolor.

Recent sketches

The first sketch is my aunt and uncle's backyard which was all fancied up for my cousin's wedding.  The second two are around Savannah, part of my current project for internship.

Owen-Thomas house

Saint John the Baptist cathedral

Creature Stampede

I posted this on my blog, but it's appropriate for here too, so here we go:

i made sketchbooks for people

The blue one is for Nicki and the red for Jagu, my cousin.  The blue one has drawing paper; the red has printmaking paper which makes a nice cheap watercolor paper (Utrecht brand printmaking paper, 25 sheets a pack).  Both have hair elastic closures.

Self Portraits

I'm sitting in Borders with a computer and a sketchbook and I want to draw a self portrait. I decided to use Photobooth on my computer because I didn't have a mirror.

old oil painting

found this in my aunt's basement.  i think i painted it in either 2005 or 2006 for paintingII

New mailer

I'm getting my first mailer ready to send out this week. I decided to print images on both sides of the postcards, which requires me to mail them in envelopes because the back is too dark. So to entice art directors to open up the envelopes, I've printed the outside with a little lino-cut design.

Skeches from the past few weeks

on location sketches for Drawing for Illustrators
watercolor and pen in Moleskine watercolor folio
8.5 x 12 inches

Response to Krishna's last post

That last post by Krishna really reminded me of this book I completed almost exactly a year ago. The book is called Coyote and the Monster and it's based on Native American legends.

Coyote and the Monster by Mark Eberhardt | Make Your Own Book

slightly morbid

I think I did this quick digital piece in Computer Illustration during winter quarter as a practice run for the collage assignment.

Sketches for Harper's Magazine

A trio of sketches for Herman Melville's The Town-Ho's Story - a short story about Moby Dick published in Harper's Magazine a long time ago.
Harper's is opening a section of their website with classic stories including this one and the graduating grad students were asked to submit sketches for illustrations for the website.

3D illustration

While I was checking out the Bad Crit blog today I came across an interview with Danielle Buerli.  There were a few pictures up of her work and I realized she does 3D work!  I was really excited and went to her website.  She has some pretty neat things that she knit-sculpted.  Her backgrounds seem to be watercolors drawings that were cut into shapes. 

Sketchbook

I made this sketchbook today instead of doing school work and I LOVED every minute of making something not related to school.

It's an accordion fold book with a wrap around cover that has a purple ribbon to keep it closed.  I used 90 lbs.  Utrecht brand printmaking paper, elmers glue, a green button, and binders thread.
3 x 5.5 inches.

Reference for a poster I'm working on.

The posters are due today for the Savannah Children's Book Festival poster contest. This is the reference I put together for one of my submissions.

Mark

Mark making marks.

A monster's kinda time

I finished the scratchboard piece! Monster hands are so much fun to draw. I need to darken up the rest of the monster, I keep forgetting to go back and do that.

Enjoy!

Paul Bunyan sketches and story

So I've been really busy so far this semester working on three books. These are the sketches for my Paul Bunyan story. There are two for each break in the writing so my art director (teacher) could chose one composition for me to go with.

Dude....scratchboard.

Couple of scratchboard comps for techniques II

Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time...

Here are two head studies I did of Freddie Mercury for the celebrity project in Illustration Markets.

Some inspiration

Here are some cool artists I've stumbled across in the past few weeks.


http://www.brookssalzwedel.com/
Not illustration, but cool nonetheless. Very Trevor-like.



http://happletea.com/Cool little comics. I don't much like digital work, but he does it really well.


http://www.haileykimstudio.com/
Hailey is a friend from the Illustration Academy. Her watercolor work is pretty amazing.


http://www.catiachien.com/
Really interesting watercolors.

Drawings from sketchbook 12

Trying to come up with ideas for a young adult portfolio, I drew a sketch of Sabriel from the book Sabriel.

And this might be the most clever thing I have ever drawn.
Both of these were taken with my phone. I'll post some good scans when I actually scan this sketchbook.

Mr. Boomitsamonster!

Mr. Boomitsamonster x4 (the middle picture has him with a monster!)

Blind contours of Mark and Erin.

All in pen and some marker.

"Romping" - Digital Direct Painting

"Romping"
10 x 8 inches
Digital

In Computer Illustration we had to do a direct painting in Photoshop. It had to be a selfportrait, revealing something someone wouldn't see or know unless you tell them.

Sketches

Sketches using pencil, sharpie, watercolor and gouache. Done at Morris Hall at SCAD, some bar in downtown Savannah, and Barnes and Noble.