I’ll be showing / selling my work at the Whitney Museum on October 15 as part of the “Desert Island Comic Zine Party”. Don’t really know what to expect since, I believe, this is the first comic theme event the Whitney has had.
Here’s a blog I stumbled upon recently which I recommend to any artist: Animation treasures (or one1more2time3’s weblog…i’m not sure which is the actual title of he site). The author of the blog is Hans Bacher, an animation production artist. He actually has a book out called Dream Worlds. Anyway, the site catalogs visual references, … Read More
I’d been meaning to go to the Society of Illustrators figure drawing sessions. Somebody had told me the sessions were like parties, and I wanted to see it for myself. I finally went on Thursday night, and it was by far the most upscale drawing session I’ve ever been to. Instead of being held in … Read More
My new project, which I hope to finish by October (doesn’t seem likely at this point, but maybe I can pull a miracle) is a flipbook. I’ve always wanted to do animation, but never studied it in depth. I’ve done about three very short hand drawn animations before, but this is the first one where … Read More
My portraiture class ended two weeks ago, so here are some of the drawings I did for it. I think I’ve gotten better at drawing likenesses, but I still need practice. One of the portraits in the line-up is of an imaginary person, but I won’t say who.
A few months ago, I bought a book called “The age of reptiles: the art and science of Rudolph Zallinger’s great dinosaur mural at Yale”. The book has a reproduction of the mural that folds like an accordeon, and it inspired me to do something similar. So for the past four months I’ve been working … Read More
Here are some “studies” I did of lions for the piece I posted last week. While I was looking online for reference material, I came across this charity in Florida, Big Cat Rescue, with two awesome YouTube channels which were very helpful in getting interesting cat poses. The first channel has educational videos and such. … Read More
Here’s another print in my “feral children” series. This print is inspired from the book, by Joseph Kessel “The lion”. On the left is the picture colored digitally, and on the right is the silkscreened print. This print was a bit more difficult to color match, especially since I was dealing with four transparent colors. … Read More