school

Grad show is over. College is over. I’m still kind of recovering.

A few things! First, I did this image a while back for a school project/ a calendar for Pylon Design. It’s been on my website for a few days, but I haven’t blogged it:

Second, remember that Stephen Harper picture I did way back when? (Perhaps not, too lazy to find the blogpost, but this is it…) Well, it’s a finalist in the Framing Harper competition! And so is the work of my friend Rosemary! Check out the finalists! (Especially Rose’s, which should totally win because it makes me burst into a fit of giggles every time I see it.)

Third, the narrative project I posted a couple of teasers for was finally finished up. I had print copies at the show, but if you’d like to read my shot at writing (or at least look at all the pictures) here’s a PDF! If you’re interested in an actual, printed, hold-in-your-hands copy, let me know and I’ll get you the Lulu link. (They printed out surprisingly well, even if the shipping prices are insane.)

I think that’s it for now. Now I’m done school, I’ll likely, hopefully, be posting work more often – there’s all this stuff I’ve been wanting to do that Grad Show panic has kept me from doing. Ah, art, I do love you.

COME TO THE GRAD SHOW!

It runs from 7 PM – 1 AM on Thursday, April 23rd, and 11 AM – 8 PM on Friday April 24th. Check the invite for the location.

The grad book also came in today, and it’s full of awesome:

My final Interp illustration of my college career. *single tear* The last of the four seasons. Guess which!

I have rather pretentiously titled this Mother of Wolves, not to be confused with Australian hard rock quartet Wolfmother, although that would be kind of sweet.

And now, an hour or two of sleep before class!

I’m still alive, which is ever so slightly ironic in an Alanis Morissette kind of way considering I’ve been driving myself into the ground writing and illustrating ghost stories. Hard at work, but with little I can blog. So here’s another random illustration from that ghost story book, to prove I can still draw, honestly.

I have business cards, which makes me happy. The grad show is in like two weeks. I, and everybody around me, are so wound up that the slightest thing will make us explode, atomic-style. That’s about it.

The fruits of an all nighter. Third of four seasons. Still have work to do before I head off to class in an hour.

One of these years, I will learn how to draw a cat.

Check it out!

So here’s the deal. With the economy in the state it’s in right now, our Illustration grad book for the year is in serious trouble. We’re trying to fundraise as much as possible, and would be massively appreciative of any help we can get. To that end, Grad Council marketing girl and all-around awesome person Danielle Crosby has put together the For The Love of Print campaign. So check out the little website (which I’m hosting) and if you have a few bucks to spare, there’s a whole lot of Sheridan grads who’d be very, very grateful.

And to that end, if you’d like to know who you’d be supporting here’s some links to just a few (i.e. all I could find) of my classmates:

Danielle Crosby
Mike Hiscott
Karen Brown
Yien Yip
Craig Arndt
Arthy Balachandran
Jesse McGibney
Amanda Ward
Irma Kniivila
Dominique Fung
Martha Chan
Juan Solon
Tyler Doupe
Bryce Huffman
Carlie Russelle
Rachelle Letain
Bennett Slater
Ashley Ross
Dave Webber
Yuta Onoda
Chris Coles
Miles Pasick
Dave Murray
Jesse Koreck
Nimit Malavia
Greg Dubeau
Jermaine Hannam
Ryan Christiani
Simon Kim
Kim Hughes
Steve McPhee
Lauren Pastuszczak
Peter Du
Tomas Zatrak
Peter Yuill
Melodie Papp
Eduardo Pasaoa

If any Sheridanites happen to find this and can let me know the links of anybody I couldn’t find (and there’s a lot), feel free. =)

The second Four Seasons piece – Spring was the one with the bunnies; this is Summer. If this looks familiar at all, it’s because it’s sort of the spiritual successor (if not a straight-out rehash) of this image, which I quite liked the feeling of in spite of rather hating the final output. Look! A car that actually looks like a car! Probably still too small to really sit in, but, uh, an improvement all the same?

A self-portrait, featuring my awesome new jacket, my ever-present messenger bag, and enough textures to almost crash Photoshop several times over. (800 mb for a 6×10, 300dpi image? Really?) Will probably later post the other version, which doesn’t feature acres of unnecessary background, and in which I do not disappear into the ether somewhere around my ankles.

The title is a lie, of course. You can never have too many bunnies.

For Interp, the thesis theme being the four seasons (sound familiar?), this one being spring. It is so girly you will probably puke unicorns and fart pixie dust, and it continues to highlight my ongoing problem with using the colour green, ever.

Okay, so to the handful of people who read this blog regularly, this oughta look pretty familiar.  Yep, it’s true: I’ve redone that four seasons picture yet again, and happily it corresponds well with this week’s Illustration Friday theme.  This is the final time; I swear.  I still don’t know if I’ve got it to the point where I’m willing to put it in my portfolio – it may be flawed at more basic levels than that – but at least I feel I’ve taken it as far as I can and it’s certainly an improvement on the first two iterations.

Click to fullview!

Oh, and another reminder that I’m now taking character commissions. I will draw you pictures!