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Digital doodley doodle :) Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays/Hope You're Enjoying Winter everyone!

"Frustrated Genes"

I had the great pleasure of creating this illustration as a visual compliment to an essay written by Hiten D. Madhani, that just got published in Cell magazine this month (so I can finally post this up woo hoo!) It is a fascinating paper titled "The Frustrated Gene: Origins of Eukaryotic Gene Expression",  check it out if you are interested! You can access it through Cell's website, it is from Volume 155, Issue 4 released November 7, 2013. A PDF of the article is available on the site :)

Foxorama!

Foxes everywhere! This party is a sampling from a collection of 90 fox drawings I had to do for a fantastic class assignment. I definitely will be doing more...

Purdy Pirate Heads

Aha, the first somewhat-refined sketches of pirate heads for my pirate crew assignment. I need to get my reptile anthropomorphies developed more ( the reptilian pirate crew is sadly represented here D:). Next up: more heads, physique development and costume design studies - looootttttsss of work ahead! Woo hoo!

Sneak Peak?

Gah, I haven't updated in a while! Here are some doodles I did while thinking about my upcoming character design project (done while I should have been doing other homework..hehe). They're preliminary sketches, may or may not use or develop them, we'll see! Looking forward to working on this project (I miss the nuances of anatomy - eyebrows are so fun to draw!) Channeling some Schiele for the lanky lady. 

Lam Lam

 The second painting from my portraiture final. The wacky colors were fun to do - they also suit the personality of this one and only wacky ol' roommate of mine <3 Go bears! :D (Oil on 1/4" acrylic board)

A.R.

One of two paintings for my portraiture final. My good ol' college buddy kindly posed for me  <3. Playing with unresolved narratives in these two, joy joy! (Oil on 1/4" acrylic board)

Petting Zoo

Petting zoo children's book cover, style inspired by Mary Blair. Working out the colors & values was tough, still needs work, but it was fun to do! Hopefully will make time to make some final corrections on it. I LOVE gouache, so excited to paint with it this summer, woot! (Original Gouache)

Quick Pencil + Digital Sketch

Just a quick sketcheroo... Drawn with progresso pencil, colored digitally ( need to work on my colors and digital painting/painting in general so here we gooo). Long live tigers.

The Rolling Rhino

I am IN LOOOOOOVE with gouache painting!!! I'm terribly clumsy/new at it but I can't wait to get better woo! This is a childrens' menu cover I designed and painted for my Gouache Techniques class. Struggled with color but hey, practice hopefully-one-day makes perfect :D (Original Gouache on Watercolor Board)

Bebe Gods

I wish I had a baby jackal....if it looked like these ones! :D Pattern design for a textile - probably for a bag of some sort, done for my digital class. Influenced by my love for Egyptian mythology. I think I may put this up on Spoonflower.com, print it and make a bagggiiieeee!!!

Short Story Scenes

These illustrations are from the book I wrote and illustrated in my Drawing for Illustration class with Gayle Donahue. By far one the BEST classes I have take yet, I would love to take that class every term, forever! The book is a metaphorical short story on tolerance, written in poem form much akin to a children's book. I'm going to TRY and get it published, it's quite a feat but hopefully it will work, we'll see :) Until then, be happily teased by these little ones. (Gouache, Micron Pen, Acrylic Ink, Digital)

Mean Ol' Kitty Cats

 I had the opportunity to take on the "Mean Girls" assignment from Will's class as a side assignment last term, and to my delight we did cat-taurs this time! Above are a series of head designs and some later designs of the cat-taur mean girls. They evolved quite a bit from my original sketches, but the later designs with the short, stubby, wonky legs were some of my favorites by far. (Progresso pencil, Prismacolor pencil, Bond & Toned paper)

YOU in the ZOO

This poster design was for my Digital Design class and I had so much fun doing it! We had to create an event (sorry this is a fake one) and design a poster advertising it. I absolutely love drawing/observing/riskily petting all animals so I had to take this opportunity to do an event at the zoo :). Design was Mary Blair inspired  (Gouache, Digital)

Gals and Gators

 I had the pleasure of being a teaching assistant for one of my past classes and in the process, got to do some side assignments for my instructor. This particular assignment involved designing a princess rock band with some iconic princesses/heroins from classic folklore. Here is a small sampling of the mischief that ensued :D (Progresso pencil, Bond paper)

Yet again, another side assignment - dancing alligators! Some look more like crocs but OH how they dance! (Progresso pencil, Bond paper)

Silly Seagull Shenanigans

Decisions decisions... (Acrylic ink, Digital)

Tee Hee

These are pages from the concept book I had to prepare for my Creative Perspective class. Tough class, but very much worthwhile, still need a lot more practice with all this. I thought it would be boring to do a plain concept book, so just to add some kick to it, I created a storyline for the theme of the whole book and wrote it in poem form (first image in this post). Each stanza in the poem introduced a new chapter/project in the book. It was super fun to write :)

Mean Ol' Mermaids

There is something infinitely delightful about drawing cranky crustacean mermaids (especially when they are in a moment of disagreement hoo hoo) :D This was for the "Mean Girls" project for Inventive Drawing with Will Weston. FANTASTIC class - invaluable for improving drawing skills and learning basic character design, and just a world of fun!  These lobster ladies were my "jock" bullies - I designed a rival gang of sassy socialites and I'm hoping to develop some comps with the two groups clashing.

Poor Dino

Aha my first post! Not the most profound, but it's the oldest I have - so for the sake of chronology here it is. These are prop designs and a layout done for my Sketching for Entertainment class last summer. Wonderful class, I struggled immensely, being that I had never before drawn cinematic layouts, but I'm all the more determined to work on these this summer and get better at em! :D