Friday, January 21, 2011

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

spider plant

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The windows of my room are packed with spider plants. they multiply so quickly I have way too many now.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Iron Monkey

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This is a sketch form life of a little statue made of metal. I was talking to Robert Lovelett asking him how to get better at drawing. He said practice. Specifically from life an hour a day. This didn't nearly take me an hour but it is a start. While this is that impressive I am pretty happy with the fact I didn't really stylize the shape or make it look like a cartoon I stuck to trying to copy the shape and shading of the actual statue all the way through. Hopefully with time I'll get better at this. Plus even if I don't get really good at drawing still lifes doing these exercises will probably add a lot to the depth and shape and shading of the more cartoony stuff I draw.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Et Tu Bear?

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So the other night I went out and saw Et Eu Bear?. They were pretty great. They consisted of a steel guitar and a stand up bass. They are going to play Erica Gerbasi's wedding in Austin Texas where they are from. Erica is my roommates sister we all went to the show together. I wasnt feeling great so I just had a glass of water.

Friday, January 14, 2011

What's Opera, Doc?

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While I was in Sturgis at the end of the summer my apartment was robbed. This was right before I moved from Humboldt Park to Lincoln Square, in Chicago. Anyhow, I lost a lot of music from my computer. Just a little bit ago I built a new computer and found some of my music on an old harddrive, but I've been trying to get music from other people when I can. The other night I went over to Tyler Lang's place to grab some new music from him to fill out my new collection, which is now looking pretty good. On the harddive he lent me there was also a very large looney tunes collection. I am very excited about it. Much more so than I was about new music. The first folder I opened had "What's Opera Doc" that you probably all remember that or you would if you saw it. It is really weird. There is a obese horse and Bugs Bunny dies at the end.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Greenscreen

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A sit down greenscreen setup in my basement right now. Usually we do them standup height setups on the main floor with stands and a screen once a week for a fantasy football newscast. This one is to fill in some talking heads and voice over for the Africa doc

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Michigan

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Here is a drawing of the Michigan state bird, the chickadee. She is setting on the branch of an apple tree. The apple blossom happens to be the state flower!

Sunday, January 9, 2011

resketch

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I did an interpretation of a doodle I found on Ross's desk. Original artwork by Ross Gerbasi found below.
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Saturday, January 8, 2011

dead fish dump truck

Photobucket I was at Joshua Cummings place and his walls were bare so I asked if he would like me to paint a picture. He said "yes". Then I told him he better like Wizards and Dump Trucks

Friday, January 7, 2011

Spaghetti

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Hi. I had an idea to take folk tales and integrate spaghetti in creepy ways. The first idea was Rapunzel. Her hair was spaghetti and her family would sit down to dinner each night and serve out plates of meat balls in marinara sauce as her hair would grow through all the plates and they would eat it. They had to do this every evening or her hair/spaghetti would overwhelm them all. It was a miserable prison of an existence. This picture above I drew on the airplane coming back from Africa back last March. It is the tale of the tortoise and the hare I think you can guess what happens next.