it seems pertinent

Happy Halloween, team!

this year I dressed as The Riddler, again (this is the third Halloween of my young life that I've gone as The Riddler)

with a new riddler staff and a new question-markified bright green shirt, all of which I made myself

my fighter

hey team

this past Friday for Carol Fabricatore's class we went on location to the legendary Gleason's Gym. (In the documentary about the MFA program, they filmed Nathan Fox inking at

Gleason's). There we were given the patently absurd task of drawing people who were not necessarily sitting still for us, and also to talk with someone at the gym, draw a portrait and interview him/her.

these are my doodles:

my interview subject was one of the boxers, 32 year old Dom Aragon:

sumi ink panels

hey team

the other day in carol fabricatore's class we had models posing for us in studio, and we were asked to make a series of drawings in sequential-panel form

this is my naughty little story

one of my sisters is having a birthday and another one of my sisters is organizing a pub crawl in e. Lansing to celebrate it. COMPLETE with t-shirts that they asked me to design, and I pulled the diva move of insisting that they use Gordie Zalewski of Legion Design to print the shirts

ambrose

perhaps you have noticed I am using myself as the model for Ambrose Dea, the protagonist in my masters thesis

this is a sketch for an image I will be doing of Ambrose for this weeks chapter entitled "unromantic tragicomedy"

ink sketches- Natural History Museum

this last friday Carol Fabricatore took us to the Museum of Natural History for drawing on location.

She is encouraging us to use ink as much as possible, which has been good for me. In the past i have been very loyal to my prismacolor only because I was too much of a pansy to go directly to ink. Well no more! fortune favors the bold.

You will notice that the Alouatta guariba has been executed in walnut ink, which I have never used before but I really dug it. It reminds me a bit of the sublime Delacroix sketchbooks

Adelaide Dwyer

This is an image of Adelaide Dwyer. Adelaide is one of the original characters who will be appearing in my masters thesis.

(Adelaide is the semi-acrimonious ex of Ambrose Dea, my protagonist who was mentioned briefly in this post)

sumi inky splashy splash

playing fast and loose with the sumi ink in Carol Fabricatore's class

An Appointment in the Dreamworld

hey team,

An Appointment in the Dreamworld is now entirely concluded and on display at the SVA gallery on 21st and 3rd ave.

When asked if I'm pleased with it, I can say only that I'm not entirely embarassed by it. I regret certain elements of the graphic design (because I had to design these pages in a matter of hours to meet my deadline, and theres a lot of things that ought to have been thought through a little better).

Design not withstanding, I am very proud of approximately 80% of the art contained within, and the actual book prototype itself (laborious fabricated by hand) turned out quite nice. And to think! I thought that bookbinding class at CCS would never come in handy!

For those of you stranded in Michigan and South Carolina and Guadalajara who will be unable to come see it in person, I am posting it in its entirety here.

disfrutalo:

a sequential page

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