Website

So anyway, I'm no longer cheap and am getting my portfolio online. :P Stay tuned for more.

You're Beautiful

sketchbook - page 2

sketchbook

page 1

Website Design On-Line

My first corporate site design is now online. It's for a start-up gaming company that works in sci-fi games. Go check it out.

Brainstem Games

Me in the Simpsons

construction

Please ignore any and all current flaws in the website at the moment. I'm currently restructuring and designing this site.

Image Prints

Whenever we're done with a project in class, we normally have to mount the work and then they place it around the school somewhere on an easel. Evidently, my school had an open house this past weekend because when I came to class Monday, someone had seen one of mine and decided he wanted to buy it. So I printed one off for him (cost me a dollar the price gouging excuse for a school print room) and then he paid me 45 dollars for it. And thus, a new era in my life has occurred. I will now be sure that I can make prints of my work from now on.

prints = easy money

Astonishment

Perhaps all I pursue is astonishment and so I try to awaken only astonishment in my viewers. Sometimes "beauty" is a nasty business.
~M.C. Escher

America

Well, son, I’ll tell you:
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair…
But all the time
I’se been a-climbin’ on...

This excerpt from “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes shows how many in America feel about themselves. We think of Americans as being enduring and courageous people in our literature.

Eudora Welty. In “A Worn Path,” by Eudora Welty, she tells the tale of an older grandmother who is traveling far from home to acquire the medicine needed for her grandson. This woman endures walking a long way, while needing a cane, through the country and into the city. She had even forgotten why she had gone to the trouble to go to the pharmacy by the time she got there. Welty shows that through everything, the woman stuck through with it no matter what, even despite not remembering a clear motive.

Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes, in “Mother to Son,” also shows this obstinate attitude and strength in endurance that Americans give themselves. A mother is writing to her son about how life throws obstacles in your path and that he should do as she did and continue treading along through it all. You shouldn’t even stop to rest but continue plodding on.

But we are fearfully and wonderfully made, and we glorious Americans will occasionally astonish the God that created us when we get a fair start.
-Mark Twain

Mark Twain. Another writer, Mark Twain, showed our American ideals through his writing. In his books, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, he tells the stories of common boys and people that are no different than many living on the Mississippi today. He tells of them overcoming barriers as well as physical obstacles like the river itself or the weather. He also challenged the way people oppress one another.

Individualism. All of these authors show in their writing how Americans view life as a rugged path that can be tamed and beat down to our will; that we, as Americans, can overcome anything. Our cockiness and outright ignorance of others is one of America’s greatest strengths and faults at the same time. We are individuals who strive to make our lives what we want them to be. We have a lot of self-confidence as a nation and probably think more of ourselves than we should. More than likely, this is one of the reasons why other countries dislike us so much.

Americans are a strong people.

Portrait of Twins

I did a portrait of my two cousins (nonidentical twins) for my aunt. It was done in nupastel and was close to 18x24.

Finished Grocery Image

So here it is:

Latest Illustration

And a produce project that I had to do for Digital Illustration
(see above for finished version)

Quote of the Day

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. ~Albert Einstein

Too bad not many school teachers know this.

Vectorized Self-Portrait