sweet freedom

OMGOMGOMG! I totally forgot that I am now free to make whatever I want! I did this yesterday:

PLUS I reworked my Frankenpooch lettering:

Society of Illustrators show tonight!

Thanks to everyone who worked so hard on putting the show together for us, and shame on anyone who didn't show up! This is the first time I was ever sad leaving school. This was the first school I wanted to get up and go to everyday.

Todays the day

Just two hours before my final review, I hope I didn't forget anything!

I've been really getting into embroidery again, I guess I should have taken the class on it, but I didn't hear of it until this semester. Oh well. I guess I'm gonna fool around with it some more until.....?

Aaaannnyway last week my friend gave me a Concerta to help with the homework load, and instead of writing my 5 page paper I uhhhh, spent 8 hours straight doing this gross nasty embroidery without stopping:

This is my dog Christie. Stupid dog is falling apart. I call her:

stupid GD monkey

Agghh another weekend went by without me doing practically any work for school!! I just finished this "monkey assignment" for Cheryl and Stan... I guess. We had to make a painting of a monkey doing something a human would do, I chose to make a gorilla cameo so I can keep on with the framed theme. It didn't come out just as I wanted, but I just don't have the time. It didn't come out as well as the last assignment they gave us...

10cc - Rubber Bullets

I finished this song lyric assignment for Eric White and Steve Ellis. Now, I only have a bunch of things I still haven't started for them! I'm a little dissapointed in that class. I thought for sure I would get a lot of portfolio pieces out of it. This is cute I guess, but I think it looks really "student made." I'm sure I'll bring it to the review, but I doubt I'll include it in the final portfolio.

LYRICS HERE

new sketchbook!

temp promo

Last night Ronit and I split a 6-pack and worked on my promos or whatever. I like the handmade look better, plus there's no need to get 500 printed out if I have no one to give any of them to. I'm sure my teachers will tell me this is a bad idea. I had a lot of fun making them all unique, and it really only took me a few beers to do them all. 

Get a closer look, kiddo.

blue bouquet sketch

This story is about a man who is attacked by another man with a machete in the night. The assailant tells the man about how he's taking only blue eyeballs. His girlfriend wants a bunch of them as a bouquet, on a whim. 

dream assignment

Eric White and Steve Ellis assignment. I was supposed to mix three different styles but fuck it. 

It's based on a nightmare I had of being bullied and drugged and used up late at night in the lower east side. I accepted a ride from a sketchy cabbie who flew me straight home to my parents house on LI.

Louisiana swamp tour

Have you ever been on an airboat ???

trailer park revisited

For Sal's class, he simply wanted us to paint an environment. 

Dean's list

Senior pictures today. Sooo much anxiety. But did I make the Deans list? Yes. Are you proud of me? I am. And you can tell I mean it. By the way I framed it.

portfolio pieces?

This top piece is the "childhood trauma" assignment for Steve and Eric. The story is from my first week of third grade, I was the new kid in school. A clique of girls pretended to be my friend so they could get me close enough to squirt ketsup at me. I liked the yellow for mustard better against the pink.

This bottom one is for the short story "The I is Never Alone." A 15 yr old boy is thrown into the sea when the ship he was on was sunk. He spent the rest of his days on an empty island with only a box of mirrors that washed ashore and the birds to keep him company.