sup guyz

Jeez, this is like my third or fourth post in the past week...I'm afraid I'm setting a dangerous precedent for myself. A couple days ago, my sister and I went to hang out at Pasadena Art Center and I bought a brand new super-thin pen. I've been playing around with it a bit and trying a slightly different style.


This guy is for the creative response blog. The anatomy is way off, meh.


This drawing was inspired by vintage Barbie dolls and the Chanel Byzantine collection that came out recently and is incredibly beautiful. I feel like I want to color this in eventually, but I kind of like the monochromatic effect as well. I think I'm going to want to do more based on that Chanel collection; this doesn't really encapsulate what's so amazing about the collection. We'll see.

tree update

I finished the tree! The final is 6.5'x13', which is by far the largest piece of art I've ever done. Here's the mock-up I did, to scale, which I drew with a brush pen and colored in photoshop:



I used the grid method to transfer the small drawing to a large piece of paper (I got a photo backdrop that was 107"x12 yards. It was the length of my car.) Here's the finished version. My mom and my dog helped me hold it up:




I'm pretty happy with how it turned out; it looks pretty good from far away, albeit a bit lopsided. Up close it got a little messy because I had to do it in my backyard, as it was the only area where I had enough space. Whatevz though, I'm proud of it.

the ties that bind

So, I'm working on some family tree concepts to make a huge multimedia painting type thing for a spec commercial shoot. These are the semi-final drawings; one is just of the plain tree, the other one has objects to put family pictures in.




It's funny that drawing family trees comes at a time where I'm making a big transition in my life, and moving away from my family and the town that I've lived in my entire life. It's exciting and terrifying at the same time, and I know that I'll miss my family a lot. Especially my dog. Oh, life! You sure know your dramatic irony.

blood & guts

Whoa, a new drawing! Because I enjoy drawing people pulling organs out of their own bodies. But in a kind of cute way!



Not much more to add. Latezzz

bloggity blog

Hey, blog. I've been a bit inactive lately on the drawing front, instead working on holiday knitting, and having my boyfriend visit me, and doing other fun things. My boyfriend invited me to be a part of a blog his friend started, where people post creative things in response to other creative things, so after I dropped him off at the airport last night I worked on these drawings:




I kind of like how I draw girls' faces now, but the bodies are still kind of weird. Oh well. These were both heavily influenced by the newest issue of Lula, which finally showed up at my local Borders a couple of days ago. This issue is curated by Rodarte, which is one of my favorite fashion labels ever, so predictably I have loveloveLOVED this issue, and it has been incredibly inspiring. My new year's resolution is to FOR REAL work on more creative endeavors, so hopefully this blog will see more activity in the near future.