Friday, July 27, 2012

nature/nurture

Here's a new piece I've been working on for a series that I'm planning to put together for potential MFA applications (!). It's a continuation of the traditional/digital melding that I've been working with recently. This one is fairly fully rendered with pencil and then I took it into Photoshop, where I added layers of color and texture in a way that reminds me of glazing in traditional painting.


Thursday, July 26, 2012

"Queering" Illustrations

I realized I never posted about this here, but last year I did a cover illustration and three interior illustrations for a new student publication at my school called "Queering". The whole publication turned out really well, and I was honored to be a part of it. Here are the illustrations, which include the cover and three interior pieces:


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Friday, July 6, 2012

lyra and brainz

Two pieces I did in the last few days. They're, uh, rather unrelated as you will soon see:




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the sunburned limbic system is my favorite part!

Thursday, July 5, 2012

smorgasbord

Here is a big mess of art from the last few weeks. I really enjoyed working more with "traditional"/mixed media type of works, as demonstrated by these guys:






Also I love me some watercolors and feminism, no surprises there. (contains a rad cat doing an angry gesture, if you're gonna be offended by that):


 And then as always, I am really into the incorporation of non-digital techniques - ink, pencils, etc - with digital color and effects. For example:


 cuties.