In Class Doodles

Jim brought in models a couple of times for Notorious.
Here's some of the drawings that I ended up liking.

Jimmy Rhum's CGB guitar

Here's another assignment that I did for Rob's class.  It was a drawing as dimension.  We got to do anything we wanted to as long as it wasn't confined to a two dimensional space.  I decided to make a cigar box guitar.  I was particularly interested in cigar box and match box illustrations from the mid 20th century, and wanted to tie that aesthetic in.  

I created a fictional story behind the guitar which helped me with the image making process.  The gist of it was: (Set in the late 1940s) It belonged to a man named Jimmy Rhum, who decided to go on the road after certain devastating events (the tipping point being his wife's affair with another man).  The guitar was his sole possession during his travels as he hitchhiked and hopped on trains.  He decorated the guitar as a means  of a travel log; the decorations weren't lucrative like the stickers on rich people's travel bags, but the idea was the same. He glued on discarded/stolen illustrations from places that he visited (a lot of them being night clubs).  There's bits and pieces of hobo language throughout the guitar which he placed as reminders of what certain places were like.

Skoot!

This term, I took a great class taught by Rob Clayton.  One of the projects was a personal term project, with which we could do anything we wanted.  I decided to make skateboards;  I was particularly interested in skateboards from the late 50's (the DIY homebuilt boards) and also the 60's (the early production models).  The trucks/wheels for the "Mongo" board were "chopped up" and sanded down roller skates from the 50's (or older).  I skated one of these before I started painting them, and it was super fun/loud/scary.  I was also looking at a lot of sign paintings, and got inspired by them.

Jeremy

This term, I'm taking a fun class called Notorious - taught by the great Jim Salvati.  Jeremy was the subject of my first portrait.  I'll post more soon.

  

Illustration Design Lab

IDL was an amazing class which emphasized personal voice and honest mark making.  It taught us to stop relying on style and focus on the content of the images.  David encouraged us to create interesting non-literal illustrations that would surprise the viewer.  We explored the various ways of image making, and I had a lot of fun mixing media and doing direct intuitive paintings.  In the end, we created two zines; here are some of the images from my zines.  Enjoy!

Digital Landscape

This was a tough class!! The first image is a 6"x 9" on location painting from the Descanso gardens and the rest are some sketchbook pages:

Event Posters

Here are some of the posters from IDL.  We were supposed to create 3 solutions for posters and choose one for a final product.  Every time I talked to David, we seemed to agree that my new images for the week could work better as posters, and somehow I ended up with about 7 different poster variations.  It was definitely a great experience on exploring options and not getting too attached to any one particular idea.  Here are some of them.  Enjoy!