So the semester is officially over as of Tuesday! My Junior year is over, in fact. I plan on acquiring some sort of job (or variety of jobs) over the summer, but right now I am just taking a well-deserved rest this week. Which includes posting pictures of my final Illustration Concepts project.

I chose to do a series of 4 drawings of pairs of men engaged in manly (yet homoerotic) pursuits. I call it…well. This, of course.

The other side has a pin-up size image that I personally enjoy a lot (click on image to see full-size–slightly Not Work Safe):

Much like my small ‘zine (which can be seen here), it is a short booklet made from a French-door fold that only requires one sheet of paper. In this case, a double-sided 20″ x 16″ sheet. You can see more images of it to get a better idea of how it works… Read the rest of this entry »

Some pieces I’ve completed recently that are different than what I usually do.

Ode to our sixteenth president with human hair (dreads, to be specific).

Wire drawing plus acrylics.

The following is a photo manipulation for a digital class I had (which ended today, incidentally!), and instead of merging several photos together, I chose to combine this classic photo from the invasion of Normandy on D-Day in World War II:

…and this drawing I made of a giant squid:

This is the result (click the image for the entire photo):

I wasn’t really up to making anything serious or particularly realistic, so I went in a more absurd route that involved mythical monsters and military history. And now I’m off to work on some essays even though all I want to do is draw.

Time for this:

My life would not be complete without Deke Slayton, Abraham Lincoln, and of course…balls.

Sketches for the final illustrations of the Manly Buddies concepts project (I don’t actually have a name for it…I just think of it as “homoerotic drawings of men at work” or something).

3 down, 1 to go.

So I got some stuff to post.

First, a work in progress illustration…this will be first of a series of sexually charged images of men being men:

When researching reference pictures for the next in the series, I came across an entire gallery of black and white images of boxers from the ’50s or so, and after saving dozens of them to my hard drive, I drew this (click to see full page)–

And then there’s this.

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The following is a new commercial for the Discovery Channel that basically sums up my feelings about the world, astronauts, and Mike Rowe in a pleasant song.

:D

So once it a while it’s a good idea to draw a self-portrait.

I guess.

…and brother, I hurt people.

Sketches inspired by Meet the Scout short animation, of Team Fortress 2 fame.

This is a preliminary sketch for a Xerox playing card project the Parsons Illustration Department is involved with…mine is the 9 of hearts. Below that are some somewhat related drawings I did for research…spot the Buzz Aldrin (or not)

Some sketches from earlier this week! I spent some time in a recording studio and took advantage of drawing some recording equipment.

The following I affectionately call “Long Live the Dong.”

I managed some pretty decent drawin’s in my sketchbook earlier today…

A lot of photo references today; what I like to do is save every picture I find vaguely interesting on the internet and eventually draw them if the mood strikes me. So there’s a pretty eclectic mix of input, but somehow it all ends up looking like the same crap. Click on the images below to full-view.

I’ve been thinking about incorporating the two sailors in the last page into my final Concepts project for this semester, even though I am still uncertain of the layout the project will take. All signs right now point to a variety of male pin-ups….

Still workin’ out the kinks on the blog layout…and of course, the sidebar is not entirely finished. But I think I’ll blow off enough homework to get this done!