See, I have this problem where I am very fascinated by Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. I still do not know what to make of it.

The Engineer’s back! and also scrunched up to the corner of the page. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to live in a world where this is not the very definition of manly:

In-progress concept sketches for a small job I have illustrating concept art for a video game. Tanks are challenging!

Around this time of the year I feel like drawing some Harry Potter characters.

Also, Gordon Freeman and other tedious things.

This is my final piece for a Parsons Illustration department project in collaboration with Xerox that I made a sketch for earlier this month…

Xerox is producing a deck of cards for ICON5, the biannual illustration conference that’s being held in New York this year. For the project, they invited four schools in the New York area (Parsons, Pratt, FIT, and SVA) to make cards for each suit of the deck. Parsons got the heart suit, and I got the 9 card.

I more or less did what I wanted with this one, which might have been a little too loose considering…but you never knew when dealing with illustration types. I meant to communicate the “9″ through the 9 segments of a tiny space station, but I’m fairly certain I’m probably one of few people who’d see it that way. Where others say “what is that I guess it’s a space station or something,” I say “hey look that space station has nine segments perfectly arranged in a grid! willikers!”

Besides that, I felt my love for spacemen in their spacesuits suited the reversible readability of the cards–in space, there is no “correct” orientation. Again, this may just be something I am alone in thinking.

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… (more…)

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.