Finished a piece for school; to be submitted to Metro Newspaper as an ad for them to (hopefully) be run quarter-page in the New York Times. The text was their idea, although I intend to submit a version without it just in case. And of course, their logo had to be featured in the piece.

These are the pencils. I like to draw outside my planned crop area–just in case I want to move stuff around later, I have a little leeway.

Inked with colors:

The text I ended up doing on seperate pieces of paper and arranging them as I liked. My concept for this was around the tagline they provided, “to deserve a little free time every morning.” I know I wanted to adhere to their demands of making their paper appeal to a younger, cooler audience, but I also wanted to do something a little more abstract–hence the flying newspaper cranes. I felt like “free time” in the morning when you live in New York more or less amounts to being able to zone out on your way to work with breakfast in hand while watching things like birds flying, or the changing color of the sky. Not the most complex idea, I’m sure, but I had a lot of fun drawing it, especially the architecture of the cranes.

Lots of doodles! And plenty more to come, I’m sure.

Portrait of first man in space, Yuri Gagarin. Although Sergei Krikalev is my personal hero, Gagarin is still a fascinating figure. All over the former Soviet Union there are sculptures and monuments dedicated to immortalizing the young man who was essentially just following orders. The statues make him look less like a man and more like a superhero; it’s amazing. And this drawing is based on a press photo of him wearing what seems like ALL the medals and ribbons ever.

Playing around with GOLD paint. Also, the figure is referenced from a cosmonaut sculpture in Star City. It’s amazingly beautiful and stylized. I may use the sculpture as a reference for my thesis.

I really gotta post her more frequently. I’ll make them seperate posts, I guess. This one’s all about drawings I’ve done for my job as an intern for Dirty Bandits. I did a lot of hand-written type as well, but I’m not including them here.

Some ink and pencil drawings that are in the process of being vectorized by my boss… (more…)