This past Tuesday I had the absolute privilege to listen in to the Oakland East Bay Gay Men’s Chorus rehearsal, and draw just a few of the many wonderful faces there
Painting
Color For Illustration
A memory as a Dream (originally black and white, the yellow was added on critique day)
Repeating pattern for Urban Outfitters type fabric and paper design. I love me some Trilobites
‘An Alien World’ I have never seem snow, and is thusly very alien to me.
DVD Cover design, for ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’
‘And Upside Downsie’
Hot new Singles: Song cover art, for made up single ‘Queequeg’
Electromagnetica – fictional afro-futuristic off-broadway play
Illustration 1 Labs
‘Our Sweet Little Angel’ Ink + Pen and watercolor
‘It Came from Within the Chinese Takeout Box’ Watercolor dye
‘Bird Brain’ Gouache and Ink
Concept to Completion – Viva Ate
Our second assignment for Illustration 2, creating a cover illustration for the Bold Italic article Viva Ate
- Initial + Final Sketch of Cover
2) Final Cover – Gouache
3) Initial Spot Illustration Sketches – Balut and Kidney Steak
4) Final Spot Illustrations – Pen and Ink
Concept to Completion: Climbing the Jenga Tower
AP Art prompt: Create a concentration piece that incorporates a recognizable game piece.
Sketching crumbling Jenga towers for preparation. Top two with reference, bottom three from imagination.
Pencil sketch which was then transferred onto the wooden board. At first when I had painted the background orange I was just going to keep the Jenga blocks brown until I constructed the tower for fun using my physics teacher’s set:
At this point I realize that the light blue created a nice and needed contrast with the orange. 
Completed painting, of which I unfortunately did not take any progress shots as I had to work very quickly.
Painting Concentration for CCA Pre-College
Summer, 2013. All four paintings were completed within 48 hours of each other, and the improvement from the beginning to the end is by far one of my proudest accomplishments.
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