Make-a-thing-a-day #31

Today's thing: stir-fry

That's right, I'm counting food I cook in this thing.

Make-a-thing-a-day #30

Terrible. Terrrrible.

This one is kind of embarrassing but the idea with this project is to post whatever I come up with, no matter how horrible it turns out....even if it looks like fan art made by a 12 year old.

But what ever! Usagi Yojimbo kicks ass (the Ninja Turtle's radical samurai rabbit friend for those who are unaware).

Hopefully I'll come up with some thing more useful and contemporary tomorrow.

P.S. I was going to title this one whatever Lindsay's rabbit's name is, but I'm not sure what it is. Shout out to Lindsay's rabbit! (or rabbits?)

Make-a-thing-a-day #29

Make-a-thing-a-day #28

I wanted to try my hand at coloring in Photoshop. Not too bad for a first try I think? It's still pretty sloppy but I'm getting the hang of it.

This Geoffrey the Giraffe (if he were to play with all the lead infested Chinese toys that his store sells). Apparently he's also a direct rip off of my last drawing. Guess I'm on a gross teeth and giant eyes kick.

Make-a-thing-a-day #27

This is my salute to Smokey from "The PJ's." Remember that show? Its probably the last decent thing that had Eddie Murphy's named attached to it.

Make-a-thing-a-day #26

Finally starting to put stuff together for the Pushdot show. This is a preliminary sketch for one of the images I want to show. I think it will end up being a set of 3. The second one below is kind of a mock up of the composite drawing/photograph set up that I was thinking about.

Make-a-thing-a-day #25

Back at it again, and what better way to start than with something that actually took me several days to make - a light table! With a little help from John down in the shop, and Zach's wiring know how, I was able to slap this bad boy together.

Zach diagram explaining how to wire it up.The final product installed under my glass top desk. I cut a piece of plywood to hold it in place, that also doubles as a shelf. Hopefully I will get some use out of this guy, but if not at least it was fun to make.

Scary Robotic Pack Mule via the U.S. Army

Creepy. Awesome. Useful?

As my roommate pointed out, why not just use a real mule?

IKEA sucks

I had never been, so yesterday I went.

That places is evil. The whole time I kept looking at things and thinking to myself, "f*** me that's cool.....how do I not already own one of those? And what's this? It's only $9.99?! I would be a fool to not buy it!" Then I would carry that object around the store for a while until I realized that I really DON'T need a stainless steel wall-mounted wine rack. I mean when have I ever let a bottle of wine sit around long enough that storage was even a consideration? But then again, maybe if I had a sweet stainless steel rack to put it in I would be more inclined to have more than one bottle in the house at a time? God damn though, that thing was classy as f***.
I ended up leaving it in the check out line.

There were several other things that thought I needed but eventually came to my senses on (like a 11 quart stock pot...might still get that one, again only $9.99). But I did fail on several items. I ended up leaving the store with a new work lamp for my desk (which was what I was originally there for) and a sweet molded plastic, lime green office chair (only $19.99!). I'm such a terribly compulsive shopper.

I'm thinking about going back tomorrow and getting that stock pot and some meatballs. Fucking IKEA. Here I am broke as hell, living mostly off of Top Ramen and instant hot chocolate, and you have to come in and convince me that my home furnishings aren't nearly Swedish enough.

Winter BFA Review

I've had mixed feeling about both of the end of term reviews thus far. This time I ended up spending the last 5 days before the review working a lot and getting about 4 hours of sleep a night. So when it actually came time for the review I wasn't mentally present, and I was having a very difficult time absorbing what was being said. If nothing else I learned that I need to stop working at least a day or two before a big review, and allow myself time to sleep and think about my work. That will be key for the end of year review.

I felt like the consensus in my review was that I need to take things to a more impressive level. A 3 foot multi-colored teddy bear is still cute, but a 9 foot teddy bear standing in the middle of the street would definitely turn some heads.

And I think I'm going to stop the bear illustrations, at least for now. No one seems very impressed with them, not even me. I'm still going to try to draw a lot, but not bears. With the positive feedback that I've gotten from the sculptural pieces I've decided to focus my energies more in that direction. I have some ideas for these 3-D pieces that I think could be pretty strong if done right.

Its Over...For Now.

Reviews are finally over. It's been a hell of a long week. Time for sleep, lots of sleep.

Attack of the Three Foot Teddy Bear

Its 5:30am and I'm still here at school, sitting at my desk. Time to go home for an hour or so, then come back for more. Maybe I will sleep some on the bus.

Hiatus on "Make-a-thing-a-day" Project

I realize that I haven't posted any new drawings since Wednesday, mostly because I've been so busy with other things. So I think I'm just going to put a hiatus on the project until review week is over, maybe even until after spring break. I'm not stopping the project, I'm just pushing pause.

Dun Dun DUN Dun Dun

EPIIIIIIC!!

I wouldn't normally post something like this, but this is one of the coolest trailers I've seen in a long time; and not just because my favorite NIN song of all time is playing over the top.

Make-a-thing-a-day #24

Villainous Cyclebot 2000T

Make-a-thing-a-day #23

My first photographic entry. I heart light fixtures.

Make-a-thing-a-day #22...Parts A, B, and C

I find myself losing interest in this bear project again. But I want to maintain interest...I NEED to maintain interest. These three are just loose experiments - basically me trying to make these images fit into a fine art context of some kind. Do I really need to have that "fine art" label attached to what I do though? I'm in a fine art program so I kind of feel obligated to make things that transcend just clever cartoon characters. But the word "fine" never really fits into what I'm doing though. I'm more of a crude art kind of guy. Art by someone who has no idea what he's doing.

That should be on my business card.

...and yes, the last one IS mostly a combination of Photoshop filters. Sue me.

Make-a-thing-a-day #21

"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?"