Graduation!

After five years the big day finally arrived. As of Friday I became part of the MassArt alumni association. A big thanks to all my friends and family for helping me along the way, and to the staff and faculty who made it a great place to be!

The last few days have been spent trying to get this summer’s work situation all figured out. It’s a scary time to be out in the workforce, but I’m feeling better now that I have a better plan for the year. Part of that plan involves a great deal of artwork improvement and practice here on the blog, so expect some serious art updates.

Promo Materials 2009

So this week was spent getting my new branding together. Of course it's going to change as soon as my website changes again, but it should be good for a few months. Here's some of the pile of final promotional packets before they were put together :

Here's a close up of the final design for the new business cards:

And on another random note, I had sylized an image of some trees in a cold looking woods and decided to do an autumn themed version, just to play with some various styles. I'm hoping to get into some serious personal artmaking as soon as our portfolio night is over, and in the mean time I am on the hunt for some full time work for the summer.

Degree Project Show

This monday was the day of the big degree project opening, and I'm happy to report that everything came together at the last minute. The show itself has tons of great work from this years graduating seniors. It's still up at massart till the 4th if anyone hasn't had a chance to check it out yet.

Yet another Degree Project piece. I wanted to do a close up of at least one of the puppets to show better detail when they're printed. The picture is meant to be very red in tone, so that each piece has a dominate color. I'll probably snap a few shots of the whole set up once it's all up in the gallery. Here were some of the initial sketches for the character. I guess he hasn't really changed all that much since the beginning of the year.

My seat is in the full and upright position, and my fingers and toes are crossed for luck.
Here are some of the final shots of my portfolio just before I sent it on a cross country adventure....Farewell my little green square!


And at long last, an (almost) finished degree project piece! Just a little more work on the eyes/ eyebrow area, and a few bits and bobs here and there with the background and color and it'll be all set to go. I've got a really big jump on the other two images as well, but this one is the closest to completion. The puppet itself is unpainted sanded clay. I added the textures/color in photoshop, and constructed a background the same way.

Well, The portfolio for the internship is finally delivered and out of my hands. I have some snapshots of the finished product that I can upload later. I really put it all on the table with this one. I even let other projects (degree included) fall by the side. I'm hoping that the risk paid off, but even if nothing comes from it I'm glad I went for it.


In other non-portfolio non-degree related news, I've decided to keep up my layout/background practice by doing several of these quick studies from photographs. The idea is that I'll try to capture the mood of the reference image, while taking creative license on the stylization.

The ol' portfolio is at the printers at last! I'll be picking it up tomorrow for final assembly and shipping. I'll probably snap a few photos of the finished product and post it up. Right now just getting my resume in ship shape to be sent as well. Hopefully I'll be able to go full force on my degree project once this is in the mail.


Expression sheet of my character Aldo from my degree project (Same guy from the Detour Cover/puppet head)

This one is about finished now. A little more blue in the background and a more resolved foreground.
A quick page of sketches to go beside my "global Warming" piece in the portfolio. I wanted to show silhouettes of different types of characters combined with some fresh loose sketches.
Many of you have probably seen this, but I get a real kick out of this article:
Can you guess these characters?