Mental Health Day

So on Saturday, I took a break from the craziness, called typical days of my life. I decided to take advantage of the fact that I live very close to LI(or should I say Nassau county?), the quiet and relaxing area. I went to Roosevelt Field Mall, tenth biggest shopping mall in the country, and it was damn crowded, I had to get out of there.


So I went to eat at a place I have never been to: Houstons. I walk in and head straight to the bar area to see paintings on the wall. Voila, there it was. Something I've seen before, something that looks familiar to me. One of my favorite professors' work on the wall. Professor William Low. Again, I had to whip out my camera and take pictures.

This is the painting of the restaurant I went to. I had to step in to the mens room little bit to take this picture.

There were about five of them there. What was amazing was that I've never seen his paintings before. Textures and other details that are hard to tell on computer screen came alive in real paintings.

So after starring at it for about thirty minutes and eating good food, I stepped out and the sky was telling me to enjoy the rest of the day by hanging out.

So I did. What a great day I had.

Now it is Tuesday, and things have been crazy already. I'm glad I took a mental health day to prepare myself for the crazy week I will be having.

The Wait sketch

So this is the sketch for the project that is due in two days. I finally finished it last night. I usually don't like to trace the sketch onto the final board, because I lose so much details while doing that. So I started sketching in my regular sized sketchbook, and sketching smaller than I usually do, when I got to the braided hair/yarn part, I thought my eyes were gonna fall out from looking at it.

Anyway, time to start coloring. It won't be too much work..

Slavery

This is my latest work. It was fun working on this project. People often become slave to medicine. It is sometimes because of their addiction. but sometimes, it is because their lives depend on it.

Experiment

Hm.. China Ink... or whatever it is that I had....
That was fun.

Spaceship and Misanthrope

With those two words given, I was to create an image. I was pretty thrilled to get started once I had the sketch done and approved. But things didn't work out as I started working on it. So I stop working and take it to class, and my professor, Scott Bakal, looks at it, and flips my illustration board, and tells me to start over on the other side, where the board was all scuffed up.

So that's what I got. I guess it looks better than the first one I did. I learned a lot about a lot of things. So I'll take that and apply to my next project.

Yipeeee! Spring Break!!!

My artwork blog has been updated, check it out

I might be getting somewhere...

Tancredi (story of a two headed boy)-still not finished.

I can't say I like this piece so much, but I'm in the search for my style, and this piece makes me feel like I might actually be headed for something...


These days, I am fully enjoying everything I create, just because I feel like I have a really different perspective than I did before. Even if things don't turn out good at the end, I can still say I enjoyed it, and I learned something from it.


Trial and Error.

That's how I'm gonna find and develop my style.


one day i'll find it.

good day!

Illustration Friday-Leap

Quick sketch of a frog that dreamed big.

He didn't die.. he might have walked on water. (or leaped over water) :)

Hey, it's better to try than not try at all.