GIF(T)

I just learned tonight how to make animated GIFs in photoshop! Or any types of animation, for that matter. Please enjoy this pointless experiment / assault on the eyes. Images used are both mine, photo is of my good pal robbie.

concert review comic?

I'll post real work soon! This is just in the mean time! 


Anyway, the following two page comic is about a concert i went to on monday. it was really just for personal enjoyment, re-living the experience i guess. if it is a bit confusing, here's a summary: heard about a show on monday, decided to go, really enjoyed some strange performances, got a bloody nose and a drumstick, loved life, went home. good times!


you have to fullview for it to be legible at all. 

WHY AM I SO BUSY ALL THE TIME

WHYYY???? But seriously I feel like I have things scheduled for every single day of my life right now. Anyway I still have that second page of my comic laying around with the same one unfinished panel as before. It's even drawn in, just not inked. I suck. Fortunately I was spurred to make a drawing for my fellow artist Helena as part of a quick art trade! Hooray! I drew her as one of my zombie characters and she drew me an excellent picture of me as a pirate riding a narwhal. THANKS HELENA!

I haven't worked in photoshop for a long time and damn, does it show. I'm glad I got around to picking up ye olde tablet again but its obvious that I need to dedicate more time to making character designs, etc in the program. I have about 1000 projects I would like to be working on but since I have so many other things going on in my life right now it's hard to sit down and focus on just one! Hrmf.

This is the last one, I swear.

Yesterday I got a haircut, but before I did I made one last video. This is totally the last one, I promise. But all fun aside, I'm fairly busy right now packing and cleaning charcoal out of my room. The real challenge is going to be figuring out how to get home most of my drawings, some of which are on 30x40 illustration board. My bad.

And That's a Wrap!

I have finished my freshman foundations year at RISD. I survived. The year has gone by so fast it's really insane. Hopefully pretty soon I can start putting up stuff from my studio classes as I edit the pictures and finish up packing. For now, though, enjoy this video......And that was Robbie's last performance at RISD for three months. But seriously, people are streaming out of RISD at an alarming rate. At least two or three people have already vacated my hall! It hasn't really sunk in that the year is over yet, but I guess as I see more and more people leave it'll hit me. Now back to the boxes I go.

Extracurriculars

Despite my packed studio schedule, at RISD we still manage to make time for extracurriculars. Clubs and sports are of course part of this, but what I consider more important are the excursions we organize on our own -- sometimes spontaneously, sometimes months in advance. In any case, here are some things I've been up to besides working recently:

Devotchka and Gogol Bordello at the House of Blues in Boston
An incredible concert that was well worth the travel time and preparations. Gogol Bordello remains as my favorite group to watch live. Their new album came out April 27, and I suggest that anyone with a remote interest in Gogol Bordello to pick it up.















Z-Day (Or the H1Z1 outbreak)
Every year, hundreds of Brown and RISD students (and others!) join a zombie horde to shamble over Thayer St. and parts of the Brown campus.





Urban Exploration
As part of a 2D project, we explored an abandoned arcade with surprising results.







With finals month gearing up, my amount of free time is already diminishing...but hopefully I'll still have time for a few extracurriculars!

I'm Justin Bieber

So. I'm Justin Bieber.



(I do work here. I promise.)

Spring Break

Here I am, back at school, after a great spring break with climbing at the New River Gorge, WV. First, I headed down last Saturday with Jay to visit a friend in Claysville, PA. We had planned to only stay one night but ended leaving mid-Monday morning due to poor weather conditions in Summersville (town near the climbing area).

At Cabela's in Wheeling, WV

Mary and I try on some hats at a souvenir shop. Good luck finding anything without a confederate flag on it.

We arrived later that day at the house of Mark and Kamila Spitzer in Princeton, WV (farther south than the climbing area by about 1.5 hours) after doing some exploring of our own in the Bridge area of The New.

The New River Gorge Bridge - The 3rd largest arch bridge in the world

While we only had 2.5 days to climb at the New, our experience was great. The weather cleared up within twelve hours -- from snow to 70's and sun. We climbed primarily fairly easy sport routes the whole time (5.7-5.10). The sandstone was shockingly good quality of rock but took some getting used to.


Whippoorwill Area. When the lake is filled, the water rises up to the dark mark on the cliff. You can see Mark and Kamila by the cliff on the left.


View from inside a small cave.


CLIMBING IS DANGEROUS!


Jay climbs a 5.9 at Orange Oswald area

We left Thursday after a short morning of climbing. Unfortunately, our trip back did not go smoothly at all. We had some minor navigational errors, but the major problem happened when we decided to stop in Nutter Fort, WV for a lunch at Subway. We hit a vicious pothole at speed and damaged the sidewall badly enough that the tire was completely flat within a minute (note to parental units: I wasn't the driver). Luckily, we were able to put on the spare -- which was only rated to 50mph -- and drive to a tire place in town, thanks to the advice of a random guy with a heavy southern accent who also lent us a tire iron. Although our tire was beyond repair, we were able to purchase a new one and got back on the road.
Quality establishment. Thanks Tom & Keith!


$38 in tolls and 600 miles later we made it back to Providence and school work. Hopefully I'll be able to put up some more school work later on this week, as it is piling up in my room right now.

Holiday Break

Here it is, New Year's Eve, and my Holiday Break is almost over. Soon I'll be back in Providence and taking my Wintersession courses: Graphic Novel (aka Comics) and Intro to Computer Animation. Hopefully I will have more time to climb and possibly even set at the RI Rock Gym.

Anyway, here are some videos of my favorite blind dog playing with his new toy :)





Enjoy!

Dulles - An Intermission

So here I am waiting at Dulles Airport waiting for my flight and thinking I should really update my blog. The week before Thanksgiving break was unusually relaxed for me. This was a very strange feeling as I am becoming used to constantly doing work and having about an hour or two of spare time a day, max. It allowed some fun activities such as watching the supposed meteor shower wearing our tin foil hats (don't want to get abducted, do you?!)... Even though we only saw one meteor flash.


Pick me!


Robbie is a sprout!


A shaky photo of Providence at night

Another distraction from work was the slackline(s) Jay and I set up between some trees on the Brown campus. Unfortunately it was quite chilly so we headed over to Nice Slice after an hour of glorious slacking.


We set up next to the clocktower


Jay tries (and fails) the mantle-start

Here it is after a wonderful Thanksgiving and I'm looking forward to three weeks of neverending work. It's almost terrifying to think now of how much I have to do. In any case, I'll be glad when my final projects are over and I can return home yet again.

Quick Update!

I've been ridiculously busy and haven't had time to put up a real blog post. This one is just to say that you can find all of my photos on my Picasa account, right here.

Enjoy!

Cape Cod Trip

Monday was our trip to Cape Cod! My 3D teacher, the awesome Eddie Oates, took us to his house -- which is also a museum of his own work over the last thirty or so years. It was inspiring to see the variety and originality in his pieces. Also interesting was a series of around one hundred sketchbooks containing self portraits. Eddie has drawn a self portrait once a day for thirty years.


Jay grabs a nap on the hour-long ride


Eddie Shows us around the place


Interesting piece from a larger series


My favorite piece from Eddie's museum

Anyway, once our tour of his museum was over we rode over to the beach. It was very cold and windy, but the wave action was fantastic and more than made up for any discomfort.





Intense waves...


It was so cold!


An adorable and friendly dog came to say hi!


But soon ran back to her owner :(


Section eleven and Eddie!

I finally took some pictures from my work in 2D class. So far it's mostly just exercises in tone and colour. Here is a series of 8x8 gouache paintings for this purpose:


Some of my black and white compositions


Recent colour compositions (second is a study for the third)

Time for a nap after all this blogging...RISD rocks.

First Polyhedra Drawing

My Saturday...so many words to describe it. But I think it is best represented by the word "toil." I worked from 2pm to 9:30pm (with an hour break) in the studio on a drawing of seven or so of the polyhedra made for Drawing class. Craving excitement, I went to Thayer with some friends to grab a bite at an awesome place called Nice Slice. Perhaps the best pizza place ever. Imagine a flavor of pizza, and they will have it out for you. Every time I visit I get a different type. I'm really reppin' this place because it is fantastic.


Some delicious Reed's Spiced Apple Ginger Beer.
This stuff is fantastic!


Robbie enjoys a slice...


Ceiling art

After that brief break I returned to the workroom and drew for three more hours. After another hour of work in the morning what resulted was this charcoal drawing on illustration board. It's pretty large - 30"x40" and a pain to lug around. I really wish I'd rendered the guy better, but after 10+ hours I didn't really care to make it exact.

The boy (Jay) is actually a bit larger but I made him smaller to make it more of a dramatic contrast between organic and artificial shapes.

Today we wanted to go to a hockey game, but it was unfortunately canceled. I wish we'd known that before we walked all the way there in the 35 degree rainy weather. On the bright side, on our way back we stopped at this awesome Indian store and I got a fuzzy warm hat and a free peacock feather!


Finally I'm not freezing!

Tomorrow I'm visiting Cape Cod during my 3D class, more on that later!

Week Deux, etc.

This isn't exactly chronological, but here's some stuff that happened recently.

I've done four of the furniture drawings so far, and I have two more to go. I kind of wish we could draw something besides tables and chairs for once...



First Drawing



Second Drawing

We had a shaving cream fight on Saturday. If you've never participated in such an event, it's exactly what it sounds like. Pics taken from Mary's facebook.



Preparation


Post-Fight


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I tried my hand at making a violin from one piece of cardboard for 3D class. It takes about 6 hours to draw out the plan, cut it out, then fold up the violin.


Tape is just temporary

I'm trying to do a series of self portraits, because my 3D teacher said that he's done a self-portrait every day for 30 years. Better start now...


9/27


9/29


10/1 (today!)

Maybe sometime I'll get the other pictures of the drawing assignments