25 - And March comes in like a lion

The day has arrived. Me and Danielle are going down to the courthouse today and tying the knot at 2:30 this afternoon. I am going to be a married man and things are going great.

Hopefully all is fine and well with everyone out there.

24 - And onto February...sketchbook please...

I am currently working on a digital painting of a character of mine from Warhammer, his name is Twixt,and he's looking cool so far. But at the moment I am not ready to let anyone see what I got so far, so...

These are some of the pages I have been doing in my sketchbook keeping up with my new year's resolution, one drawing a day no matter what. And I am happy to say that I haven't missed a day so far, 1/6th of the way through the year, not bad.

After all the craziness at the end of the semester last year I wanted to take on a fun set of drawings so I am actually working my through a copy of How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way I just picked up. My first copy disappeared a long time ago, had to buy a new one. So much love to Stan Lee and John Buscema, great stuff. Nothin like turning some boxes into akward looking planes and doing some old school perspective practice. And Animal was just for fun. Hope you enjoy the sketches.

23 - Tattoo to you to...

Well here we go, the year is on it's way and as for now I am keeping up with my resolution. I usually don't make them as they seem to be something that's usually forgotten by Febuary but I thought this one might be different.

For this year I decided that now that I have my degree and no longer have anyone telling me to draw that I need to make sure to push myself so I made my resolution to draw something everyday this year. Wether just a sketch or working on projects I am determined to not let a day go to watse this year. And hell it can only help my art so I plan on keeping it up.

So far I have only done a bunch of sketches but I have plans and things are in the works. One of which is the design above. A friend of a friend asked if I could design a tattoo for her. The idea she had was to mix the neck barcode tattoo from Dark Angel with the universal gay symbol of the rainbow. And behold the rainbow barcode, and yes I did see others on the web. I searched and saw a couple but this one is mine, or at least it's my design, possibly someone else's for tattooing. hopefully she will like it.

22 - A New Year and an old piece...

Well according to my BSU account I have earned a B+ and an A- for the semester which means I am now a BSU graduate. I have me a BFA in Illustration after only 4 1/2 years which isn't bad considering I switched my major over from Art Education after 2 years. Guess now I just have to wait for that pretty little piece of paper to show up in the mail and do my best to keep chugging along and not slow down on my artwork.
In an effort to accomplish this I will be making my New Year's resolution a crazy one, well for me anyways. I will work on a sketch or piece of art everyday throughout the whole year. I should already be to this point so it's time to get on the ball and quit with the procrastination. Should be fun.
Now that I am officially a graduate I would like to send huge thanks out to Dan Scott and Bill Carman, my two teachers from this semester and the two guys I learned the most from during my time at BSU. They are both amazing teachers which completely different styles but if you ever get a chacne to meet either one or take a class from them do it becuase you are guaranteed to learn something interesting. Thanks tons guys, everything you did for me is well appreciated.
And on to the post pic, I wanted something that represented my time at BSU so I am putting up the piece I did for the Illustration class musical poster assignment. Not my best work at BSU but a piece I had a lot of fun doing and one that turned out pretty cool. So that there is the poster I came up with when I found out they were doing Evil Dead The Musical. So cool, singing zombies man, can't beat that with a stick, well , maybe a Boomstick.

21 - Tauren Deathknight, oh yeah...

And here it is the third and final piece of the semester. A take on the new Deathknight class in World of Warcraft with my old shaman character in mind a bit. Took the look of Tonytwocrows and thought what he would end up looking like as a Deathknight. Trying to get a darker character to look solidly placed in an artic area was a big challenge. I think I could have mixed in more colors but I am happy with the outcome. I learned plenty working on it and there is always next time.

Hopefully Bill Carman will approve because it is the last piece of homework I will ever have to turn in, as long as I get passing grades from my two classes this semester. Well off to the next piece, I'm thinking of something kinda Animal...

20 - Who you with America?!!?

And now we have caricature number 2 peoples, the semester is winding down and it's time to finish these things off and turn them in. I think my Bernie Mac turned out pretty good, I kinda regret going without the smile though since Bernie had such a great smile. But I think I got the likeness pretty well and found a color scheme I liked.
Well it's done, I'm happy and now I have something to remember another one of our great comedians, lost to us to soon.

19 - George Carlin final...finally

Where here it finally is. After months of back and forth with my teacher Bill Carman trying to help me fix all my mistakes and dumb ideas and my boy Tony Montano helping me along the way with everything it has finally all come together into what I think is a pretty good caricature. George Carlin, one of my all time favs died this year and now I have something great to remember him bye. We all miss ya Georgey boy...

Now I gotta go finish my Bernie Mac, times a tickin...