This is what i'm considering for my advice poster.

i've always been interested by ghost stories and other stuff that might be considered "strange".  i don't fully believe in all of the stories that i read but i still think that they're pretty interesting in themselves, whether they be real or not.  i think it's more fun to consider the possibility of the story being true rather then just immediately pronouncing it a pile of nonsense.

These are the final designs i have chosen for my lyrics summer assignment.  i have as of yet to hand trace them onto the paper but hopefully that should be simple enough.

The Smoky Shapes

Ah!  Finally back to simple patterns and shapes!  No more self portraits!

When i came up with these, all i was thinking of was simple shapes with circles inside them.  but when i had finished sketching the dove one, i realized that they needed something.  when i made the dove picture, i had the word peace in my mind.  why not mingle it with some darkness?  to make the shadows, i colored a layer of red and purple with black on top using watercolor pencils.  this created a nice, rich shadow that purely black could never achieve. i added the spots in the larger circles as a finishing touch to add some texture.

More blood, sweat, and tears went into making these two than any other.  Why do stars have to be so hard to draw?  

My personal favorites.

A Creative Montage

This Piece is just a little bit of everything.  I experimentied with different color pallettes, textures, cartoon styles, and dabbling a bit with album cover, video game, and movie art styles.

This was an early one of mine, done at the begining of the summer.  It is based off of the album art for a band called IAMDYNAMITE.  It had such an amazingly chaotic and awesome album cover i knew i had to try this out.

I enjoyed making these ones a lot.  I love working with repeating and intricate patterns so the shading techniques made them easy to make but in the end a very rewarding piece of art.

Because i like graphic design and digital art, i often experiment with many different color palattes and combonations.  These are all obviously the same picture but i feel that the alternate color palattes of each one give every picture its own personality and mood.

I often like to base artwork on the art style of video games.  There are many games out there that have fantastic art styles.  The game i based this picture off didn't have the best art style i have ever seen, but it was so incredibly terrifying that i felt that it needed some sort of tribute.  The game is called Vanish and basically you were a worker in the sewers being chased by blind creatures that were slightly humanoid but incredibly messed up.  Even watching a Let's Play on YouTube made me jump whenever the monsters popped out of the darkness.

And finally, this picture was created out of the sheer frustration of a lack of inspiration.  Pictures like this make me happy i actually got all of these done.  Phew!

The Last Goodbye

Since surrealism is largely based off of dream landscapes, i decided to illustrate my own.  In this dream, i do not remember where i was but where i was going but i felt somehow sad, as if i would have to make a grevious sacrifice at that unknown location in the distance.