SI Sketch Night "Victorian Days"

 10 min poses

 

          20 min pose

 

Last pose of the night, 20 mins

SI Sketch Night "Portraits"

 Some 20 min portraits done with black and white charcoal with some Venetian Red drawing pencil.

 

SI Sketch Night "Nude Tuesdays"

These were done on different Tuesday nights at Society of Illustrators. I used black and some white charcoal on brown paper. Most of them were 20 min poses.

SI Sketch Night "Raggs to Riches"

 This was the first Sketch night where I went back to using Tombow markers. They are fast and easy to use. It was great to reacquaint myself with them.

 

20 min pose.

 

20 min pose.

20 min pose.

20 min pose. Last pose of the night.

Pratt Draw-a-thon!!

 This year was my first time doing the 12 hour Draw-a-thon at Pratt. It was an great experience being surrounded my many talented artists and friends working through out the entire night. My plan was to finish only 2 drawings that I could be happy with. The plan was working for the first couple of hours since I started to get really tired around midnight and the event ended at 7 am. These are the two drawings I came up with.

This was the first drawing of the night. It was a 3 hour pose. I was really enjoying working on this drawing since it was the begging of the night and the model was incredibly good and interesting. It was done with graphite on drawing paper 18x24.

 This was the second drawing of the night. It was a seven hour pose!! I started to slow down a lot after the first 3 hours and I decided to only focus on doing another portrait. I knew that it was going to be harder and harder to keep my focus and draw as I usually do as the night went on. Even though it was really tiring it was something I'll remember for a long time.

Body Image Contest

This is an illustration I put together for a contest sponsored by the Counseling Center at FIT. I created all the type in Photoshop and transfered it to the illustration board using an enlarger. I am thankful to have had such a great model, Kim Vega (She is also a great illustrator and friend.)

The Shadow

This went from a single scanning session to a full blown project. I just wanted to get some practice with Photoshop Illustrator and Indesign. I came up with the title of this illustrated novel sort of as a joke since the cover that inspired me to do this had a similar title.

This was the original drawing I used

for the cover. This was 18x24 using charcoal
on charcoal paper. It was a 3 hour pose.

Portrait

3 hour portrait done in charcoal.

Tent Card Design

This is an exercise with InDesign. I am glad I am using this program again. Knowing Illustrator makes learning InDesign a lot easier!

Stamp Design

My stamp design done in Illustrator. I used a lot of brushes and gradients for the Jaguar's face. There is nothing like illustrator!