this is the first of two decks that im doing for a show coming up next weekend to benefit the BBMA and pitbull rescue.  The other deck will be a vertical composition but in the same style of course.

Acrylic paint and ink on an old skate deck.

a sneak peak into a few things recently.  Both are some sketches for two painting i want to do.  If they dont turn into paintings, i at least want to color them digitally and make some nice looking prints.  We’ll see, things are still to crazy to even sleep sometimes.

in the meantime, my great roommate zach helped me out today taking some photos of a few of my cardboard guys and i must say, they have never looked so good.

to the illustration class of 2010 and all the students i’ll be heading off into the world with, congrats and i hope to see you around!

How am i feeling?  very overwhelmed.  Every time i turn around i have to spend another wad of money on printing or graduation gowns, or tickets, or trips to prepare for my brother wedding.  Trust me, Im not complaining about any of that, it all means its one step closer to moving on to life after college.

I’ve been painting a lot more recently.  I’ve never enjoyed acrylic paint until i did the circus poster series seen in my portfolio.  I think it goes along way to do something for myself rather then rush for a class.  Im working on an assignment right now for my experimental class that i think is going to come out well.  i need to finish it tomorrow, so we’ll see how that rush goes.

Everything right now feels so huge and insurmountable; but i know i’ll get through it.  If i were a mile from the top of Everest, i certainly wouldn’t turn back from sore feet.   There’s no way im going to turn away from school with 2 weeks of class left.

The Wild Boy knows my dilemma.

i sometimes hope the world is more afraid of me then i am of it.

First step towards success is the half completion of a mailer.  The other two im not so worried about because I’m using existing images for them.  I still need my letter heads and resume layouts and alllll that fun stuff.  Looks like im going to have to get the lead out here.

im still not happy with the placement of the type, so i’ll screw around with that for awhile.  I think im going to keep one version black and white and do another in full color, colored in photoshop.

as always, click image for a bigger view.

I did mine twice, my first attempt was very off in dimensions somehow and kind of boring.  Im not sure how they’ll feel about this, heres to hoping though.  Recognize the character? haha.  It’s never bad to recycle good ideas.

Collage, acrylic, and watercolor.

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(i added the black bars on the pru after this scan was done.)