Storybook Art

This is an illustration for the Russian folktale, "Vasilissa the Beautiful;" here, she is escaping from Baba Yaga's house.

I'm really pleased with how this turned out; it was the most detailed illustration from my art show. It's now in a private collection, but I'm thinking about doing a set of similar folktale drawings--Sedna from Inuit folklore, for one.

Skeletor!

A papercut study of the tendons of a hand. This took approximately forever and 10 exacto blades to cut. It's mounted on pins in a shadowbox.

Or just awkward, period.

Promotional "poster" for Lambda Iota Tau (the national literature honorary on campus) and the end-of-the-year white elephant. The only rule was that the book had to be awful.

This was actually the wrapping paper for my book, which was horrifying (in the spirit of the occasion):

"Sixteen year old Gemma is kidnapped from Bangkok airport and taken to the Australian Outback. Ty, her captor, is young, fit, and completely gorgeous. This new life in the wilderness has been years in the planning. He loves only her, wants only her. Under the hot glare of the Australian sun, cut off from the world outside, can the force of his love make Gemma love him back?"

Say it with me now: Roofies don't equal romance.

Lovely creatures

Another gift! This narwhale is searching for adventures, it needs a horizon to chase. (Inspired by a similar drawing, though I am sorry to say I cannot remember where I saw it.)

Scenes from a work-in-progress

This is sort-of a self-portrait (likeness is dubious) that is one component of a larger graphics project I'm working on for my portfolio. I'm pretty happy with it, except for the feet. Those are hard to draw, dude.

I imagine this is how I will feel once I have met all of my deadlines for the year.

Squid

Sorry for the late upload! This is part of a larger project I'm working on. I freehanded the squid in ink, scanned it, and cleaned it up in Adobe Illustrator. Unfortunately, this is not the clean version. Argh.

Woodcut

This is a project I'm still working on; it's actually the first key blockprint, which is why the ink is inconsistent (also, it's printed on the most disposable paper of all time, which is to say, newsprint). "H is for Hedgehog," naturally.