And now for something completely different...

A quickie school assignment. We had to design two characters representing extremes in lifestyles and attitudes. This is a lot more graphic and derivative than i'm used to doing, but it was nice to get out of my comfort zone of rendered, painterly stuff.
I plan on continuing down this avenue more in the near future.

TIGAHS!!

Selected sketches for a school project.

Winter

The first of a series on the four seasons.
Yay. Dandruff.


And a preview of the rest.

Storybook characters

Vasillisa and the Baba Yaga.

Crabby

A little excercise in rendering that I thought i'd share.


In other news, I just spent 260 dollars on a sweater and jacket :( :( :(

Perfume

Theatre poster assignment for class.
I chose to depict the book "Perfume" by Patrick Suskind.
The story revolves around the character of Jean Baptiste Grenouille, a man born with the most powerful sense of smell ever possessed by a human being, but with no individual odor of his own (a fact other people find disquieting). Jean Baptiste apprentices himself to a perfumer and becomes obsessed with procuring the perfect scent that will make people love him. In the process, he creates perfumes that powerfully manipulate human emotions, murdering 25 girls to take their scent.
I wanted to use the hair as a direct visual metaphor for Grenouille's complete intoxication from the scent of his victims while keeping his figure slightly menacing and creepy.

Most weary seem’d the sea, weary the oar,
Weary the wandering fields of barren foam.
Then some one said, “We will return no more;”
And all at once they sang, “Our island home
Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam.”

Lord Alfred Tennyson,
"The lotus Eaters"


ps- I was checking my stats today, and I found out that the number one search engine phrase that leads people to my blog is "Old titties." Number two: "Older titties." AWESOME!!