Crappy piano music...

Well, one day, that green blob on her head will read as a hat.

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All eyes led in evil...

This is turning into a surprisingly sentimental/emotional piece. I wanted it to be really sensitive and delicate, but this is how it is developing and it kind of came out of nowhere.

The basic visual concept here is the x-ray. The writing that was meant to accompany this had to do with science as art, and I tried to combine the concepts. Obvious, but it makes for a beautiful visual metaphor, I think.

In the tradition of my entire senior project, there is another glaring error on this piece but...I'll let you figure it out.

Hint: it has nothing to do with the anatomy.

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Something rare...

Here's some typography I whipped up for my book design. Original writing.

I haven't done considered typography in years and I really like these. Those experts will probably say mean things about it.

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Hodge podge a lodge...

Here's a bunch of little pieces I've done recently (when I should have been doing senior thesis stuff).

1. "I f***ing want to tear you apart."
Special/custom bookmark for JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye (which i am currently reading; first time I've read fiction in about a year)

2. "Deliver us from whackness!"
I really loved Freaknik: The Musical. Here's a couple of my favorite characters. The Tall Gangsta (unnamed, Snoop Dogg) and Trap Jesus (Lil' Wayne). I don't know anything about rap, its culture, or Freaknik, but that was a great cartoon.

3. "Quit acting gay."
My favorite characters from Hark! A Vagrant: the mystery solving teens. They show up a few times, give the comic a good read through.

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I could wait forever...

To say that progress has been slow would be a great understatement. I'm tired of this.

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My brain hurts!

Here's the beginning of the phrenology piece. I had to cut the skulls out of the original paper because the composition went too far to the edge.

*sigh* Very little of the thesis work is going the way I want it to.

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Art vomit...

The beginnings of my senior thesis. It started out as the skull drawing (see previous entry). I did the text in InDesign; it's basically the beginnings of an essay (proper citations are given). It discusses the concept of creativity as it relates to science. I drew the screw picture in sepia ink on washi paper (which is what the text is printed on). I used the process of chine coleé to put the elements together. However, the washi paper did not go on as transparently as I would have liked, so I drew over it to bring the skull back into the equation.

That disgusting glob spewing over the paper is glue. I used far too much and ruined the picture. Except no one thinks its ruined. It really bothers me, but since everyone seems to think it adds to the concept and composition, I guess I'll leave it there. I wanted to start over.

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