Beard Lust

Here's me with a beard. I've been obsessed with these little swirly patterns, it relaxing to do!

Illustration

  This is an assignment we did in Illustration I, it's pretty much the only thing I'm proud of from that class. I loved the class, but I spent most of the year making illustrations that I felt were what illustrations were supposed to look like. I took this assignment with a more fine arts approach which made me happier so I had a lot of fun.

Here's the story: 

 I’m on an old patched up couch that smells like beer and musk. I’ve been laid across it, my shirts been unbuttoned and my pants have disappeared. Embarrassed, I can see I’m in my old grey underwear with bloodstains from before I learned about tampons. I can taste the alcohol and smoke in my mouth, stuck to the inside of my cheeks and the grime on my teeth. I feel like I’m floating. I’m on a couch in the middle of the ocean and there are fish and sharks and they’re swimming around me, gliding their slick bodies along my skin. Something touches my leg; I see the nose of a dolphin nudging the flesh of my thigh, sweet little noises coming from deep in its belly. I try to push it away because it tickles. It’s making me giggle and the sound of my own voice brings me back - to the nose becoming the calloused hand of a man I can’t recognize but has found his way up my shirt. And I can’t be here anymore. I can’t breath in the water. Why am I here? 

Visual Journalism

 This is going to be an image heavy post. We will see how this goes. I took Visual Journalism this past semester with Warren Linn and it was amazing, we basically just traveled around baltimore drawing all day. Basically the perfect class for me. I got a lot better at drawing, especially at drawing portraits, and was able to experiment with color and collage. Anyway, here's some stuff I did (click for larger): 

Here It Is

Figured I should probably start a blog.