drawring for visual journalism

drawing christopl (who kept moving, like every second, by the by) for visual journalism

da-da-da DAN Deacon!

SO first assignment of Illustration 2 with Malloy is to illustrate the apparently infamous Dan Deacon, a wacky musician from Baltimore. Needless to say I decided, why not go wackier!? Let plug some wires into the guy! ink and water colors.

The Old Cow

A continuation of my skull people, I present the Old Cow, a biddie that will retire to the beach in her string bikini regardless of how old, saggy and leathery she gets.

And next we have!

This is a wood burning of the characters that my sketches tend to revolve around, my post-apocalyptic lovelies are wearing the skull of the animal that best represents their personalities and actions. In this piece the Wolf is currently howling to his Sheep (the flock sums up the one character) curled into the fetal position and tuning out his demanding voice.

Probably about time I have a new post...

So I'm gonna start off the rush of posts with a hand lettering assignment I had last semester in Illustration 1, all of these are ink and water color, and the Bearcats is me showing my love for Courtney, who is currently off adventuring in London!

The Tell Tale Heart

So for narratives last deadly assignment we had to do three ready-to-print illustrations for Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell Tale Heart. The first one is supposed to represent the mad narrators reassurances that "he loved the old man" but decides to kill him all because of his eye. The second piece is the narrator actually forcing his way into the mans room as he is scared awake to kill him. And finally, the third piece, the blood spattered narrator is confessing to his crimes and beating his floor as the beating of the man's heart pounds in his ears.
Really liked working on these pieces, all are done with a shiny (not so shiny any more) new water color set and india ink brush work on water color paper, and each is about 10x16? Or close to that size anyhow.

Reptilia

"I said please don't slow me down
If I'm going too fast
You're in a strange part of our town...

Yeah, the night's not over
You're not trying hard enough,
Our lives are changing lanes
You ran me off the road,
The wait is over
I'm now taking over,
You're no longer laughing
I'm not drowning fast enough."
Another narrative project, this wasn't the final front and back that I turned in, but I did like these more. Anyhow it was to make a 45 cover for a song using the front and back to illustrate what happens in the song, and I just had to go for Reptilia by the Strokes- a song pretty much about a guy and girl and the guy wants the girl to to be as out of control and exciting as him, and if she can't keep up then she's just holding him back. A fantastically upbeat song about spiraling out of control for the hell of it.