Sketch Book Cover

My sketch book cover for my photo journal. Collage.

Chama Trees

Photo I took in Chama New Mexico. Looks darker on here for some reason. I had to print it twice in the dark room to get it to have enough contrsast originally, so it's sort of sad the resolution is low. It's also the only photo I brought home because I made it on Tuesday. I'm getting alot better at processing film and printing. The dark room is such a wonderful place! Photo = ultimate happiness.

random little poems for a random day

Because I've really been meaning to post but can't get my scanner working I'm just going to put these up. They're poems that I very randomly wrote in my sketch book today.


Untitled 1)

If someone led you to an abyss and told you to stand on the edge and see what darkness is,
I know you would,
you would stand there strong and sure and look into
endless depths.
But would I?
I who fear the dark
Would I?


Untitled 2)

You said you hated trees
Trees tall and looming
Trees that change with colors that betray
Trees with no feelings no screams for ripping bark
Trees bare and stripped, shameless in there nudity
You said you hated trees
And I said I didn't

Man

If you can't tell, I'm loving my new tablet!

Second Tablet PC work

More of an illustration than a concept this time. I was working on multiple vanishing points and on adding people to scenes. Only two this time...I'll need to work on it.

More Concept Work: Landscapes--Cliffs

I just got a tablet PC, so I'm posting up the first thing that I thought decent enough to save. So, here it is.
A little bit about this concept work. I read in a magazine about fantasy art, that a way to make things look super fantastic is to put a person in there. Of course, it helps to keep track of the size of objects when you have something so familiar, like a person.
But then, I thought, it's more than that. By putting a bunch of humans in a setting, it shows humans as a collective, moving through the world like ants, with little on their minds, just paying attention to what needs to be done. If there's just a few people, it has the feeling of enjoying the fantastic worlds together--intimacy. But if there's just one, it has the emotion of raw loneliness. The lone adventurer, the scholar, trying to make sense of things in a world too fantastic and large to understand. And as lonely as it is, it's beautiful--to be confused, unable to comprehend the majesty of a vast, unimaginable world.
Funny how emotions sometimes get sucked into art.

hooray! first drawing of college career...its a brain and a heart in the process of becoming a heartfelt letter to a friend here at pomona...if i ever write the actual letter part...