Nasty Feet

Hand drawn, marker rendered, then scanned and photoshop edited with layers.

Tips on making this better?

Handmade book :D

I made my first hardcover book using the coptic stitch and youtube tutorials!

I plan on making more, once I get better paper to use fo the inside and for the covers.

Disclaimer: Cover artwork is NOT mine. I got the card at my school gallery.

Inside front cover. ^

Capymaya

Finals week! 

Orange Overdose

Remember that bubble wrap wall? Here's an update on what happened. It was taken down because it was being popped and it eventually fell off the wall anyway. We continued our social experiment with a graffiti attack on our school's "pavilion." 

It took 3 hours for us to paint ALL the bubble wrap (150 ft I believe?)

Yay!

Our colors of choice.

On top of all this, a few other students working with us mounted an interactive speaker system on one of the walls (which I won't show just because, it isn't mine.) All in all, I believe we successfully revamped an otherwise unused space of the school and we'll see if it attracts much attention within the next few weeks!

Life update.

School is going, classes are relaxed, life is good. A bit of what i've been up to lately.

My room mate enjoying my (partnered) bubble wrap installation on campus.

Cool bugs our drawing teacher brought in last week.

LACMA cliche.

cityscape made of building toys and scraps.

LACMA with the fronds. :)

Self Learning! :D

Taking advantage of free time in this light term to read up on things i'm interested in that are actually irrelevant* to art and design.

*As in, it isn't an explicit topic of art or design, though I do not deny the obvious necessity of human factors in design research. 

I hope I actually get through the whole thing, as I can barely manage to finish a novel within the span of 5 months. To self learning!

Eternity

A man stopped me on my way home today and asked me where I thought i'd spend eternity. I told him I didn't know. He seemed to sort of freak out and proceeded to give me a pamphlet about Jesus. I understand his concern - I should have told him that when I die, I believe I will become a part of the Universe - stardust, particles of magic.

Car Show! JER! LOOK!

I went to my school's car show today for a class assignment - a fun assignment at that. 

Got lectured by a Transportation professor and then went out for some studies!

NANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANANA

 Ruh- roh...

 soooo cuuute (below)

 HOT WHEELS HIGHWAY 35!! :D

 I AM YOUR... driver.

 :DDD

 I'll post sketches up later, assuming there worthy. (Vehicles are VERY difficult to draw.)

Cool book.

"Humans are inherently creative creatures and when we have a chance to create, we feel more satisfied and valuable."

Excerpt from a book I found at the school library yesterday. Cool read! :D And visually fun as well. 

I started taking a new student lead class and i'm surrounded by highly intelligent (at least by my standards) students who seem to know so much more than I do. I figure, it's never too late to start better informing myself on what's going on around me (design-wise and other-worldly wise). 

Experience Design by Nathan Shedroff (I think the pdf is online for free).

Dat Journey Doh.

Urghurghle. Journey map(s) in progress for main studio class. Sticky notes on the left and right will soon be on that wall, and all that sh*t on the left, paper, writing utensils, and other material - it'll be cleaned up.. hopefully soon.

Two videos to edit following the completion of these things and then off to sketching for ID Form homework! :D -.-

Happy Saturday night everyone.

Id Form for JerJer

Sample of ID Form, week 1 for Monsieur Jeremy. Draw through, always have/use center lines, shade, drop shadow, contour lines, line weight. Focus of the class is proportion and perspective, so make sure two views of an object look as alike as possible! Let me know if you try it Jer!

Doodlees

Before and After. Drastic transformation... 

Random doodles from work and such. 

Happy Labor Day weekend. :P

Back on the Trail Hunt

I went back on my trail hunt today. That road I thought was the entrance that I was afraid to check out turned out to be the entrance to a highway.  I proceeded to ask people around the park where the bike trail was. One guy sent me here (below)

Turns out this was the Equestrian path, so.. for horses. I couldn't even properly use my bike because of how sandy it was. 

I walked a long it a bit, creepy dried out mossy river. 

And a bridgeeeee! 

But yeah, 

here's what I believe to be the entrance, though turns out I don;t think there's an official trail seeing that no one I asked seemed to have heard of it (despite the many reviews on yelp)

It was starting to get dark though, and I generally refuse to go down here alone. If anyone is up for a bike ride in the LA river sometime soon, let me know!

Selfie

I felt powerful today. Because I did a good job at work. And having a bike always makes everything better. I drew the character in pencil then scanned it in to paint. 

2 AM. Yay, good night. 

Arroyo Seco Failed Trail Hunt

About a month ago now, I had my bike stolen - boohoo. Above is my new bud. He just needed his tires replaced. x) 

Following the acquisition of this new bud - I decided i'd go off and try a bike trail in the area. Pumped and ready to take on the California sun, I went on my way, eager to discover this 4 star trail. However I got a little lost. The park is very narrow and long so if you ride for just a couple seconds strait you've pretty much crossed its entirety, though if you go in the "long" direction you run into playgrounds and tennis courts. I was very confused, so I stopped and documented where I was just for the purpose of referencing these photos when I got home to the internet, and sure enough - the trail was IN that mini LA River thing you see below. 

INSIDE? 

^ Creepy Girl Scout imagery

It also turns out I was on my way to the inside at some point, but the road looked intimidating and as I have not actually done much visiting of SoCal on my own - I didn't feel now was the time to start. At least I know where to go for next time! (Perhaps tomorrow after work if it isn't too hot.)

Above: view!

Uphill, yay!

More view! :D

I took a photo halfway up and down of  another monstrous hill! Sadly I wasn't heading down...

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