Boardwalk Empire, Freelance, and Jerry

I'm a big fan of, "Boardwalk Empire," and I drew these scenes fromthe first episode of the new season. The first pic is Nucky's Back, Steve Buscemi, from the intro. The intro always reminded me of these two Magritte paintings...

The intro to the 1st episode is great. The song in the begininng, you only love something until you got it,( I think that's the title) really set up for the whole season. For Chalkey, it was his business in whiskey, for Nucky, it was Ms. Shroeder and his business, for Ms. Shroeder it was Nucky, and the list goes on. This first scene of Ms. Shroeder was shot very well and reminded me of the famous pearl earring painting...

Next, I drew a scene from this episode. The scene when the KKK broke down Chalkey's door was excellent and set-up for the start of this season. Here is my storyboard version of the scene...

Ended with Chalkey's scared face of almost dying.

Agent Nelson is another character I love or love to hate. Either way, his lust for power and respect got the best of him in the end. I haven't finished drawing out this scene yet, but it's the part where he cracks down on a restaurant that serves booze.

Both Nelson and Jimmy's desire to kill Nucky led to there downfall. I enjoyed this season, not as much as the first and I am excited to see what happens in the future, especially since they will be inroducing Bugsy Siegel to the cast.

Here is an ad I worked for when I was at a Vintage Shop in Brooklyn. I enjoyed drawing the sailors because I got to make them old timey and I am nostalgic for the past.

This next piece is for a friend's band, and I'm still working on it. It's cartoony now so I will make it more "illustrative." It's pretty much a guy shooting death and I got the character's face by relooking at Chester Gould's, "Dick Tracey."

Lastly, here are studies of Jerry that I copied and later inked.

That's it, I will update my animatic soon with more drawings. Stay tuned!

Nostalgia: MAT Thesis Show

Below is a description of the show. In a nutshell, my show is called Nostalgia. It is a look back into my childhood when I started making comics. For this exhibit, I decided to recreate a comic I did when I was eight. You can see all the images from the show below the description, including the ones that I did when I was a child. Perhaps later I will update images of the display of the show.

Aquarium gig

Wow, I'm sorry for how long I neglected my blog. To all that look at my blog

I apologize whole-heartely. Honestly I do, its been a challenging year learning to

become a teacher. I've been struggling making new lesson plans, learning time and classroom

management strategies and trying to maintain a social life. Also a healthy lifestyle, which

is also temporary on hold.

Apart from that I did score an awesome part-time gig at the national aquarium in Bmore!

I've worked there five times and it's awesome. I feel that I am starting to become

more comfortable as a caricaturist, but I still got a long ways to go. I'm fortunate

enough to work with a lot of great people who helped me along the way.

Here are the drawings, this is from my 5th gig I just started bringing my camera, not

sure why I didn't do this in previous gigs...

Oh yeah, surfing on a shark!

This couple loved the jellyfish I drew so I drew lots of jellies for them.

Sleepy baby.

and here he is.

This is one I did for fun as an example.

I'm going to post another post soon as a preview to my upcoming MAT, masters in art teaching, show this weekend. It's going to be great!

Breast Cancer Show

Hey so I should've posted this a while ago. I did this gig with my

MAT buddies from MICA for the Breast Cancer Awareness Conference,

it was for a cause so I didn't charge.

Everyone there was so nice and grateful that we were doing this for them and I was

flattered. Truly, these women are the heroes and their kindness was very rewarding.

Here are some drawings I did. Everyone who participated did a fantastic job as well,

I think MICA could open up a caricature class and definitely help causes like this.

This first one wanted me to make her like J-Lo. I thought I could've done a better job,

but she loved it. That lady was really funny.

This lady looked angry, hmm oh well you can't please everyone. I don't think this one is too bad though.

Grandma and granddaughter, very happy for them. They liked their caricature,

but I think I could've done better. :/

This woman was a wild one. Q Jacqueline Joy I think she went by. She ran an organization

of clowns and carnivals. She wanted us to help her cause, I tried contacting her, but I think she's busy. Who knows maybe she will contact me in the future.

Well that's it for now. I have more caricatures updated from my recent aquarium gig.