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.

MAT Thesis and More Caricatures

So I'm starting to ink a comic I recently have finished penciling.

The project is an exploration into my childhood. I have adapted a comic I

drew in 2nd grade and done it in my style as an adult. The purpose is an effort to get

back into my naiveté state of mind and find out why I wanted to become a cartoonist in the first place. I will upload the images from the original comic soon, but in the meantime here are two

pages I've completed.

I am pretty satisfied with this page overall. The only part that my teacher,

Howie Weiss, andI discussed a little confusing was the top right corner.

I may want to later go back and do some more cross-hatching to

define space, but as for now I'm okay with how it looks.

This one disappointed me. I love how it looked when it was penciled,

but I feel that the page now suffers from sloppy inking.

My teacher told me perhaps go back to this one after you finish the rest.

He agreed that the inking took away from the page and also suggested that I may

perhaps redraw it. Oh boy, I think he's right...

This one I did for fun. It's for a friend and his band. I haven't showed him yet so I hope he likes it.

This is Karla, a receptionist at building services.

She's been wanting me to draw acaricature of her and so I finally did.

She loved it and wants me to draw her family's caricatures for christmas. I think this will be good practice for me and Karla is awesome so I wouldn't mind doing it for her.

This last one is Laura, my supervisor, in another caricature. However, the bizarre thing about this one is that she gave me a pic of her daughter as a child and wanted me to draw her as a kid not as a present adult. I thought this request was weird, but I suppose what the heck and did it anyways. It's a kinda weird caricature, but I like the colors.

That's it for now and I will update soon!

More Caricatures

Hello everybody, I've uploaded some more caricatures I've been doing this summer. I will soon bring my camera out to events to take pictures of more of my live versions because I did a couple good ones two weeks

ago at the ball

park and at a PNC bank.

This first caricature is my supervisor, Laura, from my summer job, and her granddaughter.

This next caricature is of a librarian and friend of mine, Chris Drowlson, as Gazoo from

the Flinstones.

The next one is my friend Joe, aka Blombro.

The next caricature is a co-worker at my summer job, Janice.

Here is my friend Jacob.

Here is my other friend Leah at the O's ballpark.

The last three caricatures are copies of Robert Bauer's done with

Prismacolor sticks. I'm going to practice more with them.

Well that's it for now, I will soon upload some images from

my upcoming comic, YAY!!!

Caricatures

Here are some caricatures I did this summer thus far...

I'm also working on my Teaching thesis so I'll try to post pics of that soon.

Bye for now

MICA Commencement Show!!!!

Hellooo, it's been awhile, but I'm back. Sorry for the lack of posts, but I have pics from my commencement show that I have been working hard on.

Here are some colored panels....

Here's the setup of my show and me!

Here's the back of the postcard I made for the show.....

and the front

Goodbye....