Pam

Kristin Bauer van Straten as Pam from HBO's "True Blood." Haven't worked with ink and more-or-less flat color in a long time, so I wanted to revisit.

I have a lot of work I'll be sure to put up soon, some stuff for DNA Theatre's new show, "Spectacle Obscura." I'm in it, so if you're in Baltimore you should check it out!

More Environment Sketches

I did these a while back and never got around to scanning them in. Naturally as soon as I set a deadline I get caught up with other things! I'm currently working on some things for DNA Theatre's new production opening in October, which I'll be able to start showing as soon as I have some finished work.

Things have been busy, hopefully soon I'll be able to show more of it!

Environment Sketches

Taking a break from the epic painting thing and working on some more practical environment/landmark sketches. My buddy Nick Iluzada challenged me to 500 of these. My goal is 100 by the end of this week and 500 in a month. :)

Game of Thrones: Daenerys WIP

Been so long since I posted! I actually have been working, but it's all stuff I can't show - what's nice about having an influx of work is that it motivates you to make your own. I've recently been watching Game of Thrones on HBO, which I love - have never read the books, but I bought the first one to read as soon as the show ends. I can't help it if I love being surprised while watching!



I'm planning a triptych of the Targaryan/Dothraki: currently I'm working on Daenerys. I'm not sure if she's my favorite character, but I'm having fun with it all the same. I haven't decided yet if I'm going with the show's interpretation of her with green eyes, or the book's where the Targaryans have violet eyes.

Hope everyone's having a great summer! I'm moving at the end of the month to my new apartment which I'll hopefully be staying in for a good long time, I'm so done with packing and unpacking!

City Landscape and Commencement

City Landscape, originally uploaded by Ntkufreak.

Wow! It's been a long time since I posted!

Commencement was last week, and it was awesome! Everyone had amazing work. I didn't post up any pictures since they were on my parents' camera, which is now back in KY, but a friend did take a picture of my show, which is here so you get an idea -

All three pieces are from my thesis. The book on the shelf is essentially my print portfolio for interviews!

I've had an awesome time at MICA and now I'm looking forward to the summer, to get this blog more straightened out, touch up the website a little, and I've got time now to really promote myself. I've also gotten a freelance offer which is pretty exciting already. :)

Stay tuned!

Ciel Main Characters

I've been trying a different way of thumbnailing that is less gestural and more specific. I'm not sure yet how I feel about it as a process, though I like these characters. While it simplifies the process of going to the next step (a single or a few colored finishes), I'm concerned about diversity. But these are designs for a character that has to fit in a world that's already pretty defined; it might be useful to try this approach when making a character completely out of context.

Sorry about my lack of posting last week. On April 1 we had the Internship Fair, where a lot of great Baltimore companies came to talk to students about local opportunities for work. It was great, but I think it took a lot out of me!

There was a great panel on the game industry given by a few friends of mine. Colin Campbell of Big Huge Games was my professor for Advanced Photoshop Techniques, one of the best classes I took here at MICA, and Taylor Fischer of ZeniMax Online is a friend of mine who happened to TA that class. Go check out their work!

Colored Characters

Played with Dermot Power's approach in doing these. From now on I'm only going to upload 'finished' pieces to Flickr, and used Blogger's image uploader for WIPs or uncritiqued pieces.