Inktober Day 4: Duck Noir

Today's offering on the altar of Inktober is a three panel noir duck-tective. This is an assignment for Bethanne Anderson's (Who has no Website, or I would link it here) Narrative class. Nothing from Archs today, other things needed attention first.

Inktober Day 3: The Thief

Another Character from Archs. The Thief. The latest holder of the title is aware of his status as Arch-thief and goes by no other name. No door is closed to him and nothing safe from the reach of his sticky fingers. I'm not especially happy with this pass... I'll come back to him later.

Inktober Day 2

INKtober day 2! Same story as the last guy. This is THE Murderer. He is one of the Archs. The Archetypal humans that walk among ordinary humans. No one is totally certain whether this title has been passed among a succession of madmen, or if he is the original Murderer.

Happy Inktober!

It's Inktober! That joyous month in which we celebrate the glorious medium of black ink. Jake Parker put me on to this, and I shall be posting an ink drawing each day this month.
This is "B," a character for a story I'm working on. Details to follow.

Not quite fireworks.

Here it is folks! Just in time to go up with your Independence Day fireworks! I whipped this up today in honor of my favorite country who is celebrating her 236th birthday today. She is still pretty young, as countries go, and her fan-base doesn't always represent her well, but I sure do like her.
Thank you America, for the ideal that you represent. Thank you for the freedom of speech, even when we would be better off keeping out big mouths shut. Thank you for the great experiment of Democracy, a government for the people and by the people, however silly or forgetful or stubborn and wrong we the people may be. And a big thank you to all of the great men and women who see to it that the Great Experiment keeps on chugging away.
Love you America. Acne, social awkwardness and all.
Happy Independence Day!

Jedi Time!

Who is the best Jedi ever? That's right! Qui Gon Jin! I thought about saying something like Gandalf or Harry Potter, but neither of them is Liam Neeson.
This is an experiment-y type portrait of Yoda that I did for my Illustration 3 class with Chris Thornock. Yoda has always been one of my favorite people. He has so  much perspective and natural joy, despite the awful things that come his way. I love that happy little green dude. This was done in acrylics on watercolor paper.

Back in Action

Hey friends! It's been a while since I last posted, but I have a great excuse! For some of that time...
     I spent about three weeks (April 22 through May 15) in the U.K.! It was incredible! I went with the Brigham Young University Singers and we sang our way across most of Southern England and a little bit of Wales. If you're interested in reading up on what we did, you can check out the tour blog HERE.
      I will start posting things up more regularly now that I am back and getting back in the swing of things. Meanwhile, here are two paintings from the end of last semester to tide you over. Both are acrylic on masonite board.