Fairy tale: The Fish and the Princess

Tamlin in SPACE

This was a project I did for my bookmaking final this past summer. It was completed in a week or two and was one of the most fun projects I got to work on. Taken from an old folktale, I set the story "in space" and gave it a few twists. Part of me would like to work more on it, but mostly I consider it done, flaws and all. ALSO NOTE: You must click on each image to see both pages on the image. Otherwise you're only seeing every other page of the book.

Some new stuff

I just wanted to draw this pose, and then couldnt figure out what to do with her face. I was trying masks but they all looked too super-heroey even when they were creepy or weird or traditional.

Zombies. Not much more to that!

Tree women :) I'll probably either do ink washes or do something digital-colorwise with this.

Teacup mermaid.

Some summer stuff

This is from mid spring, very loose but I'm fond of it.

The upstairs room of very dear friends. I find that doing this particular exercise (pick any point to start from, draw a room) is very calming, and that room is calming too.

Characters from a novel I was writing over the summer.

Characters from a scene from said novel. Really oughta work on that more when i get a minute!

This is another image from the past spring, which is almost a thumbnail for a large scale painting I'd like to do at some point.

Bookmaking: PDF Tunnel Book

I took a bookmaking class this semester, and one of the projects I had the most fun on was the tunnel book. I decided to use it to capture at least a fraction of my strange and wonderful experience going to my first burner event, Playa del Fuego. These are the panels from the book from back to front, each offering a peek of the one behind it.

more collage stuff

Really... after this week is over there will be so much from-life sketchiness. I am starved for hands on assignments this semester, it's killing me. PAINT. and drawings. so many ideas in the works!

ward 6 environment drawings

This may seem a little odd, but it's an example of one of the levels, in which the main character explores the mind of a patient who only communicates through abstract drawings in black ink. Her "world" is very 2-d, flat, and much like a really disturbing version of Harold and the Purple Crayon. The main character too appears differently in the levels, depending on how she is perceived or what role she is playing to help the patient.

These two images address the "sanity meter", seen upper left corner, which indicates both the state of sanity of the main character and also indicates to what degree the "real time" (as opposed to the in-the-minds-of-the-patients levels) world is distorted and nightmareish. There are a variety of scenes and story tidbits available depending on the level of sanity, insanity, and there are also ways to help or hinder yourself in that regard (opening a door that looks normal, picking up something that shouldn't be there, ect.)