Burton-Ize

The final project I am giving my Digital Imaging students at City Tech is to "Burton-Ize" a self-portrait. We are teaching to a "Core Text" at City Tech this semester and the Core Text is Tim Burton. They chose Burton because of the coinciding show at MoMA and the release of his version of Alice in Wonderland. Visually I figured this would be something both challenging and fun for the students to do as they yearn for the freedom of Summer vacation.

So much fun that I did a quick one of myself this morning:

The assignment can be found at the wordpress site I have been keeping for the class:
http://adv1260.wordpress.com/
Oh, and this here is the original:

Doodle

Drew a student in the class I was observing


Pen used: sakura microperm 01

More new pens

Got a set of faber-castell big brush pens, too. I feel like I'm channeling klaus janson.

Trapper Keeper Doodle Drawing

I know I'm about three-four years behind the whole hand-lettering hooha, but I have been doing this kind of stuff forever and I never stopped, I just never shared either. Now I'm sharing.

Part of the excitement is that I bought a new rapidograph. I have had a love affair with these amazing technical pens since I first discovered them when I was 8 or 9 years old. A hebrew school friend of my older brother used them and I could not believer the clarity of line he got with them. Back then I could never keep my pens, the original koh-i-nor clean or stop them from getting clogged, and then the amazing Rotring came out with it's fancy no-clog ink cartridges! Huzzah. I bought my new one last week after visiting Pearl on Canal and a place on Court Street with no luck. The guy behind the counter at WC Art & Graphic Supply on Jay Street, across from the City Tech building, said that rapidographs area  dying breed, and are now collector's items. Might have to start buying up a supply for the future. I prefer .25 since anything smaller really does clog too much and the nib is too fragile, and anything else is too thick for my preference. All I could get was a .30 this time. Might have to hit ebay or something.

I love getting new pens.

M.A.D.

Sketched this while procrastinating other things. Jessica Hische I am not, but what the hey. Sometimes I just stare off into space and think about mushroom clouds and the end of the world as we know it.

Clouds & Explosions

First in what will become a series of drawings based on clouds and explosions. First is full drawing, followed by detail.

Logo: muted managment

Muted Management is a dj mangement/booking company. Their philosophy is music first, we take care of the business.





I was partial to the grey-on-grey but we added some color. Went with orange for splash and blue for info. Type is flama light tracked out to 300.