HHHHH IT'S MY BIRTHDAY and also some more sketches.

I'M 21!!!! CHYEEEEEAHHH

So that's really cool. 

On a different note, here's some sketches I did during an awesome Art History class I took last semester about Femmes Fatales. 


Back in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, it was common to think of women as being rather dangerous and untrustworthy creatures, as far as their supposed seductive/destructive powers went. Thus, there was a large fascination with Greek mythology involving dangerous female creatures, like Medusa, Sphinxes, and Nymphs.

That girl in the parka on the left has nothing to do with anything, really, she just happens to be on the same page as the nymph.

I GOT A NEW CAMERA SO THAT I COULD TAKE MORE PICTURES OF MY CAT

Well, no, that's not really the reason, but at this point it sure is shaping up to be.


My fantastic parents, for my birthday, bought me a new Nikon 3100, and I've been dicking around with it all afternoon. Since all I've really done is sit on my couch watching movies on my laptop with my cat sleeping next to me, I've mostly been testing it out on him. I love it so far!

BIRD PEOPLE

I have this weird obsession with bird-people lately. It stems partly, I think, from this class I'm taking right now, called "Birds in Books". It's taught by Mike Fink, a very old and pretty well-known English teacher here at RISD. He's got this obsession with birds, and basically decided to make a class about it. He's fascinated with the symbolism and folklore that is associated with birds, and he loves to tell what he calls "bird stories". The class really consists of little more than him standing up in front of all of us and just telling stories about birds, either drawn from his own experience, that of others he's spoken to, or from books he's read. It's pretty interesting (although, at times, a little difficult to take seriously... I hope Mike never reads this...) and during every "lecture" I find myself doodling in my sketchbook to keep myself from zoning out.


And, more often than not, I end up drawing these strange, goofy/creepy, anthropomorphic bird figures. Here's a few that I scanned a little while ago. There's more where that came from, though.

There's some mysterious symbols in the corner of this one... not sure what that was about.

Oh, and then there's another mopey little self-portrait that found its way onto this page too, on whatever morning I was drawing this in class. I sort of always feel that way when I have to wake up at 8:30 in the morning... it's simply too early for anything to exist.

Comic

A comic I drew a couple of months ago. More of this sort of thing to come in the future.

People tell me I draw myself in a way that makes me look like a man? I guess that's something I need to work on...








Also, on an unrelated note, I just finished watching The Social Network. It was better than I expected, actually. I'd heard from a few people that it was bad, so I didn't bother seeing it in theaters, but my parents rented it the other day, and I'm home on spring break so I had time to watch it with them. I thought the cinematography was surprisingly good, as was the score. It was a bit long, though... I found myself getting bored/impatient at the end. Also: Justin Timberlake. What. Was he doing in that movie.

Phirst Post

Made a blog! For my arts and things.


Here's some recent sketches to get things going. Did them while listening to "Jungles", by Stepdad. You can listen to that song here


That fluffy cat is my cat, Buster. I'm sure you'll be seeing/hearing about him quite a lot in the future. He's a funny, fuzzy dude.