The First Born Main Promo Art

And here's the completed art work.  For the promo I deleted the background layers and turned it into a PNG file so that I could use it as a shaped layer on the InDesign page and place it over the other things in the promo without having a blue box around it.

The First Born Pencil Art

I'm starting a new Buried Alive production for the UH Webzine Ka Lamakua.  The production is called "The First Born" and it's pretty cool.
There's a page in the Welcome Back issue of Ka Leo that has a promo for it and I did an illustration for that promo.
Here's the pencil work I did.

Common Sense and Common Sensibilty

Psycho Wall-Street Freak-Out

After A Gold Rush

Another reposting from Intermediate Drawing.

Detail from Narrow Minds Ahead 2

Detail from Narrow Minds Ahead

Narrow Minds Ahead

Reposting with a higher quality photo.

This is a drawing from Intermediate Drawing about free speech.

See Charcoal Drawings for further information.

Skeletal Structure Study

Charcoal pencil on paper

Self-Portrait

From a photo took over the Summer of 2009.

Graphite on paper

Portrait of a Man

A portrait I did of a model from last Semester's Life Drawing class.

Grpahite on paper.

Hero Mask

Like the Oni Mask, the Hero mask is based, loosely, off of traditional Noh theater masks.  The Hero is the side we do want to show others. Not necessarily good though, the Hero side is sometimes deceitful.  I tried to show that through the creepy facial expression.

Oil pastels on paper.

Oni Mask

The Oni mask represents the side of us that we try not to let others see.  Not necessarily evil, the oni actually carries an ambiguous look on his face.  Just because it's not the side we want to show other people, doesn't mean it's bad or wrong.

Oil pastel on paper.

The iDrone Mask

This is a mask of the iDrone (deluxe model). It represents consumerism and materialism and what it does to people. It too is a mask we all wear.

Oil pastel on paper.

Zane Mask

Zane is Harold's best friend, and he represents the more "Id" side of me. He's impulsive, inquisitive, child-like and unexpectedly powerful at times.

Oil pastel on paper.

Harold Mask

So this is a mask I did of the main character from The Sun Also Shines on the Moronic.  Since the strip is such a hug part of my life, and Harold embodies a lot of my own personality, I thought it was a good idea to include him in the project.
I chose to make masks because masks represent an aspect of a person or a role that we perform.  Harold is, in some ways, both.

Oil pastel on paper.

The Morning

The morning is not my best time of day. While I might not actually look like this, I certainly feel like it.

Pencil and watercolor pencil on paper.

Arrogance

When you're really good at something, you start to get cocky.  In order to represent this, I decided to use something that, in real life, I'm not proficient at but that is visually interesting and fun to draw.

Pencil on paper.

Acceptance and Defiance

Number Three
As we grow older, we experience traumas. We can either accept them, or defy them. Is either path correct?

Pencil and water color pencil on paper.

Comic Universe - Close Up 2