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20 year old art college student going to the Maine College of Art in Portland, posting recent works and projects. Feel free to message me with requests for art (The ask me button is in the upper left corner). I also take commissions.

[seagullcity]

#creaturedudes collection / re-tumbl  I reblogged all of these from the original aritsts so if you like one scroll down and check out their page. I think the variety shows how different they are, but each one still has strong technical and creative skill behind the piece.Sketches or not, I think all of these images I chose for this assortment of characters came from some really fantastic artists - who I found through following hashtags. I'm more of a fan or imaginative creature concepts, things that clearly don't exist but when you see the art you realize this character comes across as a complete individual, something that could easily exist. Cartoony to Realistic, I think each of these drawings, or renders seem very fully molded, an idea brought to life accurately and completely. 

[angelonofre]

And finished #illustration #creature #monster #ink #doodle

[oddosprey]

Figured I’d throw these guys up. :>

[mosaur]

feeding my habit for giant mean lizards

[mathieufreaksfx]

My new photoshop concept! :)

[superpuppet-deactivated20151029]

Sketching out the first creature for my new series. They will be based off the four elements. I can’t wait to start drawing out the pencil work!

[ikameka]

from my Livestream http://livestre.am/4IfJ9

[seagullcity]

MeCA Library Special Collections

  Basically it was this little side room off in the library where the school holds the more valuable books, kept nice and ventilated/cooled - pretty neat. We got to look around freely and check out whatever books we wanted, I wish I had photos of the room to show. There was an advanced pop-up book collection by a Robert Sabuda, it got a lot of attention, people appreciate pop-up books. Of the ones she had I think I saw, Narnia, and The Wizard of Oz, and Alice in Wonderland. There were a couple more I can't recall right now. He's an awesome artist, I recommend everyone check out his work : https://www.robertsabuda.com/

[seagullcity]

Artist at Work lecture: Internships

 I'm not sure if this lecture was exactly an Artist at Work, but it was basically about internship opportunities available through the school. I've wanted to try doing an internship for a while now, and hearing about past experiences made it all seem very doable. Now, I may not do a MECA enlisted-internship but I've been following some artists for a while and may try and set up something with this new start-up clothing store, just to get my name out there and promote some work. We'll see how that goes. 

[seagullcity]

-Collagraph Final-    I took inspiration for my final from the celestial globe layout drawn by Albrecht Durer. One of the residents at Avesta had one of these celestial globes, pretty neat. I chose to represent Cancer, I liked the crawfish/lobster/crab looking features, like the sectional shell pieces and thin insect-like legs, I felt this would come across well in a print. I didn't get nearly as much detail into my cut out as I had wanted, but regardless I think this part turned out well. Unfortunately, I didn't include it in the final print (which I don't have a picture of). The only reason it was left out was due to lack of skill doing this type of printing, I should have practiced printing something like this on a smaller scale before attempting it. I could refine this and make it soooo much better a second time.

[seagullcity]

-Screen printing Process- So for our latest project in printmaking class we were to make 4x6 prints, I chose to make paper airplanes. First I cut out 100 4x6 sheets, then I started to draw on the backs of each of them with a micron pen. They all needed to contain my contact information "Email, Tumblr, and Name" so I hand wrote all of that on each one, and drew a small doodle on the right side of the paper sheet. This side of the paper was the underside of the plane. After I had finished that I went to the printmaking room and painted my fill layer on my screen. The fill layer acts as a mask, to hold out colors you don't want filled in when you print. You need to think in negative shapes if you want a fully colored piece, or you can just outline your drawing for a more line-art style print. I chose to go with line-art, though I regret it somewhat since I think I full color sheet would look much nicer. So I printed and printed, and eventually was able to fold up the planes after the sheets dried, then stuck em' in a silver bucket for an installment at our school and left them there for people to take. Overall it turned out alright, I wish I wouldn't have screwed up my fill layer by trying to flood the screen twice, that really messed up my line-work. But regardless of that I'm not entirely disappointed, my hands are though. 

[seagullcity]

Avesta / Ferdinand Trip  So, as a whole class we met up in the MECA lobby and took a walk down Congress to get to the Avesta housing complex. We were met by the planning/event coordinator at the door, she gave us a short introduction to the building and Avesta as a company. We were planning on meeting some of the residents that recently moved into the apartments. These apartments have only been up a few months so the staff was hoping to push some ice-breaker / community building events out there for them. We'd have a short show-n-tell about our zines and collections we keep, hopefully invoking discussion about the individual residents collections or interests in the arts. We had hoped that the residents would come to the meeting, but unfortunately no one showed up. We left a few of each of our zines and a note explaining they were free to take. Maybe this will spark some sort of interest for the next meeting.     Since the Avesta meet up was sort of a flop, we decided; since we were close by, we would walk down to Ferdinand, a local Portland print/ knick-knack shop. I really wish I would have brought my wallet because there were some really kick-ass little doo-dads,shirts, and prints. Diane Toepfer runs the shop, using a 1955 Heidelberg printing press to make her inventory. A very interesting machine, we even got a brief demonstration about how it worked. I'm definitely coming back to this shop, and I recommend anyone around the greater Portland, Maine area to check it out.

[seagullcity]

The idea and process of how I created my plant based zine:     So, I started off knowing I wanted the whole thing to be nature themed and done all in pen and ink, black and white. When I first started sketching out my roughs for the inking I decided to go with insects, I'm a big fan of anything entomology related. I figured plants / insects - boom! They go hand in hand. But after I had done a few pages I realized it looked more like my collection was revolving around the insects, not the plants. At this point I decided to just ditch the insect idea and go purely plants. So I started a new zine. I knew I wanted to do a landscape of some sort - not until nearly the last page of my zine did I decide to connect all the pages on either side. I tried to create a seamless semi-2D landscape. Each panel has a few of the plants from my collection incorporated. Scale isn't accurate, I thought about doing close ups of each plant but that seemed a bit boring - I wanted to make something you could look at for a while and see small details you missed the first time. During the entire sketching/roughing process I had to keep in mind what I wanted to be filled in black with ink and what needed to be left white, to make it easier I just marked each area of the drawing with a small "X" so I knew what was black and what was white. Helped out a lot in the end, definitely sped up the whole inking process. One thing I wish I did differently would be the overall look of the zine when unfolded. I didn't take into consideration the panels going up vertically when laid out, if I would have noticed then I would have tried to make the skyline seamless as well.     For the back of the zine I went with a mash-up of some of my favorite plants from my brown bag collection. Just a little plant orgy.    I wish I had more process photos to share. The pens I used to ink are called "Sakura Pigma Micron Brush Marker" They work pretty well, I got 3 and used two for filling in spaces, you've gotta watch your pressure though because if you mess up the brush tip it's really hard to get pointy again - then you lose any chance of drawing fine details.

[seagullcity]

The Samara seed pod, or as I like to call them - helicopters.      When I was kid I used to go around picking these "helicopters" out of the grass beneath the maple tree in my backyard. You can't just pick up any ole' one you see, it has to be flight-ready. Just the right dryness, not too healthy or it'll plummet to the ground. Now, once you have your select few choppers you'll want to make your way up about 20 feet - the higher the better is how I see it. Pockets stuffed full, I would climb up the very same maple tree these pods feel from just to launch them up and watch them float down again. Once you're up there you can always shake the tree branches and it make it rain tiny whirling spirals, that's quite a show.    The next time you're out walking and you pass by one of these unique little guys, give it a boost and see what happens.

[seagullcity]

-Siren In The Swamp - "The rhythmic pulse of human life deep under the cold thick mud." Just a mock comic book cover, I draw things like this from time to time. Sort of trying to push a lengthy story into a single image. A lifeless siren who draws in the weak with just the beat of her non-existent heart.

[seagullcity]

I'm not much of a collector of things, though I find plant life fascinating. The seemingly infinite number of species we walk past everyday - sitting unnoticed. My plan for this semester of college is to slowly amass a reasonably large array of different plant leaves and flowers. I think at some point I may glue them to a large sheet of paper making a winding symmetrical pattern of some sort. Or maybe a landscape; even cityscape. I'm slowly identifying the species - that's for another post. 

[seagullcity]

 -Goblin King-  Ready to raid and murder the innocent civilians.  Wanted to do some kind of minimalistic coloring, it was a last minute decision to add in the highlights but it helped a lot overall. Lately I've been drawing a lot of bugs and creatures with horns and spiked teeth - so that came through in this drawing.