Fashion Never

Forgot to post this -- it was for my fashion illustration class. We had to do posters for plays about a vice and it's matching virtue. I was given lust and chastity, and decided to play with counter cultures.

Transitioning

I'm in New York, and love abounds
and yet
I miss this house.

and I miss this.


and I miss my family very much.
But I love too much about this life to pass up it's opportunities to love and meet new people, places, and experiences.
I just wish I realized that more often!

Finally Finals Final

I'm still alive. Miraculously having survived finals, I return to the internet ether with images from my concepts finals. The focus of these portraits is on specific masculine identities and their variations that compose the larger hegemonic masculine identity. I mean, I painted portraits of boys being boys. Take what you will, they would be for editorial purposes, if such an article were ever published!


"The Sensitively Not Sensitive Metrosexual"


"The Womanizing Mega-Hunk Lumberjack"


"The Really Successful Boss-Man-Boss"

Marriage Experiment

Hello all,
So I've had this dilemma for a while now. What medium and technique should I use in my work? I don't have a clue! But I'm playing Sherlock Holmes and I'm "getting to the bottom of this". And, voila! The first experiment in this pseudo-painting, pseuda-drawing, pseudo-photoshop almagamation is complete. Lets see where this work goes from here, though.

Updated Work

Some things fell through in my life, and some images came out of the work done before then, so I think I can share now. I was waiting to put these up, but I feel it's okay now that I have nothing to worry about (I'm sorry, that was really cryptic.) These are two images I posted last semester that I altered.

Updated Gopenhagen Interpretation

I just wasn't satisfied with a boring drawing and even worse -- rushed photoshop work. I like this one 'better', but I wish my drawing was larger so that I could have really fleshed it out. But c'est la vie! I like what I came out with!

Housewife Bullshit

ALERT. THIS IS A STYLISTIC FLUKE.
I have never done an illustration like this in my life. I was given a piece of "1950's ephemera" and was told to build off of it. I got a Vogue ad about how to look beautiful for your husband and your boss. So, my I try and use the so-called 'trite' subject of feminism and make a piece about the sad fate of a depressed houeswife from the 1950's. To get a feel for it, I looked at a lot of W. David Shaw, for illustrations from that era with a lifestyle feel to them. I'm glad I tried this piece out -- I learned a lot!

The Copenhagen Interpretation

In response to quantum mechanics, specifically the Copenhagen Interpretation, comes this illustration.
I'm working with some stylistic ideas, tendencies, and likings that I hope will coalesce nicely soon.

Marc by Marc Jacobs

As an assignment, I and two other students were given a designer and told to narratively illustrate their clothes on figures, in a setting, for a magazine spread. I was assigned as the concept leader, and my team picked the Spring 2009 RTW collection for Marc by Marc Jacobs, and chose three concepts to help us create our image -- mischief, urban roller skaters, and a Central Park Zoo safari. We split up the work accordingly, and developed a time line for turn around processes in order to complete the assignment in a timely manner. I drew the figures and apparel, and I'm pretty satisfied with their outcomes. There are some general detailed problems with them, but over-all, I'm pleasantly surprised with what I did!

ULTRA PRODUCTIVE MODE

I've been doing a lot lately, namely making tons of images. As such, I will be doing more work oriented posts this semester. Yay, right? These images are from a series I did for my fashion illustration course, using designs from Elie Saab's Fall 2008 Haute Couture line. I thought that they fit very nicely on beautiful women roaming the hazy, midsummer fields surrounding Versaille palace, c. 1780.





Gouache and Watercolor on Arches Watercolor, 140 lb Hot Press
These pieces were fun (if you couldn't tell, I really like flowers and hair).