Cat Bite Abscess... an illustration of a process

When I was with friends the other day, I saw a cat with a bandage on it's neck. After asking a few questions I found out that little kitty had gotten into an agressive tango with some other animal a while prior. Kitty was fine for a while, no signs of pain or anything. Then suddenly it presented itself to the owner with a bunch of "goop" running down it's neck and side. Since I work at a vet, I recognized it as a cat bite abscess.

I LOVE ABSCESSES. They're so interesting. I didn't really realize that until I was explaining how they develop to my buddy. SO like the good little artist that I am, I decided to make this an illustration. I've done something like this once before with the flea life-cycle. (below)

So anyway here are some thumbnails for the Cat Bite Abscess sections.

Running animal mural for work

I've been asked to do a simple silhouette mural for work. Its a set of running and jumping cats and dogs.  It will be in the back yard of the hospital, where the employees break, and hang out with their pets at lunch. It's a quiet place just for us to enjoy. Here are the in-progress pictures! I will post updates as they come.

Happy Friday!

Puppy sketch on my lunch break.

Colored pencils... It's been a while.

It's been quite a while since I did anything with colored pencil. I feel like I sorta shot myself in the foot with this sketch. I didn't let the tone of the paper work for me, and I inadvertently mixed my darks and lights making my midtones muddy.

Not terrible for a sketch, but not great. I'll have to do some more of these.

So my little sister wants a tattoo

She sent me an picture of a tattoo that she's into. It was kinda badly drawn, but the idea was very sentimental  I decided to redraw it for her.

It's probably something that is only meaningful to us as family, but I had a lot of fun putting it together for her. Basically each element represents an aspect of our close family. The elephant is our late grandmother Irene. The daisies are a representation of our mother Marji, the fish and hook are our grandpa Jim and the design on the elephant is supposed to represent me, though to be frank; it really represents her, because it's something she is into now. The fact that she let me redraw it stands for me in itself. I think it's sweet.

Commissions

I spent the weekend making concept drawings for an ornament company. Here's a few of the more interesting ones. It's not "Art" but it was kinda fun to draw.

Cardinal on a pine cone

Barred Owl on a branch

Here we go!

The time is right. As I go through the next step in life and start up with graduate study I feel like I will want to make a place for people to see works in progress and give feedback. I'll try to keep this blog as up to date as possible, because it's more fun that way. No one wants to read stories about things that have already happened months ago.

So with that I present: My grad school application portfolio! Here are some of the images I made over 2012. Most of these are self portraits, with the exception of the spaghetti and wine painting of Tristan, and the last few drawings.

Please feel free to leave comments on any of the future posts!