It's All About Me

Really, I swear I'm not a conceited douche who's full of himself, but I had to do 3 seperate self-portraits:

First one is painted, and we could only use one colour.

I'm not too proud of it, so I included it here to make the others look good. Because when you're not that pretty to begin with, the only way to look good is to stand beside something even uglier.

p.s. Paint is not my favorite medium. Paint is an unholy bitch goddess.

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Grrr! TROY SMASH!

Charcoal:

Apparently this is me as played by Angelina Jolie.

This next one had to be reflected in something other than a mirror, using a medium I wasn't used to drawing with.

For the reflection I used CDs, and used all REM CD's because they're the only band I have enough CDs by to encapture my gargantuan cranium. I would have used Rush, but you don't get much reflection from a cassette tape. ha ha I'M OLD

And for the medium I used good ol' Crayolas.

I bought a bag of like 120 of them at Value Village for a buck! For some reason 80 of the 120 were orange.

Kid snot was no extra charge.

Too Cool Scorpio

Here's a super awesome bad-ass scorpion I made out of wire.

I GOT BLISTAS ON MA FINGAS!

Phun with Photoshop

We had to do a reproduction, using photoshop's painting tools, of a famous work of art.
I, of course, chose the one with all the naked chicks.


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Here's the original, Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"



Here's mine

Picking pockets on Abbey Road

advantage: Martha Stewart

Lady Gaga the hermaphrodite

For one project we had to create a mythological creature.

I used my own cat's head.

Anyone who's seen Bailey knows this isn't really that far off.

she's not fat, she's bubbilicious

MediArt Studamentals

Here's some stuff I worked on last year in Media Studies, or Art Fundamentals, or whatever the hell they're calling it this year.

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Hannibal Montana

Cartoon I did for colour theory. Hannah Montana meets Silence of the Lambs. The most excruciating part about doing this was sitting through an episode of Hannah Montana for research.

Collage

Collage for colour theory class. I decided to do my all-time favorite comic book cover, Silver Surfer #4. Never having done a collage in my life, I figured it was easy and wouldn't take much time or effort. WRONG. Everyone else in the class was smart and stuck to relatively simple pictures. I ended up pulling an all-nighter or two just to get it done on time.

We had to do 4 different colour schemes. I was going to label which one is which but damned if I can remember. Sorry Clyde!

Here's the original:

WARNING: this one may melt your eyeballs

Thank Jebus for call centres

Hey, lookit, I gots me a blog!

People have been bugging me to show what I've been doing at school (NBCC Miramichi Animation & Graphics woooo!) so I thought a blog would be the easiest way. Plus Tara said I had to, and she's the boss of me.

First off I'd like to give thanks to all the call centres I ever worked at for giving me ample time to draw stupid little cartoons all day, and making me hate my life enough to finally get my ass back into school at the ripe old age of 34. And an extra special thanks to all the frustrated customers for providing an over-abundance of material to draw. I couldn't have made this stuff up if I tried.

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And it wasn't just the customers. When I wasn't plotting a way to fake my own death, I was being "entertained" by socially retarded coworkers, inept management, and outdated, faulty equipment. I actually worked at a call centre where the PHONES DIDN'T WORK.

Then the greatest day of my life arrived:

Fast forward 6 months and I'm 3000 bucks in the hole and drawing pictures of mashed potatoes. Go figure.