This is for Britanayeha

Dear Britanayeha,

This was your going away party, we all got together to deal with the sadness of you leaving.

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My story begins a couple years in Texas, I decided to go to art school despite having never taken an art class in my life. In an attempt to prepare, I went to Barnes and Noble and bought “drawing on the right side of the brain” by Betty Edwards. This is where some of the drawings below come from, and I must say that for someone who had never drawn before, this book was an amazing help getting started. I practiced through the exercises in that book up until the fall semester of foundations where I was luckily assigned to Sohail Shehada’s drawing class. This class is where most of the other drawings come from. To summarize his class, I would just say you walk in and draw still life after still life. Through taking art class after art class and sketching everyday, I believe I have advanced pretty far from my first attempt at teaching myself with a book, but I am not ashamed of my early drawings and wanted to show where I came from. I would point your attention to the first drawing I made in this journey, the self portrait, it makes me sick to see how bad it is, but really to happy just knowing that I could do better without a fraction of the effort it took then. And that is my point, I believe my brain does fundamentally work differently now after my short time of doing art, art, and art 24/7 for a couple years. I feel like the almost permanent state of right brain thinking has effected every part of my life and I like it. No matter were my skill level ends up, I just cant see myself doing anything outside of art.

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a stupid fish

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This is a project that I did back in foundations. The goal was to morph from a basic shape to a distinctive black and white translation of an object. I liked the idea of the down arrow turning into a balloon that is going up, and no, I did not get the idea from the Pixar film. Also, I am posting this because my arch nemesis Matt Magill posted his version and I just cant let that stand. This project was done in cut paper on illustration board.

A short documentary on modern day cowboys that I just really love. It was done by my friend Josh Brown. I did not have any hand in this piece except going on one shoot and attempting to help shoot some shots, and working the shotgun mic, but I just really think this is a great video. Enjoy.

Here are the old business cards for SketchFactory. I actually need to make new ones if I can stop procrastinating it.