When you find yourself the villain in the story you have written..

The first assignment for Drawing II was to create a study of any object. For this broad topic it seems that common choice is shoes, but I love my Vans and they were what I decided would be the most fun out of the all the objects I was deciding between. I set them up on the chair in my room for the weekend, and my little light down by them for greater contrast! I used nero lead, which I really like since it will go quite dark, but it is a little harder to erase out highlights. These are a few shots of my process!

Someone on my floor had those little magnetic beads, so Jackson decided to do a bunch of fake piercings with them - you just have to put one on each side of your ear, mouth, etc.! I really like the ears but he refuses to actually get them done.

Nordic Skiing Comic

I am back at UMaine, the first classes of the spring semester begin today! Over winter break I drew a nordic ski-related comic for my boyfriend Jackson who competed in high school. This is based on one of his last ski races that he told me about. I used comic strip boards and double sided Blick markers!

a tiny kingdom at the bottom of the trees

 Here is a collection of some of drawings, sketchings, and a painting from my first semester at the University of Maine while taking Drawing 1 and 2D Design. I ended up with the same professor for both classes and I really enjoyed him, and the majority of the assignments he gave.

Final project for drawing, the only criteria was to draw a window with something in the foreground 
and background. This window is on my front door at home, I took a photograph 
of the spider silhouette at school, and I looked at a cloudy night sky and photographs for reference in the background.

Giorgio de Chirico's Hector and Andromache

This sketch and gauche painting are direct studies of the painting above:
Giorgio de Chirico's Hector and Andromache

Cloth study done in drawing

Study of Jackie, my friend in 2D Design, based off a thumbnail sketch 
of her done in class and later blown up in drawing

Valve and pipe, thumbnail study done in the Orono steam plant, blown up in drawing

Pumpkin on a cloth, direct study in drawing

Direct, quick study of a girl in my drawing class

Corner scene, looking out my dorm window,  direct study for drawing

Detail of my final project for 2D Design. 

Completed 2D final, done in gauche paint A very vague assignment: 
combining any number of photographs we'd taken that semester. I chose to 
use a photo of a bridge and combine it with a picture of my hand 
with a pen-drawn tattoo.

Detail of the bridge wires

Study of two boys in the library, one reading, one sitting at a table.
Direct thumbnail study, blown up in drawing.

2D Design

This is my final week of fall semester at UMaine! Last week I completed my two art finals: for 2D Design and Drawing 1. This is the process of my painted project for 2D, I will post the completed drawing final when I get my graded portfolio back and am able to photograph it!



Some faceless thing in my grasp