Two perfect circles, entwined

All At Once

 

I've been thoroughly enjoying my 2D Design, Drawing, and Art History classes so far. I constantly doodle so that I won't space out and stop paying attention, so I've been doing a lot of hand designs between taking notes. For 2D Design one assignment was to fill one 8'' x 11'' sheet with 120 rectangles and create black and white designs in each one. But, on each side that touched another, the   black and white had to be opposite. It was a very cool assignment, and definitely a type of design I love to do, but it was verrry long and got a bit tedious.

Wrap me in a bolt of lightening

Tomorrow I'm heading to the University of Maine to start school!
Once I get settled in there, I can start posting more frequently again, and do a great glacier post :D.
In the meantime, my dad and I made a video out of pictures and movie clips from the NCGCP's 28th field season! Also, my dad made me a little vid of me working on a field sketch out there, and some of my work from the surrounding area!

Back to the snow

I have been away most of the summer, either in Maine or Michigan, and I'm leaving for the North Cascades for my third field season with the North Cascades Glacier Climate Project early tomorrow morning! After that, I only have a little over a week until I will go up to Maine for school :-)

some type of water-snake in Lake Dennison

Macatawa, MI

Long Lake, ME

Niagra Falls

a wet walkway in Niagra

Sunset over Lake Michigan

the pit

Niagra

Sand Dune right off of Lake Michigan

Sail boat race on Lake Michigan

Me and Megan on the red right-hand pier "tower"

Baby otters playing

Kvothe

For quite a while I've wanted to create a drawing of Kvothe from Patrick Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicles. I want to use this summer as an opportunity to simply create what ever I feel like for fun. Not for class, and with no time restraints. I put a lot of thought into how I wanted to try to portray Kvothe: a portrait, a scene? I decided to use his entrance line "my name is Kvothe... you may have heard of me". He summarizes various myths and legends about himself in the "...". I decided to create a piece that was a portrait, but also had a scene. I thought about choosing a scene from the book, but decided against it. Instead, he is walking into a dark forest, looking back at you, while the blue flame of the Chandrian shines between the trees. I'm using colored pencil, and so far I have been working on his head, and outlining the lettering.

Some other interpretations of Kvothe...

http://thetwirlingdragon.blogspot.com/

http://toki-kuragari.deviantart.com/

http://nameofthewind.wikia.com/wiki/Kvothe