Dreaming While Awake

The everyday life of a budding artist

10 May

Here’s the rest of my short children’s story, The Lonely Lobblekin.  Read the first part of it here!

10 May

Here’s my “interactive narrative,” a short children’s story I’d like to call The Lonely Lobblekin.  There’s another 8 animated pages you can read here, as my next tumblr post :)

10 May Quick 6-hour assignment for my illustration class. I chose the classic The Fox and the Grapes from Aesop’s Fables.

Quick 6-hour assignment for my illustration class. I chose the classic The Fox and the Grapes from Aesop’s Fables.

10 May The final illustration for my figure utilization class. We had to create a scene with 5 ethnically-diverse figures, so I chose the four seasons and mother nature.

The final illustration for my figure utilization class. We had to create a scene with 5 ethnically-diverse figures, so I chose the four seasons and mother nature.

25 Apr Quick poster I made for my Advanced Fiction Workshop’s student reading next week. Behind the hawthorn branches lurks a Leanan Sidhe, the lovely fay muse of artists and writers, as well as a little pixie boy at the top. Lots of fun, and I love any excuse to draw a faery!

Quick poster I made for my Advanced Fiction Workshop’s student reading next week. Behind the hawthorn branches lurks a Leanan Sidhe, the lovely fay muse of artists and writers, as well as a little pixie boy at the top. Lots of fun, and I love any excuse to draw a faery!

20 Mar For my illustration class, we had to make a book cover for a classic YA or adult novel. I chose The Outsiders, since it’s one of my absolute favorites.

For my illustration class, we had to make a book cover for a classic YA or adult novel. I chose The Outsiders, since it’s one of my absolute favorites.

20 Mar

For my sequential format class, we had to make a comic. Mine is about the “Importance of Being Figurative,” especially in the case of idioms.

02 Mar

“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make. Good. Art.”

~Neil Gaiman