Fishing this morning! Went out with my pops but had to come in early cuz the waves were terrifying. Sat in the boat and did some drawings instead.

The first drawing is the fishing hardware!! The tiny names written next to each of the spoon's is the actual name that the company gives to them!! "Blueberry Muffin" is a timeless classic up near Ashtabula, OH, but lately people have been reeling them in on "Mass Confusion" and all different shapes and sizes of "Boys and Girls"!! Fish on!! hahaha

Had some time to kill so sat in parking lot and drew Wal Mart looking enormous.


Then I saw this on my way home and was almost sick from how quaint and picturesque it was. But not sick enough to sit out and savior it for an hour or so. You're very handsome, Ohio!!


Chilled out day.

Creepy old man character drawings from Pre-Production class, Jr. year

Quiet Night at the Rusty Bucket. Tried some deep fried pickles with Zak. They weren't bad!

Mr. Blake Cook

Earlier in the summer I got a hold of one of my favorite people of all time and talked bout how we had to get together but nothing ever happened. Then tonight my phone rang and there he was!! Blake Cook calling!! This is him:


He's famous!! Since I stopped taking classes at his school, the college started using him in a bunch of promotional material! He tells me he's on a billboard somewhere on 480W too! We had good laughs bout this. What a classy picture hes got himself here on this brochure!! Very nice!!

If I had a list of favorite people I've ever known in my whole life Blake would totally be number 2 or maybe three, but seriously high up there!! We met up at a tiny bar he knew on Miles road and we chilled for 3 hours.

Blake does mostly installation art and it is always the most crazy, mind boggling things of all time. We talked tonight about how a lot of times people will just laugh or wonder if he's trying to trick them or something mean like that. But what's crazy is that if you can get him to talk about his work, it all makes so much sense that there's nothing strange about it at all! It's the opposite; they're all about the most sincere and inspired things I've stumbled into.

One piece I got to witness was at a group show he had in Cleveland. He took a tiny room in the gallery and completely filled it with cardboard. He then took a chainsaw to it all and slashed a real narrow little passage through it. When the show opened, it was called, "Anticipating our Reunion via Blood Clot". People gathered in the narrow little cardboard hall and got real uncomfortable trying to squeeze past each other while scraps of cardboard came dusting down about them. People were claustrophobic in there! But after thinking bout the piece and having Blake explain it to me like 100 times, this is perfect and intentional! The stuffy opening forces viewers to actually witness and think about the uncomfortable, dirty, not healthy little spaces that heart attack victims have in their bodies!! It's all about death, too, and I'm sure Blake means for it to run much deeper than what I've explained. Anyhow, afterwards it's clear that his chaos has a point. It's just saying, "hey! check this out! Think about this!".

That's what I take from it. I think a lot of people think that installation and modern art must be impossible to grasp or something, but from what I've taken from Blake I think it's all just funny ways to say, "Hey did u ever think about this??".

Thanks Blake! Hope I haven't slandered you!!!

More Art Dumping

Here's some figure drawings from this summer. My hand felt both rusty and fresh at the same time - it was kind of like if a person went blind for a period of 2 years and couldn't see anything - And then all of a sudden, he regains his vision and he can see everything all different! Drawings are awful shaky but I felt like i had tons of fresh perspective with them. Also, there was this crazy awesome guy there who was just a machine. He said he'd never had any art training, but he couldn't stop talking bout the book, "The Natural Way to Draw". I was so into his drawings and trying to make him make me awesome but he was really scared that if he said too much then I'd start drawing like him. He's prolly right. I need to work my own thing! All these are from about 5 or 6 different "Pay-as-you-go" sessions at Cleveland Institute of Art. It's real chilled out and is the most refreshing thing of all time.

























Here's a sketch from restaurant I love in Cleveland called Tommy's. I usually stop here b4 the figure drawing for ultimate food healing. Try the cigar sandwich! Mix milkshake flavors and taste craziness!!


Also check out the insane little paper Lunar Module I found online. It is unbelievable. It is EXACTLY like the real NASA one and is all paper! There must be someone else out there who thinks this is awesome. It was a free download and then I just printed it out on my printer here. This little part here took me like 3 hours though, so I stopped building after that. I made my polygon version of it in Maya about the same way this one is built out of paper. I kind of botched it up, but still - very nice!!

Some more

I'm gonna try to post all the stuff I got laying around here so that I can't use it as a crutch when the novelty of this crazy new blog has worn off and inspiration might not be running as high.
Here's some more sketchbook!!

I'm doing it! I'm really doing it!!

Wow! I can't believe making a blog is this easy! Pretty much any idiot in the whole world can do this! Perfect!

Anyways, I wanna use this to share stuff I'm working on with classmates and the rest of the world. Feedback is good. So, hopefully people can find me and tell me what to start fixing.
Also I'm hoping it'll really motivate me and yada yada yada . . . . u get the idea.
So here's some stuff! I don't have much scanned, but now that I have my awesome blog inspiration, I'll get a bunch more up.


This one is me trying to figure out what a distant planet's landscape looks like. Unfortunately, to me, it keeps looking like Utah and lame Bill Watterson rip offs. Also, im thinking the clouds need to go. It'd be spacier x 10 with some planets and stars up there, right?

And this one is my two thesis characters. I did a Super Sculpey sculpts of them too.



Making things with sculpey is just about the most irritating thing in the whole world to me. Just when i get something not looking miserable, i'll start working on another part and later find i've been crushing the first part all along. Miserable! I wish I was able to make these things not be so lumpy and more awesome looking.

Moving on, here's a render of some thesis business I've been working on.


And one more of another thing

The Top one is the astronaut's ship and the bottom one is a bit of the alien's. I need to make the astronaut's way more hilarious. As it is, i just referenced picture's of NASA's Lunar Modules as close as I could. I wanted to get it structurally ok and understand how the heck the thing really fits together before I went about jumbling it all up and trying to caricature it.
The one below is just a weird and awkward little opening I'm working on for the alien's ship. It's getting really annoying to work on and I think I'm gonna move onto something else for a while. I started out wanting it to just be swamped with crazy engine stuff, but I've had about as much crazy engine stuff modeling as I can take for a bit. The rest of the ship is really incomplete right now, but I just discovered Gerry Anderson online and will be happy if I can make it 1/2 as cool as any of his.

And finally, here's some sketch work I've been werking! I don't have most of my book scanned, but here's a few of my favorite pages.

How do I make it so that every time i import a new picture, it will just go to the place where my cursor is or at least go to the end?! Right now it just keeps dumping images at the top and I have to drag them down. Someone help me!

Thanks for reading! I got lots more to post once I get through scanning all these things. So come back and visit me!

Right now I'm off to meet my old teacher from a post-secondary art class I had here in Ohio. His name is Blake and he is the best. Hopefully, I can catch him off guard and get a really hilarious picture of him and put it here so people can see how great Blake is.

Goodbye!!