woaaaah

sketchbook dickery with some ps flatz

i've had the hardest time drawing this summer. every time i try it feels so forced and lame. i do enjoy this pencil that josh gave me though.

new site!

hey folks, I just wanted to say that I have an awesome remade website thanks to Mitchell. bravo bravo high five

http://www.nickdraws.com

photobooth update!

more stuff from the moleskin. I haven't really been treating this sketchbook like the last one. less "finished" pages and more wtf scribbles and bad drawings everywhere.




Ted gave me this awesome brick of a sketchbook a little while ago and I'm just getting it started. working larger (large for me anyways) gives me a little bit more freedom. I'm liking it so far. I've been using it as place to "take notes" in during my single summer class.




I also got this sweet shirt from this awesome band called Black Breath. I saw them last Friday with Victims and they were mindblowingly awesome. I giggle at the demon woman with the eye-nipples and her male genitalia.

I'm super lost right now ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. god my scanner at home sucks. also, does anyone know any sweet torrents or anything for ps cs4? i'm currently using elements 4 :(

newwwwwww cards!

I got some new cards since it's summer and I felt like it! just a short run tho!


also, I won $250 bucks at this local NJ art competition in Lambertsville. cha-ching!

previews and such

here's a two previews for upcoming stuff. The first is this drawing/painting i've been working on for a while since i'm trying to see what happens when i spend a long time doing a piece instead of like 20 minutes. it's supposed to be done for this juried art show by this weekend since that's when the drop-off is, but I am thouroughly unsure of if it will get finished in time. the 2nd is this sketchbook page that i've been working on and off on. newly primed!


this last piece was something I did awhile ago that I was never satified with. annnnnd I'm still not though it is better. graphite, ink, acrylic, digital

summertime!

Hey everyone, I'm finally getting around to update this thing again. Last semester was hell and you have no idea how happy I am that it's over. Lot's of drama that made it very hard to get work done. I feel like my drawing skillz have worsened which is why I'll be taking 2 drawing classes next semester. Speaking of which here's my schedule for fall!

monday: abnormal and personal psychology- Akira Otani
tuesday: Illustration concepts1-Allan Comport, Drawing: Illusionism-Susan Waters-Eller
wednesday: Drawing: Sumi-ink- Youngmi Organ
thursday: A Baroque Feast- Kim Anderson
friday: offfffffffffffff (but I'm currently signed up for DIY)

I think I'm going to try and go to Art Center in Pasadena for my Spring semester of this year. If anyone who goes there has any advice please tell me! I'm not sure what classes I'll be able to take but they'll probably be 300-400 levels? I also need to figure out where I'll be living since I don't think they have dorms. It should be nice to get out of Baltimore after the fall and focus on getting some hardcore work done.

Sooooooo this summer I'm interning for a few dudes at a little place called the pencil factory. It's basically a revamped warehouse in Brooklyn that used to be an actual pencil factory and there are like 6 floors with a wide array of creative companies. I'm working for a group of freelancers who share studio space most notably Ted, Josh, Sam, Grady, Chris, and Rachel. I'm hoping Frank Stockton makes an appearance sometime so I can keep being an illustration creepster. lol. My first day I was working with Josh (who's one of my favorite illustrators ever so I was mad nervous) and his studio-mates Niel and Alex and it was pretty shweet. If anything exciting happens I shall keep everyone posted!

and congrats to my dawg Cam for interning for Mr. James Jean.

anyways, here are some sketchbook pages from semi-recent times. the first 6 are from my old book and the last 3 are some from the new book that has been rather uncooperative. Not sure how I feel about most of these but w/e it's all good.