This arrived today, so it might be a good chance to explain how it actually got here. (btw, the pic sucks, but Sharma’s out of town).

A month or so ago, SCAD held their annual 24 hour competition. With graduation approaching, and without a previous chance to experience the out-of-body experience that everybody talks about, I decided to do the full thing before I left school.

There were a lot of really good challenges. The one that caught my eye was this pin-up thing for the Image comic, FireBreather. My concept was inspired by those awkward high school yearbook pictures that all of us have to suffer through (c’mon… you know you’ve got at least one). I thought it’d be appropriate.

Now this is why the whole thing was strangely bizarre. After 22 hours of not-so-straight work (there were raffles, pizza, and art students/friends that lost more and more of their sanity as sleepless hours ticked away), I handed in my finalized project, which I had completely and accidentally deleted, and if it weren’t for Heather (THA MAN!), who helped me track it back and save it, it still would be lost.

Given my state of sleeplessness I decided to leave before the end of the full 24 hours, and as I was slowly crawling through zombie goodbyes, Brenda, who, by now, seemed slightly frantic for split-second thresholds, asked “Aren’t you gonna stick around for the prizes?”

So at around 9:30 AM I actually find out there are prizes… and around at 10:30 AM I got one of them… too sleepy to understand things, I walked up perceiving time going as slowly as it was fast. By the way, friends Noodee and Katrin got the other prizes… congrats guys!

I was pretty excited that evening, at around 10:30 pm, when I woke up.

You can find the details in the Generate ‘08 blog.

Thanks to Ferni and Heather for posing as the punk dude and the pop chick respectively… that’s a funny story for later…

With this last piece, I finish my mfa thesis show. I guess that means I am graduating…

I’m pretty happy.

This one’s got a bit of my heritage in it.

This piece has been done for a while, but I have been reluctant to post it. Many friends have pointed out that some of the influences I’ve received from some artists are showing through a tad too much. I agree, and it concerns me. In the end, having a lawsuit for creating art that flows so naturally from me would certainly be discouraging towards carrying on as an artist.

I don’t know… Do you?

After realizing that there was little need for a self portrait, what with all the good photographer friends around, I found myself with a perfectly good sketch ripe for salvaging.

Sketch is a Frankenstein of several smaller sketches. Colors are a blend of Photoshop and some scanned ink spatters and streaks that were lying around.

Lately, there’s been a lot of people asking for my self-portrait. The need for one never really dawned on me. Nevertheless, it became a concern when the last the last person who requested it sharply stressed “You don’t have one?!!”

Maybe it’s about time to take care of this travesty…

So, in a road trip with a couple of friends, I took time and doodled. What seems like countless hours in the back of an economy rental can do funny things to your head.

I’ll be painting it soon.

So the blog groove finally reached me. Hopefully there’ll be more posts once I figure this baby out.

Come around.