Hey Ya

Anybody got any ideas for a short story I can illustrate? Mine always end up long and compicated and philosophical and depressive and mundane. I'd like it to be sort of random but still have a point. And short please.
So GO: ....ideas!

Updates

Dear Nobody,

For those of you that still follow my blog (probs nobody), I just wanted to say that I'll gets some more stuff up after midterms and all the craziness at school and of winter subside. I'd like to get my portfolio finished and start churning out some pages for my new comic. Thanks

Love, Doug.

I Can Draw Flowers, Mommy!

Hawaii seems nice?

Wine and Motorcycles

I did a picture i took in France of a waiter.

Architecture of the World Colors

This is the finished version for my portfolio.

Muchos Edificios Importantes

Here's the rough version of another drawing I've been working on for the portfolio. I originally drew the pencils in my sketch pad and then after scanning it to the computer, I changed the Leaning Tower of Piza to Chizén Itzá on the bottom right. I also added the great wall and Sidney Opera House on the left. Hopefully I'll be able to color it.
Cheers! and if I don't post again before friday, I hope that everyone has a Merrry Christmas and a safe holiday.

Weird things

Here is another poster for literary magazine, Crazy pictures of teachers. Not as detailed as the other, but oh well.

May The Arts Be WIth You

So here's a poster I did for Literary Magazine at our school. Our theme this year is Literary Magazine: Where Dreams Come True. It's basically trying to catch people's attention to try to get them to submit a story or poem or photo or drawing into us. So I thought what a better way to do that than to make fun of their favorite teachers. Obviously this one is a Star Wars spoof. Hopefully if you go to Hempfield, you'll be seeing them in the halls and then submit something to us. Please comment!

Castle Retreat

Here's another one I did for the portfolio. It was made slightly different than the last, this time I printed out the pencils and inked by hand.



EDIT: So apparently it wasn't enough that the people of the castle surrendered and retreated from their home in the castle, most likely ruining their lives forever, becuase my dad said, fire. Soooo, now we got fire bursting outta the castle. Fun stuff.

A Different Side of Rock

I am interesting in a summer camp for art at Washington at St. Louis. Its bundles of money, but I could possibly get a scholarship if I submit some of my work. So I decided to ramp it up and make some new stuff. Here's the first completed piece for my portfolio. It started as a lame pencil work without much detail and became pretty awesome I think. I even saved each step progressively to display my steps of work.

1. Rough blue pencils, start as shapes and circles then move to more defined things. I use a graphic tablet which is great and I do a lot of scribbling just to find what I want things to look like. These blue lines can later be easily removed with Photoshop.
2. With inking, I can either continue with my graphic tablet and ink digitally, or print the pencils out and ink by hand, and then scan that back into the computer. I can zoom to get greater detail digitally, but I can also work in homeroom by hand. Hardly matters either way, however, for this drawing I did the inks digitally, outlining, with some complete black shading.
3. Colors are the most drastic step. I used a new method, and consequently think that the colors come out much clearer and brighter than previous pieces. Fairly basic, I'm not a very good colorer, but eh.
4. I think another dynamic step. I was going to put in a blank solid colored background, but my dad told me to "go big or go home". I was too lazy to draw in lights or people, so I favored editing in a phot onto the selected background regions. The picture was very dark and vivid, and the drummer got lost in the action, so I made the background more transparent.
5. Finally, I added sillouettes of crowd people and touched up any yucky areas.

Hope y'all like it!