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Charcoal Drawings

Both of these charcoal drawings are from my Drawing 2 class- from this Spring Semester. We made collages out of photos/etc. Then from the collages we rendered the 20x24in charcoal drawings. Charcoal is by far one of my favorite mediums to work with. You do a lot of erasing to get the white, and get to blend with your hands.

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"Soften the City"- 22x36 : This was my first large project for my Integrated Design I class. The subject matter for the posters were based off of this years- Art Symposium at Biola (all art conference for art students and the community) The topic of it was - how the city influences our beliefs and actions, specifically when looking at art and culture making. I based my poster after the idea that our cities are so urbanized and cramped that sometimes we need a little nature to be re-introduced. Organic meets Geometric, the city can be softened by the freshness of nature. For example (think of Central Park). ....

So I sketched and sketched, painted, etc and scanned in a ton of stuff. After that, I basically cut my sketches up ---and started compiling them together to get some different ideas. The background is a watercolor. The buildings are just ink drawings. The landscapes are made with markers.






World Issue Drawing: "Environment"- 5x7
This drawing is from my Drawing 2 class from this Spring Semester. We worked on this for about 2-3 weeks. The subject matter for this drawing was to pick a world issue and compile a 5x7 collage. Then from the collage, we were to exactly render a copy using a transfer technique and shading.

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Finally re-posting a better version of my series of photography panels of my friend Brianna. I did these in the beginning of last semester for my digital tools class.

some artwork from fall and spring semester

The dinosaurs/dragons above i designed on illustrator for my digital tools class last semester (fall). They were created with the paint brush tool. These were some of my favorites out of about ten.

Road Trip

Finally put up some pictures of my road trip from this past January...

It's just one of those experiences in life i don't want to forget.
It was only a couple of days.
But- i spent it with some of my dearest friends.
We had a great time.
We drove to Santa Cruz and stayed with my extended family there. Drove up the 1, and headed to San Fransisco for the day, and ended our trip in San Luis Obispo for the last day.

I'm one of those people who would rather drive in the country side- for days and days, and go camping--- then go on a Cruz or fly in a plane. There's not many better things then driving through nature, good music, and good friends.

the beauty i see when i drive up the coast, through mountains and through forests--- is just another reminder about how GREAT my God is... Proof of His existence is right in front of our eyes. God is an incredible artist.


"I would survey all those open miles
And line them up in single file
Everywhere I look I see green scenic sublime
And all those oceanic vistas are so divine"