ROM

Drew these while at the ROM over summer break. they're drawn with pen in a 8.5x11 sketch book 

Nominated!!

Just found out that I'm nominated for 4 of the 6 awards in the grad show: drawing, painting, academic merit and the faculty award of excellence. Honestly cannot believe it. It's been a hell of a year and I'm so humbled and honoured to have been nominated for 1, nonetheless 4. Wow! Won't be able to be at he ceremony tonight but congrats to the whole graduating class of vca 2013 and good luck to all my fellow nominees

End of VCA- Digital Imagery

For our final in Digital Imagery, we were assigned a room in the school, mine was the Sheridan Library, and we had to draw it in a panoramic view, scan in the drawings, and paint it with a narrative. We were also assigned codes for a portal, mine are in the two doors, anf they lead to other students' panoramas. A lot of the panoramas were totally repurposed, but i decided to make the room recognizable, since I thought that would add to the narrative of the murder scene. This was my first ever digital painting, and i did it before i got my tablet so i painted it with a mouse and the trackpad on my laptop... slightly brutal. but im pretty happy with how it turned out, especially in the panoramic view.  

End of VCA- Sculpture

This is my work from my final semester of sculpture.

This first project we had to repurpose a book. If you cant tell yet, i have a fascination with anatomy. I gutted the book and used it as a case for the anatomical heart made from book pages. there is a little bit of air dry fimo to make a form for the heart. I started this in class for our experiment, and the prof loved it so i ran with it for the final. 

This was for our "miniature world" project. these are the rough photos, but gives an idea of the work. I made a construction site out of a tipped over picnic basket and had the little figures "working" on the food. the figures are originally little soldiers thats i painted and repurposed. had a lot of fun with it

End of VCA- Drawing

These are my drawing projects from my final semester of Advanced Drawing. I studied anatomy and i worked with ink and conte on mylar for all 4. 

Straight A's on all 4. Victory. 

This is my first project of the semester, and my favourite work. The project was to incorporate your theme (anatomy) into a moving figure drawing. 

18x24

                                 This is the third project, it was an exquisite corps, i don't have a  photo of it with the second half, done by my friend Adam, but this was originally drawn from a costumed model holding a trumpet. there is a also a crow that goes in the background near the head but its not in the photo.

           18"x 5'

This was my fourth and final drawing. I cut out the shape of the body to set it on the paper so none of the extra mylar is on the finished piece. It was a layered drawing, the heart, ribs cage, and torso are all separate pieces.  The theme for this piece is the struggle of the inner and outer self.

18x24 

This was the second project. We had to draw a still life of objects relating to our theme, my group had a bunch of objects that were composed around a donkey skull. We then had to make a non figurative (abstract) drawing based on the composition. I took the shape of the donkey skull, zoomed in very close, and repeated the shape while turning the paper as i drew. this is what i came up with. 

End of VCA- Painting

This is my final painting collection for third year VCA. we had to make a cohesive collection at home for 50% of our final grade. My series is called "twisted self portrait" and its depicting a body through the eyes of someone who struggles with Body Image. These are progress shots, and the long photo at the bottom showing all 5 are the finals. 

I really struggled through the process, but they were well received by the prof and so im happy with that.

Each one is 18x24 - Oil on Wood

VCA

i just found my first animation portfolio, which needless to say, got me rejected. I came into Sheridan with little to no formal art training ever, and lets just say i didn't see how bad i really was. VCA taught me everything i know from square 1. I know everyone says that VCA wont help them and they would rather take the time after fundies to work on the portfolio alone. Go to VCA. it changed my life and taught me everything and if i hadnt done it, no way i ever would have gotten into animation.
Im posting my expression sheet from 2011 and 2013 cause i think the expression sheet was the strongest of my portfolio and shows the HUGE contrast. i went from straight 1's to straight 4's in the scoring sheet for this one.

I hope you can figure out which one is which.....