Girly

Girly
Ink
Fall 2005

Well she's a cutie and I love her dress. The bodice makes me happy. I think that's why I drew it. She was just a doodle till I got the urge to ink everything in my sketchbook. Again the hands are bad, but overall I like her quite a lot and its rare that I do sketches that are so... girly.

Another Angel

Angel
Graphite
Fall 2004

So yeah, here's another angel. She's an older style with bad human figure proportions and hands, but I was really just playing around with lines. It's the wings that are different. Instead of just drawing a feather I tired to use the little lines to make them seem fluffy. Not sure if I succeeded or not but just thought I'd throw her up there, she is one of my favorites, even with all her flaws... It's her face.

Levity

Well for a bit of a change let me introduce you. These two are called "Wiggle and Poop". So my father keeps telling me that I should become a newspaper comic artist really every time he sees Pearls before Swine. So playing around I came up with these two. I even gave them flip books in all my notebooks for classes. Wiggle is the little floating hamster with ADD. He's super hyper but doesn't say much other than "Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee." Poop is the larger of the two. He's easy going and naive and really just a cutie. Together they go and do boring stuff but somehow it always becomes weird. Of course. Don't ask me why I named them such, Ive always had a bizarre mind.

Kimono

Kimono
Ink
Spring 2005

This is an old piece and like my other old pieces, its got this recurring theme of the beautiful girl and a dragon. That was my thing at the time I guess, but I didn't seem to realize it till now. I guess its really the only ones I would finish. Anyway, I call this Kimono because it is what I spent the most time on.

In Blue

In Blue
Oil Pastels on Vellum Paper
Spring 2006

So here I was really just having fun with the pastels and the paper I had from the Angel Project. This is after Angel 2, but I really just let myself have fun with the colors. After doing the three Angels, I was really tired of black and white and gray.

Deep One

Deep One
Etching
Spring 2006

So my boyfriend found this picture of the occult god Cthulhu and asked me to make a print after it. So I did. I altered the pose just a little and made two plates, one with the line drawing and one with the watery bubbles, it was after the learning experience with the Black Eye, so I tried to use the multiple etching process to get different lighter and darker shades to my advantage. So, for example, the eye is not a different color but simply deeper etched.

Black Eye

Black Eye
Etching
Spring 2006

Believe it or not, but this is the same plate that created Eye. However, I was playing around with etching the same plate again. So I was trying to get bright highlights and mid tones, but it came out all black really instead. I still get the eye shape from it and in the actual piece there are darker outlines to the shapes, but I kind of like how really abstract this one became.

Eye

Eye
Etching
Spring 2006

Here was one of the other early projects in printmaking. We were practicing etching trimetal plates and this was really the first one I did. This abstract eye shape was inspired off Blank Face, and soon after I created an abstracted ear piece as well, but that one was 22x30 so I don't have a scanner large enough to post it.

Face

Face
Lithography
Spring 2006

Here is the version of Blank Face in color. I used four plates for this one in each yellow, red, blue, and black. I was really just experimenting with getting more than just those colors, as well as how to lay out the colors and the overall technique. I'm not sure if I love the way that I colored the image, but I do love all the color, if that made sense...

Blank Face

Blank Face
Lithograph
Spring 2006

I began taking printmaking as a studio, of course it was too late to become a major in the field, however I really enjoyed making these images. I had found this in a preliminary stage as a doodle that I had done earlier and decided to make a set inspired off this.

Angel Sketch

study for Angel project
Graphite
Aug 2005

This is from the same photo of Angel 1, of course here it is uncropped. I really liked the pose in this one and there was going to be a bigger wing and of course more clothes an body. But for the sake of time I chose to only use the faces and shoulders so that the three pieces would feel more like a cohesive whole.

Angel 3

Angel 3
Graphite and Charcoal on Vellum Paper
Dec 2005

Here is the final piece in the series of angels. I really liked working on the little bit of wing and the hair. I hope the details again show through.

Angel 2

Angel 2
Graphite and Charcoal on Vellum Paper
Dec 2005

Here is the second of the three angel pieces I did. The first one is really my favorite, but that is because I feel it is more detailed than the others, of course the first took about 4 months to create and the deadlines for class were rapidly approaching to have the others completed. But again the dramatic lighting and the serene subject matter creates a great piece.

Angel 1

Angel 1
Graphite and Charcoal on Vellum Paper
Dec 2005

This is the first of a series of three angels, inspired by the photographs taken in Rome the semester before. In these works I was really focusing on the play of light and dark and all the mid tones. Also I had recently taken a human figure drawing class and was looking to continue to keep working on that discipline.

Pisa Cathedral

Here's another where my theme of angels creeps in. The fantastic architecture is overwhelming, but in this perspective it is the human relation to the space, and the immense feeling of space that is created by the building, that takes center stage.

Angel

Here's a photo from the Bridge of Angels in Rome. Taken during my semester there for school, it is the theme that I picked for myself. Aside from angels being my namesake, their serenity and beauty is what I aspire to. I have a series of drawings after more photos I took around Rome, which I hope to have up soon. Stay Tuned.

Delphi

I also love to travel and in Spring of 2005 I went with my school, the University of Dallas, to Rome for a semester. By far one of the best parts was visiting Greece and the ancient ruins at Delphi. I love photography as another art form, so here is my favorite.

One Action Combat

Aside from traditional drawings and mediums, I also have extensive knowledge of many Adobe programs such as Photoshop and InDesign. As a favor for a friend I laid out a pdf and did some art to add to the information for this new role playing game he and his friends were creating. Here is the finished pdf linked from my GeoCities page:

www.geocities.com/starangelakki/1ActionCombat.pdf

All the artwork is mine, as well as the page layouts and the border art. The content is copyright to the Undead Presidents. I also designed their logo. They used to have a website, but I believe it has been removed.

UPDATE: Found a better image of the original uncolored logo.

Before and After Photos

Photo Editing also done by me... 2005

Mermaid and Dragon

Mermaid and Dragon
Fall 2003
Graphite

The Crow

The Crow
Spring 2003
Graphite, Photoshop

Satyr Girl

Satyr Girl (inspired by MtG)
Spring 2005
Graphite

Dragon

Dragon (inspired by DnD)
Fall 2004
graphite

Kira Aso

Kira Aso, from Mars (manga)
August 2004
graphite

Asian Girl and Dragon

Asian Girl and Dragon
September 2004
Graphite and Ink on Paper

Dragon and Girl

Dragon and Girl
August 2003
graphite on paper

Welcome

Welcome Everyone, This is my first post on my new blog site, Little Black Marker. It will be dedicated to the work that I have created in the past, current projects and future endeavors. So stay tuned to see the best of my work. This includes drawing, lithography, etchings, paintings as well as logo design and created pdfs. Thanks