my logo

So just fyi, and for me... but this fishy thing is my logo. It's an A and an M which are my initials but stacked so that it looks like a fish. So yeah I put it on all my stuff so I know its mine and it's a fish cause I'm a Pisces. OK.

Update: This design was originally going to look more like the artist Albrecht Durer's signature, but after turning the page sideways to draw more I realized that it kind of looked like an angelfish. I have always been a big fan of fish and aquariums so it seemed kind of natural to have my signature reflect some of my interests. The Pisces thing only helped solidify it in my mind. This logo has gone through a few changes, primarily being simplified, but of late the M has changed to an S to reflect my married name.

More Lin

Hell again and welcome to the encore of Lin Kohaku. She was only a head before and now. Now she is whole. I'm working on a color version in Photoshop, but here is the black and white line art. I drew her today at work in pencil on vellum paper which is lovely for drawing btw. So yes, that's all.

Lin Kokahu
ink, graphite on vellum
July 2007

Nori Nori

Last but not least is Nori Nori. I like her name, it's from the latin name for the spotted eagle ray. I was working on a lovely watercolor of her, but screwed up on the eye and made the mistake of trying to fix it and so ruining her entire head... so I'm heart broken at the loss of my watercolor, but luckily I had scanned the original. So here she is. Not too overly ray-like, not like Lin anyway. I thought of making her head ray-shaped, but that ray is not so pretty in the head and has a BIG beaky thing, hence the eagle part of its name, so no. Anyway, the idea is to have a fisher-person who is a mermaid who fishes with a hook and line cause it's a silly nostalgic overly complicated human way to do things, but extremely fascinating. Also she fights with a ball and chain, but not a ball, but an anchor, hence the anchor in two of the images... no its not based off that chick from that one video game as my brother pointed out, as you can see I clearly haven't played the game or know anything about it... but no. Right, so she's in graphite and ink. See you all next time I've got new stuff!

Lin Kohaku

Alright, so here's my second post today. This is Lin Kohaku. Her name is taken from the fish shes based off which is the koi variety called kohaku. Then I remembered that Haku's real name, in Spirited Away, is something something Kohaku, so I had to pick her first name from that movie, and rather than Chihiro, I picked Lin, because I like her personality better for my mermaid lady here. She was drawn in graphite, watercolored and then inked. Shes a cutie no?

New Stuff!

Hello everyone, Well I've finally graduated and settled into my new graphic design position over in Irving, now I just have to pray that when the internship is over they keep me! Anyway, I've managed to make some new stuff for a couple of online campaigns I'm in. Here are a couple of images of the ideas I had for my mermaid person for our One Piece campaign. The girl to the left is the first idea I had of based on a lion fish, the next post to follow is off of a koi (specifically the Kohaku variety) and the third post today is based off a spotted eagle ray... I could have used angelfish in my last post but I wanted something new. Let me know what you think!

Ningyo
graphite and ink

Angelfish

Angelfish
Graphite, Corel Painter
Spring 2007

So here's one from before Adia and her Daughter, where I was still using Painter. But I like the cleaner gradations and colors in Photoshop better, and here I was still tracing over all my scanned graphite lines so it took forever.

Come to My Presentation!

To everyone who has ever looked at this site,

You are cordially invited to my Senior Thesis Presentation of my thesis paper:
Comics and Manga: The relationship between American and Japanese comics after WWII

It will be held on May 11, 2007 at 6- 7pm in the Art History Auditorium on the University of Dallas Campus. With receptions to follow from 7:30 to 9pm. The University is located at 1845 E. Northgate Dr. Irving TX, 75062, or go to their website for more information at www.udallas.edu. See you there!