Owls Telling The Story of My Life

I don't usually blog about other websites, but this one is just too perfect.

So, for those of you who are not aware, there's a meme on the internet called Advice Animals in which different creatures are shown describing how to react in certain situations. Animals such as, insanity wolf or socially awkward penguin.

Well, last night I discovered F*ck Yeah Art Student Owl. And as someone who only recently disembarked from the crazy roller coaster ride that is art college, Art Student Owl is only too familiar. The late night projects, the highbrow B.S., and the deadly poisons we have to paint with are all part of the culture I've been surrounded by for the last four years of my life. Reading FYASO makes me experience something halfway between homesickness and Stockholm syndrome. Those four years were amazing, but god were they hard.

FYASO is a painfully accurate and absolutely hilarious insider's guide to what it's like to be an art major. Seriously, go check it out right now.

Cloak and Dagger

Just finished the Cloak & Dagger piece I was working on and I'm pleasantly surprised at how it turned out.

Rich Harrington, a fellow illustrator and former teacher of mine, used to say that "Everything looks like the worst thing you've ever done, halfway through" and that's certainly been the case for this image.

I captured Dagger pretty well within the first few minutes, but Cloak continued to look terrible until about halfway through.

Take a look at the animation to see what I mean.

My Messy Studio

A brief intro - I'm an (emerging) professional illustrator and I just graduated from Moore College of Art & Design with my hard won BFA.

I was voted the "most likely in the illustration department to get lost in the mess of her own studio" and it was well deserved. I started out with one desk and oh so slowly, like a blob of unstoppable goo, the overwhelming horde of my art debris spread to the desk next to me and the one after that. At it's height, the Guzzo Empire had annexed three full size desks, one mini desk, 2/3rds of a wall, and a trashcan, which I used like a shelf to hold my laptop computer.

This is a shot from the end of the year, when my belongings were "neatly" stacked on the table, waiting to be packed up and shipped out. My senior thesis, Apocalypse: The Game, certainly left it's mark. Most of the papers on the wall are from those illustrations.