Alien planet with spaceship.

This is a charcoal study that I did in preperation for a painting I'm working on. I've had an interest in exoplanets since I was young, and ever since I started art school I wanted to create a picture like this. I wanted to address the problem of how someone would light a scene on a planet when there was more than one star in the star system and still give it the sensability of a traditional landscape painting. I decided to set my planet in a trinary star system like the star system next door to ours (the Alpha Centauri system.) The plan is to have one star as big as ( or larger) than our sun providing the main light "off screen" and two, dim red dwarfs in the actual composition also providing a limited amount of light. I've also done a few color compositions.

Head studies.

These are from earlier this quarter. Hopefully after I'm done at Laafa I'll be updating more.

I'm going to try out this new look for my blog.

It seemed interesting to me.

I will be trying to update more regularly as I finish my last quarter.

I also wanted to share the website of new friend and teacher Kate Sammons.

Http://www.katesammons.com/

Mermaid project.

This is something from a project I was working on involving mermaids.

Today is draw the Prophet Muhammad day.

This is the day that some artist have set aside to show solidarity with the creators of South Park and their attempt to start a dialouge about why Islam is above satirial commentary when other faiths are not.

Wow that was a long sentance.

I personally have mixed feelings about this.
http://www.drawmuhammadday.com/

In any case happy cartooning.

Blackest night 8.

Recently read this final issue of Blackest night, a DC comics mini-series that has been running for the last 8 months. I haven't enjoyed a comic that much in some time. Thank you DC.

I am so jealous of these kids.

This would have been the coolest class lecture ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFFrt1V9Cao&feature=related