Rip Van Winkle

During my childhood, my mother kept a sculpture in our living room, which a toddler like myself was interested in but didn't give the piece the respect it deserved. So, I colored on it and possible broke off pieces. Well, now that I was taught skills and had a professional to advise me in it's repair, I took the opportunity to make up for my early childhood actions. 

 

Descending Night Repair: Take 1

 Adolf Alexander Weinman was a german born artist who move to American in 1880; he lived from 1870 to 1852. For the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 in San-Francisco, he sculpted two pieces "Descending Night" and "Rising Day"(cast in bronze). Both personifications of part of the day. Descending Night gracefully landing, representing the last moment of sun light at the day transforms to night. Her toes extending at her feet grasp at the ground as she lands and her wings push down about to envelope her. Her brother Rising Day (or Sun) is standing chest out, on the tips of his toes, ready to take flight with arms and wings extended. Something about him gives the air of Icarus, maybe not intended by the artist as he was the personification of a new day, a new beginning. 

This has to be my personal favorite sculpture, as much as I do love "Transformation of Daphne" which is a masterpiece without any need of defense.  Something about "Descending Night" touches a part of my heart and causes me to consider her my favorite. I was introduced to the sculpture after writing a piece about her in an essay for American Art History. After finishing that piece I quickly search for a miniature to purchase. I succeeded but due to a dreadful habit of mine, I was careless and broke her. At the time I didn't think it was possible to fix her but didn't have the heart to throw her away. After taking an internship which taught my key skills in repairing objects broken like her, I began my repair. 

Unfortunately, all but her legs kept and I needed to take my drastic measures to keep her from braking at the knees.  My solution will be revealed in Take 2. 

Bad Photography

When I take photos I like to capture what I find interesting but sometimes it isn't something that conforms to what is considered a worthy subject matter or just a bad shot that I liked for some reason. 

This picture has an air of mystery with it, without the other photographs around it I wouldn't have figured out its that jam they put between those italian cookies stuck to the edge of the box. 

Express Train to Babylon

These are a pair of night shots that were taking in different days and locations. The top was at Farmingdale State College, the bottom in the Babylon area. 

I love this photo, but it isn't a pretty one is it. That fly was just relaxing on the rosebud, he let me take a whole bunch of shots before flying off. 

Hole in the ground 

Broken Glass on Campus

This is the reason we can have nice things. 

I think this was a good shot, just the focus was a tab, just a slight bit, maybe I little off. 

Farmingdale meets Silent Hill

New Book Case: Final

For the past number of weeks this have been my project, redesign an old bookcase for my room.

I decided to be cheap and lazy with my bookcase, so I painted it instead of staining. 

I used a sponge to add the copper color, which I think came out better then I expected. 

Finished and set up in my room, I love it. It fits with my decor, I even have more room for books. 

The cat in the center, may become my next project. I need to fix his ear and I have the a black apoxy clay for it too.
He was a gift from a friend and I feel its only right for me to make the little guy whole again with my skills. 

Junk Continues - Comic book edition

This is the only piece I'm presenting that may make it's way to the final product. 

One of the side project that I am working on is a comic called Gravediggers. Most of the main story still need to be fleshed out but I do have part of two side stories written. They are not finished and will be something that I will work on in the next couple of months. I'm hoping by december to have a finalize script for the first two issue of Alex's story. 

The girl with the purple hair is Alex the character I created for this project. She was based on an experience I had when I became very ill and was bed ridden for almost 3 full weeks. A person like myself would lose their mind being stuck like that I did a little. The experience was very inspiring and has effected my life greatly along with helping me create a rather interested character. The picture to the right is of her shared dorm room from before the earth was overrun by zombies. 

These are the pages to the first chapter of Alex's Story. Sadly, all of them will not be used in the finished comic, I plan to redo all of them after the script has been re-worked. These pages we more of a test run to get my started in making a comic and to show how willing I was to put the time into a project. This isn't my best work but I know the more practice I get the better I will be at making comic pages. 

When it comes of Gravediggers most of my concept art has been done traditional. That even goes for any of my projects really. Talking about other projects I do happen to have some digital work involving those. 

This above was an idea that came to me one day and I didn't know how to make it work. It never had a name but I wanted to make a world that was turned upside down, by an experiment which pretty much broke reality. The main characters had to travel around the new world to reset what was changed by the accident. The moment this accident happened everyone got one wish to come true and the world had to make all of them work. Which caused this really weird overlapping for science fiction and fantasy. Some of my concepts I really fell in love with and I mean to implement in other projects. For example that tower in the first panel, it connect the earth with the moon, the two looking sort of like a odd looking molecule.

That story evolved into another which throws out most of the ideas that I had. But the new idea I tell you is a lot better and has a more concise storyline. It's name is Project 5. 

This lady is my superhero, her name is the Muse. Another project that I will be working on and I hope by February of 2013 to have the first two issues scripts finished and ready to be turned into a comic. 

I tend to bite of more then I can chew when it comes to things I want to work one. Currently, I have  7 full comic book ideas which I want to work on. These range for short stories to full length series. From four panel comics to 40 issue story arcs, which currently I only have myself to work on them with. Once I get a few of them going I think I may find myself a partner for continuing the stories.

I'm still eager to work with other people on projects so that I mean build my skills. Hopefully this blog will be the place for which I summit future progress on my projects.