Alex

Alex Krokus arting at the NY Public Library

Some Late Bears

The inky bear is crushing a poorly drawn ballpoint bear.

Melursus ursinus

These guys are so fluffy and dumpy. Just look at this ones goofy grin.

Brooklyn Bridge

I went sketching down at South Street Seaport with Stephen Gardner. It turned out to be an enjoyable day, despite the rainy start.
I got some okay drawings done.
This one was the best.

Elephas Maximus, Loxodonta Africana

Some AMNH elephants for you!
More soon!

Sketch 'em up Books.

Some sketches and so on.
Museum of Natural History, Pratt Draw-a-thon, and sleepy significant other.

A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

A silly old piece from last semester.

"A Wolf found great difficulty in getting at the sheep owing to the vigilance of the shepherd and his dogs."



"But one day it found the skin of a sheep that had been flayed and thrown aside, so it put it on over its own pelt and strolled down among the sheep. The Lamb that belonged to the sheep, whose skin the Wolf was wearing, began to follow the Wolf in the Sheep's clothing."



"So, leading the Lamb a little apart, he soon made a meal off her, and for some time he succeeded in deceiving the sheep, and enjoying hearty meals."

Stephen Gardner: The Figure Drawing Saga

It's been an awful long time since I uploaded any work. It's unfortunately been due to an awful art slump. I've only just recently began turning it around... ever so slowly.
Every figure drawing class up until this week has been equally painful to rubbing my face with a hot iron and about a frustrating as nailing jello to a tree.
Though, this week proved to show some promise and fun.
Not to mention our new wonderful professor, Stephen Gardner! What a delightful surprise to find out he was taking over for Dorothy (though I miss Dorothy dearly and wish her my best).


Anyway, the class has been extremely fun and I can already see more strength my drawings. I'm enjoying it, its been unlike any other drawing class I've had.
Anywho here are some of the drawings I've done recently:






Crashinda* is fierce. I enjoy drawing her.
Anyway, I hope things continue to go upward.


With help from good friends and good professors I'm sure I can get through any stupid slumps.
YEAH TEAM FIT.






*I think her name is Grashinda or Crashinda... something shinda... shes good.

Pachyderms!

Pen and Ink, promoting the AMNH.
I think Elephants are becoming my favorite animal!

Lazy Jelly Sandwiches

These few weeks have been nothing short of wonderful.

It has mostly consisted of obscure instruments, questionable art supplies, delightful people, breakfast burritos and extreme mammals.

Here are some of the final pages of my moleskin

"I'm seeing bones! I love it!"

Brought to you by Tom Waits.

James Train and Other Sketches

I haven't really been arting very much lately. A sketch here, a random painting there...



I will hopefully get this done before school starts. I don't have the energy to explain what the entire painting in a whole is going to be but, I can tell you that what you're looking at are brains and not entrails.


"Put it in the trash can! You don't want the raccoons to make off with his pride!"


And a Julian.

4th of July Sketches

There are lot of weird looking people on the beach.
I drew them when I wasn't busy being ravaged by the sun. I only wish I got more drawings done.

Jana

Quick ink drawing with white acrylic.

Behind the Mask

So. It's my friend Alex's birthday.
We discovered the movie Behind the Mask the Rise of Leslie Vernon.
And its one of the best movies I ever saw. We love it.
So I decided to make her a Leslie card.
I think hes wonderful!
Totally check this movie out, you'll love it if you love horror/witty/comedic movies.
its epic and totally not conventional!
Cult classics ftw!!!



I drew the card on a bit of card stock with the wonderful prisma inky pens I got for my birthday a week ago!
It's such a dark and creepy birthday card... XD

Art Dump 2

I took a quick break to return the mad overdue library books that I had...
D:

So yeah, i'm dumping basically everything I have now, just as a reference for commission work. I'll eventually just post new things in one blog at a time. Like a new project im working on and so on... but for now, i'm purging my hard drive and putting it all up here... XD

wooot

Self Portrait! I was really bored one day, and just decided to draw my face. So i sat infront of a mirror... took maybe a half an hour...
XD for some reason, my teacher is in love with it. It has been featured in a lot of art shows...

Charactures of Locke and Hurely from LOST I love it...
They're done in water color... I'd love to do more of these :D!

This guy was a commission for a tattoo design! I love him! I named him Sir Alexander!
The character was born from a friend of a friends dream, and they wanted him tattoo'd onto them! I don't know if they ever got it done... but the loved the design!

My header. This was the first Piece for school I did this year. I love it. It was drawn from a memory I had from last summer. Two of my friends and I, roasting waffles over a campfire.
You only wish you were that awesome. :D
Colored pencils!

This was a birthday card for my dad. He loves LOST soooo... yeah, card!


AHHHH.

School Work Dump.

These are some of the Projects I've done for school...
^^ just for reference!

This is kinda what I visualized when I listened to the song "light my fire" by The Doors. I used Watercolor, marker, ink, and some gouache for this piece. Its pretty small, like, maybe 8 1/2 by 11

A scene from a cafe in Greenwich village! These are two friends of mine. I loved the moment, so I decided to illustrate it. I love their expressions.
This was done in colored pencil, this again is a rather small piece.

This was a assignment given to me. We had to look at Robert Rauschenberg's work and create a self portait reflecting his multimedia style. This is what I created. To this day, i'm still very proud of the piece! This is a large work... I'd say 13inches by something.... XD I created this with Acrylic gloss medium and lots of elbow grease... or finger grease...? XD

This was a project to draw the contour of a messy space. Can you find Lion-o?
XD Sharpies!

A forever unfinished portrait of a good friend of mine. I left it unfinished, because I didn't think it needed to be finished! :D Colored pencils!