between classes

Just fooling around in photoshop before my last class. I'm using this stuff (I hope) for intertitles for silent parts in my friend's movie. I like how versatile printmaking is!

stumped

My first ever woodblock prints. It's supposed to be an aerial view of a tree stump.

brain scan

Top third of a head for printmaking! Linoleum cut. On the bright side, there is a lot of room for improvement.

email exchange with my advisor

From me:

Warren,

Even though I won't officially begin working on my project until next
year, I figure it's a good idea to get a head start. Since I would like
to create a full-length comic book for the project, I need an
overarching theme or idea before I can even begin. I have one, and I
wanted to see what you think of it.

I recently read an article in the New York Times about "confessional"
graphic novels - an extremely popular genre. From R. Crumb to David
Healtey (who just released a book, "My Brain is Hanging Upside Down"),
the "confessional" graphic novel has proven extremely successful.
Personally, though, I'm not sure how comfortable I feel with the
confessional style comic, not because I'd feel embarrassed to give all
the juicy details, but rather, because I feel like it's presumptuous to
believe that people would be interested in the specifics of my life. I
don't feel like I've really earned it yet to be that self- indulgent.
When thinking about the comics I've already drawn, I realized that many
of them come from stories that other people have told me about their
lives that have affected me in one way or another. This got me thinking.

Instead of writing a confessional graphic novel about myself, I thought
perhaps I could compile lots and lots of stories from everyone I know
about both insignificant and significant moments in their lives and
re-enact them through a single invented character. In a way, then, I
could compose a collective confession.

Please let me know what you think. I don't want to begin the research
and work for this if you think it's a bad idea.

Thank you very much. I look forward to hearing back from you.
Molly

From him:

Go for it, but make it truly confessional. Warren

the dumps

needing to get better at stretching

I started my sketchbook today for printmaking class. This is what's in it!

radio personalities

"Radio with a BITE" ???? ehhh?



I may pull an all-nighter - not by choice. I can't tell if I like this because I'm so tired that I'm delirious + overtaken by bad taste or if it is at least cute potentially.

+ snake guy - I feel for you, snake guy.

something...

...is better than nothing. I'm glad that school's starting. Printmaking should be really fun and it will definitely force me not only to be creative but also to make bigger projects than I usually do. I need to really buckle down and decide what my senior thesis comic is going to be about - it's just so hard because the possibilities are endless!

I feel optimistic about this year. Things are going to work out my way. By the end of the semester, I hope to have enough comics finished that I can self-publish a little mini-zine of my work. Until then, all I have to show for tonight/today (but maybe I will post again when it is truly day!) is this quick Sharpee drawing of myself. I will try to make much more, very soon. Really!

quick sketch

I just whipped this us real fast...I may or may not follow through on these things.

time off

i am going to take a few days off to recharge.