gunpowder gallows

for character design:

so we get to do our own story. mine is about a young twentysomething, named Agnes, (with the black bob and dia de los muertos face) who through some strange series of events gets sucked into the realm of the dead, and discovers the literal "deathrock" scene - everyone is ghouls and ghosts and zombies and  practically all in darkwave, goth, or post-punk bands! yeah! And she meets Jasper/Lucian/Mordecai, who is invariably involved. He sings and plays piano; he's kinda like Lestat (from The Vampire Chronicles).
I love that I didn't use reference for any of these. EVEN jasper who basically IS Nick Cave. basically.
and here's the final for Agnes:

drawings with paint

rudimentary sketches for my dedviktorianz

sounds like a cool fashion line

sometimes I think I should just design text and typefaces. writing words affords me a singular pleasure like no other.

sum dead victorians

these I like:

these I like a considerable bit less:

memento mori, post-mortem photography is an obsession. I did these quick drawings quite fast, which was very fun and loosened me up. I intend to do many more. Sadly, these have all been lost in the great case of the Missing Sophomore Year Artwork. 

P.S.

thank you, darcey young, for showing me that not all dead victorians need to be black and white.

if only I could take visual journalism all the time

anna wrote me a poem <3

2nd semester sophomore year sketchbook