The Disparate Apology

(that ended up being the title of the comic I wrote for Elements/Drawing)

HERE IS THE ENTIRE THING!

 

  

And that's the end of it :D

Till next time~!

Comic Time

So for some reason I decided to do another joint final between Drawing and Elements.

The problem? It is a 10 page comic... which is way more work that I thought. Seriously, comic makers have gained so much respect in my eyes. (I forgot how much work it was, especially since the last one I did was only 6 pages and the script was already written for me.)

Anyways, here are the first few pages~! 

page 1

page 2

page 3

page 4

page 5

page 6

page 7

   So much work, so much still left to do. @__@

Next time I update this, it will be either this completed, or a few prints that I need to document.

Till next time~

-Ben

Such Short Notice

So yesterday (Monday the 26th) my Elements of Visual Thinking teacher decided to spring a surprise on our class.

We had 4 hours to make a finished piece that is to hang in a gallery in the Baltimore World Trade Center, and potentially be sold.

YEAH. quality cruise control and ability just about frazzled my nerves with it. Luckily he had a class today (Tuesday the 27th) so I was able to pull an over night illustration. The prompt? Baltimore. But only the good parts. We were not allowed to show poverty, crime, violence, nudes, sexual material. So basically we had to depict the Baltimore that the tourists sees, not the actual city.

Anyways, here's my tribute, to the place where I live.

Complete with the state flag (yay Maryland!), an Oriole (yay baseball!), a hipster (yay MICA!), and Dan Deacon (yay...Dan Deacon?).

(I do not endorse Dan Deacon, he just happens to be one of the most famous people from here in recent musical surges)

Till next time~!

-Ben

Burning A Path.

So today I set fire to close to 5,000 matches at once. It was fun. This was for a joint project, for Drawing and Elements of Visual Thinking. All in all, I wish the video had turned out better, but I couldn't change fate. I'll edit that soon and post it after. Until then, here are the photos  of it completed!

The full thing. It's 186 inches by 60 inches. So roughly 15.5 feet by 5 feet. It's a lot larger than most of the work I have produced in general.

Starting section! I used a mass of 15 match folders together to make the starting square thing.

The early middle.

The late middle.

The end.

There is a story behind this drawing, but it is extremely long. So here is the abbreviated version: This represents the path in life that I have currently tread. It includes all major events, such as moves, sports, and clubs, as well as schooling, art, and very influential people. It starts with my birth, and ends with me at school at MICA.

Well, that's all for now~! 

Ta ta,

-Ben

Finished up that drawing

Here it is~!!!!

Added a center mark, shit was fun and cool and the like. I really enjoy doing this kind of work.

Besides that, I've been looking around for another project (to find different colors around us and to take them and turn it into art, so basically another ready-made project, but  truer version), and I ended up in a really cool place under a bridge near our school. It was basically a trash dump/hobo paradise. Anyways I brought some really cool shit back to my studio!

I found 9 knives, and a rusty pair of scissors, and 11 boxes of matches, yes each of those things in those boxes is a match set, each of the boxes contained around 50 sets. So I have approximately 8,250 individual matches... Sweet. I also found that little mini locker which had a bunch of change sleeves (the kind where banks keep their quarters and nickles) There is a lot more down there, and  might go back and get some more things, but I really need to sanitize EVERYTHING @__@ I'm going to get really sick pretty soon. Eeeewwwww~ DX

Well, that's all for tonight,

Ta ta~

-Ben

Starting A Web...

...which will be at least 16 feet wide and hopefully at least 8 feet tall.

This is currently all I have. Hopefully it will sprawl all around the walls of my studio, and then I will have to transport it to my elements classroom, on basically the other side of the campus. The entire thing will be connected with rope and woven into various frames will be things that have been extremely important to me since coming to MICA, each on of these will be a foot print of sorts, connecting a pair of shoes that I can no longer wear. (I wore through them in multiple places and they started smelling funky, really funky.)

The focus is to eventually have this thing completely laced with rope and/or twine, each strand marking a connection that I can draw between different things.

Until next time~! 

~Ben