Unburnable Bear

There is a campus-wide joke about the IUJ Bear, a creature who terrorizes us not only outdoors but also through online networks. A friend drew a sketch of this creature with a guitar, from which I drew a quick tablet drawing of the following bear:

This bear ended up as the band logo for the student band ‘Unburnable,’ and used to make a Star Wars based crawl opening to the 15 minute montage video that was then played in the background during their recent charity benefit concert.  Screenshots from the crawl beneath the cut.

I’ve long been frustrated with my online portfolio. For one thing, there are a lot of pieces that I don’t have any images of at all, and many of the photos I have taken are poor quality. The only good images I generally have are of small and flat pieces that I’ve been able to scan.

Well, enough is enough, and I’m capitalizing on being home with some free time this summer to finally tackle digitally archiving my portfolio.  A good friend of mine Beka came and spent an afternoon with me in order to start the process of finally filling the gaps in my digital portfolio. Between her camera expertise, and my (sometimes awkwardly) improvised lighting set up we managed to get nice shots of about 50 pieces!

My goal is to scan and photograph everything that I still have in my physical portfolio that I’ve done since 2002. I’m excited to capitalize on the momentum from this jump-start!

PS. Also, I can’t advocate her art enough, but another friend of mine, Sarah, decided to join in on the Sketchbook Project too. Her theme is ‘Lights in the distance,’ and you can check out her blog here: Blurry Objects.

Joining the Art House Co-op: The Sketchbook Project 2011

I’ve decided to participate in this year’s Sketchbook Project, and the random theme I was assigned is things found on restaurant napkins. I actually think it is a rather intriguing theme, and I’m looking forward to the arrival of my sketchbook package. This project is open to everyone from professional artists to regular non-artist folk, so if you’re at all interested you should definitely check out the website. I think this will be a great outlet when I’m stressing out over my thesis. Oh man, that cloud of stress is nearly upon me already.