The ides of Smartch

This spread is also from a semi-fertile period in September of 1997. I was starting my senior year of college, and my design program tended to put the seniors on a bigger pedestal than they deserved, and as such I was feeling a bit of inflated ego. I was also for the first time in a few years taking fine arts classes that I cared about, and these two facts helped put a fire in my creative output.

The left page has the words "ide" written in a font I had created. The right page is white paint and black pen on a page from a Delaware phone book. I should probably hold on to my phone books for art purposes, for they might stop existing in a few years.

An Imagined Still Life

This drawing is from September of 1997. The pitcher or what have you on the left is from a magazine, and I liked the way the colors of the found image interacted with the still life on the right. I'm not 100% sure, but I think that the still life was done from my imagination and not from an actual still life setup.

Self Portrait and a golf score card.

A self portrait that my Canadian co-blogger might appreciate. Based on surrounding pages I'd guess this was drawn July of 1997.

Yeah, you can try, but I've found the antidote; music is the cure

Honestly, the only part of school I'm currently enjoying is the amount of doodles I'm... doodlin' up. School = booo, doodles = wooo.

Also, I really like Calvin and Hobbes.

Walk Slow, Think Quick!

I've decided that I'm going to use this blog to photograph spreads from various notebooks and journals. This is the first of those. These pages were not dated, but based on surrounding dated pages I'd estimate it's roughly from November of 2000.

I think you're just so pleasant. I would like you for my own.

I need a scanner.

Oh hey, I hate Zach Braff

I mean, good lord, look at that MOUTH.