Newness

My computer is fixed! Andrew is an incredible and awesome and skilled dude! I have been working on a lot of new things; here are a few of them:

I've got some ink stuff I'll be posting pretty soon, and I think my work in Illustrator is starting to pan out. I am changing houses for a few days now, so there will be no posts for a bit.
Hopefully, posts will be coming a lot more often now that I'm not taking classes.
Charlie

an update long overdue

Hello blog readers,
It has been over a month since the last post, but life in general has been keeping me plenty busy, so there hasn't been much art going on. Actually, there hadn't been much art going on, but since summer has started properly, I have been doing little besides drawing, painting and reading (along with a bit of gardening). Graduation weekend was awesome, except for the fact that I was incapacitated by some mysterious illness for much of the weekend. The lack of updates can be attributed somewhat to the fact that my computer is dead right now, but also I guess it is just my irresponsibility and aversion to learning to edit pictures on the school computers' odd programs instead of the ones I am comfortable with.
Luckily for you, internet audience, I was driven to negotiate the strange and confusing depths of Photoshop Elements today when I wanted to change the color of this logo submission for BERT to UPS' institutional maroon. Hopefully I will be posting more regularly again, though this depends on a number of things including my employment status, whether my computer gets running again, and whether I can find someone with a digital camera to record my progress on some paintings I am starting. Alright, here is some stuff; the freshest images are not yet quite ready for the public, though I am about to go use the scanner so I will have them digitally.



Keep living,
Charlie

April is a rough month

Hey everybody,
The lack of updates is reflective of the level of chaos going on here in Tacoma, we are down to the last couple weeks of classes and it's crazy. I hope that this short update finds you all well. I made a profile picture so I thought I would post it. It is the biggest illustrator file I have ever had on my computer, and I think it looks decent. It is a lot of pretty much tracing a photo with my mousepad thing on my laptop. I think if I draw this much on my computer I should really just buy a mouse. I will do this after summer break starts.
I think the picture is super creepy, actually, but it's what I've got, so now you've got it, too.
Also I tried to embed a song in the profile, but I'm not sure that that actually works, so you might need to head over to our myspace. Rio C. is on the track (titled Cold) along with me and Eric (you won't hear Eric's voice, he's just on production for this one). The beat is all through Reason and Protools, the piano we used is the one in my parents' house. Myspace is horrible, but I guess it's good at hosting music.

Cold.mp3
Don't forget to play outside now as it's springtime.
Charlie

album art submissions

Hey Team,
We are not quite posting weekly, but I am trying to keep you filled in with the newness. I made a few logo concepts for Campus Music Network to go with my CD compilation submissions. They are very Illustrator, meaning the lines are at times just too clean, but I have just been learning it, so I am using it a lot, and hopefully it will just turn into another tool in the backpack next to the
sharpie and the crayons. So these are all sorta similar, but here they are.

They wanted some stuff for the back of the CD, so I threw these together quick at the end as something to put track titles on top of.

If anyone out there is in the Tacoma area, on this Saturday (April 5th), Eric and I (Flock) are playing in the Alder Art Walk. We'll probably be on around 10:00, playing at 3120 north 8th street. After us there are four other bands, including the always awesome Kusikia. The two other houses are sure to be a good time as well, and it is all free, so why not?
I am in a good mood and happily writing because I am pretty sure I totally aced my International Political Econ test today, and our radio show tonight was great and also fun.
Rock on, little planet.
Charlie

title remix.

live from Bozeman, MT

Hello, world!
I am sitting in Bozeman public library with Eric typing everything with my left hand. I tore up my right shoulder riding yesterday (I have an a/c separation?) so I spent last night drawing lions in sharpie with my left hand, and I am now slow at everything but reading, and I am maybe even slow at that when I am on my prescribed vicadin. Anyway, I wanted to post a couple random things.
The first is a couple-of-weeks old album cover submission for the Campus Music Network's
annual compilation CD. I have been working on a new one, but it is not submitted yet, so it is still in the works. I think that this older one still looks decent, though.







The second is a graf-style staticalaska sketch that I scanned into photoshop and colored. it looks 8bit old school (that is what Eric told me, and then he remixed it). I did the coloring and stuff on Wednesday night, I think. Eric's show what awesome feats he is capable of with photoshop. The thing is that his computer doesn't have it, so he can only work that magic through mine or something.
I played with Illustrator a fair amount over spring break. I've got one thing that is good to post, but I am working on a cool fish thing that should be good in the future. For now, you all get some more words work, and I have decided to throw a watercolor/ink llama scene, too. That should be enough to hold you over.

Peace.
Megacat

Kangaroo-type of animals

Hey Everybody!
Sorry I have not posted in a while, I guess Eric and I have both fallen off the blog wagon lately. I do have some art, though, just not that much of it, and the school scanners are often uncooperative, as happened on Friday. Here are a couple of kangaroo things I did with gauche that my friend Jenny had while we were hanging out and making art a while ago.
In justification of my not sending digital art to all of you on the internet, I have been pretty busy lately. Besides school, this week is host to 2 CAIR meetings (one with Ron Thom), our semi-final intermural volleyball game (we lost but it's cool), 2 IPE professor candidate lectures, lunch with a professor candidate, attendance of a pretty much failed protest downtown and a couple hours of tutoring with a Lincoln High School student for WASL prep. Oo plus the radio show! Last week went really well, so hopefully this week goes comparably well. We might have a local Tacoma producer on. I ditched SDS this week, though, so that's kind of lame. Next week is spring break, so I'm super excited to do that. We are going to Montana! Greatgreatgreat.
Hopefully I'll post a bit more before we leave, I am kind of playing with this line-heavy illustration style with watercolors and there's a llama I painted a bit ago that maybe I'll post soonish.
Charlie