Rest Peacefully, Missy Pup

Hi All,

Sorry to be a total downer, I just thought people should know why I've been missing.

My dog, Missy, passed away about 3 weeks ago. I had Missy since I was 9 years old, I spent 11 amazing years with her. She was there for me through everything- Elementary school, Jr. High, High School, and College. She was there through first love, my first broken heart, graduation, my first apartment... just so, so much. She was always there to greet me at the end of the day, and no matter how badly I screwed up, she loved me unconditionally.

Missy had had a few health problems, occasional seizures and in the weeks before she passed she had some arrhythmia. Her acute illness was still very shocking and sudden, and we fought it as best we could. She underwent emergency surgery to remove a dying tumor from her liver and was recovering well. However, a few days later she had a sudden relapse and could only be kept alive via drugs and life support. We're not sure what happened, we suspect multiple system failure brought on by several unrelated complications. It was simply her time, we exhausted every possible option for saving her, and she died peacefully in my arms on Sunday, February 28th. She was conscious and aware of everything I said and did up until her final moments, and I'm glad that I was able to say goodbye to her in the way that I was.

I have started to come to peace with her passing. I know Missy would want me to celebrate her life and not mourn her death, but it is so, so hard to lose someone I love so very much. I know I did everything possible to help her, but at 11 years old she had lived a great life.

I miss you, puppy dog, you'll live on in my heart forever.

Addams Family Poster

For my Illustration for Film and Animation class, we were assigned to design a movie poster concept for our Addams Family characters- heres mine :)

Lemon

Some lemonade stand concepts for a student film I've been working on

Update: Here are some revisions and extra colors schemes

Model Sheets Addams Family

For my Illustration for Film and Animation class we were to reinvent and create three characters from the Addam's family. I chose Morticia, Gomez, and Lurch. They're supposed to be a younger couple, kind of trailer trashy. I was given critique to maybe make Morticia a little "trashier", but I'm not really sure how to go about that yet.

Lurch is the Dog, he's an old and tired dog that Gomez straps trays to in an attempt to have a free butler- Lurch puts up with it with some frustration :)

Concept Doodles

Spent today's class messing around and doodlin' ideas for my concept sketches/final pieces. Very rough and silly :)

Also! My buddies and I have started a group for ourselves entitled Ridiculously Sophisticated Concept Artists. We plan to pick topics and make us some purdy pictures based on said topics. Nothing is up yet, and knowing us it'll be a few days before one of us does anything, but heres the link just in case you wanna check it out:

Ridiculously Sophisticated Concept Artists

Sketches from the Field Museum

Nothin' too special here, just updating for the sake of updating.
Ken, Matt and I tried to go to the Shedd yesterday to draw the fishes. Unfortunately, that didn't work out, I have NEVER seen the Shedd so crowded. They were over capacity and wouldn't let people downstairs, it was insane.
We went to the Field Museum instead, which was pretty much deserted. I drew some dinos, which got very smudged while I was carrying the book around :(, and a few people and animals.

Flash Portrait

Hi guys!
I'm taking a flash course this semester! The first assignment was to make a self-portrait using the program, so here I am!