To start of my blog I would like to make my first post explain a little bit about my artwork. Most of the work I have done while I have been attending Oakland University, but I had a good art program at my high school so I did a lot of work while I was there as well. I have taken mostly drawing and painting classes while in high school, but I'm now starting to more video and digital work.

I have been into drawing for as long as I can remember. My dream was to become a cartoonist, then a graphic novelist, to a concept artist and finally to a "I don't care what I am, as long as I can get a job and make a decent living in this economy." I'm still very interested in comic art and a lot of it shows through in my work. I've done several works in ink and marker because I love the medium so much and have even created a 24 page book on ideas of existence, done completely in a very comic book style. This style of drawing has also shown through in some of video work as well.

Existence has been another reoccurring theme in my work. Probably because I've been involved in church all of my life. I keep finding that most of my ideas for art are in some way rooted to existence. I'm really interested in a lot of older religious art, particularly works by Benjamin West and Gustave Dore. I use a lot of similar subject matter such as angels, demons, death, and the four horsemen.

My goal is to utilize my skills in drawing for my digital art. Being unsure as to what I really want to do after Oakland makes it difficult to direct that at anything so I'm doing a lot of experimental work. Although I haven't done much work in it thus far, I think I will probably try to get into web design simply because there is a need for it and I enjoy doing it. It's hard to say for sure, but we'll see what the future brings.