RIP MiJac.
Whatever your personal feelings on the man (and believe me I could say a few) He was an icon, a hell of an entertainer, and had a 20 year stretch when he couldn't be messed with in the music biz.
From "Liner Notes", my series of musician portraits which can be seen here
American Illustration 28 comes out in November, but they've already selected the images for the book and the web gallery, and Otis got it's representation in.
There's some 1,000 images available to preview (out of over 8 thousand submitted), so I didn't go through them all, but I paged through the thumbnails to see if I could recognize anyone and while I'm not sure if any Otis alums made the book, the web gallery did.
Recent grads Julian Callos, Jessica Cooper, Mylan Nguyen, and Nigel Sanders (hey that's me), along with sometime ago grad Calef Brown all got in on the web gallery side.
you can view all the images in the two galleries here: http://www.ai-ap.com/cfe/AIss/
also big up to Nathan, Bob, Daniel, JT and of course Jim for getting so many students in.
So here ya go, final images of work from this (school) year. Moving forward, moving forward, but I'm still pretty proud of these, and excited about getting going on new stuff.
Paintings
Prints
Book Images
I'm not going to post the entire book, but here are a couple scans of the pages from a book of musician portraits I created called "Liner Notes":
you can see all these, in all their glory (such as it is) at NothingRhymesWithNigel.com
another painting preview, but also, an easel I found the other day. It's a little worse for wear (read: falling apart), but is sturdy enough and serviceable. I love my block. I found a tiny toy piano a year ago, and then a beat up acoustic guitar the year before that. it's like someone's leaving presents.
no time at all, but since I'm close to done with everything, thought I'd throw up a small preview of some of the work I'm gonna have in my thesis show. Paintings, prints, and a book, oh my!
This is for a book of single line drawings through the history of music, it's big project I took in within the last month which I'm kind of regretting. But I'm liking the results. 
Duke Ellington
One of the prints I'm doing. Long explanation, so not gonna bother, but they are all screenprinted, including the one below.
preview of actual thesis work...ROBOTS!!
couple weeks left.
thesis exhibition may 9th, Otis College.
Some life drawing sketches. I started out pretty regular, pencil stuff which looks, though in my style, pretty ordinary, just capturing movement and form. I don't do the "Otis style", or correct drawing technique of getting the major shapes and then fill and refine, I outline and go. works for me, but it tends to be flat and more often than not disproportionate. From there I started doing live inking during longer poses:
I've started working on a single-line style for another class which I've started using in the life drawing, and I'm really enjoying the results. All of these are one single-line (I do pick the pen up sometimes to see where I'm at, and in some I've gone back and done fills not connected, but 99% are all connected lines.) I'm working on refining this into something I can use everyday.
I love this last set, it's like a quick visual story.
My apologies on the stitching, doesn't work that well on a crappy scanner. Think the wrong proportions actually work in these cases. more when I get some.
Valentine's Day print.
yeah, I know, I'm cheesy.
Also will be using this, in a way, in a series of prints coming soon.
Happy Go Get Some Lovin day.
