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.
it's been a minute, Time to update I think. With school and everything I don't really have time to do a "normal" type post, but I figured I'd update with some things I haven't posted up here before, some recent prints and paintings and such, as well as a preview of coming work.
Related to this post, I did a couple more editorial portraits. I haven't done any since, but I've got some plans for new ones which should be rad.
They were a lot of fun (like a puzzle!) and totally worth checking larger.
Series of prints based on...something or other. really a series of fortunate accidents actually.
And I'm working on a robot series for my final semester, but I'm not trying to spoil it here, least not while everything isn't finalized. So here's a drawing that I'm not painting. 
Based on George Bellows' "Dempsey and Firpo"
but then my teacher pointed out to me that Eric Joyner already did something similar:
Not knocking Joyner, whose stuff I really like, but Bellows' composition is so ridiculously good, it's a shame that Joyner's doesn't approximate the awesome angles of the original. I know it's not a straight cover, like mine would have been, but it just doesn't have the power the original does.
anyway, more when I can...
