Bits and Pieces

This image was an assignment for my painting class. Our first homework assignment was to make a collage of a scene using a piece of cardboad, a 9x12 border, white, gray, and black construction paper, and a gluestick. The idea is that since we can only crudely rip up the paper with our fingers, we are forced to abandon detail and so must learn to simplify light and shadow. It sounds frustrating, and it is at times, but it's also insanely fun.
This was a collage of the statue of John Witherspoon, some clergyman that had something to do with something for Princeton. Incidentally, I live in the dorm named after him.


Here is a photo of the actual statue from a different angle.

And this is my usual animu fanart! Drawn in mourning for the Primera Espada... cross-posted to my deviantart.

If there ever comes a day when I have lost the capacity to weep over characters drawn of line and ink...
Well, I don't want to think about it. Meanwhile, I flail in melodramatic grief over the whims of a cruel and sadistic yet brilliant manga-ka. Curse you, Kubo Tite...