A literary magazine for medical students…coming Jan 2010

short for Hippocratic oath

What’s up, my loyal readers? I haven’t been posting to my blog for a while, so until I can get on the ball with that again, I’ll leave you with this:

This is where I go to med school now–it’s like an awesome combination of CSI and High School Musical.

Stay tuned for more biannual updates.

Look, I love Murder She Wrote as much as the next bored 20-something, but somehow, this was always a bad tshirt idea. I won’t say whose bad idea it was. You know who you are.

Yesterday, I went to my first life drawing class, which is exactly what it sounds like, unless you’re Matt Loy, in which case you should look it up on Wikipedia before you go asking your coworkers/higher-ups about it. Anyway, the class was hosted by my ex-boss/internship advisor, Craig Yoe. I got a copy of his latest book, Secret Identity, which chronicles the dark life of Superman’s co-creator, Joe Shuster. I’ll have more info about that in a future blog post.

In the meantime, here are the sketches I did last night. I think they turned out okay, considering this was my first attempt at drawing from a live model. The most difficult part is knowing where to begin, since it’s not just a picture that you can stare at for hours. The poses were between ten and 20 minutes long. The sketches are done in 2B pencil/sidewalk chalk on watercolor paper (the texture makes errors look less severe). Luke, the illustrator at Yoe! Studio, suggested trying vine charcoal next time, which makes a huge mess, but is great for practicing line work and form.

Here is a cartoon I tried to submit to The New Yorker.  It looks too typical of a New Yorker cartoon, not daring enough, so it was rejected.  But I’m proud of it anyways because I made the joke up all by myself.

Scientists have recently discovered the world’s oldest sexual predator, and guess who got to do the “artist’s renditions?”  This moi.  Enjoy.

It’s either very good luck or those ONN people are geniuses, but this komedy klip was released just a day after “Predator X,” the world’s largest T-Rex, made headlines around the world.  Anyway, I might be posting the full illustrations I did for this piece over the course of the next couple of weeks… We’ll see.

This piece appeared as part of a two-page spread in The Harvard Lampoon, Stage Fright #.  The issue was edited by JokeShield Mastermind, Alex Pearson.

Here’s the full spread, without the words. Jokes cost extra.