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Summer Illustration Dayz

priya — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:30:06 +0000

In honor of Mad Men’s new season starting this week, here’s a great article my friend Darryl Campbell wrote about Don Draper. Darryl is the Assistant Editor of The Bygone Bureau, an award-winning online lit magazine. I did an illustration of Jon Hamm for this article, which was quite a pleasure to do as he is handsome-to-the-max.

Click on the image to to go the article:

See more of Bygone Bureau’s Mad Men Week at: http://bygonebureau.com/

The Hippo

priya — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:56:45 +0000

A literary magazine for medical students…coming Jan 2010

: short for Hippocratic oath

Biannual update

priya — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:54:42 +0000

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.

Life Drawing

priya — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:57:15 +0000

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.

Pervert Dinosaur Discovered

priya — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:38:12 +0000

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.

Old, Previously Published Art

priya — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:00:47 +0000

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.

Cheers, Hillary!

priya — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:01:58 +0000

Before and After: Happy St. Patrick’s Day Parade of Homestead Act

Rejected Art – post#1

priya — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:55:09 +0000

the great thing about rejected art is that now I have a whole bunch of half-finished art lying around.

this was for a Band t-shirt, white-on-white, that was rejected by a jury of my younger, less awesome peers. Just kidding — it simply was too expensive to print.

Blog is happening again this year!

priya — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:51:15 +0000

I’m not going to waste too much space talking about how it’s been a while since I’ve updated this blog. I’ve been busy, okay? Check out a project I worked on for ONN while I was an art intern this past fall. I did the graphics for the posters/product boxes in photoshop and illustrator, and helped the other intern who was good at building stuff put together the actual, physical MacBook Wheel. Another extremely talented intern in graphics put together the “OS” stuff you see on the screen. He did those graphics in just a week or something crazy like that. Enjoy.

Announcing: Joke Shield

priya — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:26:59 +0000

from: www.jokeshield.com

My friend Alex Pearson and I started something, and now we can’t stop. Check out our cartoons at Joke Shield — dreamed up by his crazy brain and executed by my crazy skills.

This is our logo. Remember how Alexander the Great frightened his enemies by carrying a shield of Medusa? It’s just like that, except I’m Medusa and Alex is only The Okay.

I’ll put a small version of this logo below any of those cartoons I republish here on my site. You’ll be able to get to Joke Shield by clicking on the thumbnail.