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This was the fifth assignment at the Academy, a fun one for me because it was given by Scott Anderson and Robin Eley, two truly amazing artists. They actually gave two assignments for the week which was just fabulously stressful. One was a celebrity rock and roll portrait geared to Rolling Stone Magazine. We were given a letter which could be the first letter of the band or the musicians first or last name. My letter was R and I chose Trent Reznor. The idea is that he is or at least was pretty much a one man band. I wanted a little characterization on the face but not really in any funny way. Just a little stretch here and there.

This was our second assignment at the Academy, given by supergenius Jon Foster. He wanted us to do a portrait of a literary figure depicting an emotion. I decided to go modern and did Patrick Bateman from the novel(and movie of course but not Mr. Bale) American Psycho. Gary Kelley actually gave me a good critique although he wanted the blood on his hands. Sterling disagreed.

And this is my favorite one from the Academy, assignment given by Gary Kelley(don't get me started),we were given colors to illustrate, I depicted the 30's cabaret dancer The Blue Angel.

The Illustration Academy in Sarasota, Florida is the greatest place in the world with the greatest people ever. I was stressed almost the entire time and I just loved it. First assignment was given by the illustration god Mark English. He wanted a flat image depicting an everyday scene in Sarasota. I decided to use cut paper, otherwise known as hell on earth, but it turned out to be a fun image. I drove around in the ghetto to get the reference and almost got tore up by this little girl's big butt momma, but it was worth it, even though it's not really in my personal style of work.