Since most of you know my passion for fashion, here are some samples of this love.
Lately I have been experimenting with fabrics, construction paper, and different textures to create some of my few recent illustrations. Here are a few that are finished or almost finished in their before and after stages. 
As you can see after the drawing was finished, i found a few fabrics that went with the colors in this piece, using real fabric and buttons to accomplish a real textured outfit. I also used a brown paper bag for the background, i love those simple things you can find laying around the house.
This one uses an old vintage curtain texture as the background, along with a patterned fabric for the dress. The rest is a combination of the actual drawing with illustrator and some imagination. ;)
This last one is me just using my usual techniques and as always i do love florals!
This past saturday I went to PS1 to check out the some of the strangest but interesting contemporary artists the city has to offer. When arriving at this very distinct odd looking building, i couldn't help but noticing that it very much looked like an old grammar school turned art stand palace.
The outside had rooms made out of pure thick cement walls and no ceelings. While entering PS1 i noticed how great the faded paint and drywall created the mood in this place. 
As we entered the exibits, karen and I noticed many strange works of art we thought couldn't get any stranger. I attempted to take photos, but was denied the chance by the working staff.
As karen and i explored the place, we couldn't help but be a bit freaked out by the gated old steps and eerie music in the hallways.
The bathrooms were pretty odd as well as they too had music for your creepiest of nightmares. Wondering through most of this place was a fun unexpected experience of strange and odd admirable works of art, even the exibit of horror and strange bit sounds at the boiler room was the rare treat we all should experience. The favorite but by far the oddest one of all was the James Turrell exibit," The Meeting". This is an exeptional great piece composed of only an open space, all around square seating, and a large square opening in the ceeling of the room. 
This opening allows the viewer to appreciate the meeting of space, and entering this room was like walking into another world, it was icy but warm as the walls had a very orange-reddish color. PS1 is a must see for all those looking for a different artsy point of view, and a good memorable date.
Since the passing of my grandpa this past august, i have felt incomplete, mainly because i have always wanted to make him something special because he was always there for me and now I will never have the chance to. Right after his passing, i tried so hard to find a way to cope with his loss and so i made an illustration for him. This is something i made a few months ago, but i felt it meant alot to me and so i decided to share it with you.
Last night I went to see my friend's band and got lost driving through philly. Yea i know, i spent almost 4 years in philly, how could i get lost? Well i did, it was through a creepy part too. I finally found my way and got to see the last 3 songs the FiveFour did and they were pretty rad! After the show i kidnapped them and took them to get a philly cheesesteak. Then we headed over to mom's and had a few drinks, that was fun except for all the smoking everyone else in the bar was doing. When we came out we ended up smelling like french prostitutes, but other than that it was a fun fun night.
Here are just a few pandas i drew the other day. One is really shy and the others are pretty promiscuous. Bad dirty, dirty pandas....
Maybe you all didn't know, but pixie has been asking me for a monkey lately, and since i can't afford one at the moment i drew a picture of her with a monkey and gave it to her as a present. 
She didn't seem thrilled and instead layed on top of it and fell asleep. I figured it was her way of telling me she didn't like her present, so i decided to trick her by putting the monkey on one of her favorite pictures and telling her she had her way with Mr. Monkey.
After she saw the picture, she went back to sleep.
Looking through the old photo albums my grandpa kept back in peru, i noticed that little me always had silly legs and feet.
Why do i stand that way? My legs always seem really silly and they look like they form an "A", my feet also seem to turn in like monkey paws! Looking at this deformity of myself as a kid reminded me of what shane also pointed out about my little twirp features, " BIG EYES, BIG EYES like a cartoon", he would always say. This made me want to draw myself and see if i can capture those crazy little feet and eyes.
I don't think i did, but it was fun using little me pictures as inspiration. And just incase you were wondering, no my legs don't make that "A" shape no more, but if they did, i would be rolling in the dough!
