To Be Human

Our assignment in Adv. Media was to do an illustration that incorporated three elements: a human, an animal (or creature), and a machine/device - the media had to be pen & ink. As you may have noticed from glancing at this blog, I'm not one of those guys that can whip-out amazing pen and ink drawings weekly in their sketchbooks, in fact, I avoid the media like the plague.

I'm thankful that my instructor, the wonderful Don Brandes, helped me out so much with linework issues (...to crosshatch or stipple, that is the question!) Now, me being me, I wanna start painting over this thing digitally as soon as Spring Break starts, get some color in there.

If you're wondering about the enigmatic tittle of this post, it's just the tittle of the illustration. *This is where I get artsy-fartsy* The piece is about what it means to be human, and the irony is that the robot is more passionate about life than his human master. Now, most people won't read into it so much, and I'm cool with that hahaha. Big props to upcoming computer animator Jon Flanders for posing!