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When I started college, I had to take life drawing classes. We used to spend days and days drawing with charcoal and sanguine. I had a Japanese instructor and he was amazing, sadly I was never that good, but I tried. The class was small, about five of us, and the models were fairly good. The best model was a beautiful girl, she was tall, slender, and flexible as a dancer should be. The soft curves of her body translated to the paper wonderfully and she was very nice. The rest of the models were interesting, we had a petite woman with unruly hair and a double mastectomy, a middle aged gay guy—who seemed to enjoy the modeling a bit much

I was illustrating/designing a comic book for a client, but I took too long to finished it and we had to abandon the whole project. It was a very humbling and humiliating experience and a good lesson to learn: never bite more than you can chew, or rather, chew as fast as you can and mind the goddamned deadline! The comic book fiasco urged me to go back to drawing and sketching. I feel like drawing well has never been one of my strengths. For the past months, I've been exploring new media and experimenting with everything I can get my hands on. I finally got a good reason to justify my art-supply hoarding…I mean collection…! Be

Oh, crap! A whole year has gone by so fast, I'm still in disbelief! What have I done for a whole year? Well, I'm still working with those funny folks at Democracy Burlesque. We're starting 2013's season with a bunch of graphics and posters and we're launching DB-merch soon. I've been in learning mode lately, although; I designed a couple of identities, some posters for local bans and environmental graphics for a Chicago hotel. I've been sketching a lot and practicing calligraphy as well as photography and reading tons of books. It feels like I'm back to school, but this time I'm actually enjoying learning—being in school gave me tools but n