The Seat with the Clearest View

This is the final product of my Senior Project and Directed Studies classes in my final quarter at SCAD. Set to the tune of Space Oddity by the magnificent David Bowie. The tangible version is a bound book.

 The pages are meant as a dual narrative, with every lyric of the song you see Ground Control's point of view in that moment side by side with Major Tom's. So they're meant to be seen in pairs. I prefer silent narratives, so I omitted the lyrics in the final. The song speaks volumes anyhow. 

Listen to it HERE to enhance your viewing pleasure as you scroll through:

Ground Control to Major Tom

Ground Control to Major Tom

Take your protein pills and put your helmet on

Ground control to Major Tom/ Commencing Countdown, engines on

Check ignition and may God's love be with you

This is Ground Control to Major Tom/ You've really made the grade

And the papers want to know who's shirt you wear

Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare

This is Major Tom to Ground Control/ I'm stepping through the door

And I'm floating in the most peculiar way/And the stars look very different today

For here am I sitting in a tin can/ Far above the world

Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do

Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still/ And I think my spaceship knows which way to go

Tell my wife I love her very much (She knows)

Ground Control to Major Tom/ Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong

Can you hear me Major Tom?

Can you hear me Major Tom?

Can you hear me Major Tom?

Can you--

--Here am I floating 'round my tin can/ Far above the Moon

Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do

Watercolors, graphite, some digital editing/coloring.

Post finals round-up

Here's a collection of all the work I did over the last quarter.


Some of the work from my vis II class. We wrote a script the first week, and the rest of the quarter was spent drawing, and redrawing the same script 4 different times, learning how to manipulate the viewer by changing angles/panels. One of the last assignments was to create 2 covers.

representational/design hybrid cover. 

design cover. oh, teddy. 

and then we inked one of our own.

The final pencils of one of the 4 versions, I think it was the 3rd pass and the one I felt was most successful:

The final for my storyboarding class, recreating different kinds of shot calls by using existing ones we were given. The example I was assigned was strange and foreign and the people looked like they were rollerskating down a hall

I hate zombies, and creepy things, and horror movies. Fear, in general, is not an emotion I enjoy. I'm taking baby steps to get myself out of this mindset. So I went for a post apocalyptic abandoned hospital...thing. Originality is my genetic makeup.

There were very few shots in the example I was given. 4 storyboards was all it took. I don't know why they turned out blueish when I uploaded them...

More storyboards from my advanced storyboarding class. We had to research some rad sword fights/duels, and create our own light saber battle.

There are a few other things I could add. But some stuff I'm not sure if I'm allowed to. If any of you read all the descriptive long-winded ramblings, bless you. 

Summer school starts in a week or so, and I've got lots of things to prep for AFO in August! Hard to get motivated in the summer. All I wanna do is nap in the afternoon and eat pizza...