THIS IS A FIRE HAZARD

a past blast

2011-05-07T00:34:00.000-07:00

end of the year, saying goodbyes. went through old drawings as an exercise in nostalgia and dredged these back up.

go see it!!

2011-04-25T18:53:00.001-07:00

last last last

2011-04-24T19:41:00.000-07:00

<3 <3 <3

sketches

2011-04-22T13:55:00.001-07:00

sketches for the lovely written work in the literary supplement of this week's Herald.

last cover

2011-04-22T01:43:00.001-07:00

So many lasts coming together so fast these days.

for a cover story on writing at yale

last space-bathtub dreams ever

2011-04-19T19:38:00.000-07:00

ever.

man being a senior is weird

some comics

2011-04-14T20:50:00.001-07:00

...and walks off into the busy city of the future

2011-04-10T00:07:00.000-07:00

only 4 seconds but take my word for it that lots of work went into each of those seconds.

the director of Space Elevator, the short film this animation was made for, is a wizard with adobe aftereffects and made this look much more amazing than it was when I sent the parts to him. check it out.

fear and loathing in new haven

2011-04-07T23:50:00.000-07:00

a cover, and some images for infographics for a feature article on drugs at yale.

jinjin learns the walk cycle

2011-04-05T12:05:00.000-07:00

(it should move. if it isn't try clicking on it.)

maybe i'll even post a couple short videos later if i can ever figure out this newfangled technology

sorry for the absence

2011-04-04T08:09:00.001-07:00

i've been at work animating

technology and the humanities

2011-03-04T12:21:00.001-08:00

music at yale

2011-02-25T00:43:00.000-08:00

a cover brought to you by the herald

space elevator art

2011-02-20T22:00:00.000-08:00

this semester i am producing a short student film called Space Elevator, it is a senior project for a very talented yalie film studies major.

in addition to producing, i will be animating a few sequences of the film.
i haven't quite started animating yet but i do have storyboards/concept art. here are some of my favorite panels:

paperclip storyboards

2011-02-20T21:47:00.000-08:00

been working on some film related projects lately.

here are 2 panels from the storyboards I did for a student film here, called Paperclip.

there were 100+ panels total in the storyboard, and i did all of them in one night. it shows, but i think the humor that comes with fast and messy drawing is has its own charm. or maybe i'm just making excuses.

yalentines

2011-02-11T13:58:00.001-08:00

for the special valentine's day issue of herald, yale themed valentines:

handsome dan is our mascot

commons is the name of our main dining hall

battel is the name of a chapel on campus

nathan hale statue

skull 'n bones

and a bonus that didn't make it into the paper: SML, our library

heart shaped sushi for valentines day

2011-02-09T19:55:00.001-08:00

coming up in the special valentine's day edition of the herald!

i don't know

2011-02-08T10:30:00.000-08:00

it's oscar time

2011-02-03T21:03:00.000-08:00

oscar nominations time anyway

oscar themed illustration for the herald

annnd oscar themed comic for the herald

it snowed this week

2011-01-28T12:30:00.000-08:00

never too proud to make the same joke twice

inside my mind

2011-01-21T00:54:00.000-08:00

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the beginning of the end

2011-01-18T09:00:00.000-08:00

James Franco Presents is a play that James Franco, english Ph.D. student, is producing on campus

click to fullview

faces

2010-12-29T10:11:00.000-08:00

i like faces

soe;; rando

2010-12-09T09:36:00.001-08:00

just go with it

ending the semester with a bang

2010-11-30T06:16:00.000-08:00

both my strips' last times publishing for the semester.

always giving it 100% for the ydn.

this was actually in The Game issue last week. we are super creative with our tshirts here in the ivy league.

game herald

2010-11-22T10:36:00.000-08:00

for an article on restaurant week, an event in new haven where dinner is supposed to be cheaper but it's actually kind of a rip off.

for an article about a legal dispute about police profiling and discrimination going on in East Haven. yale law got involved too.

THE GAME: a time where harvard kids and yale kids get together, get trashed, then watch football, but mostly get trashed.

a DS for the cover. it was disappointing that the laser eyes did not come out very well in the print version but you win some you lose some.

all the way across the sky

2010-11-13T13:22:00.000-08:00

oh theodore

for an article on the history/expansion of yale's women, gender, and sexuality studies department

for an article on my role models, willow and jaden smith

haha i'm so punny

poet dogs

2010-11-12T15:57:00.000-08:00

cover and graphics for this week's cover story on the Yale Series of Younger Poets

another week another herald

2010-11-07T17:59:00.001-08:00

yeah

for an article on learning disabilities

for the cover story, on lgbt recruiting programs in consulting

black and blue

2010-11-03T13:40:00.000-07:00

a cover i did last-minute for the herald last week, for a story on being black at yale. can't take credit for the great idea (that should go to one of my fellow editors) but i did execute it.

late 'n lazy

2010-11-03T13:32:00.000-07:00

a herald illustration for an article on insane clown posse, of miracles fame

i don't think this one ended up being run, but it was originally a herald illustration for an article on for a student political group called snap pac

click to fullview. it's late now, but maybe next year? (when all the pop culture references are obsolete?)

and now for a few ydn comics

it's awkward that i'm kind of proud of this

2010-10-18T19:32:00.000-07:00

adventure time

2010-10-16T18:39:00.000-07:00

not really sure where i was going with this one

comics comics comics

2010-10-11T17:28:00.000-07:00

confession: i have never seen gone with the wind.

safety dance is the 80's dance. it's this weekend, and also an ENORMOUS DEAL.

some comix

2010-10-05T10:04:00.000-07:00

crick to furrview

rock stars of yale

2010-10-01T15:35:00.001-07:00

had the herald front this week. the article is on the celebrity professors we have here at yale and how obsessed we all are with them. click for a link
did professors bowie, simmons, and gaga for the spread with the article.

secrets and the radio house

2010-09-25T01:31:00.001-07:00

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a rush assignment for an article in the Herald on the radio house, featuring hipsters, freeganism, couch surfing, bike collectives, and dance parties. click for a link

THE COVERS

2010-09-16T22:03:00.001-07:00

I did about a cover a week for the Herald last semester.
I spent a lot of time and energy on them and was really proud of how they looked, so I always meant to post them on this blog. Sadly, I was also always too lazy to photograph the actual nice, layed-out covers with text and headlines and everything, so I never ended up posting anything.
But now, excitingly for you, I decided to just post my favorite cover image files anyway. There aren't headlines, so you'll just have to imagine how great they looked once they were layed out, but something is better than nothing, right?

Click to fullview.

2/13/10
The Valentine's Day Issue

The cover story was the tale of a reporter's visit to a local strip joint. Really fun to do.

2/20/10

The cover story for this issue was actually changed just a few hours before the newspaper went to print (I was told about the change at about 11pm on a Thursday night...) I produced this cover from scratch within those few hours. It was an intense experience, made doubly intense by the content of the story...it was about the University's flawed response to the death of one of its undergraduate students, Andre Narcisse. It was a real challenge to think of a respectful way to illustrate this story while honoring the memory of the student, all under an incredible time pressure. I hope that in the end this silhouette of one of Yale's most iconic buildings, Harkness Tower, did a good job.

3/27/10
The April Fool's Issue

The cover story this week was a series of blurbs featuring tall tales and urban legends of Yale. Depicted is one of the many statues on campus, looking very distinguished with a bong.

4/17/10
Comics Issue!

The cover story for this issue was actually a comic that I illustrated about secret societies at Yale. If you go searching through this blog's archives you'll probably run into it.

last but not least...

9/11/10
the first issue of a new semester...

The cover story for this week was about 360 State Street, the first new apartment building in New Haven for 20 years. Is it the symbol of a New Haven Renaissance? Had a lot of fun gis'ing images of renaissance clouds for this one.

some stuff

2010-09-16T21:53:00.000-07:00

for a review in the Herald of a Mexican restaurant

for an article in the Herald about parents on facebook

yeah, so we got back to school, and the salad bar was mysteriously missing. pretty much a national tragedy

oh theodore

i could make excuses but what's the point

2010-09-01T18:43:00.000-07:00

again again again

2010-08-31T18:19:00.001-07:00

we're back from a summer hiatus. have this comic. is it funny? is it not? at least it exists

a triumphant return

2010-05-15T22:24:00.000-07:00

i lost my tablet pen a couple weeks ago. just got a new one. this gorgeous drawing is my celebration.

ESCAPE! ESCAPE! ESCAPE!

2010-05-03T16:28:00.000-07:00

FINALS GOT YOU DOWN?

why don't you ESCAPE! with the comics club

starting this wednesday evening (fashionably late)
pick up a copy in your residential college dining hall

would you like a sample?
please, have a taste:

don't judge me

2010-05-01T12:55:00.000-07:00

...on second thought, feel free, i totally deserve it

coming soon...

2010-04-26T19:45:00.000-07:00

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ending with a bang

2010-04-20T16:49:00.001-07:00

this one's for you, reuben.

tales from the tomb

2010-04-17T11:30:00.000-07:00

(click to fullview)

a cover story (in comic form) for the Herald.
For those unfamiliar with yale and/or secret societies, this probably requires some annotation in order for it to make sense. I'm not really sure how much I should give, so bear with me (or just skip over this because both of us know that no one really cares):
-Wikipedia will give you the lowdown on secret societies.
-The famous secret society at Yale is called Skull and Bones. Maybe you've heard of it?
-Other societies include: mace & chain, berzelius, leviathan, ceres athena, blood & clown, book & snake, manuscript.
-SML is Sterling Memorial Library, the main library on campus.
-There's a legend that members of Wolf's Head (another society) left wolves' heads at the foot of their founder's grave on tap night. The person in charge of the cemetery was not pleased and spent subsequent tap nights at the gate of the cemetery with a shotgun to make sure it wouldn't happen again.

so exciting

2010-04-14T13:05:00.000-07:00

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4 dead squirrels and a bitch ain't 1

2010-04-09T21:34:00.000-07:00

(this one was done as part of a super special Herald comics page, where, in honor of April Fool's day, we all coordinated our comics to be about ninjas.)

pirate gore

2010-04-08T12:15:00.001-07:00

for a story in the Penny Dreadful about pirates, featuring wounded men tied to the mast of a ship.

times is hard

2010-04-06T22:05:00.000-07:00

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hands and crests

2010-04-05T13:00:00.000-07:00

for an article about finding a religious community at yale.

for an article on Yale intramurals. IMs here are played between our 12 residential colleges. Jonathan Edwards, whose mascot is the spider, is currently destroying all of the competition.

before and after

2010-03-31T12:49:00.001-07:00

for a piece in the penny dreadful, Yale's pulp fiction publication, about a valiant and feathered Crusader.

happy holidays

2010-03-30T15:44:00.000-07:00

click to Enlarge

(commons is the name of one of our dining halls.)

cornucopia of blurbs

2010-03-28T10:35:00.001-07:00

these next four were for an article of April Fools blurbs.

Yale Bans Women:
"One professor who wished to remain anonymous said he felt that Yale “was getting back to its roots” with this decision, adding, “I mean, this is Yale University. But you walk around campus today and you’d think you’re at some sort of quilting circle or Lilith fair. Where are the tweed jackets? The cigars? By god, where is all the latent homoeroticism masked as pedagogy?”"

Bulldogs in Somalia:
"Most of what you learn at Yale is so academic, so inapplicable to the real world. I feel like I actually learned something practical: how to raid a boat.”

Old Campus Gets its Name:
"And so, on Apr. 19, 1810, Connecticut Hall became a temporary dormitory for the displaced seniors of New Haven. From the saggy to the spry, naked one and all, 20 New Haven seniors living on welfare came to reside at Yale College."

The Great A Cappella Ban of 1956:
"Begun during the rationing of World War II, when instruments had to be chopped up for firewood, a capella was something of an accident. In 1956, then-President Kingman Brewster, ’41, banned the activity, as instruments were once again plentiful."

and another for an article on a party that was co-thrown by DKE, the frattiest frat on campus, M O D E R N L O V E, hipster party of choice, and the Women's Center. Truly a collision of worlds.

warm weather

2010-03-24T12:53:00.000-07:00

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another day another graphics

2010-03-17T16:29:00.000-07:00

for an article on leaving/taking breaks from school (that i can't find the link to anymore, sorry.)

for an article on off-campus housing.

i wish i knew what to tell you

2010-03-04T01:44:00.001-08:00

strip party

2010-03-01T10:44:00.000-08:00

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(swing space is the name of the dorm building I live in. it is far away from everything.)

so much greyscale up in here

2010-02-28T11:11:00.000-08:00

for an article on Yale's mandatory weigh-ins for those below a certain BMI.

for an article on how the internet encourages self-obsession. aka, if you replace the youtube logo with a blogger logo, this illustration transforms into a self-portrait.

for an article on reactions to Yale's new policy on gender-neutral housing.

oh hey

2010-02-25T12:37:00.000-08:00

takes one to know one

2010-02-22T11:30:00.001-08:00

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glint 'n shine

2010-02-17T22:35:00.001-08:00

comics catchup

2010-02-16T21:30:00.000-08:00

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(commons is a building here. one with heavy doors.)

sex week

2010-02-12T15:01:00.000-08:00

it's Sex Week at Yale, so here are a few graphics that were done for some sexy herald articles:

for an article on chat roulette, and how ratatouille will help you make new friends.

for an article on those (golden?) years in the early 70s when the yale law school film society screened pornos in the sterling law auditorium.

for an article on romance novels and how they deserve more respect.

face the music

2010-02-08T15:57:00.000-08:00

two illustrations that I did for the herald:

for an article on yale's public image.

for an article on SIC InC, a pretty exciting student music group.

blast from the past

2010-01-30T16:18:00.000-08:00

In the summer of 2008, I attended Harvard Beijing Academy, a full-immersion Chinese language program. It was...intense.

At the end of the whole ordeal, though, I helped design a t-shirt for my class. We were the fourth-year class. Also, the Beijing Olympics were that year. So I kinda went with those two ideas and came up with...

(front)

(back)

The designs were based on the designs and logos that were being used for the Beijing Olympics.
The front was based on the main logo...

for the Olympics, the seal looks both like a running athlete and like the character 京(jing), which represents 北京(Beijing.)

for this design, the seal looks both like a studying student and like a 4, which represents our 4th year class.

The back was based on the little symbols they were using to represent the different sports.

fun fact: these symbols are supposed to imitate 甲骨文(jia gu wen), one of the earliest forms of Chinese writing.

All of this was done in collaboration with Yuhki Yamashita, a classmate of mine, who was really great, and looks like he's doing really well right now.

some covers

2010-01-29T21:20:00.000-08:00

Two covers that I did for The Herald.

This one ran last week, and illustrated an article covering a Wesleyan program that offered college courses to prison inmates. A photo of the cover that was eventually made from my image is below...

And this one ran this week, and illustrated an article profiling youtube celebrity producer (and Yalie) Kurt Schneider. Photo of the final product below:

super sketchy

2010-01-27T20:18:00.000-08:00

Meanwhile:

2010-01-25T22:33:00.001-08:00

Theodore's adventures continue, Tuesdays in the ydn.

a little color

2010-01-24T13:33:00.000-08:00

the yale herald predicts trends for 2010

2010-01-23T11:23:00.000-08:00

Prediction 1: Obesity

"An obese messiah (Oprah showed early promise but proved weak-willed) will rise from the rubble of a thousand gnarled treadmills and lead us, albeit at a comfortable walking pace, into 2010 and beyond."

Prediction 2: Male Prostitution.

"I foresee an opening of the floodgates as a trickle of customers turns into a torrent of men and women looking for escapism in the arms of a one-time Lehman Brothers analyst."

original article here.

a modern-day tragedy

2010-01-20T00:54:00.000-08:00

it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a new comic strip

2010-01-16T09:50:00.000-08:00

up 'till now most of the comics I've done have been for the herald. This semester I'm also going to run a strip in the ydn.

first, a brief visual summary:

and now, the first strip (click to fullview):

(fyi Walden is the peer-counseling service here.)

dancing and eating

2010-01-15T10:56:00.000-08:00

a few graphics that I did for the Yale Herald last semester:

for an article on floating dance parties.

a cow with soybean spots, for an article on veganism.

and a chick made of chickpeas for the same article.

realism

2010-01-04T15:18:00.000-08:00

Oh, Kanye!

2009-12-29T22:29:00.001-08:00

when I make it big, this is the first thing I'm going to ask them to put in the Louvre.

a tale of two pictures

2009-12-19T02:53:00.000-08:00

Two different illustrations done at two different times for two different stories. Both for the Penny Dreadful though.

colorful

2009-12-13T14:50:00.000-08:00

GET READY

2009-12-10T10:57:00.001-08:00

coming soon to a dining hall near you

exclusive sneak preview

2009-12-05T12:59:00.000-08:00

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I'd like to thank No Country For Old Men and the music video for Flashing Lights by Kanye West.

squirrel+moustache=squirrel with moustache

2009-12-04T03:12:00.000-08:00

fly high like paper

2009-11-20T12:34:00.000-08:00

some illustrations

2009-11-19T14:00:00.000-08:00

done for the penny dreadful.

three more

2009-11-19T12:17:00.000-08:00

I totally have a girlcrush on Marion Cotillard.

some Things that I Have Done

2009-11-19T11:58:00.001-08:00

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