how is it october already

some first term pencil/charcoal work

etsy page updated

http://www.etsy.com/shop/immadi

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my latest pencil piece which i am sooo happy with.

i also want to talk about etsy. i had some art on there a while ago and im now trying again. art school means moving out and needing money i dont have, so if i could make some of art that would be great. im planning on selling prints as well as originals. all kinds of art since i like to play around with lots of different media. i think ill make the gerard way pic a print so if your a mcr fan... then... buy it...

invisible children

this weekend invisible children visited my church. it was such an amazing experience, i feel so inspired. its one thing to watch a dvd, its totally another to hear it from someone who was there. they brought a former child soldier, francis, an incredible person. ive known him for 3 days and miss him already. the rest of the team was amazing too. its so great to see people around my age with the same passion for africa as i have, it makes me want to join too. something to pray about for sure, ive been told some colleges allow the invisble children roadie progam to count as an internship. so maybe my final year of college... who knows

this

words to live by

moar pen and ink

more work done over the past week

rex

i did this in my sketchbook a couple weeks ago and thought i should post it... cuz its cute and im trying to post something everyday now

mask WIP

masquerade, paper faces on parade, masquerade hide your face so the world will never find you ill try to have the finished piece up soon btw i do not own those lyrics. i guess andrew loyd webber does...

my hand is deeeaaad!

my hand died thanks to my recent pen and ink obsession. but i guess it was worth it since im pretty happy with all these pieces.

olivia

Today my 5 year old cousin was playing with her toy cell phone. She said she was talking to Martin Luther King Jr and thanking him for all that he did for African Americans. She said she told him about her cousins (my brothers who are adopted from West Africa), that they were beautiful and black and that she was so thankful that because of him they could go anywhere she could. Thats pretty freaking great, I hope more kids are like Liv because if they are there might be hope for the human race yet...

sketchbook post

so here's the explanation: my bro kyle lost a tooth to a corndog, how anybody does that i don't know. but anyway it fell out and he bit down on his tooth, he said, "I thought it was a seed, but then I was like wait- corndogs don't have seeds!" and basically a story like that deserves an illustration with it.

art institute

So its really happening, tomarrow I got to visit the Art Institute of York. I filled out my application, wrote my essay and I'm going to an open house. And I'm actually excited. So yeah, we shall see...

basically...

my mind is blown.
"love russia love music", '09 "male model", '08
this art belongs to Keira Rathbone and she is a typewriter artist. using a vintage typewriter she creates complex portraits, still life and nature pieces made up of numbers, letters, periods, commas stuff like that. needless to say its amazing. i can't even imagine how she goes about this honestly, from an artist's pov. my mind will never be able to wrap around it but man does it look cool.
get on her website... now: http://www.keirarathbone.com/index.html