SCOTUS
Overview| With Judge Sotomayor on the way, thought I might put up my fifteen minute sketch of SCOTUS from a few years back. My Justice Breyer needs some work, but it's not horrible, right?
Caricatures
I try to exercise my artistic abilities once or twice a year by drawing personalized caricatures of my friends. These doodles usually end up being my favorite works, but, since they're ostenisibly for my friends' eyes only, I'm going to refrain from putting any of them online, unless somebody wants to give me permission or, well, I've ceased to be his/her friend.
Sassan Tabatabai| He was the very first professor I met in college, and I've known the man ever since. Sassan Tabatabai is a Persian of many colors--he appeared my first day of class with a bow tie and spouting poetry. Since that time I've learned he's also a boxer, a ladies' man, and a Bob Marley fan. I figure showing this sketch of the Silver Fox can't hurt since he's (1) a university professor and (2) he'll probably never check out see this site anyway. Tabatabai was a great mentor of mine in college and a boxer and lover of fine poetry.
Keith Botsford| Like Sassan Tabatabai, Keith Botsford
was my source of inspiration in college. He was also a crazy, chain-smoking
old man who loved Pepsi and knew a dozen languages. I drew this before he
retired and took off to parts unknown with some Pepsi. He was kind enough
to publish the drawing in an issue of his magazine, News
from the Republic of Letters, so this has already been broadcast
to the world a bunch of literary elites.
Sketches
I try to exercise my artistic abilities once or twice a year by drawing personalized caricatures of my friends. These doodles usually end up being my favorite works, but, since they're ostenisibly for my friends' eyes only, I'm going to refrain from putting any of them online, unless somebody wants to give me permission or, well, I've ceased to be his/her friend.
Reading Wizard| For the longest time, I've enjoyed doodling wizards and Mario-esque mushrooms. So a few years ago, I combined the two.
Saint Augustine| During the formulation of my senior thesis, I grew to have a bizarre mancrush on St. Augustine. His words didn't speak to me particularly, but I thought the guy was pretty cool, shaking off the fall of Rome like a mere act of God. This sketch is based off a teeny tiny sculpture of the man at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.
