Marker Art Portfolio

A lot of things weighed heavily on my mind, and this was one of the products of that weight…

Based off of a character in a book I was deeply involved in (ie, writing), “Her City” was another exercise in intricacy. It’s primarily fluff, but I really like the center part of the image.

No cities, no trucks and trains–just the simplicity of the lines, the serenity of her face…

Purchase a print or card on Fine Art America. “Always a Part of Something Indescribable” This image, completed over my wild and travel-extensive birthday weekend. My artwork slowed down during the spring months because I was traveling so frequently, but when I picked up my pens and markers again, some Read more…

This image was the first one I finished in the new sketchbook that I ordered, and begins to incorporate Korean motifs–especially the subway and the Asian roofs. This one was mostly a fluff piece, because I was still hopelessly missing the old sketchbook!

Print Available on Imagekind. You Can Bury It was an exercise in several things: conflicting color schemes, telling a story, geometric styles… I took on a big project when I undertook this image. Still in my transitional sketchbook, I really wanted to draw how I experienced Korea, its culture, and Read more…

  In early January, I made a terrible mistake and put an untrustworthy water bottle into the bag where I kept my sketchbook. In the dead of winter, at one of the hardest points in my Korean year, I doused all my art, and blank sketchbook pages in weak tea. Read more…

One of the main things I did in Korea to keep myself sane was draw. It was almost a meditative practice, but it became absolutely essential that I gave myself time to do two things: listen to English TV, and draw. This is another low quality scan, unfortunately, but someday Read more…

A more playful image this time, but I don’t particularly like the color choices I made. Wild hair and enormous headphones. For a while I believe that characterized me amidst the other foreigners in Korea.

Print and Card available on Fine Art America. “You can’t stop this” is yet another one of my favorites, a more courageous verison of “You go Forward”, as it were. This was a few months into my sojourn as a teacher in Korea, and all the intricacies of the image Read more…

This is the first time I really tried to build an image around text and only text. I remained in black and white, and focused on the simple things.

I was in the process of this image as I was moving to Korea. That describes the text and the forward motion of the image right away. I had nowhere to go but onward, regardless of whether or not I thought that was a good idea. This is a pretty Read more…

Print Available on Imagekind. With this image, I took a very different approach than I usually did. First and foremost, I envisioned an image that was one solid concept, rather than a conglomeration of chaotic concepts. Second, I stuck to one set of colors, unlike my usual wide array. Like Read more…

Print available on Imagekind. This image began particularly as another experiment with trees, but it morphed into a pun on a well revered novel (by a well revered Minnesota author to boot.) I was also doing some playing with the markers to see how mixing them made an effect, and Read more…

Print Available on Imagekind. For “The Roots of Happiness” I kind of unintentionally started a trend of adding more meaningful, logical words to my images. This image started with the desire to draw a tree, and spread into something a bit more. Text reads: “The roots of happiness grow from Read more…

Inspired by henna designs and the interplay between geometry, flowers and faces…

Veiled figures, cities underneath veils, veils concealing cities….

Print Available on Fine Art America. This image is, to this day, one of my favorite in all the cityscapes I have ever drawn. The first goal of this image was to try taking up the whole page, after some friends suggested that my work was not “wall-hangable” for its Read more…

Print Available on Imagekind. “I am Complicated” was originally one of the very first images that I started. However, it wasn’t working out properly for quite some time, and I waited several months before completing it. It includes many of the same motifs as usual, and I didn’t try anything Read more…