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I like art - painting, sketching, and digital (i.e., drawing simple designs in Inkscape). I'm not very good at improvising, though, so most of my works are based on a photograph (CC-licensed or public domain where possible, but it should fall under fair dealing in any case). I've tried to credit the original source where possible, but some of the sources for my work are lost in the browser bookmarks of laptops past. If you know the source for anything credited, please let me know!
To see a higher-quality version of each thumbnail, just click on the photo (or view the imgur album, which also contains a couple more paintings which didn't make the cut for this page). For the most part, the quality of the photos is pretty bad. Unfortunately, I can't get any better-quality photos for most of them – I no longer own the vast majority of my paintings, as I usually give them away as gifts. In fact, for some of my paintings, I don't even have photos of them at all.
i guess they'll just be lost in time, like tears in rain
I made these to hang on my wall (12" x 18"); contact me if you want high-resolution versions for your own.
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When I was in my senior year of high school, my friend and I created an embarrassingly cheesy series of webcomics that could be described as "xkcd-inspired, but with a focus on melodramatic teenage problems and littered with inside jokes that will certainly seem dated in a few years' time" (The New York Times).
(That's a joke. It was never featured in The New York Times.)
I had a lot of fun with it, going so far as to do all the graphics in Inkscape and build a PHP-based website that was visited by a few dozen people throughout its lifespan, all of whom were my friends and most of whom could relate to the banal teenage problems featured. The website has since been deleted, for reasons that can probably be surmised, but I still have the graphics, so I figured I'd put the least embarrassing ones on here.
This one was supposed to be part of a series featuring various abuses of mathematics, but I only ever made one. You can tell I was salty about something here.
This one's actually one of my favourites – I really enjoyed making those vector renditions of Pikachu and Waldo. Inspired by a true story, albeit one that does not involve Pikachu, but does involve a healthy dose of salt.
Also inspired by a true story, or, more accurately, many true stories.
A fun and unusually salt-free little drawing.
There was supposed to be another series called "Tales From Astrophysics" but I never ended up making it. There are only so many ways you can misappropriate scientific concepts.
Presented without comment.
The watermelon bowling thing happened to me while on a trip to a particularly rural part of China. We managed to procure a whole watermelon but didn't have anything to cut it open with, so we decided to forgo eating it and just use it as a bowling ball instead. (There wasn't much to do in the area.)
Evidently, the watermelon had other plans, so we were able to enjoy a nice snack of watermelon after a brief attempt at bowling.
Making this one taught me a lot about: precious gems, Switzerland, nuts, and the depths of human cruelty.
The weird story about this one (which is one of the only ones not inspired by a true story – the idea just came to me one day when I was making paper cranes) is that about two years after I posted it, I found an everything2 writeup with an eerily similar theme.
I had to bury that fish in the garden myself. It was a sad day.
True story. There were a lot of fish turnover issues that year. My CEO approval rating on Glassbowl went way down.