So I've finally gotten my art blog up and running! Go me! I'll try to keep this related to art only, though I might share a few stories as well about my artwork... Bear with me for the first few entries, I'm getting used to this whole "blog" thing. I'll try to keep updated regularly, the first few posts might be some older stuff... I'll get the about me sections and all that ready too.

I guess the first post warrants a bit of an introduction. My name is Cathie Norris, I am a student going into the Graphic Design and Illustration line of work. I'll graduate over the summer with an Associates in Graphic Communications and Publishing (basically Graphic Design with an emphasis in print) and then next year I'll be swept off to Florence, Italy to attend the one year Graphic Design program at the Florence Design Academy. While I really like design, I do a lot of life drawings, hence the interest in illustration. I didn't always know I wanted to be an artist but I've been drawing since I was a child, mainly getting into trouble for filling my school notebooks with doodles. :) I've actually only recently began doing design on the computer, everything else has been pencils, inks, charcoals and paper. I own about 16 or so sketchbooks, 12 of which have been filled, the others are in the process of being filled.

So I guess the first thing I'm going to put up is probably one of my favorite pieces. For an Illustrator class, we had the opportunity to create a skateboard deck design and actually mount it on a skateboard. This is what I came up with. To this day however, I have no idea what he's holding in his hand, I've forgotten what it was supposed to be. I also have the greyscale for the little dude. I'll get more up here soon, a lot of it still has to be scanned into the computer. (I'm so behind the times sometimes :D )

Next up are just a couple of sketches I have hanging around... done in pen. The black and white one is actually a sketch of Connor, Murphy, and Rocco from the Boondock Saints movie (highly recommended movie) the blue one is just something I doodled in class waiting for a teacher to show up. Scribbling out little doodles like this is probably the best way to relieve stress. :) Enjoy.