lukeivyprice

a graphic I made to promote our rock-n-roll band back in...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:01:14 -0400

a graphic I made to promote our rock-n-roll band back in highschool. Our name described our music pretty well, strange and funny

Raised copper vessel.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:02:02 -0400

Raised copper vessel.

more sketches for production pieces

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:01:12 -0400

more sketches for production pieces

Inspired by Rene Lalique’s snakes.

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:01:21 -0400

Inspired by Rene Lalique’s snakes.

Friend: What shows you been watching lately? Me:...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:01:13 -0400

Friend: What shows you been watching lately?

Me: Shows?

Friend: You know… like on tv.

Me: I don’t watch television.

Friend: What!? What… do you do then?

Me: Sketch till my brain hurts, take a break, then do it again.

Photo

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:01:41 -0400

I found some small pieces of zinc plates and decided to put them...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:01:09 -0400

I found some small pieces of zinc plates and decided to put them to use. I cut 5 of them into a standard size and coated them with asphaltum with plans to do some observational images at a later date. The plate this print was done on was the odd-ball being too short to make a rectangle, so I made it into a square and did a quick jewelry doodle on it.

This is one of the few pieces of jewelry that I regularly wear....

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:01:20 -0400

This is one of the few pieces of jewelry that I regularly wear. It’s a good luck/ talisman/ charm necklace done man style. ”What in the world is that?” is the standard comment made about it. Then I get to watch their confusion grow as I explain what is hanging from this leather bootlace. A carved walnut wood bead from a tree that I helped mill, the base of a deer antler that I found while walking horse paths in texas, the vertebrae of a snapping turtle I hooked while bottom-rigging in the swamp, and the list goes on

The way I make works would terrify most people. I usually have...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:19:00 -0400

The way I make works would terrify most people. I usually have about 10 projects going at once and I switch back and forth between them. Not every project steams forward to completion. Some of them get partially completed then put on the back-burner for a while… A few of those get revived and changed… some never make it back to the work bench.

One day I walk into my intermediate figure drawing class...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 19:01:22 -0400

One day I walk into my intermediate figure drawing class completely drained and ready to pass out. Since the previous class meeting I had completed and delivered an 18x24 watercolor illustration (which had to be done because I had accepted a completely unrealistic deadline on it.) Our assignment that day was to spend the entire 3 hours on a single charcoal drawing. So, I’m standing there in front of my easel, glancing back and forth between the model, my blank paper, and the floor. I finally snap out of my daze and decide to destroy this drawing with all my might. After 25 minutes, the class takes its first brake and we all walk around the room to see how everyone’s drawings are going. Everyone else in the class are underclassmen, so their drawings are still in the planning phase. Mine is in the touch up phase. The teacher gives me a few points to adjust, the model resumes the pose, and everyone falls back into drawing. I make the adjustments and am falling-asleep-standing-up within ten minutes. After 18 hours of drawing (mostly on the illustration) my draw-o-meter needle is stuck at “no.” I trudge over to the teacher and ask “can I grab some clay and do a figure study in 3d?” He humors me and lets me have at it, so I spend the rest of the class moving around the classroom with a bucket of water and lump of clay. This of corse confuses the daylights out of everyone including the model. Something good came out of that day though, now I can periodically pick this thing up and irritate my girlfriend by saying “Need a hand?”

re-learning how to work with limited tools… no torches, no...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 19:01:21 -0400

re-learning how to work with limited tools… no torches, no pickle, no polisher, no tumbler, no steaks, no fancy hammers, no anvil, no press, no bench… still making

sketches for decorations

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:01:01 -0400

sketches for decorations

I wanted to make some bronze cane handles and candlesticks. I...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 19:01:10 -0400

I wanted to make some bronze cane handles and candlesticks. I enjoy the way leather-hard clay carves, so I figured that I would make the originals out of it instead of the wax I normally use to make the originals for metal castings. The smallest amount of clay I could buy was 25 pounds, which is about 5 times the amount I need. I didn’t want this glob of mud taking up space and potentially going to waste, so of course I decide to throw some flower pots. This is the one that I am the most proud of

designs for new production pieces

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:01:17 -0400

designs for new production pieces

intro drawing lesson in abstraction

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 19:01:09 -0400

intro drawing lesson in abstraction

made during my senior year of highschool. At the time, I was...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:01:17 -0400

made during my senior year of highschool. At the time, I was still romancing the idea of becoming a comic book artist

Photo

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 19:01:21 -0400

semi-blind contour self portraits. These are homework from...

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 19:01:11 -0400

semi-blind contour self portraits. These are homework from intro figure drawing freshman year. Can you tell which one I was the most bored during?

figure study in oil

Fri, 31 May 2013 19:01:11 -0400

figure study in oil

my take on Moebius/ Jean Giraud’s apple pie meme

Thu, 30 May 2013 19:01:11 -0400

my take on Moebius/ Jean Giraud’s apple pie meme