Keith Madison Jr.

Charcoal on pastel paper. This drawing is from an assignment to reproduce a Da Vinci charcoal drawing. This took roughly 40 hours to finish.

Charcoal on pastel paper. This drawing was for an assignment where we were to portray a deadly sin. I was given gluttony and I represented it with a distorted mouth chewing food.

White Pastel on Black Paper. The assignment was to draw an object that represented the word "night". I drew a candle and had it be the sole light source in a darkened room.

Graphite and watercolor. This is a portrait of my fiance's dog Bailey who had, at the time, recently passed.

Micron Pen Drawing. This was a drawing exercise to get the class used to draw with only a thin micron pen.

Micron Pen Drawing. Practicing eyes.

Micron Pen Drawing. Practicing eyes.

Micron Pen, Gel Pen, and Colored Pencils. This was an exercise in rendering organic forms in color.

Micron Pen, Gel Pen, and Colored Pencils. This was an exercise in rendering skin tones.

Micron Pen Drawing. This was an exercise in shading and lighting.

Micron Pen Drawing. Loose drawing and organic shape study.

Screen Print on Paper. This is an abstract self-portrait of myself, combining multiples of my own head.

Graphite on Paper. This is a self-portrait of myself.

This is the final assignment for my Typography 1 Class. We were to create a book and we could fill it with whatever we wanted. I made mine into a short illustrated story. You can read it in its entirety here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/glxy45y48r086wb/Book1.pdf?dl=0
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This was an assignment for an illustration class. I decided to create a children's story about how babies are made. The intention was to have the piece be a sort of an oxymoron. You can read it in its entirety here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/s8cukgwl59la0bd/book2.pdf?dl=0

Digital Illustration. This was an assignment to create barcode art. I tried to give the piece a darker tone and meaning.

Charcoal on a page of a book. Te assignment was to find a poem within a page of a book. we were then instructed to create an illustration on the page that is based on the poem we created that.

Oils on wood. This is an Alla Prima (2-hour oil painting) depicting Pluto. This was created right after the satellite New Horizons released the first ever photographs of Pluto. I wanted to be one of the first to create a painting of its actual likeness.