That Sound

Final solution for Fred Lynch's "The Sound and the Fury." The assignment was to make an illustration about a sound you hate, black and white, fixed size.
I was so excited to get this assignment. Years and years ago when I was just getting the idea of going to art school, I toured at the Montserrat College of Art (a very good school), and I was part of a tour that stopped by Fred Lynch's upperclass advanced illustration class, which was critiquing their versions of this very assignment. My mom and I sat down to listen and didn't get up for the rest of the extensive critique. I was enthralled. That critique, and Fred's teaching style, was one of the biggest reasons I decided to go to art school. So anyway I was pumped to try my hand at this.
The whole point of Fred's class is to illustrate things in a way that solves the problem,(substance,) but also so that you're creating a piece that you would be making anyway (style). The nature of the assignment led to a lot of really intense and some very unpleasant imagery, but I have found that that's not really what I enjoy doing, and I was determined to make something sort of charming that still got the idea of annoyance across.

Ink, and then black and white gouache on arches block watercolor paper.