Jackie - Finished!

I finished him! I also finished the secret project. One commission left! Oh, but right after I finished this one I got another commission. Fingers crossed on me making enough money for Japan! ><

I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. I tried very hard to make it look like something that might, in some strange universe, be passable as a real book cover. Hopefully my next piece won't be as painful. I started over a couple of times (partly because I was learning a new program, but really because I'm bad at digital painting). I did this entirely with PaintTool Sai, a program like PS--but free, lean and REALLY fun! My PS died on me, so. Yay open-source programming!

I am kind of bummed that I can't spend as much time on personal projects this summer...Between teaching and these jobs, I'm drained. :P

Oh shoot, what am I gonna do for Illustrated Book class? I need a story. I have a feeling the answer is right in front of me. I need to root through my old books. All of my favorites were those nineteenth-century classics with young heroines. Anne of Green Gables, Mary Lennox, Laura Ingalls. Maybe?

Works in Progress

The cover of a friend's book, about a detective who deals with the arcane and otherworldly.
The cover of my friend's comic, "Clone" about a girl who discovers that she's the clone of a supervillainess with super strength.

I've been working on a few different things this summer, including a secret project for a toy designer, which I can't post :( but other than that, I've got two illustrations going. Here are the sketches for them. I'll be inking and coloring each of them in a different way over the course of the summer. Hopefully I can finish them soon, I have some other projects I want to start!!

Also: working on getting the comics up online, and watching PR and Leverage.

Hot Blood and Cold Blood

Did you know caribou can control their own blood flow? niiice. Also, dinosaurs make everything better.

Fashion loves Skatergirls

A fashion illustration, sexy people being sexy(?) in a sexy skatepark. Specifically, the Paris 18. Featuring Converse and L.A.M.B.

George Washington

A zine made using collage, painting, and photoshop. Based on a madlib that was originally the tale of George Washington and the Cherry Tree, but.

Also, Layer Tennis is the best thing to watch on Friday afternoons.

Birthday Cards are Super Fun

This is the birthday card that I made for my friend *Andrea, whose birthday is coming up. She loves rainbows, stars, and flowers. I have a book of Charlie Chaplain stills, and a few bags full of scraps, stickers and doo-dads. The little bar by our kitchen (I don't have a desk at home) is covered with paint, glue, tape, scraps, etc., after a fun day working on this.
When I make birthday cards, I feel like I'm doing something worthwhile. I feel free. I hope she likes my card as much as I do. :)

A Seed Bank

In case all the plants in the world die, a Seed Bank will store seeds with which to grow new ones.

New Things

Hunger



The Growler - can summon crocodiles with a scratch of his arm.


Shadowy Ninjas fight Radioactive Rainbow Science Gods and are Turned into Technicolors