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Illo for the Discomfort Zone column in FFWD Weekly. The Intrepid reporter Mark Hopkins has a go as a figure model in a group dog-pile sketching class. Check it out here: www.ffwdweekly.com/article/life-style/urban-living/body-a...
This illo was accompanying a feature on themed holiday parties. It's a cover, so that's why there's such a big space for the logo on the top.
Since it was rush deadline, I think that explains why there's Dilophosaur Beer.*
Client: Weekly Dig
AD: Tak Toyoshima
*I totally wish I could get hired to design some awesome beer/wine labels.
With an illo per chapter by me.
Should be out tomorrow, in all good comic stores, though it isn't actually a comic. Failing that, you can order it via Amazon where it should be out shortly and other online places. IDW doesn't appear to have it on their online store as yet though.
Here's something that was a playful bit of fun.
Made for the folks at Silver Screen Society for the month long tribute post to Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2.
I went a bit mental with this piece but i wanted to produce something which was a bit informal and playful just like the films themselves.
check out the Silver Screen Society website for the other fantastic ills on ghostbusters and other films:
Pen (nib) and ink, watercolor. Very fast, very fun, but poor lighting :(
vanillabeanknits.blogspot.com/2008/01/illustration-friday...
Arthur Ferrier from Ziff's September 1929. The Love Letter.
I may pull an illo from time to time and give it a little more editing separate from the full scan. In my scans right now, I'm leaning towards a more natural look (that preserves magazine texture) but do realize that sometimes you've got to go a little further to make a piece of art pop, and Flickr seems a perfect place to do that.
Forgot to post this!
This piece was made for the Seattle Weekly a few months ago...it was featured in an article about the favorite summer tunes of the Seattle Weekly staff.
Completed while working on coloring my backlog of drawings. Dogs! Feel free to click all sizes and download for your desktop.
Not sure if I'll use it for fabric yet...I'll gauge reaction I guess!
Here is a little illo for a holiday card/ask letter I did for Animal Haven, a no-kill animal shelter here in KC. They wanted an animal take on the classic flagpole scene from A Christmas Story. I tried to keep in fun but a little warmer and cuter than my usual.
I really love to be alone and think it's necessary for my mental and emotional health, however, I've felt like this before too.
Okay, I totally need someone to name things for me. But I finally finished my pattern, basically gave up on the previous two colorways opting for a gold and green/blue version. I'm pretty pleased, although once again the colors are a little off. What the what, computer? Quit messin' with my colors I say!
Now to figure out if it's worth ordering yards of fabric out of!
20 foot by 10 foot mural for Sprout Social! Art Direction by Rusty C. Cook, florals, letters and drawings by me.
A series of ideation images based on a childhood memory. This is a prompt from my Children's Book Illo class.
This illustration of mine is a cover for the book, made for the children from 9 to 12 years old. It's all about beautiful town in Serbia- Prijepolje from the letter A to the letter Š. / sch/
editor: www.biblioteka-prijepolje.rs
NBA star Vlade Divac was born in Prijepolje.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlade_Divac
I wish u all a very happy spring time! :] oOo
Great performance from Serbia, too!
"If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come." -Chinese proverb.
Ready to nest in your heart, this bluebird sings in a swirled green garden.
Illustration for Time Out's article on new ways to be naked around New York - including naked painting parties, naked yoga and naked cycling..
This is the last illo I did for The New Yorker. It was a tough one, Too much people and they are all brothers!! I spent 2 days watching pics to individualize each one of them. Their music is awesome!
I was a homeless teenage girl living in the back alleys of Cupertino in 1982. A sleazy computer programmer (Jeff Bridges' character from the movie Tron, exhibiting a side of him we didn't see in the movie) kidnapped me and used me as his first experiment in the "digitizing of people." I was blasted into the "cyber world" which at first made me angry. Eventually, I came to realize that this was actually better than living on the streets of Cupertino. Eventually I discovered another girl-program my own "age" (actually she was only about 3 months old... She was a runaway program, originally intended to be a library reference lookup daemon. In the logic of the Tron universe, she looked like her "user" -- a sexy lesbian librarian, only dressed in a luminous tour-bike Lycra ensemble. She still had the cat-eye glasses. Hotness!) Together, we created two pairs of luminous roller skates that enabled us to zip through the cyber-cities at wonderful speed, zigging, zagging, snatching valuable bits of data from unaware programs and skating away too fast for the Recognizers to catch us. I had a big crush on her. Time passed -- hard to tell, as it was always nighttime in the Tron world...
We eventually came to a small alcove in a pixelated wall, in which we found a small museum devoted to all things Werner Herzog. (Bear in mind that this was 1982, so his most recent film was Fitzcarraldo. ) The proprieter of the museum (which was actually a primitive Usenet group about Werner Herzog) was a kindly old program who looked like a balding college professor. He allowed us to go "upstairs" where we watched a little bit of Land of Silence and Darkness, a documentary about people who are both deaf and blind. This version, however, was set to a pounding electro-clash soundtrack.
Somehow the Librarian and I fell to the floor (in slow motion, like feathers) and started kissing. I'd wanted to do this for how many system cycles? I was shivering, hard. Our clothes evaporated. We were half-naked on a hard luminous floor, in public. Not the place I would have expected us to consummate our attraction to each other. Hours passed. The ambient lights of the matrix shifted red, then orange... then pulsed aquamarine. The owner of the establishment asked us, sheepishly, if we would mind leaving. We agreed, and as we were leaving we heard programs in the street chattering excitedly that the Master Control Program had been destroyed. We were free! Cool, I thought. I looked at my Sexy Librarian and we smiled at each other like idiots in love.
Background artwork for an ad for a University of Calgary Active Living zombie bootcamp event. I'll post the whole ad illo once it hits the street.
I made this illo few monts ago.
It was a cover for a popular magazine of Madrid, but in the last moment the illo was censored.
What I should be working on: my postcard design, belly bands, practicing backgrounds, people, etc... What I am working on-- gators!
I kept seeing friends draw gators and it'd been quite a while since I drew one (well not totally true but sorta) so I decided to work this up. I still have a lot more to do, more inks, details, adding in whites, working up a shade layer, coloring, etc, but I felt like showing a bit of progress work.
6x13 ish? Kind of want to tack on another sheet and make the mama full body while her babies swim around her! But that would be huge and no one would see it full size so I dunno.
Now all I feel like drawing is some ladies. Strange, huh? The grass is always greener...