Pumpkin Gnome

Hello little guy.  Amidst the stress of filing taxes, a cruelly indecisive springtime, and car insurance payments, this little robin was born.  Sometimes you just need to make something pretty and meaningless.

oh maannn, you were in NOBROW???? *follows* I have such love for that magazine. Someday all the issues will be mine. ALL OF THEM! :D

I was! And yes. They are awesome. Good goal!

I'm excited for the bats to start coming out :)

Hey, I'm a sophomore at MICA and I'll hopefully be taking your digital illustration class next semester. I thought your name sounded familiar and when I looked you up I saw that I've already been following you on tumblr, which was a really weird small-world moment. I just wanted to say hi, I love your work, and that I hope I can get into your class before it fills up!

Thanks! I hope you can too, but I think it HAS filled up already (my gosh!).

It's official!  I've flip flopped a lot, but Tumblr is now the new home for my illustration blog.  Just the fact that I feel more inclined to update this baby tells me that this is probably the way to go.  It's good timing because I've been feeling really excited about working lately, getting new things started, keeping a proper sketchbook, and being overall less precious about my art.  Not everything needs to be perfect, but it's worth it to just put things down, and draw and draw and draw.  And after all perfection is subjective.  That's going to be my outlook for this year, and I'm hoping that fun new work will result, so keep checking back! 

Today's warm-up: this neon swamp grump 🐸

We’re snowed-in here in Baltimore, and it’s making me miss warmer weather, green things, flora...

So here is a beer label I designed and illustrated for Union Craft Brewing’s special spring-time saison that they crafted exclusively for Atomic Books in Hampden. A wonderful pairing of comics “for mutated minds” and a light, fruity ale.

I've always wanted to illustrate beer and wine labels and this was a really fun way to dip my toe in. I hope I get the chance to do more!

kellylasserre:

ink on dead magnolia leaves. is this “anthropomorphic fallacy”? uhh, too much time down here.

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My lovely friend Kelly Lasserre's handwritten type is so good and so enviable!  There's something really sweet and silly about this that I adore, and all the painted objects she's been creating just make me so happy.

ARGUS, the many-eyed demi-god, is a psychic-type mystical fighter who specializes in paralyzing her opponents with her gaze and holding them in crippling mental pain. Nearly impossible to sneak up on, she maintains a vigilant defense against physical attacks with evasive hovering, as any contact with her eye-covered body can do serious damage. The large eye on her forehead, when opened, casts a heavily destructive wide beam of light, but it forces all of Argus's other eyes closed and leaves her vulnerable for the duration. An orbiting shroud covers the eye until she needs its power. Fighters that want to take on Argus should employ blinding techniques: bright flashes of light, obstructive smoke, or sprays of ink. While impervious to attacks of willpower, physical attacks can bring Argus down easily if fighters manage to blind all of her eyes.

Okay, now come up from that deep dark pool of nerdiness...this is Argus, my submission to Jenn Woodall's latest anthology zine, FIGHT! Round 1! It features many talented illustrators the likes of Kali Ciesemier, Sam Bosma, Jimmy Giegerich, Valentin Seiche + more, and it's gonna be rad as hell.

hot pot

A pin up girl and a Korean hot pot! Two wonderful things. Love that yook gae jang.