Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Walls

This will be the last post for a while, as I journey across the country to a new life in San Fran. Kinda wish I had better artwork to share really.
I really dig the recent fad of adding painted things to photos of real places. I wanted to go for the fake-grafiti look with some sketches on real walls with people nonchalantly leaning against them. Unfortunately I have no good photos for that. I should go out and take a few photos of people I know against fun walls, then apply some potatoshop painted ladies. I like the concept. We'll consider this just a rough idea pass then.

Distractions...

Cinderelly

Sidewalk Coffee

Harvard Natural History Museum

Went sketching at the Harvard Natural History Museum today with a bunch of folks from the Boston Sketch Meetup group. I'll tell ya, dead things are far easier to draw than their live counterparts. That llama stayed still the WHOLE TIME. Hahaha.
Bengal Tiger:

Llama:

Indian Fruit Bat:

Grant's Gazelle (yeah I got bored of rendering the horns, so I wandered around the rest of the museum instead):

Tomorrow I'll be photographing LIVE animals at the Southwick zoo! Woohoo!

Volume IV bookplate

I should start a mass of these...accidentally greek inspired! :D

Girls Drawin Girls Volume IV!

Hey guys! As I mentioned in a previous post, Girls Drawin Girls has a new Volume IV book coming out. Pre-sales are now LIVE! Visit this link to order a copy of this fabulous book! It's going to be awesome - full color, hardcover and 174 pages! It's got 83 super talented artists' work in it. Pre-sales include free shipping AND a free bookplate designed by a GDG member! Go forth and buy! :D:D

New Website Additions

My website address has now changed to kat.kafal.as. Up there you can find a new reel and illustrations from the latest games I've worked on - The Oregon Trail, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego and Zoo Kingdom, as well as concepts from a game currently in development. Check it out and let me know what you think! Thanks! :)

Poison Ivy

Girls Drawing Girls will soon release an awesome book chock full of fabulous flora-related illustrations. I was lucky enough to participate in it and for it I chose to do Poison Ivy. No, not the Batman baddie....the actual plant, you know the one that makes you SO ITCHY.
Here she is!

I'll post up info on how to get your hands on this book later. Enjoy!

A Touch of Crochet

I'm beginning to build up an army of crochet cuteness. >:] Slowly does it!
Teabag and cup:

Dimple Bunneh:

Green fruit thing that refused to be something real:

The Dad Dance

Everyone's dad does something silly and quirky that's unique to them. My dad does a silly dance that we all love and rib him for endlessly. We even do it ourselves now! So I made him a diagram of his own dance, for kicks. hehe ;)

Janelle Monae

One of my friends recently got me into Janelle Monae's music. Amazing stuff, she's super talented and my favorite thing of all (this makes my inner feminist absolutely delighted) - she doesn't need to prance around in her underwear to be awesome and sexy.
Thus I drew her in her rockin' 60's tuxedo glory.

I really tried to give the illos more 'tude, but being a person without 'tude myself, it was a tough sell.

The Search For Spock

I love that scene at the end when the planet blows up in a big ball of lava and the Klingon bird of prey skoots out of the way JUST in time.