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.

Tronification

Now, I'm a fairly nerdy person and so I am VERY MUCH looking forward to Tron Legacy when it comes out in December! In anticipation I downloaded some wall papers and thought I'd do a little illustration to celebrate my love of glowy blacklight gaming movies. Hur hur.

Girls Drawing Girls 2011 Calendar

I recently snagged the opportunity to create a illustration for the Girls Drawin' Girls 2011 calendar. I teamed up with seriously talented artist Kassandra Heller to create an illustration for the month of April.

Here's the initial sketch of our composition.


And here's the final product!


If you want to see (and own!) more awesome GDG artwork, then grab the calendar before its sold out! Quick, like bunnies! You even get free shipping and a free button before the 18th :D

Inbound 5

Hello blog! I haven't been on here for ages, but I promise I HAVE been doing stuff. Lots of stuff actually.

Remember the cat comic I made a while ago? Well, it's now on sale as part of the Inbound 5 Boston Comics Roundtable Anthology! Ta Da!




There's a lot of really smashing stuff in the book, so I recommend you click here to go to the BCR shop and snag a copy before they sell out! :D

Anniversary Birdies Part Deux

So I abandoned the cut-paper-on-canvas thing after finishing it and varnishing it. I just suck at cutting things out really small and without tiny details the whole design sort of fell apart. Even with the pretty paper. ::sigh:: Oh well. Better luck next time!
In lieu of having nothing to give my grandparents for their 60th anniversary, I remade the bird idea in Illustrator and printed it out on heavyweight matte paper. I reused a frame I got from a yard sale (two for 8 bucks! what a deal!) that had some really ugly faded 80's artwork in it. I've never reused a frame like that before...screws and wire and fancy brackets! Fortunately I managed to screw it all back together with my new artwork in it. It's small, but it works! Here's hoping it'll stand up to being in my suitcase. I'll pad it EXTRA carefully.

Anniversary Birdies

Here's a new project I've set myself: a paper collage on canvas for my grandparent's 60th wedding anniversary.
So here's the sketch I came up with in Flash (background scanned from the actual sheet of scrapbooking paper I'm using)

And here's how its going so far. Only the background is glued down, figured I'd get all the bits and pieces in place before finalizing with glue. I'm going to try painting over a glossy varnish when done, just to seal it all in place properly (here's hoping that works). I've never tried paper collage to this extent before, but I must say its a wonderfully different feel from paint and digital. It also makes me realize I'm using the oldest cutting mat in existence and the manliest exacto knife evah.