I designed a website for a friend from work, Raquel, who is involved with a great non profit: Not Without My Pet. The organization helps victims of domestic violence who own animals. Often, people will delay leaving abusive situations because of not knowing how to take their pets with them, and being worried about their pet’s well-being if they leave the animal behind.

Not Without My Pet aims to help those people by “partnering with domestic abuse shelters to establish pet care facilities.” It’s a wonderful cause, and it was fun to design their site for them. Many thanks to programmer Russ for doing the great programming work on it.

I wanted to include some great pet photos on the site and Raquel was awesome at enlisting her friends’ help – she and her friends amassed a bunch of cute and charming snapshots of their pets. I threw in some of my own too. Check out the screenshots below.

And go look at the new website: www.nwomp.org

Diva’s my parents’ amazing mutt. She is intelligent and soulful and likes contemplating stuff.

Huey’s my parents’ other good dog. He is goofy and funny and is a sparkplug of a tank. He is not named after Huey Lewis and his news.

There’s Bonzai, Gab’s parents’ dog, who is very smart and clever and likes going on hikes.

This is a goat that I met in person. I took his picture. The hot dog type people at the bottom are on their first date. They’re off to an ice cream parlor for a root beer float. The creature in the middle is a kind of lion type thing, but with very slick skin, I would guess.

Here’s a giraffe who is pleased with you. Good job, you! I made him for my boyfriend.

How: pencil on paper, traced in Illustrator, colored in Photoshop. The font, as usual, is the excellent Diavlo.

So here are some more.

I used the lovely and free Diavlo for the text.

I hope the answer is four. Here are four turtles.

I made this by doodling with pencil on paper, then sketching in Illustrator, then coloring in Photoshop. I can’t stop thinking about the turtle and his black hole! Why doesn’t he get sucked in? Clearly, because the black hole has a crush on him.

My first Flash animation, with the help of some fish. Please click on the image below to open the animation in a new window.

I went on a trip to an island. I took a plane, then a boat. I sketched indigenous life while I was there. These animals have never been photographed.

Ink on paper, colored in Photoshop, with textured papyrus-type paper and a sticker border on both.

Some drawings age like wine, some drawings age like cheese and some drawings age like peas.

Some monsters are happy to be watched; some monsters are happy to watch other happy monsters.

Surveillance created ages ago:

Some X-rays tell you what is within; some X-rays tell you what is without.

Valentine’s Day X-ray created February 14, 2006:

Some things are worth falling out of the sky over; some things are not.

Parachute created June 28, 2006:

All are ink on paper; the bottom two had color added in Photoshop.

Spelunking in the caves of my hard drive, my neato flashlight hat illuminated a few drawing relics that I pickaxed out of the stone walls and am now posting on the internet.

So. It’s hard growing up under the sea. You have to align yourself with cliques, otherwise you’ll be an outcast and you’ll have to eat your Lunchables by yourself in the phone booth. Here are a few of your choices:

Emofish created April 29, 2006:

Goth shark created April 29, 2006:

Punkfish created April 29, 2006:

And on land…Large Larry is quite large and he has one hundred friends and they are all small. They can usually fit in coffee mugs or small purses or glove compartments. One of his best friends is Eddie, who is a mouse. An inventor mouse.

Large Larry created July 31, 2006:

All are ink on paper, colored in Photoshop.

Every young boy needs some cute jellyfish to think about.

Materials: pencil on paper. Photoshop: textured paper, color, and borders. The borders are scanned-in stickers from the excellent sticker store in the Farmers’ Market on 3rd and Fairfax in LA.