I did some hard drive excavating today and found these cuties, a few dog walkers I did a couple years ago.

They were all done with pencil on paper, gone over with ink.

Merry Christmas Eve, everybody. My family does a Secret Santa gift exchange and I wrapped my presents this morning. I used brown Kraft paper to wrap, then I freehanded a design in pencil on the smaller gift. Then I colored in the lines with a silver gel pen (purchased from JetPens.com) and a thin-tipped Sharpie. Start:

Finish:

I taped this awesome textured red-and-black origami paper on top of the larger box on the bottom and then stacked the smaller gift on top.

Gotta go make some pierogi and drink some egg nog. Have a great day, everyone!

I like the This American Life. I like people talking in my ear. People I can’t see.

I did this for a This American Life t-shirt contest. Perhaps the boy is a wee Ira.

Done with ink on paper then colored in Photoshop.

RAWWWWRRRR! And then, cuddle time.

I did this a while ago in pen and ink and then Photoshop. If you’re having a bad day, you can imagine coming home to a hug monster, ready to cuddle your worries away (and maybe hand you a beer – they’ve got enough little hands).

How: Pen on paper, colored in Photoshop

Hi everybody. I won a little contest over at one of my favorite clothing shoppes, modcloth. They held a valentine’s card-making contest. I submitted these two bad boys:

The giraffe/turtle one was cobbled together from a couple drawings I’ve done recently. And the x-ray is a revised version of an old drawing I did a couple years ago (over here).

So the x-ray one won, yay! You can send it to your sweetie on modcloth’s send-a-valentine’s-card page. Some cute stuff over there!

Some face doodles I made while watching 30 Rock (available on the incredible Watch Instantly feature on Netflix!). Drawn with brown gel pen on paper, then colored in Photoshop. I used a faint wood grain in the background.

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.

Here are three examples of cardigans. If I were a feathery creature with unique taste in headgear, my go-to outfit would be a cardigan and underwear. This costume is not constraining, allowing one to squat and run and lurk in children’s dark closets without impairment. And it is also fashionable but charming, leading all the girl-monsters to believe that while you may shop at American Apparel, at least you’re putting some thought into this whole thing.