January 1, 2009
· Filed under Illustrator, crafts
Happy new year, everyone! I hope 2009 brings you everything you’re hoping for, including: free jars of icing, lots of radio listening, millions of mars daydreams, kindness from strangers, smiles from doggies, and finding hidden candy corn.
Here’s the thank you card I made for everyone who was especially kind to me over the holidays:


Exciting close up!!!!:

Based on the little faces doodles I did a little while ago, which I drew over and colored in Illustrator. Then mounted on blue card stock.
December 27, 2008
· Filed under Photoshop, ink on paper
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.

October 8, 2008
· Filed under Illustrator, animals, animation
My first Flash animation, with the help of some fish. Please click on the image below to open the animation in a new window.

October 4, 2008
· Filed under Photoshop, pencil on paper
She should have stopped after the third cone. Lesson learned?

Pencil on paper, then colored in Photoshop, with floral paper over her dress.
August 10, 2008
· Filed under Photoshop, animals, ink on paper
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.
August 10, 2008
· Filed under Photoshop, crafts, design
Here’s a one-sided thank you card I made. I wrote in the 2nd frame with a nice brown pen. It was awesome.

You can use it for your own thank you cards if you want! Don’t sell it on the thank-you-card black market. Everyone deserves to be thanked for something. Click to make larger, yeah.
July 13, 2008
· Filed under Photoshop, aliens, pencil on paper
Flying side by side to a park for a picnic.

Materials: pencil on paper, then colored in Photoshop; hearts in Illustrator.
June 16, 2008
· Filed under Illustrator, Photoshop, crafts, design
A day late to posting, but I was a day early to giving, haha! I hope everyone had a fine Father’s Day. Here’s the card I made for my awesome dad:

Pattern & text (Adobe Garamond) done in Illustrator. Texture is from a wash I did using moist tissue paper and allowing it to get all wacky. I printed the whole shebang on cream card stock, wrote on the back, and stuck it in a yellow envelope. I like that it turned out to be a little bit disorienting, similar to that classic optical illusion. Scintillating!
June 1, 2008
· Filed under Photoshop, pencil on paper
A feverish, sick boy ruminates ruefully on the dirty, germy bus that foisted this terrible illness upon him. Inspired by this ask.metafilter question.

Pencil on paper. Photoshop: color, textured paper. Background wave is from a linocut print I did last year.
May 29, 2008
· Filed under Photoshop, aliens, animals, ink on paper, oldies but goodies
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.