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.

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.

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

She should have stopped after the third cone. Lesson learned?

Pencil on paper, then colored in Photoshop, with floral paper over her dress.

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.

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.

Flying side by side to a park for a picnic.

Materials: pencil on paper, then colored in Photoshop; hearts in Illustrator.

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!

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.

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.