Somehow at some point my blog passed 1,000 followers (1100!). Wow! What are all you people doing here??
Me and my fox friend want to welcome you ♥
fungi-gathering goblin bros
I love your artwork so, so much. It's so beautiful and you're so talented!! When I am financed I will got to your store and buy everything. EVERYTHING. :) <3 <3 :D
Thank you so, so much! That's really lovely to hear :) And I haven't updated my Society 6 store in a little while, so if there's something not for sale on there that you want to be on sale, please let me know! I'm just here to oblige...
Cartoon Quickdraw is a fun and likely goofy journey into nostalgia in which you choose a classic cartoon character (video games too), draw them in a minute from memory and throw the drawings into a pile. The drawings are revealed, the best and worst are chosen and, in hard core versions of the game, the worst drawing gets tattooed in permanent marker on its artists' arm. Fortunately we didn't do that when we played last night or I would have a totally wrong Rocko-as-a-puppy, a doofy Megaman or a ridiculous Foot soldier (TMNT!) on my arm right now. Can you figure out the rest of the characters?
Good way to keep your doodling fresh, but more importantly just hilarious times (note backwards-hand Sonic).
"Severian and the Undine" a scene from Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe.
I painted this piece for Seb Mesnard's upcoming gallery event in Paris "The Book Show." Thanks, Seb, for inviting me to participate! You can check out some of the other awesome work on the show blog here.
Book of the New Sun may be my favorite book series of all time. It's so astoundingly good, I don't really have adequate words. It transcends science fiction, fantasy, novel, whatever you want to call it, and is more an epic prose. It's just gorgeous, riveting, mind-blowing imagery and world-making by Gene Wolfe, a writer whose stories change and only get more amazing with each read. Just wow. You guys. You guys need to read it. Jimmy Giegerich introduced me to it. Check out his Severian!
New illo for BUST appearing in the current Aug/Sept issue on stands now. This one's about the trend of so-far pretty vanilla Disney-grown actresses starring in "bad girl" movies like Spring Breakers and The Bling Ring. Thanks to AD Lan Turong.
This is my piece for the Silver Screen Society's February exhibition honoring the very funny podcast "How Did This Get Made?" Artists chose one of several bad movies reviewed on the podcast by Paul Scheer, Jason Mantzoukas and June Diane Raphael (who can make the word "disgusting" the funniest thing I've heard) and my choice, if it's not obvious, was Batman & Robin.
My little brother and I have seen this movie too many times, and it is oh so silly, and we love it. There are enough nipples sculpted into costumes that I figured I'd give everyone a chance to show theirs off. And revisiting those costumes...boy are they dumb. Mr. Freeze's get-up is one of the most convoluted, stupid things I've ever had to draw. So this was tons of fun.
Check out all the great work on Silver Screen Society's online gallery here, including Jimmy Giegerich's excellent Cool As Ice piece (which got him followed BY Vanilla Ice on Twitter! A very rad outcome). And, if you haven't already heard "How Did This Get Made?", correct that error here. You'll be better for it.
Thanks to the guys at Silver Screen for inviting me to take part!
I decided to paint a little Japanese beetle tonight. They have furry stripes on their bellies! #gouache (Taken with instagram)
The radness is overflowing!!! Jimmy's inking is so excellent.
Here’s my first piece that I did for Bits in Multiples of 8 you guys!! If you guess that I was working on an Altered Beast piece yesterday from the preview I posted, you guessed right!! I’m going to color this soon so that I can turn it into a screen printed poster, so keep you eyes peeled doods and doodettes!
"Greetings dear reader, fellow student of the arcane such as you must be. You have selected this guide in your search for a spirit ally, a familiar..."
I'm psyched to announce my newest zine debuting at SPX this September, Warlow's Guide to Wizards, Sorceri & Familiars Arcane. It's a helpful tome for young magi as they make the important choice of a familiar that will accompany them throughout their magical growth. Featuring illustrations of notable witches and wizards and their partners, along with specimen charts and helpful notes from the "author" himself, the great wizard Warlow.
Printed on Cougar natural off-white stock with 3-color interiors and a screen-printed cover. I'm having tons of fun creating these characters and I'm excited for you to see the zine in its entirety at the expo. Hope to see you there!
(Check it out on SPX's debut page here.)
Andrea Kalfas is an illustrator living and working in Baltimore, MD. This is a blog for ideas, progress, and things to show off. Thanks for looking and check back often! You can see more of my work on my portfolio site here. follow me on twitter - @andreakalfas All images © Andrea Kalfas 2015 unless otherwise noted. If you reblog, please provide credit by including my name. Thanks
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