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Ghost PokeZine

Dusknoir! For Jordan Rosenberg's Ghost PokeZine. Check out details (because funding has ended and was successful! alright!) on its Kickstarter here. This was fun. Look at that little Eevee! So doofy and unsuspecting...

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Gant's food illustration is completely delectable. And his painting skills have always been a huge inspiration for me. Just gorgeous!

Today’s Lunch! Inspired by Kali Ciesemier’s blog Kali Eats as well as some delicious illustrations by Rebecca Bradley, and Kelly Lasserre.

Recipe: 

1 Avocado 1 small can of tuna 1tbsp of EV Olive Oil 1tbsp of Balsamic vinaigrette or of lime juice 1 large tomato, halved, or 1 small tomato

feeds one mildly hungry guy for lunch.

Halve and pit your avocado. Salt and pepper to taste and leave it to the side. Slice your tomato evenly, salt and pepper to taste and leave it to the side.

In a bowl, mix tuna, vinegar, and olive oil together, until all the tuna is coated. add a little salt and pepper (i love pepper). Use a spoon to heap the tuna into the pit cavity in your avocado halves. Dribble what’s left of the dressing in the bowl over the avocado and tuna. Serve the tomatoes next to it and enjoy!

Try adding walnuts, celery bits, golden raisins, or other tasty things to the tuna, or make a traditional tuna salad by using 2 tbsps of mayonaise rather than the O/V mixture. You can also substitute chicken for tuna.

Also, you if you want a tasty hors-d’ouevre for a party, mix the avocado meat in with the rest of the tuna dressing mixture, and serve on sliced tomatoes on top of crackers. They’re colorful, and tasty.

What are you thinking about, Log Lady?

So there you go. What'd I tell ya? (She'll be B&W in the zine, but I can never resist color on my own time.) This one's for you, cacophonyofcolour.

Hi! I was wondering if it's possible to submit art for the twin peaks zine, or if you're just selecting from certain artists you know. I'd love to make sure that there is some log lady coverage in the publication, but let me know when you have the time. Thanks!

Hi there! I'm late in replying to this. Sorry about that!

I've been asked this question many times now, so consider this my general answer to everyone. Thanks so much for asking, but unfortunately, I invited the artists in the Twin Peaks zine to take part privately, so submissions were never open. This is my first anthology-style zine, so I debated for a while whether I wanted to open up submissions for it, or curate artists by invitation. In the end I felt more comfortable asking artists because I simply wasn't sure if many people would respond to an open invitation. But folks seem really psyched about it, which is just fantastic, and even though the zine is now full-up with artists, it appears an open call would have worked out fine! I'm only sorry I can't make a book out of everyone's work. Next time, if I make another one, I plan to open it up for submissions.

And don't worry! The Log Lady will get plenty of love!

Today is Kali Ciesemier's birthday. I made this ridiculous thing expressly for her. She's wonderful (and one of my best friends, y'all) so wish her a happy birthday!

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Say, looking good! So exciting! & hey there, Psy Crew! (me, Sam & Meg!)

Hanging the Pokemon show! #pokemonbattleroyale (Taken with instagram)

The first thing I will tell you is: there's a zine I'm putting out called Damn Fine Coffee! A Twin Peaks Fan Zine.

The second thing is: the owls are not what they seem.

The third thing is: Damn Fine Coffee! debuts this year at SPX.

That's right! You may have been seeing some awesome work floating around for the zine I'm putting together: Damn Fine Coffee! A Twin Peaks Fan Zine. I will be at SPX this year where you can get your hands on it and feast your eyes on Twin Peaks homages by over 30 incredibly talented artists.

Damn Fine Coffee! will be going into production soon, and I'll be posting updates on availability, price, and the possibility of pre-orders (because folks have been asking, which is very exciting) here on my blog. You can also check out my twitter for quick updates too.

Here's the cover and a quick sampling of some of the rad work you'll find in the zine by Ping Zhu, Gant Powell, and Ryan Fortney.

The support and the excitement from everybody has been really encouraging so thanks and stay tuned!

Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon! This silly little strip is my submission to Atomic Books'  Mutant! #3, which they'll be releasing for Free Comic Book Day. Check out the previous issues here.

Spoiler alert: she dead! I actually really love Sailor Moon. I collected the comics, and copied the drawings voraciously (there's probably a seriously embarrassing sketchbook full of them somewhere). It was definitely a huge influence...and I might still watch the show.......?

Back, spectre!

Spending some time with a style I rarely get to spend time with. Working this way is so much fun.

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I cannot adequately express how wonderful these gems are. Jimmy's brain is just a gem mine! HAM-MURDER!?? I'm going to retire.

Soooo I think I just drew my next year’s worth of tattoos that I’m getting.

Kadabra dreams of the cosmos.

Here's my piece for the gonna-be-fantastic Pokemon Battle Royal show at the Light Gray Art Lab in Minneapolis. Do I even need to mention how full of amazing work by so many amazing illustrators it will be? A unique, one-and-only print of this will be available for sale at the show, and if you can go to the opening, I envy you! Big thanks to Alyssa Nassner for inviting me to take part.

While you're getting psyched about the Pokemon show, take a minute to support Light Gray Art Lab in their Kickstarter campaign. They're a group of hugely talented people that want to keep producing awesome shows like this one and they could use your help. Thanks all!

I'm excited for the bats to start coming out :)

Do you have any tutorials for painting with gouache? I really want to learn some techniques!

I did this process post on my gouache techniques a little while ago. It's a really fun medium but it can be tricky when you're first learning it. The biggest issue folks seem to have is that, since it's water soluble, you really can't work back into it too much, at least not at all like you would with acryllic. I tend to work very graphically with gouache so laying down flat areas of color next to flat areas of color suits me as much as does the medium. You can layer over it, it just takes a bit of practice until you nail your preference for applying your paint down.

Other tips! I find inking brushes work very nicely (I like Winsor & Newton 222 Cotman). Stonehenge brand paper has a great tooth for painting with gouache. Look for a yogurt-like consistency when you're loading your brush with paint. And, I always tell the students I do demos for this, but - for serious inspiration, if you want to see an artist who really kills at gouache and in a little more painterly style, check out Israel Sanchez (his work is fantastic).

Good luck! Have fun!

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It's really sweet to see my Alphabirds in the little hands of little kids. I hope she likes her new bird letter friends! You can buy prints of my Alphabirds and other children's-themed artwork at The Littlest Mammoth.

Ava unwrapping her birthday present! Alphabirds by @andreakalfas (Taken with instagram)

cartoon quickdraw

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).

Plains Prince.

He's another demo gouache painting I did for Kali's illustration students. His silhouette's a little lacking, but I still had a lot of fun painting him and his buffalo-teeth cloak.

I liked that NYT illustration so much when I first saw it earlier this week; I'm glad it showed up again in my Tumblr feed. Your art is really fantastic, and it encourages me to keep drawing! Best, Sam

Thank you so much!! Your kind words will encourage me to keep drawing too! (Let's all keep drawing!)

Hi! I was looking through your blogspot and I saw your post on your brother getting you Tintin matches from China? I was wondering where he got them because I'm a huge Tintin fan and I live in China and I want to have them too lol. sorry if this was a little creepy

Hi! Yes. these guys:

I had to ask him and then wait around 13 hrs because he's in Taiwan now! Here's what he said:

"It's somewhere in/near Beihai (3rd tone) park in Beijing but I don't remember exactly where. It's down one of the many backstreets and if you see a store that looks like the only product it sells are old coke bottles (seriously, it just had bunch of pictures of old coke bottles in the windows), then you are close."

I don't know what "3rd tone" refers to, but maybe you do! Good luck!

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...

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Oh my goodness! Overwhelming! Thanks for the support everyone <3 And holy moly, welcome, new followers!

(This was a piece I did for Ferocious Quarterly Issue 2 btw)

Illustration crush: Andrea Kalfas.

I made this struggling little moth for this article in today's New York Times Op-Ed pages. It's about the ongoing battle on women's reproductive health and the author's frustration over the fact that this debate still goes on.

Thanks to AD Matt Dorfman!

thank goodness...

so thoughtful

The deadline for Bits in Multiples of 8: an 8bit-64-bit Video Game Fan Art Zine is TOMORROW!!!  If you’re stressed out about making the deadline, I’ve provided you with some soothing music to listen to while scrambling to get your work done. >:D

hello sweet prince! quick little sketch of my current favorite drawing indulgence.

Here's a silly little gif of clefairy dancin' that moon dance that I made for the Nerd Challenge blog.

New piece for the NY Times about how educated and professionally-driven women have risen in men's tastes. Check out the article in the Sunday Review. Thanks to AD Aviva Michaelov!

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!

For Valentines Day I give you a galactic prince reclining on a nebula. Space flowers are perfect for pondering the timeless "She loves me, she loves me not. She loves me, she loves me not..."

Porco and Fio and an extra friend

clover ink wash