Squid ATTACK! 11:32 AM

Yep, it's been awhile since I've last posted but mind you, I wasn't sitting on my hands- that would make it hard to draw. I'm still silkscreening stuff all over the place and there is no limit to my ambition. I'm currently prepping to make a limited edition run of a four color accordion book that'll feature the artwork posted here. This drawing is just under four feet long and it took me a few days to ink up. Now all that I have do is prep the color separations and design a cover. I'll be debutting this at Stumptown and Toronto comic festivals (They're a week apart and in different countries so I think it's fair to say I'm debutting it at both) SO MUCH MORE WORK TO DO!

In meantime, here's a comparison of the inks and the pencils!

Chipmunk Samurai! 1:55 PM

Happy New Year with a bunch of Samurai Chipmunk drawings. I've been sketching these guys for awhile and I intend to silkscreen a few, Mainly as prints maybe a t-shirt or two.

When I throw some color on these I'll repost them. 

Goodbye 2012 with an Octopus. 3:59 PM

Twas an alright year but now it's about to be over. I thought it's best to send it out with an Octopus. Why an Octopus? why not an Octopus. So, goodbye 2012! we didn't all die, we re-elected a president (which, some view as the same as dying- they're just being a tad bit over dramatic), we witnessed some pretty tragic things from Connecticut to Sandy- hopefully we'll learn from those events and actually do better. Let's hope for that.

Up next. 2013 when I'll silkscreen that cephalopod.

Got into to TCAF! 1:26 PM

You heard that right. I was selected to exhibit at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival! From what I understand it is relatively difficult to get into and is supposed to be a fantastic festival so I am really excited to be able to exhibit!

I'm not going alone either. Two of my studio mates also got in. Aya Kakeda and Jen Tong- half of our studio will be exhibiting! cooler beans.

I'll be debuting all sorts of new stuff including my ongoing and ever-expanding tropes into silkscreen printing! The image was one of the last things I printed before the labs shut for the break.

Cheers

The Continuing Adventures in Silkscreening 12:48 PM

So after a bit of rough start (i.e. making as many mistakes as I could in a given time), I'm starting to get the hang of silk screening. I'm now venturing into three colors with the Red Riding Hood image that I appropriated from a comic I did a few years back. I edited all the word balloons out of the image and made it a bit stouter- I'll be selling the print at comic conventions so keep your eyes out for it!

Silkscreen fun times 4:21 PM

So I've been taking Sara Varon's silkscreen class at SVA and so far it's been good fun. I've decided to start simple- a series prints of animal boxers. So far, so good. I'm looking forward to trying something more complicated as so far I'm really just doing two color prints which was probably for best considering I haven't really seriously done silkscreen ( a bit in high school, but I couldn't remember that to save my life) I'll keep posting on my progress!