Sample Illustrations for Zest Books

So I've been looking on craigslist trying to find illustration gigs, and Zest books, which is a publishing company that makes advice books for teens, has had a few calls for artists. These drawings are for a dating guide for GLBT teens. I really hope I get the job, but if I don't at least they have some of my work on file.

They wanted a drawing of a cell phone:

Tickets to a local band:
A girl who isn't out to her parents telling her mom she's just going to hang out with her friend, when she's really going on a date:
And lastly, two guys on a date, one talking about some heavy environmental kind of thing, and the other looking like he's lost interest/wants to get out of the date:
Also, I'm very close to finishing Alix! I just have to paint her face (eeeep!).

Salami Sandwich Crime Scene

I had a bit of help making this painting. My friend Athena dropped her salami sandwich, which she was very upset about. She started to clean it up, but David Klein (the guy in the green sweatshirt, helmet and cape from a few blog posts ago) stopped her and did a chalk outline of the fallen sandwich, as though it were a crime scene. Then i made some "police line do not cross" tape out of some masking tape that was lying around to put in front of the it, and we left the dining room of kingman like that for about 20 minutes or so.


Here is the beginning of my painting of Alix Black riding her bike dressed as the Campenile. There was supposed to be a co-op bike parade, but me, justyna, alix, and my friend alex who doesn't even live in the co-ops were the only people who came. It was on mothers day, and as she rode past the real campenile on her way to sproul plaza she shouted, "Happy mother's day, mom!"

Geoff again

This is a painting of my friend Geoff dressed up in a bunch of yellow stuff he found in the free pile. He was already wearing the yellow shirt. More illustrationy stuff coming soon, and I'm also working on a watercolor of a sort of paunchy Spiderman with a huge bulge and a hickory farms bag. There is a "salami crime scene" painting in the works, but as it's the first painting I've done in a while that has a background (and no figure, even!) it's turned out the be quite an undertaking!

Retarded Muppit Farm Summer Tour Poster

I feel like it needs something and I can't figure out what. Any suggestions?

Hench(wo)man!! + trying to sell out

This is a watercolor of a girl dressed up as one of the henchmen from the Venture Brothers. There were a bunch of henchmen at Wondercon this year. If you look closely you can see her glasses underneath the butterfly goggles.

So I've decided to start posting some more illustration type stuff that might be more marketable than my other work. Who wouldn't like to buy a picture of a pretty girl tied up with various types of musical equipment? More to come!

Most recent paintings

Here is the one of Geoff completed. I really like it. It's oil on panel and it's about 4ft by 2ft.




This is my watercolor of Storm Trooper Elvis. The next one I'm working on is of a henchman from the Venture Bros.

So I'm finally almost done with my painting of Geoff. All I have left to do is remove some of the yellow underpainting and maybe fuss with his hair a little more. As soon as it's complete I'll post a better quality photo of it. I'm also almost done with another watercolor, which I'll probably post at the same time. It's of Storm Trooper Elvis, one of my favorite comic-con personalities.

I haven't really been painting enough this semester yet because I've been working for Katherine a lot and stressing out about kitchen managing, but I'm feeling optimistic and I think I'm going to be able to get to the studio a lot more in the coming weeks. Hooray! ^___^