Ozwald Unveiled!

The Great Ozwald! A new plush I just finished last week. He's about 10 inches tall, and 6 inches wide. He will love you forever and ever.




And what might possibly be the coolest part: A sketch of Ozwald, by my most fabulous illustrator friend Justin Parpan. There's a few other monsters in the works, among other things like whales and squids and a skull band trio, so keep your eyes peeled for awesomeness.



P.S. This is that big-ish post I was babbling about last week.

liberty falls

First off, I love my cat. He's the first pet I've ever owned myself, and he's snuggly and cute, despite being a cat. He's front-declawed, but that doesn't stop him from scratching everything (What drives him to do this? Phantom toenail pain? Who knows?) He particularly likes to claw at these old record crates I have set up as a wacky bookshelf-type-thinger. I keep a lot of collectibles on it. Mostly from trips I've taken.


This is the Statue of Liberty mini statuette I got when I was in New York City. I was 17. It was a school trip. I hated it. I hate the city. I think it's dirty and everyone there is totally rude. You know the way some people hate LA? I hate NYC, like that.

But anyway, this was on that bookshelf. And I'm eating my cereal, om nom nom nom, and I hear a weird crack-crunch combo sound. I find the headless Liberty on the ground. I see my cat running away to hide in his cathouse.

I cannot find the head.

5 minutes later, when I've given up (it's just a head, afterall) and sit down to finish my breakfast, I find the head. With my foot.

And that's your {WTF Tuesday} story for the day. Now I need to go ice my foot before work.

revamped business card!

So they were running a special over at OvernightPrints, so I decided to update my business card. New colors, new creatures, new infos. What choo think?

Also, I got featured for my plushies over at the JJ Production Blog the other day, check it! They're some plush creatures I made for an upcoming baby short- I also have one of my creations in a short that's launching Tuesday- I'll link ya here when it's up.

ew babies! magnets! ...and bunnies! (EDIT)

Some new stuff that's either up in the store, or on its way to that location. I also have a big awesome update either later this week, or early next week. Stay tuned.

Also- Justin and I made the JibJab blog today! To see cute ginger-ish artist peoples holding even cuter fuzzy animals- Check it out!

whilst rollarskating across the lawn

More tablet drawings. Self-portrait as a half midget crocodile footed eyeball eater.

Obviously.

tablet drawwrrrings

I'm learning how to use a wacom tablet at work. These are my first test drives with the medium- in photoshop, and illustrator. The illustrator stuff looks like it could be for Adult Swim, no?

GOLD!

Remember this? From 9 months ago? That thing I worked on for an entire semester and lost part of my thumb to an x-acto for?
...Of course you do!

Official Bits:
53 G Arts, Invitation
Commencement
Ringling College of Art and Design Office of Student Life
Ringling College Design Center
Gold ADDY® Award
Jennifer Mumford Brady, Creative Director
Holly Antoszewski, Creative Director
Trish Tatman, Graphic Designer

Other than that piece-of-awesome-news, a handful of my friends also won Gold and Silver ADDY's for their work, or contributed as illustrators to pieces that won. It's really amazing, and I'm super proud of everyone. It's good to see our tears were worth it.

I also have some side projects [and things that will cause me to spread myself too thin] in the coming months going on, but more about those when they're more developed. For now, I shall bask in the happiness that follows my ADDY news. Ahhhhhhhhhh.

4 x the awesome

A quick 2 hour color I threw onto a previous sketchbook page. Sometimes it's good to get on the computer... outside work, anyway. Oh, and I added the JibJab blog to my "other places to stop" link list- I'm in some photos, plus there's nice shots of where I work, if you're curious. Our office looks like a pirate ship. :D

weird.

Has anyone else been having weird problems with their blog?

...Meh.

the living desert

So, I missed my second post last week because I got sucked into the 3-day weekend. My apologies. But, hopefully these make up for it.




We went to Palm Springs for Valentine's Day weekend, and ended up at this outdoor zoo called The Living Desert. It's really awesome and I took a ton of photos. We ended up naming most of the birds, the owl pictured is named Skinny Johnny, and he has a girlfriend named Beatrix. There were some other ones... Phillip, Ethan Frome... I think one was named Poop... It was a lovely time.




There was also a petting zoo part- and we met some very interesting farm animals. This is a devil goat, and a very frisky sheep. More photos to come on my facebook. (And I think I'm contemplating a flickr? I don't know if I take enough photos to warrant having one, though...)