monsters in your pocket

These are some monster designs I've done recently for these needle-felted monsters (see below) I'm making for Patchwork in Long Beach next month and Comic-Con in July. I think they're pretty great, and they make me so happy I want to clap my hands. Yes! So, if you're at either of those conventions, you should purchase one of my fellas. BECAUSE THEY'RE AWESOME. (In my opinion.)



Fun fact: "Holla" is a frequently used label for my posts. Yes.

self-potrait style

I've been doodling self-portraits in between projects at work, so here's a few. And by few, I mean 2.

quick post

Quick figure drawing from my sketchbook, re-traced and colored in photoshop! Kinda reminds me of that marker stuff we'd do at Ringling, but you know, colors are cool.

here fishy fishy fishy

A few weekends back we went to the Long Beach Aquarium again, and it was utterly fantastic, again! These are pictures I took with the Toy Camera app I have on my iPhone. Despite all the children and people talking about "how tasty that _________ looks" (we wondered if they say these things at the zoo, too... does that koala look yummy?) the aquarium is very relaxed. It reminds me very much of going to Jungle Gardens back at school and drawing the animals. It also makes me miss Ringling quite a bit.











Anywho. Good luck to those of you in school and thesis-ing. It's that final push that's the toughest, because you have to worry about the future while trying to focus on the present, but you all can do it!

you can all just kiss off into the air

Well, I got really into the Violent Femmes [again] lately, sooooooo here's some stuff. It feels nice to bum around in my favorite color palette for a little while. If I find/make the time, I'm going to do a kinetic type piece for this, because those are fun. So you can consider these, uh, storyboards, I guess. :]

found objects

So, something for the ole blogosphere. I was feeling very lazy this last week, and kind of mad at my sketchbook, so I made this to try and fight off the lazybones disease. I love this cow because I can't tell if he's in pain or not.



I named it "Scream, Cow, Scream."

fake your own death

Someone (me) TOTALLY did some figure drawing last Wednesday. She was a great model, and I got there first, so I got my favorite pose time, 1 minute. There were a few more than these, but they sucked, so consider this the best of the best of... that day.

Completely unrelated side note: I have suggested 'fake your own death' as a remedy to 5 different problems in the last 2 weeks. Does anyone know if that actually works?

felt fud free-for-all

After a long busy period, and a long dormant I-just-want-to-watch-tv-when-I-get-home-damnit period, I'm back to making new stuff for the shop! Check out Super Happy Breakfast Set, My Bestest Donut Friend, and Carrot Friends in Felt right around here somewhere.

Also! If you so desire, you may use this coupon code "JUSTCUZ" in my shop, and save 10% on everything! Just enter JUSTCUZ when you checkout, and bam, saving money, because you know, the economy and blah blah.

last post about that sketchbook, i swear!

Some absolutely horribly iPhone photos of the last few pages of my book for the Sketchbook Project. I sent it off last Friday, so it's in Brooklyn right now, chilling peacefully with (hopefully) 28,000 other books. It's probably going to end up being a few hundred or a few thousand... people are lazy, lazy suckers. BUT! Not I! So, here's the last of the goods.

i heart goats and stuff

Obviously, my favorite type of goat is the Nigerian Dwarf Goat. [So cute.]




And another something I've been working on, because the mighty buffalo seems friendly enough. Right? Right.



Also, Happy 2011 and stuff!