Shameless self promotion and some new characters

I am gonna be in an art show in a few weeks. Here are the details:

Lion VS Gorilla Presents: Mar(t)ch Madness!

Saturday, March 19 at 8:00pm-12:00am

Fulton Street Collective, 2000 W. Fulton St. Chicago, IL

Mar(t)ch Madness is an art show and event conceived in the spirit of a certain famous collegiate basketball tournament, and presented by Lion VS Gorilla. The show will begin with artwork from 16 established and emerging artists. Over the course of four bracketed rounds, viewers will vote to narrow down the playing field to their two favorite artists, and those artists will then compete for the championship trophy. We believe that art should be rowdy, that people should fight for it, and that viewing should never be passive. In short: this is going to be a fun, high-energy event, and an opportunity for members of Chicago's arts community to come together and celebrate some of the amazing work being produced in this city.

Doors open at 8pm. The first round of voting, along with artists' introductions, will begin at 8:30 sharp.

-Suggested donation: $5 at the door.
-Refreshments will be available.
-Part of the proceeds will go to benefit The Howard Brown Health Center.

Also I have a new breed of creature if you will that I have been drawing for about a month or two now and I thought it was high time these masked guys were formally introduced to the world. So here they are along with a bunch of other random doodles from my sketchbook.






If you ever see some girl madly drawing on the bus whilst listening to her iPod in the mornings, that is probably me.

Part of an Invite

This is the beginnings of the invite for a holiday party some friends and I are hosting this holiday season. Basically it was an excuse to play around with some new ideas and these awesome opaque pens I have been totally in love with lately. I was trying to go for wintery without being too Christmas-y or anything.

Cultural references

So I created this series last night. Inspired by a weekend's worth of conversations and the things we talk about at parties or dinner and how absurd some of it is. Oh and of course the wide world of the Internet and commercials too.

sketchbook

I wanted to post a a few pages from various sketchbooks because I think they are kind of interesting and show how all the different ideas I am working with come together in my sketchbooks. And its been kind of great to look back and watch the development of the characters and ideas as I draw them over and over again.

Conversations

So, for a while now I have been drawing these conversations between my characters. Usually the rabbit and the skull guy. In most of these the skull guy (I really need to give them names) is trying to convince the rabbit to do something vague like go away with him to see something, but the end isn't normally revealed. I love their exaggerated body movements and how dramatic the skull always looks.

Animal Heads

So one night I was messing about in my sketchbook and I happened to draw this image of an over-sized dinosaur head on one of the weird lanky bodies all of my characters seem to have. Well, earlier in the week I had read that article about how Triceratops isn't a real dinosaur anymore and had drawn a little Triceratops head. So then I drew it again later, but added the body and from that came this series of sketches. Not sure yet what will become of them just yet, but I know that they make me really happy.

A new character joins the dance party

So, I am in dire need of updating this thing and posting all the work I have been doing lately. In fact I was sort of yelled at for not being more consistent with my posts, but here at least is a taste. The little guy in the middle has recently joined the cast of characters and is currently king of the dance party. More to come once I get it all scanned in.