Oh look, more stuff about me.

A conversation with my friend teresa- why yes, my life does resemble a kathy guisewite strip every so often, how kind of you to notice :D

this is a fairly accurate potrayal of the inside of my head.

Happy Birthday Mom!

Today's my Mom's birthday- She's amazingly talented, extremely funny, and puts up with me :D Love you!

Oh Micheals

If you answered A, clearly you are not one of my customers.

We now return to your regularly scheduled nonsense

I was looking at some of Ludwig Besselman's work last night and realized I'd probably been a bit more influenced by Madeline than I had thought.

About 90% of the conversations I have with my friends sound like this to people who aren't us.

Look, its a drawing thats not actually about me! I like the conventions of early american child portraits.

A Day in the Life of an Illustrator

So my friend Marie, knowing my sense of humour, recently gave me a copy of 'A Day in the Life of an Illustrator', a 1981 kid's book detailing the thrilling life of the freelance artist, and I figure some of you would appreciate it as well. So just what does an illustrator do everyday?

An illustrator tries to convince someone with questionable taste in vests to give her a job! She has lunch with another, hairier illustrator!

She spends money she doesn't have on things she doesn't need! She eats quiche with her plaid flannel wearing sister pat! (I'm not making that last bit up, by the way.)

She wallows in a pit of of despair, self doubt and self loathing at her drawing table at 3 in the morning! All in all, a fairly accurate view of the life :D What's really interesting about the book is spotting all the things that have been rendered obsolete (or nearly so) by the computer- rolodexes! airbrushes! transfer type! photo stat houses! Its hard to imagine a world without command z- no wonder she looks so depressed.

Dola Re Dola

Listening to some bollywood music & doodling- I really should start making an effort as far as settings or a background go, flat colour is a little boring :D

cinderelly, cinderelly

Doodling a bit, I need to sit down and actually figure out the characters.

Sketchbook Stew

That Penelope movie looks really cute, I love the pig nose :D. Random dandy from the sketchbook, and why isn't spring here already?