the cover to the children’s book i’m writing/illustrating called The Owl Tree

start of the poster for the circle k philippine relief effort for the typhoon victims in the philippines

a nice image of today. if y’all didn’t know, this is my roommate rachel (yep, that’s the ‘rach’ i’m always talking about haha). we went to the professors’ art show today at the dishman museum here on campus and there was some fun stuff in there! also a nice image of today:

i got this adorable vintage hat from a local shop called the tattered suitcase. i don’t really wear hats that often, but i saw this hat a long time ago and a friend took a picture of me wearing it.. actually, it was rachel hahaha. well, not too long ago we were looking through cell phone pics and came across the one of me wearing it and i said “man, i wish i bought that hat”. on my visit today i didn’t even think of it til i saw it.. and it was 50% off!! so i knew it was meant to be!

Love!!! A) it’s in a moleskine (which i am admittedly addicted to, what of it?) and B) it’s simple yet eye catching

i’ve been thinking a lot lately and i’ve come to the conclusion that with the plethora of moleskines i’ve received this past christmas/birthday season and the beautifully vibrant children’s stories/picture books on my nook color and the whole “choosing your career based on what you envision yourself doing in the future” dealio, i am more likely than not going to try and break into the world of writing/illustrating children’s books.

so.. demetri martin does this thing [a sort of nice refresher from “demetri martin has this joke..”] where he posts a sketch a day. well, my sketches may not be witty or funny like his are, but it will help me to keep on my toes with illustrating if i begin to post my sketches on this here lovely tumblr.

so here’s my first sketch of the year.. literally: i was sick new year’s eve/day so i just stayed at home and sketched this little ditty since Black Swan was quite fresh in my mind.

enough blabbing: time to clean my room!

i haven’t illustrated for a while now, but today i cooked something up for lauren, but it’s incomplete so i present something i did a little while back when my friend josh had an fb status that said “croctopus”.

this is my rendition of the two most common species of croctopus

time for another look into my moleskine! here’s a little concept i thought of for this cool band Hello Chief. i imagine she’s some sort of spy haha

»check ‘em out!«

Van Gogh Make Up

Ok now this is cool. Manchester-based artist James Birkbeck applied makeup to himself to look like one of Vincent Van Gogh’s self portraits and photographed the result. Simply amazing…

wowz!! (plural with a ‘z’ means super impressed) this brings costuming to a whole nother level!

(via smorescakeartschool)

The latest project. This whole writing/illustrating thing may be a pipe dream, but it’s my pipe dream!

[acrylic and cut-outs]