Cheap Beer

Cheap Beer is sometimes the best beer after all. This was done for the zine Mutant! which will be given out at Atomic Books for Free Comic Book Day on May 4th. Make sure you stop in and pick up a copy! 

I never took any kind of sequential illustration or comic development type classes while I was at MICA. I'm not sure if I regret it or not. I think its sort of one of those things you can figure out on your own if you really want to. I'm hoping to get enough of these together to put out a zine of my own by the end of the year. 

Aloha!

I'm pretty sure I will never be able to stop drawing mermaids, ever.

It had been pretty cold and gross all through March this year, which left me wishing for some tropical sunshine. The mermaid in this picture was originally a quick little sketch I did for a friend, but I liked the look of her, so I decided to finish it up a bit more. I was looking at a lot of vintage hawaiian postcards and travel posters, and tried to emulate their color schemes. Lots of warm bright pops of color!

This was for the Overheard comic published in the B newspaper. When Benn gave me the script, I had to laugh because I've definitely had this situation happen to me. So awkward!

Baltimore Bike Party's April Bike Prom

This is the newest poster for BBP's event next month. I was looking at a lot of early 1900's ads and posters before coming up with this one, and I think I sort of captured some of that essence. I wanted to keep the poster fairly simple but still involve the obvious "couple on a bike" for the whole prom thing. Tim Barnett (organizer of Bike Party) also wanted me to work in some greenery and green color schemes to touch on the fact that it will also be during Baltimore Green Week.

For more information about the ride, check out the website here! (If you own a bike, you should probably come out!)

MICA swap: Hashtags!

I took part in a sketch swap with a class of MICA juniors a few months ago. The theme was Hashtags, which is kind of nice, because it was the most open-ended prompt ever. Basically a chance for these kids to draw whatever the hell they wanted.

I was given a sketch based on #twothingsthatarehardtodoatthesametime. Possibly the longest hashtag in existence. The sketch was by Kayla Bickers.

I decided that biking and applying lipstick/brushing your hair or whatever isn't really the hardest thing, but riding brakeless in a dress and trying to braid your hair? That takes some dedication.

I'm pretty happy with the way this one came out. I don't often like using a red-white-blue color scheme,  (I know I constantly get stuck in a primary color triad, I can't help it! I love the simple colors!) but I wanted to try something a little different. and I think it came out successfully. 

Home Sweet Home

This was for a Tenpaces sketch swap. The theme being "Home Sweet Home" I was given a sketch by Irene Freitas. Adorable little Cinderella type mice dwelling in a tea set. I liked the teapot she had done a lot, and so I didn't want to make too many changes to it. Super simple and clean. Any time I draw mice, I tend to draw them like this, as weird little half-circles with ears and tails. My grandfather was a carpenter, and would make toys and random wood objects, and I have a set of mice that look like this. Its sort of an homage to him, I suppose.

Skinny Jeans

A little comic I've been kicking around on the back-burner. There is nothing more frustrating than jeans that are pretty much painted on, even when you're NOT trying to get it in. I'd like to rework the first page a bit, but I wanted to post this in the meantime.