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(apologies to the misrepresented friends)

Diary Comic from the week of halloween. I'm having a lot of fun doing my required weekly diary comics in this sort of format. Kind of apeing what I saw Laura Park do when she came here and gave a lecture. I've been feeling very blase (pretend the e is accented) about the blogger format, I'm trying to put together a livejournal right now. And once I get that up and running I plan on doing a weekly update with a watercolor project I'm about to undergo starting next month. Thanks to anyone still reading this!

diary comic

sho' nuff.

so this post is kind of about that, but mostly about THIS:


are you familiar with MOUK?



It's magical in every way that i've ever wanted my work to be. So, i'm part jealous and part elated about it. And now there is a SHOW in production.

ohgeez,ohgeez,ohgeez

Toes In

Imma little over a month into CCS as of now and it's been crazy good.

It necessitates that I actually follow through and finish works, which has always been a problem for me. I'm struggling to translate sketches into solid work, but i'll make it up this mountain. YARG!

Plus so far we've had some great visiting artists including Kate Beaton (droll, spittle), Scott Dikkers of The Onion and Jim's Journal, and this week it's going to be Vanessa Davis!

Right now I'm in the midst of a screen printing project, which was something i'd never previously done. Here is my first (un-used) attempt at creating a self portrait


Couldn't use it because I failed to grasp the concept of a 2 color maximum, so instead opted to use the new image I created for my banner, but oriented vertically which i think works out a little better as a portrait.

This is my bio to be paired with it in a book of all the CCS students:



I'm happy with how it all turned out. Screen printing was a non stop 7 hour adventure, and the results are speckled with mistakes, but I can live with it.


I also joined a group of ladies at CCS for a pin up girl calendar which will be purchase-able quite soon. It's very cute and inexpensive and features drawings by and of 12 super chicks from CCS! If your interested, holla at me and for 8 bucks one of 'em is yours.

May I present my contribution, Beth in February:

(The quality is diminished and the picture cut short because every other variation I tried to show blogger sent it crying into the corner of the room, refusing to re-open, but you get the idea.)

Several people have gotten back to me about these calenders- they should be out later this month. The wonderful girls putting it together are 2nd years under a crushing deadline at the moment, so it's had to sit on the back burner. But they will be out before the holidays fo' sho.


It was also my 20th birthday recently, and when you have a birthday at CCS that hallmark crap wont fly, so instead you get this:


Yes. I think I will like this place.

Oh man, such a ton of innumerable things have happened to me since my last post at the beginning of this year. As I wrote that I think I was still at my parents house, hurriedly packing my things. As I write this i'm sitting in the basement of my new school, taking a break from a lazy and drawn out unpacking in my new HOUSE. In VERMONT. What a journey!

I've experienced a job I actually took pride in, moved into Atlanta, moved out, couch surfed, had loads of good times, and said many sad good byes!



I loved my year off! It was fantastic and shout outs to everyone who made it possible, you know who you are. I'm sad to leave so many good people round the ATL, but I'll be back sometime.

All that meant though that I went way off the drawn path, but I'm making my way back.

School starts in a couple days which means I'll be laboring over things and have much to put on this blog. I hope it kicks my ass and it shows. Being in the town so far has been totally inspiring awe in me, and making me realize I need to get summa dat artz, real quick.

Update soon.

14. The Move

Alright, so my crater sized absence from this blog has been pointed out to me by several folks, and i'm hear to say: my bad.

But hear me out! I had good reasons.

The last few weeks have been (mostly) dedicated to my super happy move into an apartment with my wonderful boyfriend! Presently, I'm about halfway physically moved in and about 9/10 of the way emotionally moved in. It's been a crazy last month or so and I plan on having some sort of visual account of this.

So I've quit my job at office depot and served my two weeks. Luckily I was able to really quickly find a dream job of mine at Mellow Mushroom, working as a pizza waitress! For real, I have always had crushes on pizza waitresses, they always seemed way too cool. I guess being one now will sort of dilute the fantasy but I am extremely grateful that I got the job.

I also got the kick-ass news that I was accepted to the Center for Cartoon Studies for Fall 2010 last month. Now that it's a sure thing that I'm going I feel pretty indestructable. It's real real nice.

So this is all I have for yous guys, all these words. But I'll get stuff up here soon, I've still got some settlin' in and holiday celebratin' to go before I can process anything else.

Have good days until then friendlies.

13. Art Classes Are Scary

A lot of people have asked me about what I'm doing as far as art in college. Well I have one class, Life Drawing, with a really excellent teacher. Art classes have always scared me. I took two in highschool, one at the beginning and one at the end and I didn't like either of them. Teachers never seemed to get where I was coming from, cartoon-wise. Even my last teacher, with whom I really got along well with, didn't take me seriously. When we were talking once he even threw in the stinger "Well, I mean, your not going into Art, are you?" like it was an obvious question. And I said I wasn't out of shear shame.

Thats what really turned me off to the idea of going to an art school like the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) which is here in Georgia. Art classes really seem to pressure me and push me in the wrong direction. I never intended to take any art classes at State, I wasn't even signed up for one when I started the semester. But when I found myself in a really boring communications class and saw there was an opening in an art 1010 class at the same time I figured why not.

I'm so glad I did, it's been a very positive experience and has really helped my confidence. The teacher gets where I'm coming from and respects my style and it feels really great to get that from a teacher. I've always had such positive experiences with my teachers in other acedmic fields but I never felt validited by an art "professional" before, which may be shallow but I think I really needed that. All around it's been a good experience so far and I was pleased to find that even my attempts at realism had gotten better since I've been cartooning.

Heres some examples from class (all are on 18 by 24 inch paper):




Onto other junk:




A picture I did for my mother's friend's newborn who just turned 1. I thought it came out pretty cute, I'm happy with it.


This is a preview picture for something I'm doing for ampersand, an art collective project that a friend of mine is launching soon. I'll certainly have links and information to and about that once the operation is in full swing.

Later friendlys!