12/26/13

Happy Holidays to all! It's been a busy couple of days (excluding a short getaway to Lewisberg, PA to visit friends!). There are 3 (!!!) comics in the works, plus some illustrations for Silver Screen Society on the queue. Recently, I made a tiny, tiny zine about kiwi birds competing in 'Best in Show' for Small Ass Zines, helmed by the lovely Ness Lee! SOOOO happy to be part of the group! I had fun drawing and inking these little guys. If you find yourself in Toronto, you can nab a small ass zine of your own for a loonie at Art Metropole.

11/25/13

I made a batch of Gingerbread Llama greeting cards last week! You can buy one at the Degenerate Craft Fair on December 14th - 15th.

11/14/13

Working hard and taking names! I'm assembling this little guy as we speak. Alien Raver: Mad Tea Party is the second in the Alien Raver in Wonderland series (check out the first here). You can nab a copy at the Degenerate Craft Fair on December 14th and 15th.

10/10/13

Many thanks to my friend Ann-Marie, who stuck with me all day and took this lovely picture of my table!

Last weekend was the Locust Moon Comics Festival, held in Philadelphia, PA (or as the highway signs like to say, Phila). It was held at the Rotunda, an old church in the University City part of town. It was an unseasonably warm day, which got warmer as the place started filling up. Luckily, the Locust Moon staff handed out water bottles throughout the day. I must have drank my body weight in water!

Aside from the constant sweating, I had a really good time. I was glad to see some familiar faces in attendance and make some new friends in the process, including Andrea Tsurumi, Pat Dorian, Dean Haspiel, Gregory Benton, Mike King, Boyoun Kim, Sue Jean Ko, Frank Reynoso and Alex Eckman-Lawn. I only regret not being able to walk around at a leisurely pace to see everyone's work! The Locust Moon crew did a really job putting the festival together. Hopefully I will return next year with some comic debuts (and a portable fan, just in case)!

I'm also working on a new Alien Raver in Wonderland mini-book. This one has Alien Raver attending the Mad Tea Party with his "friends" standing in for the Hatter, March Hare and Dormouse. You can follow my silkscreen progress on Instagram or Twitter!

7/11/13

I've been working on a couple of projects this month that aren't ready to be revealed, which accounts for my lack of activity on ye old blog. Amidst all this busy-ness, I've taken on felting! Thanks to my friend Diana, I've been learning how to felt little creatures to life, including this turliphant prototype. It's so much easier than I imagined (I suck so horribly at all other needle-involved crafts)! Once I get the hang of it, I'd like to make a small run of Alien Raver felt toys.

5/2/13

Trying to find the best shade of transparent cyan.

Somehow, I managed to silkscreen a new book in two days. I'll find out if my math is correct when I begin assembling it next week. Pray for me and the narwhals! If all turns out well, this book will debut at the Grand Comics Festival on June 8th and 9th.

If you find yourself in London from now until May 4th, you should head to the Coningsby Gallery and check out The Poop Deck Project curated by AMMO magazine. It's a character themed group show featuring 54 international artists & illustrators. I created a character for their nautical-inspired deck of playing cards for the suit "cursed pirate". Can't wait to get my hands on those cards!

Update: The cards are now available online! Get them while they last!!

3/25/13

Here's a preview of my comic for the 2nd issue of Three-Armed Squid. Our theme this issue is the four temperaments. Fittingly, I was assigned melancholia. The new issue will go on sale during the MoCCA Arts Festival on April 6th & 7th.

3/11/13

Hello! Haven't been able to post new work in a while on the blog (no sneak peeks allowed) so this picture of my makeshift workspace will have to suffice (Notice the harmony between the Treks and Wars). However I have so much exciting news to share!

Happy to say that I will be contributing to Round 3 of the Old & New Project! For those of you not familiar with Old & New, it is a collaborative design project based on Biblical passages, created and curated by Jim LePage and Troy Deshano. This round's theme is "turning points". You can check out the full roster here. Can't wait to see everyone's work this round!

But that's not all! I will have a brand-new comic featured in issue #16 of Carboncito, a South American comics anthology. This will be the first time my comics will be published by someone other than myself! Since it's hard to find stateside, I will post pictures as soon as I get my hands on a copy.

Last but not least, I will be participating in a group show curated by AMMO, a UK print magazine and website dedicated to illustration. Without revealing too much, what I can say is I'll be illustrating a character with a nautical theme. The exhibition will run from April 29th until May 4th at the Coningsby Gallery in the centre of London. This marks my first group show!

I'm so lucky and grateful to be part of such wonderful projects. I'll post work-in-progress soon!

OK, so maybe one sneak peek. I've teamed up again with good friend and designer Shalimar Luis to create custom wedding invitations for our mutual friends. These leftovers were silkscreened on cardboard.

7/5/12

Aside from producing a few watercolor paintings, I've been planning a zine with the working title A Definitive Guide to Owl Maidens. It'll showcase several new varieties of Owl Maidens and some insight into their behavior and society. It may or may not be silkscreened. I already had two or three Owl Maiden species in my current mythology but decided to expand upon their family. Below are my sketches for the front and back cover.

4/10/12

Assembling a few copies of my Alien Raver mini-comic Quilt (among other things) for the Craftacular and Food Fair this Saturday. Can't wait! You can find us on 82 Mercer St. between Broome and Spring streets. Doors open at 11am. Kim and I will be at Booth 102 (near the entrance, sorta). We hope to see you there!

3/19/12

Here is a preview of my comic, Spring, which will be featured in the first-ever issue of Three-Armed Squid. It will debut at the MoCCA Festival in April.

2/16/12

Working, working, working…

2/9/12

Greetings from February! How time has flown. I'm currently silkscreening the cover for my Pulpo comic, as well as putting the finishing touches on a comic for the first ever Three-Armed Squid anthology I'm producing with a few friends (see here, here and here). It's going to be a busy couple of months as we all prepare for our MoCCA debut as a foursome. I'll have some more previews of Pulpo in the upcoming weeks. Stay tuned!

1/17/12

Happy 2012!

I'm almost done working on my Pulpo comic (hurray!) but there is still much to be done. In other news, I recently applied to the SVA MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program. I won't know whether I got into the program until April, but I have a good feeling about it. Now all attention can be paid to preparing for MoCCA (which is also in April). More updates soon!

12/27/11

I'm off work this week and have been putting all this free time to good use. So far I inked over the pencils from my Owl Maiden print and finished an ink wash portrait of my aunt (above). Once I have access to scanner at work, these will go up on my website (Upgrading to Mac Lion rendered my scanner useless). The next couple days I'll be knee deep working on several comics at once. My goal is to finish pencils on all of them, plus some pages inked.

In other news, I've temporarily closed my web shop on Big Cartel. Long story short, Paypal is a silly, silly thing. But fret not! I've decided to open a shop on Society6 for prints of the non-handmade variety. Alas, I need to rescan a few things so these prints will go on sale some time next week.

11/22/11

It's on to the next one: a second printing of my Owl Maidens poster.



I'm concurrently working on a mini comic and a super awesome commission. Hoping to get some serious work done on both projects over the Thanksgiving break.

Happy gobbles!

11/14/11

Shalimar and I spent most of our Saturday at the printshop working on our friends' baby shower invitation.



We're heading back to the printshop next Saturday to wrap up the job so they can be sent out Thanksgiving weekend. These cards are looking soooo sexy that we are going to submit them to FPO and other design blogs. We've enjoyed collaborating so much that we are thinking over what our next project will be. Shal and I also want to chronicle our process in an extensive inaugural post for our soon-to-be-revived blog, Partners in Design, some time in January.

Next on my to-do list, I plan on assembling my llama/camel book today in class while setting up my next silkscreen project: a second edition of my Owl Maiden print (seen here).

10/27/11

Work in progress at the printshop.