one of the johns

Here’s some miscellaneous artstuff that I’ve worked on the last week. I don’t normally share them here, because they’re a little rough around the edges, and also because they’re not my strongest suit, but I wanted to share my Asian Reporter cartoon from this week because I totally have the bug: This is actually an [...]

As you have probably noticed, it’s been a bit of a deserted wastleland here so far this year. I was still in that creative funk I mentioned in my 2011 review post for most of January, and kind of depressed because of it, and instead of busting my ass and getting out of it, I was drowning myself in [...]

A tiny thing that stresses me out: Thank you cards. I always feel like I should make a new one every time I want to send one out, but it’s always a much longer project than I think it will be, or I just get lazy and don’t make it and then don’t send it [...]

Here’s a commission I did for someone that was reading the Americus blog. She wanted some image that had both Doctor Who and the new Sherlock in it. As always, I struggle with spotting blacks and giving things a sense of form. I think this is a good example of how even just doing the [...]

I did an illustration for the Willamette Week this week to accompany an article on Occupy Portland. It’s a map of where things are in the camp. Anyhow, here’s a picture from the paper, because it looks better in print, even though some of the textures and details got lost a bit, than just posting [...]

I love autumn. You get to wear sweaters and hats, the leaves change, and best off all: pumpkin milkshakes at Burgerville! Anyhow, one of my goals this week was to sit down and do a postcard image to do some self-promotion, but I ended up doing this illustration to celebrate autumn instead. Next week: Postcard! [...]

Okay, so I’m spending the week wrapping things up for SPX. MK and I will be at table H-16, next to Tugboat Press and Alec Longstreth! Come by and say hello if you’re there! The secret project that MK and I have been working on for the show is pretty wrapped up, so the rest [...]

So I know that things have been a little quiet lately, but I swear I’m working. It’s just for a secret project that MK and I are getting together for SPX, and I don’t want to spoil any of it. That, and we’ve been filling out a shit-ton of promo stuff for the Americus release. [...]

Here’s my piece for next month’s show at the Basil Hallward Gallery in Powell’s. I can’t remember what the name of the show is, but basically they found a bunch of old, bad records and handed them out to a bunch of different artists. It was then the artist’s job to use that record as [...]

This is like a week too late, but this was the illustration I was working on to celebrate getting to see Neko Case at the Edgefield last week with Jen, MK, and Greg. I haven’t really worked on anything finished in a couple of weeks, and I feel really rusty, so I’m not completely stoked [...]