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My final Thing is a celebration of completing Thing-a-Day:

Hooray! What a fun, inspiring and altogether awesome experience. I cannot wait to do this again!

Just to prove that I have not been completely slacking on Thing-a-Day, here is what I’ve got so far of the baby blanket that started here. More than 60 percent completed! (It’ll be 7 x 7 squares.) Of course, there’s that small matter of the blue square that needs to be ripped and reknit in the correct blue, and then there’s the hours and hours of seaming, but I have to finish all this soon, because the wretched beastie is due sometime in March.

Anyway, I have not been idle. I’ve also been toiling at another public domain clip-art set, which I haven’t yet posted on Flickr.

And on 2/28 I made another pretty good dinner for my mom, a combination of these two recipes—Pork Chops with Mustard Sauce and Pork Chops with Mustard-Cornichon Sauce—but with the addition of mushrooms, and with capers in place of cornichons and white wine in place of chicken stock. Spinach salad and rice on the side.

I also made a couple of decent illustrations for work: on 2/12, I made a sort of homebrew tritone; on 2/18, I tried out a new technique for turning a flat shot into something that looks more lively; and on 2/28 I made the collage that appears on this page, which wasn’t that much Photoshop work in the end, but which did require a surprising amount of image research.

Was this flimsy output what I wanted to achieve during Thing-a-Day 2008? No, but I did make a few things that I would not otherwise have made, and I did discover several other people whose work I really liked, thefabricator and Jason Das, in particular.

It’s been fun. I’ll see you next year.

I LOVE SATIN

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I’m posting my last item today since I’m going on vacation tomorrow. This is a sneak peak into some of my future work, which will involve adapting some of my illustrations into digitized form. Adios!

I love Rumiko Takahashi’s Inuyasha characters. I created the illustration on the left based on an episode where Kagura falls wounded in a stream and Sesshoumaru is nearby. Something they leave up for the imagination is how he actually gets her out of the water. I’m such a fan girl! You can see some of the progress here. Enjoy!

I don’t own Inuyasha, but Rumiko Takahashi does.

What a great way to end Thing-a-day (see my last post above)! It was fun while it lasted, but now I have to update my own blog

This one is dedicated to Maria Eugenia Castellanos Cruz. Most everything I know came from mi Mama!

Furry jackets make me feel…prehistoric.

I’ve never lived with cats or mice for that matter, but apparently this is what they look like in my head. The wheel is for speed of course.

The past few days have been very challenging and I have been working so hard–perhaps it is the last mile that is the hardest mile. I did however come up with a new illustration style and technique, and have been writing my thoughts out, while finding new ways to present some of my ideas…

more animation drawings.

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thing-a-day no. 14:

I drew this while watching this 90’s telemovie series from the UK called Cadfael on the internet; adapted from the novels of the same name, the series showcases the exploits of a murder mystery-solving Benedictine monk named Cadfael during the High Middle Ages. It’s some pretty good shit, ah tell you what

thing-a-day no. 13:

A portrait of some shlump who smokes in the tub (pencil, 01 Staeder pigment liner, Proto-schlop color)

thing-a-day no. 12:

Continuing with Ranjit’s suggestion, I went ahead and drew a z-wolf an den zwölften Tag because IT’S STILL FUNNY! LARF LARF LARF

more of the logo from wednesday.

still not done but close.

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fake estate.

apologies to stanley donwood.

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Thing-a-day no. 11!

T-A-D poster Ranjit suggested that I draw an elf für dem elften Tag, and so I did, because it’s funny. Yuk it up, you Deutsch-sprechende yokels! This drawing is in tribute to Rice Krispies. Surprisingly, it also fits one of this week’s thing-a-day themes, little people.

(mechanical pencil then 005 sakura micron pen, and Higgins Black Magic ink and cheap sable brush for the tree, on shit sketchbook paper, then scanned and colored with the magical blood of forest nymphs … in Photoshop)

A collaboration between my boyfriend Craig and myself. He came up with the idea for a mempo inspired scarf and sketched out some design ideas, which I later re interpreted and then silkscreened onto these fleece scarves! We’ve spent quite a few days going over the designs and silkscreening them all and stuff. And today we finally finished all the work and got to take some pictures to show them off! The Japanese Mempo is a traditional armoured face mask found on a Samurai Kabuto helmet. These masks not only protected their faces, but were used to intimidate foes on the battlefield. One of my friends was kind enough to let me take some pictures of her wearing one of the scarves.

a few logo sketches for jj’s friend’s radio show.

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still life with ironing board.

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oh man, here’s thing-a-day no. 10:

This was a huge pain in the ass to deal with, and now I can’t stand the sight of it.

I have been drawing a lot of silly doodles the past few days, one of which is posted here.

Yesterday I spent my day working on an installation in Max/Jitter, with a friend, still in progress.

A new development with Sustainable South Bronx and the Fablab is turning my illustrations into prints