In response to the prompt “Childhood”, I drew a small child and parent. Then I experimented with using both watercolor and layers of different paper textures to create a rich image. Watercolor was done by hand, scanned, and then my own paper textures added in Photoshop.
Remember how in mid-January I announced a drawing? Well, here’s the winner of that first round: Emelio DiSabato! Emelio gave me a story from his life, and I turned it into a comic. He’s currently an M.A. in Teaching English candidate at Columbia, and also has drawn some comics of his own! Hooray! Congrats, Emelio! And …
A new, quick illustration created for the participatory blog Illustration Friday. The theme of the week was “Mystery”. I used a photo from my trip up E’Mei Mountain, a sacred Buddhist mountain in Sichuan province. I wanted to evoke the sense of mystery and delight I felt when we climbed up a steep set of …
Lenny Letter (the email newsletter of Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner), published an interview between Amy Kellner and Orthodox Jewish sex therapist Bat Sheva Marcus and hired me to create an accompanying image. With my illustration, I hoped to highlight a moment in Jewish tradition that is traditionally the domain of women: the lighting of Shabbat …
A comic I drew in 2012 was found by and featured in a list on The Guardian.com: “From Doonesbury to Grayson Perry: 10 of the best gentrification cartoons.” I’m thrilled to be included on this list of amazing artists!
I’m having a contest for the remainder of January. Anyone who signs up for my email newsletter between now and January 31st will be entered in a drawing… for a drawing! On January 31st, I’ll put all the new sign-up emails in a hat and the person that is picked will get a custom black …
For this non-profit’s year-end donor appeal email campaign, I was hired to create a flowchart “quiz”. Due to concerns about celebrities’ publicity rights, I was asked not do do representational portraits of Steve Jobs, Malala Yousefzai or Kanye West, so I had to come up with another way to represent them! All text was provided by …
Experimenting a little bit with this one. True story.