Monday's Weather Rating: 9/10
WE ARE SO BACK!!! High temperatures reach the upper 60s later today with mostly sunny skies, amazingly comfortable dew points and a light breeze. It is time to be extremely outside. The vibes have skyrocketed!!!
Sean Carlson on @wnyc.org "Right now It's 68 degrees! ๐๐" Me: "I would love to be outside right now Sean! Except I'm focused on finishing up a certificate course before I yeet myself to the gym and enjoy the great outdoors. ๐
Welp after sleeping through it, Daylight Savings is screwing up my sleep a day later; I feel tired but I don't. I loathe the concept of Daylight Savings Time. It has to be one the most moronic inventions conceived in our society. Why it hasn't been abolished makes me feel so many things.
Dolores documentary poster in a simple color palette illustration of pink and yellow. It's easily one of my favorite posters from an art perspective.
This is what I looked like in 2017 holding some props. My abs still aren't that chiseled lol.
Dolores production team including Dolores Huerta on the left, the filmmaker below, and Gloria Steinem in the center.
Drawing I did on the program book. I traced over Dolores Huerta at her prime and drew Mexican inspired Dรญa de los Muertos imagery about. The other people were the Supreme Court Justices at the time including RBG (middle), Elena Kagan (top), and Sonia Sotomayor (bottom) which I drew with a ball point pen. 2017 me was onto something!
For reference this is what I looked like in 2017. The closing night movie was Dolores a documentary about Dolores Huerta, the co-founder of the UFW. That night my bar trivia team, The Vollies, was formed at Arts & Crafts Beer Parlor after we won 3rd place, a book. Good times! ๐
Volunteer thank you message from the Volunteer Coordinator + messages and drawings left by volunteers including me above and the Bad Bunny pirate doodle.
Holding down the Volunteer HQ fort while the Volunteer Coordinator was out getting food.
Busy weekend of work + volunteering at @athenafilmfest.bsky.social. This was year 7 as I missed 2020 + 2021. It's always a great time to celebrate all the amazing things Women filmmakers do. Shout out to my friend/Volunteer Coordinator Lisa Loyola for crushing it again. I'll be back next year! ๐
My friend Marenka holding a can of soda at PAX Unplugged 2025 with a bunch of pins with an abstract background. She owns a bakery in Seattle called Lรก Liath Bakery!
My friend Andrew posed as he looked at the camera.
My friend Stetson gave directions at PAX Unplugged 2025
My friend Joseph at PAX Unplugged 2025.
Belated batch dump in waves because of the 4 picture limit. These are some colleagues all of whom are wonderful people. #watercolorart #portraitart #inkart
World Baseball Classic Classic Pool Play Game 2 Nicaragua vs Dominican Republic.
Sorry I haven't posted any art updates in a bit y'all! I promise I have been cooking up art and will update those threads soon. I forgot the World Baseball Classic started so I need to make some art related to it when I have a moment. Let's go DR! ๐ฉ๐ด
That's me every time I go to the barbershop...once a year! ๐ Ideally I need to go every 3 months because my hair grows back quickly and gets thick.
Emphasis on cold; spring is coming! ๐ My block is full of rats due to the curbside trash which is normal. It's so bad that my building's trash bins have holes which they chew through! Meanwhile the recycling bins are unscathed. They'll thrive lol.
My friend Jen is an Assistant Manager at that Barnes & Noble store. She told me about that event since I'm the comic book nerd in my bar trivia team. Alas, there are many things to do as much as I would love to be there. I hope it has a good turn out! ๐
Anti-ICE Lake Zurich High school senior winds a punch with action lines around the fist as if generating heat with dark blue lighting to make it dramatic against the pro-ICE 18 year old student as he says "You can peacefully go fuck yourself!" The instigator's fingers are blurry in the bottom left corner to emphasize motion blur.
There was an epilogue that I never posted! I pushed it further and added dramatic lighting to the background which I'm happy with! ๐ Also there was this article.
#watercolor #watercolorart #iceout #inkart #painting #illustration
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As a lifelong New Yorker, even SeaTac confuses me every time I visit Seattle. The long walk through parking lot to get to the Light Rail is always jarring. ๐ The signs could be better as it feels like it was thrown in a blender with no meaningful design in mind.
Rock Candy Mountain: The Collected Edition by Kyle Starks featuring the silhouette of the devil and the main character, Jackson holding a spear.
100 followers?! Thank you! ๐ That means a lot to this gig worker. ๐ I have been dealing with trapezius pain caused by improper form at the gym last week.โน๏ธ But I have been drawing, I promise! I recently finished Rock Candy Mountain TP and it was fun! I liked how kinetic the panels felt.
Rough pencil sketch of the boy winding up his punch again the right wing bully.
Inks after cleaning up the pencil using a 05 Sakura Micron pen
Colors + some extra touches. Not quite done with it yet. Various watercolor washes.
We interrupt the portrait series updates because this high school kid who stood up against a bigoted attention-seeking bully in Illinois. As a glasses user myself who was bullied in high school, I salute you kid! I see you. You rock. ๐ Happy Valentine's Day!
This one is available for free to download off my google drive, if you'd like a gratis Valentine to send someone you like or love or to print out, Idk it's your life.
For some reason my scanner doesn't accept hot pink, so the heart is very pale. But it still works.
drive.google.com/file/d/1XgV8...
Valentine's Day: A day where single people are made to feel lonely about being single as social media feeds get flooded with gifts their partners got them. Not this Millennial! Regardless of what day it is, it's always a great day to express love to your friends and practice self-love! ๐
SKREEEEONK!
[Translation: Happy Valentine's day!]
The Little Witcher graphic novel.
Today I learned there's a Little Gotham but for The Witcher called The Little Witcher. I didn't flip through it but I'm sure the art is quite good!
I'm glad to see that PBS picked it up after it premiered at Doc NYC last year! Although WNET lost brownie points for censoring Art Spiegelman's criticism of Trump in the documentary about his life when it aired in the NYC stations last year so I'm wary.๐ www.documentary.org/online-featu...
This GhM Direct hit me right in the feels. Rest in peace Fujita-san. ๐ข Suda-san is one of my favorite people working in the video game industry; I met him at PAX East 2018 and 2023. I hope Romeo Is A Dead Man makes a profit! I'll go digital until the physical version is announced + next game.
New York: it is colder today than in parts of Antarctica.
Stay inside, stay warm, stay safe. If you see a neighbor in need, call 311.
You wore a beanie! Rama and millions of concerned fellow New Yorkers must be pleased.๐ I hate wearing hats myself but gotta do it when it's cold and/or working out in the sun.
My mom who doesn't watch football (like me) and only has heard Bad Bunny songs in passing was engaged with watching the Half-Time show singing Un Verano En NY because El Gran Combo's OG song is a summer song here in NYC. It was great to see! Good job Roc Nation! ๐ #superbowl
Last year. His response was the usual thing that happens when someone tries to apologize. www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
Inks. I was half sleepy when I did it yesterday morning. It was an extra fine Atristro pen.
Watercolor layer. At this phase I added more strokes of ink plus white gouache for highlights and his goatee.
@hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp. I drew it half-sleepy on a bus ride last night. Once again here's the process with ink and watercolor. ใในใซไนใฃใฆใใๆใฎๆ้ใฎไธญใงใคใณใฏๅฑคใๆใใพใใใ #watercolorart #facesfebruary #portraitart
Bad Bunny pencil sketch with a 4H pencil as he poses with a peace sign
Ink outline after erasing the pencil sketch layer using a .05 Sakura Micron pen which I picked up from watching Frank Cho's process.
Final inks + watercolors. A lot of color sensations and a few layers to keep the inks transparent. I'm quite proud of how it came out.
Bad Bunny from his Grammy Awards suit with process pictures from start to finish. I hear he's going to send shockwaves at the Super Bowl maรฑana! ๐ต๐ท๐ #facesfebruary #badbunny #watercolorart #inkart #portraitart
