Category: Illustration
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Thankful For: Mom’s Old Shears
I VERY BRAVELY (READ: SHAKING, TERRIFIED) CUT MYSELF A NEW SET OF BANGS Excerpt from my techo, 11/24/22
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Return to References
J’observe Since returning to drawing after a nearly four-year hiatus, my practices have oscillated between strict adherence to references and a complete disregard for them. When I first began drawing again, I felt horribly insecure—as in, how is it that I went from drafting fluently and on-the-fly to not being able to draw proportionate faces,…
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Coup de soleil
Chemical Exfoliants and Vulnerability I recently bought a beauty product which contained chemical exfoliants (AHAs, BHAs) and thus issued a warning about heightened sun sensitivity in two languages. This is where I learned the French term for sunburn is coup de soleil. A four-pane mediation followed.
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La pluie
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On Non-precious Materials and the Meaning of the Word Prolific
Something is Better It was actually A. (my closest confidant, my dearest friend) who first defined the word prolific for me. Because I had always heard it in context with The Greats—meaning the Monets, Picassos, and Michelangelos of this, our terrestrial plane—I had assumed the word implied a high degree of success. It does not.…
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Have You Seen You?
Brave People Today, I was reading through last year’s Hobonichi Techo (incidentally, I’ve just ordered another for 2022; it’ll be a late start, but you know what they say) and I came across an entry in regard to this drawing: “I’m working on typography experiments today and I have a profound new respect for the…