Sunday is Pancake day!

Wise owls and wiser words!

My friend and I went to this great panel:

http://www.spd.org/speaker-series/2009/02/dwi-do-it-with-illustration.php#more

here are some of my favorite parts:

-Tim O'brien is hilarious!
-Recessions are actually not a bad time for illustrators, as a drawing is cheaper than a set up, styled photo!
-The word "style" is dumb and one should just do art that feels like themselves. Finding this way of working can take years and lots of failed attempts (phew, am normal!)
-Getting published in an annual is pretty important
-sketches are important and should be good
-Juliette Borda has blond hair, and I always for some reason envisioned her as a brunette
-Rather than looking at other illustrators for inspiration, try fine art, fashion, cultures, etc
-thanks to computers, there are rarely "original" illustrations
-personal work, personal work
-Chris Silas Neal is cute and used to go to music school, but didn't say much

IF: Breezy

I wish I could be like this bunny, watching a dandelion blow away on a warm spring day!

Animal Group Names! A Murder of Crows and a Parliment of Owls

My pal and I stumbled across some lists of animal group names and we were amused by their strangeness! I illustrated these two, and I think it might make a neat series.
A few more: A smack of jellyfish, a peep of chicks, a bloat of hippos, a shiver of sharks!

IF: Instinct

Whenever I hear the word "instinct" I think of Ron Burgundy from Anchorman saying "it's instinct!"

Quick ones

Jillian Tamaki!

I am now the proud owner of an original drawing from one of my favorite illustrators, Jillian Tamaki! She also did a neat drawing in my very own copy of Skim!