Illustration Portfolio Site Update

I redesigned my illustration portfolio site to include categories for kids, teens, and editorial/other custom illustration.

Attention Hog!

What can I say except, "Ohmigawd! My BFF is totally crushing on this hottie at school, and whenever she's around him, she turns into a garga-normous flirt!"
Yep, that's right. More illustration for the teen market.

Okay, I admit it. Garga-normous is a word that my coworkers made up to replace "gi-normous." It's a combo of gargantuan and enormous, for those of you that didn't get it. Try it out. It's the hot new word that EVERYBODY'S talking about!

Illustration Friday - Phoenix

Hello Scottsdale! Are you ready to ROCK???
We are THE PHOENIX!



This is my third week in a row participating! I'm on fire! HA HA! I do NOT apologize for the bad pun!

Academic Jealousy Illustration

Some good old fashioned academic envy.

Read Illustration

I'm trying to do more black and white for the portfolio. I had a few pieces, but decided I didn't like them and threw them all out. I've been inspired now that I have recovered from the Christmas doldrums and feel energetic and creative again!

Illustration Friday - Peace

Here's this week's Illustration Friday, "Peace." I have actually participated for two weeks in a row! It's been a long time since I've done that.

Illustration Friday - Help

My entry for Illustration Friday's "Help."

Pride and Prejudice the Comic Book, page 15

Pride and Prejudice the Comic Book, page 15, originally uploaded by ArtGhost.

Pages 15 - 19 of the Pride and Prejudice Comic Book are now posted over at Flickr.

Bags at Copacetique!

Copacetique has a new stash of my bags available, as well as a whole slew of incredibly cute items! I especially love the necklaces from Art School Dropout.

We are girls!

We are girls! We are multicultural! We are awesome!

Giant powdered wig

I have been developing a bit of an obsession with ladies with big powdered wigs lately. Maybe it's all those commercials for the Marie Antoinette movie that were airing not too long ago. Maybe I'll develop this into an illustration for Cinderella, or some other fairy tale.

I Shop Indie Gift Guide - buy handmade for the holidays!

With Black Friday fast approaching (the day after Thanksgiving), I wanted to post about the new I Shop Indie Gift Guide!

Instead of the rampant consumerism that characterizes Black Friday, consider buying handmade this holiday season. The I Shop Indie gift guide has gift suggestions for Guys, Girls, Mom and Dad, Coworkers, and more!

Illustration site back up!

My illustration site was down for a few days (stupid webhost!), but it's back up and running again.

New purses!

I just finished a whole slew of new bags which will be posted to the website soon!

Manga version of Pride and Prejudice

Whoa. There's a manga version of Pride and Prejudice coming out in 2007. Here's the preview:
http://mentacle.rusticeye.com/PAGES/artpages/pride&prejudice.html

Pride and Prejudice, pages 12 - 14

The next installment of the saga. I know it's a bit hard to read, so I recommend looking at it over at Flickr:

Spot illustrations

Nutrition can be fun! Just finished this illustration project for a nutrition chart.

Girls' Revolutionary Army Paintings

Here are two of my paintings in the Girls' Revolutionary Army series. I just recently put them up on our website.

Spam is weird

Not spam the food product, but spam the email, although spam the food product is equally weird.

But, here's something I've never seen before: Pride and Prejudice spam! I just got this in my email. Of course there was some mysterious attachment. This is the text of the email, in which there are vaguely recognizable phrases from P&P, all jumbled up in a totally incoherent manner. Is this just to make it past spam filters? But then, I ask you, why would I be compelled to open a strange attachment associated with this email? The answer is, I won't, which is why I am boggled as to the efficacy of such a bizarre spam scheme. At least I enjoyed reading this spam message. It's like a puzzle - spot where this sentence comes from in the book!

"assured her that darcy was not less answerable for wickham's absence than if her first surmise had
elizabeth felt that they had entirely misunderstood his character, but said nothing.
dispatched, and its contents as quickly complied with. mrs. bennet, accompanied by her two youngestdared not believe it, and could not help saying so.

elizabeth's misery increased, at such unnecessary, such officious attention! were the same fair
"i will not trust myself on the subject," replied wickham; "i can hardly be just to him."business. on finding mrs. bennet, elizabeth, and one of the younger girls together, soon after
arise in six months!"
but the attention of every lady was soon caught by a young man, whom they had never seen"most willingly."
as soon as they entered, bingley looked at her so expressively, and shook hands with such
"i am afraid you do not like your pen. let me mend it for you. i mend pens remarkably well.""which do you mean?" and turning round he looked for a moment at elizabeth, till catching her
"i shall depend on hearing from you very often, eliza."discover the number of the hackney coach which took them from clapham. it had come with a fare
"that is capital," added her sister, and they both laughed heartily."both," replied elizabeth archly; "for i have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our

Tosa and Lix

Those lovable scamps Tosa and Lix are back, in their 4th installment, "Look Who's Gone Bananas!" In this riotously funny, laugh-out-loud adventure, Tosa and Lix discover the inconveniences of having a chimp in their lives!