work in progress Coloring Bears: Risograph Style Decisions I tried to keep it minimal, but color and composition had other plans. This week’s final assignment: postcard-ready hiking bears!
work in progress Bear Hike Illustrations: Exploring Angles Today’s class was all about composition studies, and I ended up picking the toughest angle—looking up! Time to let the bears go big.
work in progress Simplifying Two Asheville Illustration Ideas Today’s class was all about cutting elements, boosting clarity, and giving my hiking and beer-loving bears room to shine.
work in progress Asheville Postcard Sketches: Bears & Storytelling Today’s class was all about picking three Asheville-themed ideas and expanding them. Turns out “minimal” is harder than I thought!
work in progress September at My Imaginary Art School: Storytelling & Drawing Each week has a full art cycle—from research to sketch to final illustration. Week one was all about summer turning into fall!
work in progress Learning Composition with ChatGPT-sensei I used to be scared of the word “composition.” Now I’m kind of obsessed with it—and I owe it all to my imaginary art school.
work in progress I enrolled in an imaginary art school! So apparently I enrolled in an imaginary art school with ChatGPT. And It’s kind of working.
work in progress Leaning Poses and Accidental Sass on Labor Day Started drawing “leaning people” and ended up with fashion magazine-level seduction. Oops? Labor Day energy = zero.
work in progress Repeating My Weak Spots, Over and Over Still stuck on limp-body sketches—but I believe in practicing the hard stuff again and again until it clicks.
work in progress Drawing Limp People: Crying & Lazy Still wrestling with limp poses—today I added crying and lazy-on-the-couch. The lazy one? Totally my mood lately.
work in progress More Limp Practice: Despair, Death, and Pure Joy Still struggling with limp poses—tried despair again, plus “dead” and “over-the-moon.” Amazing how limp can mean total opposites.
work in progress Practicing Despair (and Feeling It Too) Today’s sketch theme was “despair.” Couldn’t get it right—side profiles are tough! But hey, I kept trying.
work in progress Practicing Limp, Low-Key Still not feeling 100%, but today’s sketch theme was “limp bodies.” Turns out it’s way harder than drawing tense ones!
work in progress Today I’m Just a Cat Felt awful today—this doodle was all I could manage. So I drew myself as a cat, curled up and useless.
work in progress Reviewing My Struggling People This week was all about people straining, stressing, and grimacing—and I’m proud I kept pushing through my weak spot!
work in progress Ouch and Brrr! Drawing Practice Today’s drawing drills: people in pain and people freezing. Needles still terrify me, and Chicago winter is already creeping in!
work in progress Drawing Practice: Full-Body Protest Today’s sketch theme was “angry and resisting”—basically full-body protest poses. Way more fun than I expected, and I couldn’t stop laughing while drawing.
work in progress Just Another Lazy Day Practiced drawing, went for a walk, snacked, lazed around… and somehow the day’s already gone.
work in progress Some Days You Just Draw Bad Tried sketching at a café today and… wow. Truly terrible. But hey, still my “progress,” so up it goes!
work in progress Gold Star for Just Picking Up My Pen Today! Finally feeling better, and my doodling urge is back! Today I sketched a boxer and a tipsy characters as rehab practice.
work in progress Hang in There, Little Quarterback! Back from Japan and still wiped out, but my husband’s “Hang in there, my little quarterback!” pep talk weirdly hit the spot.
work in progress I Need a Doraemon Door, Urgently Had to rush somewhere out of the blue and kept thinking, “If only I had Doraemon’s Anywhere Door right now…”
work in progress Another Day at Spudnik Press! Checking colors, fixing tiny details, and double-checking everything right up to the very end.
work in progress Melting Like an Ice Cream in Chicago Chicago is melting. I’m melting. Everyone’s melting. Please put me in the freezer.
work in progress Riso Print Day at RISO POP I skipped the cheese and printed risos in Amsterdam! Here's how Charlie the noble herring-lover was born.
