tumblewords

hooray, tumblewords is available in the itunes store! this means i’m a video game illustrator!

tumblewords is a word game for apple-type devices from minicore studios in austin. i illustrated two of the themes, “mushroom forest” and “painted desert.” it’s actually pretty addictive, i spent several hours on it last weekend and managed, with considerable joy, to wrest 150 points out of it by finding “philistine.”

so, do step into my world and find some juicy words. i painted all that woodgrain for you!!

click here to download tumblewords at the itunes store

all of my tumblewords bits and pieces:

malaysian moon moth

my favorite kind of moon moth. coincidentally from the same neck of the woods as me!

twiggy, buggy wedding invitations

i submitted a couple designs for judgement to the minted wedding design challenge:

TWIGS

a stark, twiggy invitation perfect for an outdoor wedding in a wooded setting, featuring hand-lettered initials and a pair of flirty birds. there’s a john lennon quote at the very bottom from “grow old with me,” a song that makes me straight up bawl.

the rest of the alphabet and a possible accommodations card

DAMASK MEADOW

a springtime meadow-themed storybook wedding invitation featuring your favorite creepy crawly outdoor denizens in a Victorian damask pattern. heh, everything my young man hates about hanging out in nature!

PS:

minted.com

family food: malaysia

mama’s curry is the best curry. recipes here!

dr. sketchy’s toulouse lautrec night

oh la la! la belle france! a model in her drawers! another fabuleux evening at dr. sketchy’s anti-art school.

paletero

it’s sunny in san francisco today so the paleteros will probably be out in full force in the mission:

their popsicles are usually the severed heads of licensed characters so i made up a few of my own, but i guess they came out looking kinda gentrified:

the google image search on “paletas” always cheers me up.

redwood grove

an invitation for a redwood grove wedding. the bride is a san francisco urban forest and urban agriculture coordinator who saved some trees i really like from being cut down at zeitgeist. hooray!

i love this little bug party:

i spent some time at the botanical garden in golden gate park to do my research. they have a redwood grove tucked away in a little corner by the moon viewing garden. i was really delighted to find that it was carpeted in hearts (wild ginger and redwood sorrell), perfect for a wedding. PERFECT!!

these were the sketches that were smushed together to make the final painting:

i was a little sad to abandon the bats, but i’m sure i’ll find a use for them one day.

welcome eliza jane

for wee eliza, born this spring on the day of the solar eclipse. i was there for her birth! (thus the ferns. i know, i am so sneaky)

picnic

livetrace in illustrator has some great potential! i have to mess with it some more. i used it to make some damasks out of the collateral bits + pieces left over from a commissioned picnic wedding invitation:

gotta figure out where to use that sweet lemonade pitcher and firefly jar:

this was said couple’s invitation, a good opportunity to practice the vector illustration skillz i’m learning at my design job:

sweet gerber daisies, sweet couple!

bike kitchen, birdseye

a couple of my friends are bike kitchen volunteers and they very nicely let me occupy the ladder for a couple hours and spy on the general kerfuffle from my lofty perch.