A new portfolio piece, inspired by an episode of Intervention I saw a while back, focused on a pair of anorexic twins.

Another illustration for Briarpatch magazine, for an article about “the politics of the burqa”. I did two versions, a greyscale one for print and a colour one for the website:

…the colour one was kind of an experiment, as it was working off the already-finished greyscale; something I’d never done before for a colour image, at least in this style. A challenging article to illustrate; thanks to Dave Mitchell for another interesting opportunity!

Also! I’ve finished another month over at my daily artblog, so check it out for my new theme, myths and monsters!

Hey kids, I’m still alive, still making art, still unable to blog most of what I’ve been doing. I am, however, still updating the Monthly Daily, my daily artblog, quite religiously. I finished the first month – history! – and am now on to a new theme. Check it out! Here’s a few of my favourites from January:

Here’s an illustration I did about a month ago for Briarpatch magazine. The article – by a woman looking back to her days as a radical feminist, and wondering what changed – is really interesting, and up in full on their site.

Also, I leave you with another shameless reminder to check out my new daily artblog. Or at least this one post, which I totally love.

That’s right kids, it’s a whole new blog! I’ll be making a valiant attempt at posting a new image every single day, on a different theme each month. Check it out, pretty please? The more people who follow it the more terrified I’ll be of failing so publicly. For January, the theme is Stuck In The Past, i.e. clothing and styles from history. Here’s a couple of my favourites thus far.

kimsokol.com/daily – Go go go!

I’ve been working, really. I’ve got a couple of honest, professional gigs done that I can’t post yet, and other things too unfinished to put up. But this – my contribution to the artistic secret santa organized by Craig – well, I just can’t sit on it any longer. It’s hours away from Christmas eve, the person it’s for probably doesn’t even read this journal, and besides, if the intended recipient hasn’t got it by now, Canada Post sucks and I hate it.

Haven’t done a full-on watercolour in ages, and it was actually quite fun, although I wish I’d had just a little more time. I’d forgotten how hard it is to make things right without an undo button. Okay, so there’s a little digital manipulation in the posted version, but that’s mostly because by the time I realized how bad the scan was, it was already in the mail.

Also, I just realized that anybody visiting this blog for the first time might see the header, see this, and assume that I specialize in bored, irritated chicks.

I completely forgot that I hadn’t blogged about CanZine yet. But it was good!

(From The Torontoist – Myself, Karen, and Yien at our tables.)

I sold copies of the 24 Hour Comic, as well as my bad movie zine, which went over pretty well! For you, dear readers, here’s some of the bad movie art.

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter

Siegfried and Roy: Masters of the Impossible

The Room

Troll 2

Future Cops

Yes, these are all actual movies. Even the Siegfried and Roy one.

I will be at CanZine this coming Sunday November the 1st! Come by and say hi!

I’ll be selling some copies of the 24 Hour Comic, possibly some leftover prints and bookmarks and things from Fan Expo, old valentines, and a Very Special Zine project about a topic very close to my heart. WHAT COULD IT BE?

It's about terrible-amazing movies and these are some roughs.

Okay, so maybe I can’t keep a secret.

Also, I made this thing, and I don’t know why.

Another day, another artdump! Another story illustrated for Rubicon Publishing. This one’s about a Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) kid, his birthday, his favourite meal, and his grandmother.

And speaking of children’s illustration, check out the work of Julia Denos, an illustrator who I found yesterday through Stumbleupon, of all things, and spent my evening fawning over. Love her blog. Her stuff is all kinds of adorable.

I fixed up this piece from a few months back for the recent 8 Bit show, but never reposted it here. Well, now I have!

Other things – I’ve been featured on Bizzom.com – thanks a lot for that, it’s an honour!

Also, “set up on Society6″ has been on my to do list for like 2 months now, so today I just did it. I now am on Society 6, with pictures and everything! If you have an account, feel free to follow me, I’ll follow you back!

All for now, more art tomorrow. I’m a bit backlogged on blogging, but I’ve been productive and inspired over the past few days so I’m catchin’ up!