Vroom Vroom

June 18th, 2009

Here’s an illustration I did a couple of months ago, for The Feathertale Review!

Into The Sunset

Once more I find myself drawing a motorcycle! How can this be?

Junior Jetsetters Uberpost

June 14th, 2009

After nearly a year of waiting for publication, I can finally post what I did for my co-op last summer!

I did the character illustrations for two children’s travel guides for Junior Jetsetters - Paris and Amsterdam. (The background illustrations were done by artists living in the cities themselves.) Mike did the other two - Chicago and Lisbon. Here’re just a few of the 200-300 images done for these books. (There were about 150 “frames”, but many of them contained several separate character images.)

My first job was to design the local animal guides of the two travelling children.

Amsterdam Character Designs
Amsterdam Character Designs
Paris Character Designs
Paris Character Designs

The images themselves were intended for insertion into photographs. I only have a few examples of that, in cases where it would have been difficult for them to add the characters after the fact. (The two kids, Keira and Jordi, are not my creation; they’re copyright to the Junior Jetsetters guys.)

Paris La Defense
Paris La Defense
Musee Grevin
Musee Grevin
Rembrandthuis
Rembrandthuis

The rest of the images only exist in their free-floating, character-only state. Some of these were intended to go in photos, some not, and frankly I can’t remember which were which.

Nothing says Amsterdam like Bollywood
Nothing says Amsterdam like Bollywood
Cooking
Cooking
Sports, with kiddie versions of our bosses Pedro and Slawko
Sports, with kiddie versions of our bosses Pedro and Slawko
Amsterdam Roots Festival
Amsterdam Roots Festival
Picnic
Picnic
X-Ray
X-Ray
Paris style
Paris style
A badger riding a horse?
A badger riding a horse?
Beachtime!
Beachtime!
Fun with perspective
Fun with perspective
A TREE
A TREE

My one regret is that there was so much to do in so little time - near the end, I was doing maybe ten a day, and this was after school had started - so the shading had to be done in a very quick, loose style, and looking at it now I can’t say I like it. But it was a good time, and I learned a lot. Thanks to Pedro and Slawko for the opportunity.

Wolverine: Look Sharp

May 15th, 2009

FOR THE HORDE PROJECT ROOFTOP!!

Wolverine

Oh god I can’t remember the last time I coloured this way. Seriously, it’s been years. And Wolverine looks like a fireman clown in a marching band. From space.

At least he’s not a mountie this time.

Canada. Snkt. Bub.

May 2nd, 2009

Like so many awesome things in my life, this is Karen’s fault.

Welcome to Canada, bub.

Not my real Project Rooftop entry (just a stupid sketchbook thing, really) but it may end up submitted anyhow because it’s… just… oh god what did I spend my evening doing. D:

Besides, what other Canadian superheroes have we GOT? Northstar? Pfft.

The End.

April 27th, 2009

Grad show is over. College is over. I’m still kind of recovering.

A few things! First, I did this image a while back for a school project/ a calendar for Pylon Design. It’s been on my website for a few days, but I haven’t blogged it:

Optimism

Second, remember that Stephen Harper picture I did way back when? (Perhaps not, too lazy to find the blogpost, but this is it…) Well, it’s a finalist in the Framing Harper competition! And so is the work of my friend Rosemary! Check out the finalists! (Especially Rose’s, which should totally win because it makes me burst into a fit of giggles every time I see it.)

Third, the narrative project I posted a couple of teasers for was finally finished up. I had print copies at the show, but if you’d like to read my shot at writing (or at least look at all the pictures) here’s a PDF! If you’re interested in an actual, printed, hold-in-your-hands copy, let me know and I’ll get you the Lulu link. (They printed out surprisingly well, even if the shipping prices are insane.)

I think that’s it for now. Now I’m done school, I’ll likely, hopefully, be posting work more often - there’s all this stuff I’ve been wanting to do that Grad Show panic has kept me from doing. Ah, art, I do love you.

GRAD SHOW

April 16th, 2009

COME TO THE GRAD SHOW!

2009-sheridan-illustration-e-vite

It runs from 7 PM - 1 AM on Thursday, April 23rd, and 11 AM - 8 PM on Friday April 24th. Check the invite for the location.

The grad book also came in today, and it’s full of awesome:

photo-449

photo-450

And now, the end is near…

April 13th, 2009

winter

My final Interp illustration of my college career. *single tear* The last of the four seasons. Guess which!

I have rather pretentiously titled this Mother of Wolves, not to be confused with Australian hard rock quartet Wolfmother, although that would be kind of sweet.

And now, an hour or two of sleep before class!

Still Not Dead

April 7th, 2009

I’m still alive, which is ever so slightly ironic in an Alanis Morissette kind of way considering I’ve been driving myself into the ground writing and illustrating ghost stories. Hard at work, but with little I can blog. So here’s another random illustration from that ghost story book, to prove I can still draw, honestly.

jack-1_8

I have business cards, which makes me happy. The grad show is in like two weeks. I, and everybody around me, are so wound up that the slightest thing will make us explode, atomic-style. That’s about it.

KimSokol.com…

March 23rd, 2009

…is alive!

kim-sokol-illustration

Check it out!

You can still reach it through otherskies.net, but for all personal branding purposes, my personal portfolio address is now kimsokol.com. Haven’t decided yet whether to rebrand the blog or not, but for now I don’t have time so it’ll remain all Otherskies’d.

But the otherskies domain is very dear to me - I mean, it’s been my home on the web since I was 15. I’m still trying to come up with something neat to do with it, so don’t think I’ve abandoned it entirely…

Swing Swing Swing

March 22nd, 2009

Swing Swing

A seeecret preview of a seeeecret project.

No, that’s a lie. I’m redesigning the look of my web site, and putting together a business card, and this is for both.

I’m just no good at keeping secrets, I guess.