Long time no post. Here’s a recent self-promo illo I did of the Ting Tings. While I’m not a fan of all their songs, a few of them are fantastic, and I just adore the juxtaposition of Flailing Hipster Chick Singer with Stoic Sunglasses Man.

And of course, the dailies continue as always.

How did I forget to post this? I finished this a couple weeks ago! It’s a companion to my Death Nouveau piece from last year, and it’ll be in a fanart show at 8-bit at the beginning of June, as well as at Fan Expo at the end of the summer in print form.

Also, new shirt up for voting on Threadless!

(This was actually a part of a piece I did in first year – I even had to retrace it from the final jpg, even though it was in vector originally, because I just couldn’t find the old files from 4 years back. Durr.)

Here’re some things that aren’t exactly brand spanking new, but I’m going to show them to you anyway.

First: A new shirt up at Threadless! It ought to look at least mildly familiar, as it’s a somewhat rearranged version of my Perfectionist piece; the kid’s now gender nonspecific (or that was the intention; it kinda just looks like a boy, really) and the colours are, well, something more shirt-friendly.

Help me out with a vote!

Second, for the people not following my daily site, here’s a couple I’ve done recently that I like a lot.

I’ve been itching to post these for about a month now, and as the new issue seems to finally be listed on the website, I can finally bring them out from under wraps! Here’re a couple of illustrations I did for Shameless magazine, for a profile on Sook-Yin Lee, entitled “Definitely Not Shy”.

Also! I’ve finally dipped my toes into the Threadless ocean, and would be eternally grateful for a vote on my shirt design submission:

Just 4 more days! Vote, pretty please; I’m really happy with my design!

A semi-secret project – well, not anymore I guess… I’m planning on assembling a second portfolio in a more dedicated children’s illustration style. Certainly not abandoning the style I have, not by a long shot, just taking this as a chance to play with some things I don’t get to when I do things my usual way. Here’s the first finished piece.

Also, I’ve finally got around to setting up an Etsy Shop. If there’s anything you’d like to see in there as a print (or a bookmark; I’m likely adding those in the next week or two) let me know, and it shall be done.

Aside from that, I’m still posting my dailies. I wish I had more to show here – I recently finished a couple of magazine illustrations that I’m really proud of, but I can’t put them up here until they go to print. So look for those next month – hopefully I’ll have more kiddie drawings to show before then! Maybe even more work!

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!