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.
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?
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!
For the first time in human history, the number of hungry people worldwide will exceed 1 billion this year…
Around the end of the school year, my final project for both my computer and my information illustration class was an infographic-y video about Free Rice, a division of the United Nations World Food Program and an excellent, easy way to earn money to help combat world hunger. I sent them the video, hoping they could use it for something. While that animation has yet to see the light of day, it led to this opportunity – to do another short video, this time for their new Billion for a Billion campaign.
It’s been an interesting time. Very powerful subject matter, so trying to do it justice hasn’t always been easy, and I’m certainly new to work requiring so much revision – others have worked on it at various stages; the version up on the site isn’t entirely my own work – but overall, an amazing opportunity, working with some wonderful people for a fantastic cause.
If you’d like to help promote the campaign, check out the Billion for a Billion website for ways to show your support, or donate here – fill the cup! Even just play Free Rice a little. It doesn’t take much to help.
I’ve got a couple of other (unrelated) things to post over the next couple of days, so stay tuned. Just wanted to let this one stand alone.
This past weekend, I participated in 24 Hour Comics Day at the fabulous Kingston comic store 4 Colour 8 Bit. I was down there anyhow, for my very own art show at this very same store – it was great fun, and thanks a ton to Kevin for putting it together, and Nick for allowing me to spend entirely too much time in his store despite the fact I don’t think I bought anything but Pac Man power pellet candy.
I suppose it was something of a cheat, since my comic was a collaboration with m’dear friend Aggy. The story came from both of us – we couldn’t decide what on earth to do a comic about, so we just decided to do EVERYTHING, and base it on our stupid conversations. She did the lettering, erasing pencils, and filling in large black areas, not to mention writing the old-man rants, which was a task in itself. (And the Cleavager is her fault. I will take no credit for that one.) So while the art is basically all mine, I couldn’t have done it without her, not to mention having somebody to yell at me to stay awake. When she was awake.
Other adventures included drawing at Denny’s in the middle of the night, being interviewed for the Queen’s University TV channel… all in all, a crazy weekend! God, I love Kingston.
