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

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:

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.

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!

CHECK OUT THE COMIC

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 forgot my camera for the opening, but look, art!

24 Hour Comic Day BEGINS

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.

A sleepy Aggy sometime in the last few hours

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.

This one might look a little familiar to some… I’ve been meaning to recolor this one for a while, since I’ve learned quite a lot since I first colored it almost a year ago!

I’ve got a show coming up starting October 1st, at the fabulous comic book and videogame store 4 Color 8 Bit in Kingston. I spent much of my summer as a couch hobo at my friends’ place in Kingston, so I can attest to the sheer awesomeness of this store, and it’s an honour to have the opportunity to show there. Thanks to Kevin for putting this together!

It’ll be mostly old pieces, but there’ll be a couple of new ones… like THIS!

…My inner illustrator is insisting “Yes, but what does it mean?”, but frankly, sometimes it’s fun to take a break from concept and narrative and just do something that looks cool.