And of course, the dailies continue as always.

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.)

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.

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.

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!

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.

(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’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.

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.

Dr Horrible vs Captain Hammer

Death of Sandman

Yes, I still seem to suffer from some bizarre stylistic schizophrenia. This blog looks like it’s kept by 18 different people, not one girl who cannot make up her mind. It’s not that I CAN’T keep to one style, it’s just that there’s so many fun ones out there to play with…

Also, you may notice a slight facelift to the blog… my portfolio has also got a proper redesign! Check it out!

Was planning to (and still will, I think) do this in my usual inky style, but for some reason, I decided to do this up as a digital painting, and throw it up for Illustration Friday. She oughta look a little familiar. Been playing with her as a character. Her name is Penelope or Penny or something, and she is obsessed with aliens and ghosts and things, all in an effort to discover why the hell her pigtails hover.

This Illustration Friday brought to you by my inner emo kid. This one was a quickie, maybe an hour, hour and a half?

I’ve got a blog and portfolio revamp coming (yes, again) so look for that soon! I’m in a real tidying sort of mood, cleaning up my room, cleaning my websites; I need to feel refreshed, I think.

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:

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.

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.

To lessen my shame (and add some semblance of relevance to this post), here’s a preview of something I’m working on for Narrative.