Appliqué is the practice of sewing one smaller piece of fabric onto a larger piece of fabric to create a decoration, pattern, or image.
It’s super fun!!
I love it! I wanna appliqué everything!
I wanna appliqué! With you!
When this account reaches 450 patrons (we’re currently at 412 as of Jan 4th [UPDAT...
2023-01-04 21:58:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Several years ago, Lucy Bellwood introduced me to the Unravel Your Year journal-type-thing project. It’s this thick-ass workbook you print out at home that prompts you to think in depth about the year that just concluded, your thoughts on the year approaching, and then provides a space for you to track the mo...
2023-01-03 22:55:12 +0000 UTC View Post
My previous post summarized the first six months of the art I made in 2022, and now I present to you the second half!
Ok, so I found a buncha sketches from July that I could post but this (PARTIAL) batch of my potato harvest is way more impressive so I'd rather show that off.
LOOK ...
2022-12-30 23:58:01 +0000 UTC View Post
What did I make in 2022? More than can fit in one post, that's for sure.
During one of my routine visits to Goodwill (secondhand shop), I found this giant photo canvas print of the Flat Iron Building in New York City and I thought "I bet I could fill that up with tiny naked people cut out of bits of paper" and so I did.
2022-12-30 02:39:44 +0000 UTC
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Sorry to everybody who signed up for dick and fart jokes comics and instead you're getting all these emo-ass self-reflections. (Not actually sorry)
When I feel that pull in my heart, my first reacti...
2022-12-24 03:40:48 +0000 UTC View Post
These are the sashes that came with the curtains that came with the house we bought nine years ago.
They’ve been disintegrating for years and for years I keep telling myself I will (hand) sew replacements and for years I have not done it.
This is the sewing machine that an incredibly generous r...
2022-12-17 05:29:33 +0000 UTC View Post
In January of 2020, I started a journal quilt. At the start of each month I wrote a few sentences about how I felt in that moment, and then I would illustrate it by cutting out and assembling images from my stack of collage-fodder magazines and books. From that picture, I would base my quilt square using fabric and embroidery.
This is another one of those situations where if I had ta...
2022-12-14 01:26:54 +0000 UTC View PostHa-HAH!
Remember two weeks ago I was all "oh nooooo, I haven't started working on my book outline yet, bloo bloo bloo" and then I was like "Two weeks from now, Friday, Dec. 2, I will post my outline here, to you. It may be super rough, it may not be in good enough shape to show my agent, but, by god, I'll put together something and I'm gunna be accountable to you." 2022-12-02 23:06:47 +0000 UTC View Post
The first thing I do with a new sketchbook is label the cover with my starting month and year, and then add a second blank label below it for the future concluding date. It's a habit I started during my 2005 semester in France, since I was blowing through my sketchbooks faster than I ever had before. There were so many things to draw, journal entries to write. I think I went through almost a full book in a bit over month. When I got home, I labeled them with "France, book X out of 5" and then...
2022-12-01 23:06:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, so I think this is the first comic I've made just for my new Patreon!
Normally I layout my comics...
2022-11-29 01:57:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Efffffffffff! I forgot to post the chapter in between Day 9 and the Epilogue! DAY 10. The final day at Space Camp!!!! So, here it is:
2022-11-21 21:47:48 +0000 UTC
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Ok, so like.
I finished the first draft of LETTERS FROM SPACE CAMP. You all know that because you're here and I assume you already looked at the comics I have to offer. Or, wait, should I have assumed that?
Recap:
Letters From ... 2022-11-18 22:24:40 +0000 UTC View Post
October 25
October 26
October 27
October 28
2022-11-13 22:26:02 +0000 UTC
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Holy cow, I filled up my sketchbook and started a new one in RECORD TIME. Normally, it takes me over a year to finish a sketchbook, and that’s mostly with my lists and notes with only a handful of actual drawings. But this time? Four months! And it’s basically ALL DRAWINGS. Wowowow. Who even am I anymore?
Here’s a snippet of the first few pages of my new book and the rest from th...
2022-11-09 20:02:38 +0000 UTC View Post
(Originally published August 13, 2014 on The Nib)
2022-11-03 00:09:58 +0000 UTC
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(Originally posted August 11, 2017 on my previous Patreon account)
Oh man, look... 2022-11-02 23:05:15 +0000 UTC View Post
This past August, Matt and I went to Laurelhurst Park for an evening of Poetry Comics. Anis Mojgani, Oregon's Poet Laureate, read two of his poems to the twenty of us sitting on the grass and then sheets of paper with an empty four panel grid were passed out for us to fill ...
2022-10-27 01:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Even though I diligently took a daily photo of my little broc’s progression, I did fall behind on drawing it. The above row of sketches were churned out in one long session with the intention that I would come back and finish painting/rendering them later but later wound up getting used for more pressing things like getting back on my #Broctober schedule and finding accidentally obscene ...
2022-10-24 17:44:04 +0000 UTC View Post
October 10th
October 10th- no wait-oh fuck.
That one is actually October 11th. I got mixed up because I was out of commission for a few days and had to catch up on my backlog of broccoli photos all on one day and I mixed up the dates 😬 Fortunately, I had time to correct t...
2022-10-17 02:55:05 +0000 UTC View Post
As is the way of my people (artists on social media), October is traditionally the month of drawing once a day on some set subject while referring to your project as #[Theme]tober. In the past I've done #Inktober (straight-to-ink), #OCTOber (octopus), #Locktober (Lady LovelyLocks, although there is a pre-existing #Locktober on another corner of the internet that has nothing to do with either drawing or 80s dolls that also looks like a lot of fun if you're into chastity play), and pro...
2022-10-11 04:36:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt found these photos from 2013. This is the very first picture taken of what would become our backyard, from our first tour of the house:
A couple months later, this was our first snowfall in our first house:
Not exactly a winter wonderland, but still! A significant momen...
2022-09-28 20:00:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Normally it takes me well over a year to fill up a sketchbook, both the pages with my notes and the covers with stickers.
This book, however, has been different. I only started it three months ago and I’m down to the last… 11 pages?!?!? I stopped writing here so I could eyeball how many are left (“a couple dozen”, I assumed) and then I realized, whoah, this isn’t ...
2022-09-24 04:35:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Ok, so a bunch of my Helioscope studiomates went out to the coast to assemble a 1,000 piece puzzle* and after many many many hours we discovered that thREE PIECES WERE MISSING.
*(I guess some people came out to the coast to actually experience, y’know, the coast, too 🙄 He...
2022-09-19 21:57:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Here we have the glorious lifecycle of the noble potato! From first baby leafling breaking through the earth to the final harvest of those rich, magnificent tubers, this is not just the story of a root vegetable, nay, it is the story of us all on a spiritual level, is it not?
Potatoes are ready to harvest when their above-ground stalks and leaves start to wilt and die.
There is nothing I would like more than to tell you what kind of potato I planted but the thing is I don’t rem...
2022-09-13 20:58:12 +0000 UTC View PostThis is my latest collaboration with acclaimed writer Lux Alptraum for The Nib!
Working with Lux is always such a gift and I'm so proud of all the comics we've done together. She cuts through complica...
2022-09-08 00:58:49 +0000 UTC View Post(Originally published November 9, 2017 on my previous account.)
I had cocooned myself under my dad’s bulky feather blanket as sunlight poured through my tiny basement window but really I was in Antarctica with Carrie Stetko as she lost her finger to frost bite d...
2022-09-07 00:55:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey! So. I have been working on a memoir about going through the Intensive Outpatient Program in 2019 and posting up each rough comic chapter as I finish it here, on this very Patreon.
Ideally I'd like to get this first draft done, then, like, polish it up, draw it nice, expand on and delete the bits t...
2022-09-06 02:39:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Let's be honest, you're probably here for the comics so here's an index of them, all in one spot! Wanna read the locked ones? Become a patron at the comics tier, baybeeee. Book Worm level patrons even get digital downloads of my books! 2022-09-06 02:14:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Another accidental selfie as I fumbled with my phone to take a picture of my plants.
Have you ever seen lettuce seeds in the wild*?
*(The “wild” of my backyard garden in a suburb of a manmade city)
2022-09-06 01:44:28 +0000 UTC
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