Group Portrait


This was a fun little piece commissioned by the Wheelhouse Review; the request was a group portrait of the contributers that could be used as the cover image for the blog's Facebook fan page. The goal of the blog is to be a forum for each writer/artist to do what they do best {aka be in their wheelhouse}, so the work featured shares a space, but not necessarily a theme or voice. I thought a good way to weave that concept into the portrait form was to have us all rocking out together at the helm of our own unique little boats. {Also, water is a very fun thing to draw.}
You can see the full-size version in action here: https://www.facebook.com/wheelhouserev

Soup Dumplings are not Huggable


...but I love them anyway. :)

Self-control


Today's post over at the Wheelhouse. Poor little cupcake.

Hey Caitlin, could you pass the remote?

An ode to many nights of bunk-bed bedtime tv-time with my college roommate. This drawing posed a new challenge for me; I'm not used to depicting scenes that I've actually lived in. I can see it in my mind exactly as it was, the problem is that "as it was" was not very compositionally/tonally lovely. So the puzzle here was to figure out how to keep the colors and layout true enough to reality that it felt to me like an accurate rendition, but leave enough wiggle room so as not to create a super ugly picture. I erred more on the reality side than perhaps was good for the standalone artistic integrity of the final product, but I am pretty happy with how much it does look like how things actually were.

Toaster Ghost!

This one requires a bit of set up—
This week everyone over at the Wheelhouse teamed up to do a week long multi-part fictional mystery series. Juliet kicked things off with her side of the story on how the office toaster mysteriously caught fire, and then every day a different writer took a stab at unraveling the mystery from their point of view. When Friday rolled around, I wrapped things up with a cartoon:


The Heat is Off


Wrapping up work on finals for a book proposal. Above is a full spread for the busting-out-of-the-desert scene {two pages}, and below are the individual pages so you can see 'em a little bigger:



Guest appearance of an old friend

I had a monster like this when I was a kid; I created + commissioned him to eat my nightmares. {He was well fed.} Someday I am going to make a book about him. But while he waits, he has graciously agreed to lend his likeness for the latest in my poster series for the Wheelhouse. :)