late night scribbles.

Can't sleep, so I thought I'd revisit an old sketch I had abandoned. Still a lot of work left to do, but at least now I feel it's worth working on.



Media: "Frontier Psychiatrist" - The Avalanches

not another effing cat.

I swear, I do draw subjects other than orange cats, but Modern Tee put out a call for "girly designs" and what girl doesn't like kittens and bees? Okay, don't answer that. Instead, help me out by voting for my design. All you need to do is create an account (it's quick and free) then you can vote on all of the designs on the site.

VOTE FOR ME!


Also, if you wanted to check out the original image sans shirt, viola!


Thanks!

here kitty-kitty.

I was a bit bored today and instead of being a functional human being and going outside to enjoy the beautiful weather, I figured I'd better stay in my pajamas, watch hulu, and diddle around with photoshop. Making fine life decisions left and right.

first birthdays and first postings

Sorry for the long wait between my wordy introduction and this, my first post of actual artistic content. I've thankfully been a bit busier on the job front than I had anticipated. Top Ramen becoming my primary food group has been put off for at least another month. Huzzah!

Anyway, this past weekend was my niece's first birthday party and I had this idea for a sort of a triptych/sequential piece after getting inspired by a nifty little frame at Ikea. First, I sketched out a bunch of babies trying to figure out what look I wanted.



I decided on which sketches and used tracing paper to transfer the three final line drawings onto watercolor paper. Then, proceeded to look high and low for my watercolor paints. After struggling to remember if I had even purchased them in the first place, my roommate was kind enough to allow me to use her watercolor pencils.



I used handmade (though not made by my hand) green striped paper as a background and mounted the pictures horizontally. And then I wrapped it before I remembered to take a picture of the final product, but you get the idea.

All in all, a fun little project.

the blog has landed.

Greetings and welcome to a very special episode of Oh My Crap!: I've Just Abandoned Everything I Know, Now What?. I'm your host, Brooke Hendrickson.

I'd been living in Boston for the past 8 years, going to school and consequentially exploring life after graduation. I had friends, a full-time job (with benefits), and was even beginning to not have the entirety of my paycheck go to food and rent. True, I hadn't graduated art school with the goal of becoming a bookseller, but I liked it well enough and I was able to pick up the occasional freelance illustration gig in my spare time. Life was grand! Well, life was adequate at any rate.

Then, a few months back a friend of mine told me that she was moving to New York to attend a graduate program at NYU. She asked if I wanted give up the glamorous life of vision/dental coverage, paid vacation time, and 401k's in order go with her. After what I only can assume was severe head trauma and/or prolonged lack of oxygen to the brain, I said yes.

So here I am in Brooklyn: broke, jobless . . . and yet, hungry for more than just the next pot of ramen noodle. Yes friends, for the first time in a long time I wanna draw, dagnabbit! And so, I humbly submit to you this blog so that I may showcase the fruits of my labor. Lord knows I'll have plenty of time on my hands, so updates should be fairly regular.

New city. New life. Same snarky insight.

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