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Illustrated pattern design – Cats Tea Party

July 14, 2017 cats-tea-th

I made this illustrated pattern design of tea-drinking cats who are wearing fancy accessories like tophats or monocles because it has two things I love a lot: cats and tea. I drink tea every day (my favorite tea is green tea), so tea has become sort of a recurring motif in my illustration work. (Just look at my last year's Inktober illustrations.) Anyway, I wanted to share some WIPs and images of various stages of making these cats.

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Sphynx Cat Poster for #Pridemonth

July 7, 2017 pride2017

For this year's Pride Month I made a whole bunch of sphynxes based on the various LGBTQ flag colors. I took a lot of liberties with my designs but tried to stick to the colors for the most part. Why sphynxes? Because they look like goblins but they're actually super friendly and sweet. My goal was to make them all a little different from one another but keep them relatively cute.

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Tools and Resources I can’t live without

June 22, 2017 tools

Here’s the list of all the software, hardware and various tools I use in my illustration and graphic design workflow. I’ll update this if I have something useful to add (last updated: January 11, 2019). NOTE: if you email me asking me to add your product/service/website to this list then I will immediately mark your

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