Updates from the Drawing Desk

a list

1. Peachtober is happening to me this month. I’m somewhere between participating and trying my hardest not to quit.

   

   Kite

1. My shop will open sometime at the end of this month/early November. I’ll be selling originals from Peachtober, and maybe stickers, a calendar, and a few prints too.

2. I owe a thank-you to

   Anna Brufau
   , who mentioned in the comments of my last newsletter that I should make stickers of my characters. I never would have thought of that myself. When a drawing is finished, I usually just move on to the next one. It lives in my sketchbook or ends up on a pile somewhere, and over time that pile develops its own ecosystem, maybe even its own representative in Congress. Someone has to tell me: these could be stickers. These could live in notebooks, in the small margins of other people’s lives. And suddenly, I see it too. So, thank you.

   

   Character sticker pack. What do you think?

3. Last month I made these illustrations for something. The “something” doesn’t matter now. What matters is: I like them. I don’t know what else to do with them. They exist. I exist. They won’t demand to be understood, and I won’t apologize for making them. It’s very mature, this relationship. Very evolved.

   

   

   A set of 5 illustrations following Clarissa through an ordinary day. An homage to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway.

4. Here’s my Hobonichi recap from September/proof that September happened at all. I bought another sketchbook I didn’t need, started eating kiwis every morning, and finally stopped working in my underwear (the weather helped). Some days I wrote a lot; some days I just stared at the page and called it reflection. All of it counts.

   

5. Things I like, no context:

   

   

   Nengiren/Saratormenta/Noel McKenna/Gary Panter

Today’s Artist to Know is Eisen Wu. An amazing illustrator whose work you can find here. Enjoy the interview!

From Eisen’s Instagram