Updates from the Drawing Desk
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Peachtober is happening to me this month. I’m somewhere between participating and trying my hardest not to quit.
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.
I owe a thank-you to
, 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.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. 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.
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!









Hi! I love your unique, authentic, very fun illustrations! You asked; I shall answer: I would buy a pack of those sweet characters in sticker form in a heartbeat! And I bet I'm not the only one.......😊
I love your Mrs Dalloway pieces! Are they for sale as prints or originals?