Cinnistix

Happy Holidays!!

Jim and I made a Christmas card of all of our favorite moments from the past year.~ check it out!

The ending references a comic called “Lame”, posted in January.

More daily weirdness from the Sweet as Cinn Comics.

Haven’t seen the movie, Thor? Fear not. Here’s a helpful recap.

Credit to Jim for saying funny things like this throughout the movie~

Trying my hand at re-drawing the old Thomas the Emo Kid comics, and attempting a real story line.

Thomas the Emo Kid is an ongoing comic about a high-schooler in Smalltown, Iowa who is the leader of the Emo group. If only he weren’t secretly a football fan, in love with a cheerleader, or had a crippling pants-ripping tick.

Sometimes I get in awkward social situations and start drawing a comic without any plot or point in my head– just to look busy. This is why things like this happen.

Having a little identity crisis with my friends at the building deli.

This is what I get for drawing comics during Home Ec.

Has this ever happened to you? CLEARLY I am a super hero!!

My uncanny ability to make a first impression never fails.

A few months ago I had the ABSOLUTE pleasure of collaborating with Little Brass Bird on their episode, “Black Forest Ham”. I’m such a big fan girl for their show, so when I was asked to be a guest artist, I completely freaked.

The freak out happened all over again when they interviewed me in their Featured Artist Blog for April. GLEEE!!

Read the article here

And check out Little Brass Bird and their incredible, hilarious works of web-show art here.

I need to get my head on straight. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills today!

Another great night at The SketchUp with the crew! Of course…until everyone found out my horrible winking disability. And the childhood scars had just healed too. …

The weekly sketch group I have so much fun at recently got its name– the SketchUp! You can check out what we do on the facebook page, and if you live in the Jacksonville area– come grab a coffee and say hi. We’re there every Wednesday (except for artwalks) around 5:30 and be ready for some great sketching, good times, and pretty hilarious conversation.

THIS IS EXACTLY HOW IT WENT DOWN:

Last fall my good buddy Robin from our days at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago asked me to be the guest artist on her Little Brass Bird web show. I am such a big fan of their show and their sweet, offbeat humor. Check out their website here.

Robin sews all of the plush characters by hand and draws the sets, and Rhoderick does the voices and sound mixing. Together they write the episodes and it is so cute. Their show is all about bringing artists together – they find terrific musicians and creative people to be part of their show.

They asked me to draw the flashback in Episode 3 and I am stooooked! Watch it here ——> [link]

Hope everyone had a terrific New Years!

Mine was pretty good until this total weirdo came up to me at the bar and started being a complete jerk . This is exactly how the conversation went. I’m SO CONFUSED. Then he went and stood by himself for a while and disappeared.

As usual I thought of a million cool things to say an hour later.

This weekend was the AIGA “Bags in Toyland” show, and it was fantastic! So many beautiful and creative toys out on display by local artists. Still waiting for the professional photos to come out, but until then, check out these crappy iphone photos of my toy, “Magical Girl Cinn and the Narwal”. This anime sculpt is based off the comic series “Magical Girl Cinn”, which is about a girl who is kidnapped by a flying Narwal and forced to “save” his Narwal world. (read about it here)

This was drawn at (what I think they’ve decided to call) Hump Day sketch sessions with local comic artist Ed Hall, among other incredibly talented people. Check out Jimmy Ward’s awesome rendering of Varick Rosete and upcoming blog post about it on AIGA Jacksonville’s blog. Thanks for the awesome time guys! Can’t wait to go back and draw with them again =)

Here’s what I got done on Wednesday. More true stories to add to the “Sweet as Cinn” collection:

Today was full of fail. Tomorrow is another day!