Buh-buh-buh-boredom has stricken!

And the result is this lovely little letter.

A fun indulgent little afternoon project to distract myself from the other tasks at hand... I'm sure you can relate. But hey, all is justifiable as long as you're being productive! Right?... right?

–KLK

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles art show!

Ladies and gentlemen, this Friday I'm going to be in my first art show that I'll actually be able to attend... the show is presented by the Autumn Society and should be really exciting.
This is the piece ill be showing:

The first edition print will be available framed at the show. Have no fear though! That's not the only copy. Unframed Prints are available, contact for details.

I encourage everyone who can make it to stop by. Its first Friday, the weather looks promising, and the turtle van will be there. What better way to spend a summer evening?

Birbig Time

I recently did an illustration of comedian Mike Birbiglia, for Royal Flush Magazine. I was pretty pleased with it, and really thrilled to find out yesterday that it went over well with Mr. Birbigs himself. Nothing feels better than hearing positive words about your work from a famous person you drew vomiting.

The full page illustration goes alongside an interview with Birbiglia. It, along with some other illustrations of mine (which I will post at a later date) appear in Book 7 of Royal Flush. This book is going to be the best one yet, with a super awesome dual cover– one side featuring Rob Zombie by Ed Repka and the other side featuring, my heroes, the gang from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia by Pat McQuade. The inside is chocked full of awesomeness that's sure to keep you entertained for hours.

To preorder a copy of Book 7 please visit http://royalflushmagazine.com/merch/

Otherwise it's going to be released October 12th, 2010... but a special lenticular hologram edition will be available exclusively at Barnes & Noble on October 26th, 2010 (limited to 1,000 copies)

Check out more about Mike Birbiglia and his upcoming book Sleepwalk With Me, also to be released October 12th, at http://www.birbigs.com/

Ely ely ely, I've had enough of this Ely guy!

We have been asked to design the poster for our senior thesis exhibition.
This is Round One of the sketch phase. I'm abandoning the third idea and amping up the first two compositions in another round of sketches. From there I will select one to take to final illustration, and then I will perfect the type design.
My favorite is the crabbies, but I'm nearly positive the client would rather go with the sidewalk chalk. We shall see which is the victor...

Hey look, I'm on the internet for something actually worthwhile!

So I won this contest and now I'm on Art in the Age's blog! My grilled cheeses are going to be worn by the official volunteers of FeelGood. Woo! Hooray for me and my resume!

And that's JonWeed. He used to sit next to me at my internship. His name is one word.

Be A Light Unto Yourself: a process

Watercolors. This is my favorite.
Character design in tribute to Gretchen Scheilds.

Girl you're my angel, you're my darlin angel...

Had to do a project with the main subject being an angel. Of course I had to go and make it something nasty. This is all hand done in stippling and cross hatching. Yes, I am crazy.
My mom said people who wear turbans might think this is mean, but I feel like it's not the guy's fault the angel couldn't stay in the bike lane. Idk maybe I'm wrong.

Alkaline Trio Show Poster

So for my first real post, I present my first show poster of Junior year. This is my revised copy and though my teacher would liketo see more feminine hands, I refuse to do so because I am sexist and think pretty secretary hands are a sign of weakness and inability to do manual labor.