My most embarrassing post to date!

Hello all! In an effort to remind you guys that I am not, in fact, deceased, I have decided to post out of sheer force of will, with absolutely nothing of value. Huzzah! (Sorry I've had a bunch of work but nothing I can post yet...)

Anyway, did anyone realize that I AM A GIGANTIC NERD? Yeah, I hide it pretty well, but it's true. As evidence, I have posted my version of a couple of characters from my most favorite graphic novel/the amazing literary masterpiece, Scott Pilgrim. To all you who are not involved in dork circles, drawing other people's characters is pretty common practice.

Scott Pilgrim is a great graphic novel if you're dually a music/comic nerd like me. It's about a dude who's kind of a loser that's in a band and has a mysterious and kind of aloof girlfriend....also he has to battle all of her evil ex boyfriends...ninja style! Awesome? I think so! Additionally, the writer uses the word "awesome" pretty frequently, which just happens to be my favorite word (as evidenced by the previous sentence).

My apologies for nerding out on your for a minute there, but to my own credit, I like waaaay dorkier things, that right now, I am keeping to myself.

Next up: A real post with real work...eventually! I promise!


As a side note, Scott Pilgrim is being made into a movie directed by Edgar Wright (cool) with Micheal Serra as Scott (lame) and will be out sometime this year. If you are interested in the SP series, go to the author, Brian Lee O'Malley's site.

http://www.scottpilgrim.com/

<3 xta

I am kind of a masochist, as evidenced by every decision I make

I may not believe fairy tales, monsters or human decency, but I am damn good at drawing them. Above is my example. Seriously, I'm like Norman Rockwell except not dead and significantly less talented. Also I'm not famous, I've never worked for Life, or any other magazine and I am terrible at drawing puppies. Okay, I'm actually not like Norman Rockwell at all. Maybe I'm more like Edward Gorey, except not asexual and less talented and none of my illustrations are about dead children and....

Enough of that. For those of you who don't know me very well and need further evidence of my penchant for masochism, I'm taking a stand up comedy class. My reason for this being, a)I need more attention and my tits aren't big enough to get on girls gone wild and b) I hate myself.

I hope for myself that I'm either really, really awesome at this, or conversely, really, really, really terrible. I'd hate to be mediocre. I rather go down in a fiery blase of glory then just be okay. If you had the option to choose your death, would you rather take a bottle of pills of jump into the grand canyon? If I'm gonna die either way it's grand canyon all the way, baby.

Here's to one of my first (of my already accumulating) bad decisions of 2010!

Cheers!
christa


Edit: I almost forgot! I saw someone wearing one of the Far From Finished t-shirts I designed at the Hudson Falcons show I went to this weekend. Wooo!

I always wanted more than 50 hours every week and a paid vacation (on the Jersey shoreline)

An exercise in futility: because just like just like Jesus, I can resurrect myself from the dead and my blood is made of alcohol.* (clicky to enlarge)

Every word of this comic is true except the part about getting on the train at 8:15am...that would mean I actually get to work on time.


*My apologies on the lettering and perspective. Although people tell me I am am artist, I can barely read my own handwriting and have a deathly aversion to rulers...

Malt liquor tastes better when you've got problems

This is a panel for a comic that I may or may not decide to finish. I like it, but it's taking forever to ink and I just got another idea for a much funnier and significantly less depressing comic. I have millions of half finished comics lying around on random sheets of paper but on top of all the other design stuff I have to do I never quite get around to finishing them. I might try start drawing them a bit simpler just so I can get them out. Perhaps then I my attempt at not looking like a complete wuss will be a bit more successful. A girl can dream...

Also... on occasion I have been known to do work that does not include skulls, tattoos, crushing self deprecation and/or punk rock. This is one of those times (at least for the second pic). My buddy asked me to do a logo for his consulting business and thus, this logo was born. I don't know anything about consulting, but word on the street is that he kicks ass at it.

http://www.eustaceconsulting.com

Shameless Design: now slighly less punk rock

Here at Shameless Design we (me) only cater to the finest of musicians and artists. This means of course that we (I) design for a variety of genres provided that the music is awesome.

I work with the fine man who produces Tunez and when he found out what I do he asked me to help him out. I, of course was happy to oblige him. I took a look at the club that his event is being heald in and man, that place is fancier than me...(and I'm pretty fancy.)