And of course, the dailies continue as always.

Also, new shirt up for voting on Threadless!

(This was actually a part of a piece I did in first year – I even had to retrace it from the final jpg, even though it was in vector originally, because I just couldn’t find the old files from 4 years back. Durr.)

First: A new shirt up at Threadless! It ought to look at least mildly familiar, as it’s a somewhat rearranged version of my Perfectionist piece; the kid’s now gender nonspecific (or that was the intention; it kinda just looks like a boy, really) and the colours are, well, something more shirt-friendly.

Help me out with a vote!

Second, for the people not following my daily site, here’s a couple I’ve done recently that I like a lot.

Also! I’ve finally dipped my toes into the Threadless ocean, and would be eternally grateful for a vote on my shirt design submission:

Just 4 more days! Vote, pretty please; I’m really happy with my design!

Also, I’ve finally got around to setting up an Etsy Shop. If there’s anything you’d like to see in there as a print (or a bookmark; I’m likely adding those in the next week or two) let me know, and it shall be done.

Aside from that, I’m still posting my dailies. I wish I had more to show here – I recently finished a couple of magazine illustrations that I’m really proud of, but I can’t put them up here until they go to print. So look for those next month – hopefully I’ll have more kiddie drawings to show before then! Maybe even more work!

A new portfolio piece, inspired by an episode of Intervention I saw a while back, focused on a pair of anorexic twins.

…the colour one was kind of an experiment, as it was working off the already-finished greyscale; something I’d never done before for a colour image, at least in this style. A challenging article to illustrate; thanks to Dave Mitchell for another interesting opportunity!

Also! I’ve finished another month over at my daily artblog, so check it out for my new theme, myths and monsters!

Here’s an illustration I did about a month ago for Briarpatch magazine. The article – by a woman looking back to her days as a radical feminist, and wondering what changed – is really interesting, and up in full on their site.

Also, I leave you with another shameless reminder to check out my new daily artblog. Or at least this one post, which I totally love.

That’s right kids, it’s a whole new blog! I’ll be making a valiant attempt at posting a new image every single day, on a different theme each month. Check it out, pretty please? The more people who follow it the more terrified I’ll be of failing so publicly. For January, the theme is Stuck In The Past, i.e. clothing and styles from history. Here’s a couple of my favourites thus far.

kimsokol.com/daily – Go go go!

Haven’t done a full-on watercolour in ages, and it was actually quite fun, although I wish I’d had just a little more time. I’d forgotten how hard it is to make things right without an undo button. Okay, so there’s a little digital manipulation in the posted version, but that’s mostly because by the time I realized how bad the scan was, it was already in the mail.

Also, I just realized that anybody visiting this blog for the first time might see the header, see this, and assume that I specialize in bored, irritated chicks.

(From The Torontoist – Myself, Karen, and Yien at our tables.)

I sold copies of the 24 Hour Comic, as well as my bad movie zine, which went over pretty well! For you, dear readers, here’s some of the bad movie art.

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter

Siegfried and Roy: Masters of the Impossible

The Room

Troll 2

Future Cops

Yes, these are all actual movies. Even the Siegfried and Roy one.

I’ll be selling some copies of the 24 Hour Comic, possibly some leftover prints and bookmarks and things from Fan Expo, old valentines, and a Very Special Zine project about a topic very close to my heart. WHAT COULD IT BE?

It's about terrible-amazing movies and these are some roughs.

Okay, so maybe I can’t keep a secret.

Also, I made this thing, and I don’t know why.

And speaking of children’s illustration, check out the work of Julia Denos, an illustrator who I found yesterday through Stumbleupon, of all things, and spent my evening fawning over. Love her blog. Her stuff is all kinds of adorable.

I fixed up this piece from a few months back for the recent 8 Bit show, but never reposted it here. Well, now I have!

Other things – I’ve been featured on Bizzom.com – thanks a lot for that, it’s an honour!

Also, “set up on Society6″ has been on my to do list for like 2 months now, so today I just did it. I now am on Society 6, with pictures and everything! If you have an account, feel free to follow me, I’ll follow you back!

All for now, more art tomorrow. I’m a bit backlogged on blogging, but I’ve been productive and inspired over the past few days so I’m catchin’ up!

Around the end of the school year, my final project for both my computer and my information illustration class was an infographic-y video about Free Rice, a division of the United Nations World Food Program and an excellent, easy way to earn money to help combat world hunger. I sent them the video, hoping they could use it for something. While that animation has yet to see the light of day, it led to this opportunity – to do another short video, this time for their new Billion for a Billion campaign.

It’s been an interesting time. Very powerful subject matter, so trying to do it justice hasn’t always been easy, and I’m certainly new to work requiring so much revision – others have worked on it at various stages; the version up on the site isn’t entirely my own work – but overall, an amazing opportunity, working with some wonderful people for a fantastic cause.

If you’d like to help promote the campaign, check out the Billion for a Billion website for ways to show your support, or donate here – fill the cup! Even just play Free Rice a little. It doesn’t take much to help.

I’ve got a couple of other (unrelated) things to post over the next couple of days, so stay tuned. Just wanted to let this one stand alone.

CHECK OUT THE COMIC

This past weekend, I participated in 24 Hour Comics Day at the fabulous Kingston comic store 4 Colour 8 Bit. I was down there anyhow, for my very own art show at this very same store – it was great fun, and thanks a ton to Kevin for putting it together, and Nick for allowing me to spend entirely too much time in his store despite the fact I don’t think I bought anything but Pac Man power pellet candy.

I forgot my camera for the opening, but look, art!

24 Hour Comic Day BEGINS

I suppose it was something of a cheat, since my comic was a collaboration with m’dear friend Aggy. The story came from both of us – we couldn’t decide what on earth to do a comic about, so we just decided to do EVERYTHING, and base it on our stupid conversations. She did the lettering, erasing pencils, and filling in large black areas, not to mention writing the old-man rants, which was a task in itself. (And the Cleavager is her fault. I will take no credit for that one.) So while the art is basically all mine, I couldn’t have done it without her, not to mention having somebody to yell at me to stay awake. When she was awake.

A sleepy Aggy sometime in the last few hours

Other adventures included drawing at Denny’s in the middle of the night, being interviewed for the Queen’s University TV channel… all in all, a crazy weekend! God, I love Kingston.

It’ll be mostly old pieces, but there’ll be a couple of new ones… like THIS!

…My inner illustrator is insisting “Yes, but what does it mean?”, but frankly, sometimes it’s fun to take a break from concept and narrative and just do something that looks cool.

Aaaand back to work. Man, I knew freelancing was feast and famine, but it’s one thing to hear it and another to actually experience a couple of months of absolutely nothing followed by sudden work!panic. But whatever, wouldn’t trade this for anything!