Continuous Line Pet Portraits
Ok, Y'all. I'm opening up freelance availability again now that school is over. I'm starting slow with pet portraits in this continuous line style - Just $30 on Etsy for a custom illustration! Only 20 ...
Fatshionista Paper Doll Download
On this, the second day of freedom from my undergrad coursework, I got a wild hair to draw. Today inspiration struck in the form of a fat fashion paper doll. Just two outfits and one doll for now. Dow ...
Sketchnoting Foucault and Judith Butler
I thought I'd try my hand at this 'sketchnote' thing and see what happened. Aside from Foucault's wonky face and the fact that the guy from the Milgram experiment looks a bit like Buffalo Bill, I thin ...
Fat Girl as Ballerina
Just a passing thought I wanted to place somewhere rather than a well thought-out blog post: Spatially – I am aware of my body as I move through the world, as I navigate a larger-than-it-was-design ...
Body Positive Custom Illustration
I don't generally use this forum for self-promotion but I've recently reignited my love for illustration and I'm making a few custom portraits available between now and the holidays. Check out the gal ...
VJ’s Fat Experience – An Illustrated Story
I've been working on this under wraps for a couple of weeks. It's not often I'm quiet about something I'm working on but this story, as told to me by the amazing woman who narrates it, has been heavy ...
DOMA Goes Down
An historic moment. My joy is complicated, but it's still joy. Thinking about the day I called my Mama crying when the vote came down that voided the beautiful marriage she and her partner had. Th ...
Feminist Killjoy: Fitching the Homeless
Look, I get the impulse. And I get that anything that channels resources toward the disenfranchised can't be a holistically bad thing. There's a little room for some shades of grey here. But intersect ...
Boo to the bullies. Hurrah for the broken.
I don't think I love anything as innocently or defiantly as I did when I was young. Increasing criticality robs joy. Even my favorite things are tempered. The exception, though, are people. At least m ...
Feminist Killjoy Post: Dove’s Sketch(y) Campaign
I'm gonna go ahead and be a feminist killjoy on this one. Dove's at it again with their Real Beauty campaign. This time they've asked 4 women to meet with an FBI sketch artist and describe themselves. ...