24. Nadim Damluji

23. Loretta Johnson

Pictures of T.S. Eliot are sort of like potato chips, in that you cannot draw just one.

22. Michaela

From The Department of Abandoned Projects

This was the front page of a graphic novel that I worked on for the duration of Senior year of high school. It was about a depressed college professor.

Things about this graphic novel which were okay:

1. The art, which I completely killed myself over

2. A few tiny scraps of dialogue

Things that sucked about this graphic novel:

1. The plot, which was whiny and unoriginal and packed with obvious, boring symbolism

2. The vast , overwhelming majority of the dialogue

I had grand hopes for this thing, and then I showed it to Brett Warnock before I was even working for him (if you don't know Brett, please look at the guy on the left and imagine the voice he might have as he speaks these words) and he flipped through it and said, "Well, you've certainly studied your textbooks, man," and I could not help but feel that was a bad thing. I realized how bad it was after the first chapter and jettisoned the whole project.

A Leisurely Researched Diatribe Against the World's Most Popular Font

This was for the back cover of The Secession Volume 2, Issue 2. It draws a few misleading conclusions, which a hot minute on Wikipedia could easily disprove. But it was the Comic Sans MS Issue, so you know.

Treacle

HOW TO BE A LESBIAN

Written by Alex Kerr, drawn by me.

P.S. If anyone figures out the secret hidden message in the numbers at the top I'll give them a cake. Or maybe just congratulate them.

21. Laura Valenzuela

2. Joey Lubitz

HERE'S WHAT I THINK OF YOU J-LUBE

Northern California, Last Winter, Sitting on the Beach in a Down Jacket

20. Ian Maier

The Creative Mind

So I made a book for Book Arts, and it was poorly bound and looked like a third-grade art project except worse, and at one point it was bound on both ends, creating the ultimate post-modern literature: the book that cannot be read- and so I decided to embrace its cruddiness and title it

THE BOOK OF MEDIOCRE ART

On the back I wrote my personal motto for the endeavor, "I'm okay with this". The idea was that unlike pretty moleskein sketchbooks, this is a book in which I can draw anything I want, as badly as I want, and not feel like every page needs to be a thing of beauty. As you might expect, I end up with a lot of stuff like this:



But I also made some stuff that I'm surprisingly proud of, which looks way looser than most of my other art because I wasn't trying so hard.



Anyway, I highly recommend keeping a Mediocre Art book. If I draw anything else blogworthy I'll be sure to share it with y'all.

19. Marie von Hafften

In Front Of Me Now

A. Racist tourism poster for Mexico which I'm slowly turning into a collage
B. Printouts of the cover for Eighth Grade
C. A painting of a Walla Walla street
D. My elaborately decorated schedule
E. Reference photographs of trees
F. Pencils for the first page of the second chapter of Eighth Grade.

3. Jens Tamang

Drawn with three different pens* during my Critical & Alternative Voices class.

*Staedtler Pigment Liner 0.7 (the thin single-width pen)
Micron Pigma Brush Pen (most of the picture)
Pentel Brush Pen (the tree trunk and limbs)

18. Eliza Young/Robin Lewis

I've avoided drawing pictures of the actual people so far, but Robin and Eliza happen to have a lot of excessively rad photographs of themselves online. They also have a brand new fashion blog still in its infancy, which I predict shall grow and blossom into a truly beautiful thing. It's called in the middle middle of nowhere nowhere.

Crime on Campus

This is another Pio illustration. They've got that distinctive eleventh hour look to them.

On this topic, did you know that Whitman College security maintains a highly addictive blog?

GUEST ARTIST: Jens Tamang

So my talented friend Jens used black tape to create a GIGANTIC version of this tiny (3"x3") drawing that I did with a tiny Micron .001 pen of a tiny bird. He has pretty much skyrocketed to the top of my Best Friends list.

Here is the original drawing:


Jen's version, is, in my mind, way superior. He got the feathers to look more feathery; mine are more like hairs. And also, you maybe haven't noticed this, but his is REALLY REALLY BIG. And done with TAPE.

Parent's Weekend

Everything interesting on the corner of NW 15th and Everett

Plus directions to a kind woman's disgustingly-titled zine.

17. Emily Basham

Hilight?

Drawn to accompany an article about drugs.

16. Luke Rodgers

15. Gregory Safranek

14. Sam Epstein

13. Ari Rampy

I realized after posting this that it kind of looks like it's intended as a love note to Ari.

It's not. That would be weird.

9. Alexis Johnson

Elijah

He's into slam poetry.

Beck + Beck + Beck

One of these Becks is my own drawing. One of them is from BECK MONGOLIAN CHOP SQUAD THE ANIME. One of them is a musician.

WHICH IS WHICH DEAR READER

Budget Cuts

So the Valley Transit line might be closing a lot of its routes. That would be cruddy.

This drawing has fled from the Pioneer's cold rejection into the warm embrace of the people reading this blog

12. Ashley Wyatt

Since the time of uploading this, I have revised the drawing so as not to read "Asley".

Status Update, drawn in class

But when I got home
I had FLOWERS.

11. Sam Tucker

All About My Brother

So my seventeen-year-old brother Toby has the best blog on the Internet.




I'm not kidding around. He has the best blog on the Internet. Don't take it from me: read this direct quote from Sophie Johnson, a responsible adult whose journalism has been published in major American newspapers and who teaches children for a living. This comes from an e-mail to me in which she stated:

"i don't mean to be offensive to you and your internet endeavors, but your brother's blog is THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN."
-Sophie "Work Published in Major American Newspapers" Johnson

Just go and see for yourself, while I list the three most badass things about my brother.
1. He is the funniest person I know.
2. He has the best blog on the Internet
3. I was having a conversation with him tonight about his blog, and he expressed concern that if I mention his blog on mine he will start getting more views, and "the whole joke of my blog is that nobody looks at it". Am I the only one who considers that statement a compelling argument for immediately viewing his blog?

I Love My Brush

On the advice of my professional cartoonist friend I purchased a reasonably nice sable brush, size 4. I spent all day using it to go over Eighth Grade and make everything pretty. If you use your imagination, you can see how much worse these panels were without all that nice black inky goodness.

The first installment is nearly, nearly done. I promise it'll be published before every page has already been put up on this blog.

I Draw and Talk About Drawing

The audio was recorded for a friend's radio show. The drawing I did so that I would have something to talk about.

Before The Hipsters, There Were Whalers.

Slightly larger version here.

Analogue Video Game

I got the idea while listening to this track off of my friend David Kanaga's website. My thought was that a music video for video game music, which is infinitely loopable, would also have to be endlessly loopable. I'd like to do more with this kind of thing in the future.

Message Otter Sez