Pocket Bush Pens a la Craig Thompson

Being that my departure date to Montana is less than two weeks away, I have been putting a lot of energy into ordering new & groovy sketching supplies.  My newest purchase is a great Pocket Brush Pen with lots and lots of refills and a 12-pack of Pilot’s B2Ps – which is the official pen of the imaginary artist company SAWURST ARTS-SHLOOPEDOO!

Since I utilized the advice of graphic novelist Craig Thompson while buying pens, and because I await his new book Habibi with obsession like anticipation, I thought I would dedicate my trial run to him.

(die as size indicators)

I think it turned out fantasically, and eagerly await using these new pens to illustrate my new adventure.

(detail)

oh you know…just stumblin’

Roman Diaz

I have a friend that infamously introduced the rest of us to www.stumbleupon.com by exclaiming one morning in Illustration Class, “I couldn’t go to sleep last night, because the internet is SO big!”

While we mocked her, each of went home that night and set up our own accounts, chose our interests (mine include Drawing, Catholicism, Paganism, and Folk Music) and started our own journeys into the vastness.

Since then, I often use the site as a starting point for art project research/inspiration.

I am about to embark on a new project (delayed by a pesky case of a mononucleosis-cousin-virus) which will tackle the feeling of the after college limbo identity crisis that I have been going through this summer.  The project will include personal images of my small life in Grant, Nebraska as well as St. Ambrose and specific dreamscapes.  It will be a combination of graphic novel imagery, old black and white photographs, woodblock carvings, origami and video.  Updates will be diverse and frequent.

Today, however, I wanted to share with you some of the things that I have found on my internet inspiration exploration and give a shout out to some of the other internet artists out there who are doing great work.

Dan Mountford

Khang Le

Here’s a really neat video to end it with.  Peace.