Painted this little Dolly Parton portrait for a friend! It’s my first attempt at a celebrity portrait (if you can call it that) and I think it turned out okay, and I absolutely love Dolly Parton because how could you not. I wish I could just draw pictures of Dolly Parton all the time.
I’ll be traveling for the next couple of weeks but again, feel free to email me about commissions etc. during that time!
.jb.
I made this quick birthday card for a friend last week! I don’t know if it fully captures the extreme adorableness of the parties involved, but it was super fun to draw a blue cake.
back to the way less fun work of writing papers,
<3 jb
Drew this pigeon for a supporter of my fundraising efforts! I’ll be traveling for the next two weeks but feel free to send me emails about commissions or make donations while I’m on the road, I should have some email access and will definitely be catching up when I get back.
<3 jb
Another donation request painting, that I mailed out earlier this week! I included some process photos below…for this one I sketched the design onto computer paper and used a lightbox to transfer it to coldpress watercolor paper (to avoid too many pencil marks). I used Dr. Ph Martin’s liquid watercolors and a Faber-Castell pens on the finished product.
EDIT: here’s a slightly better final image…
I love the opportunity to foray into adorableness.
–jb
I just put this drawing in the mail for a penpal/ fundraiser supporter:
I know this pun has been done but I swear I came by it independently. Also, I have been kind of emotionally focused on my need for a dog. Maybe after I get back from Poland…
Thank you to everyone who has already donated (your drawings and paintings will be heading your way asap), and if you haven’t already, I’ll be doing this until the end of June! If you have an extra chunk of change, it’s a great chance to get a custom zine cover or birthday card or something along those lines. But also, no donation is too small–it all adds up and is really incredibly helpful (and those postcards are pretty cool).
Love,
jb
Drew up this piece today for someone who donated to my summer donation campaign. This actually wasn’t a request, it was just what I was feeling at the moment, but if you donate, you can request things! I refer you back to ye olde summer projects “I need some money real bad” drive, a few posts down.
Anyway, interspecies bud stacking is basically the salve my heart needs right now.
<3 jb
Developing ideas, characters and images for a graphic project, I’ve started doing some sketches that are partly from old photographs, partly from my imagination. I’m excited to spend more time with character’s clothing, since I usually just draw t-shirts and button downs and the occasional vest. In this piece, I kind of decided not to use color after I had already started, but I think it looks alright anyway, like overpainting (though if it were overpainted the cheeks and lips and probably hair would also have been done–next time!).
Back to writing final papers for a while,
jb
