Buy me a railway pass and I'll give you five packs of smokes.

It's the annual Kelly family Xmas card!

2011-12-17T14:49:00.001-05:00

Ho ho ho!

2011-11-28T14:57:00.003-05:00

A new gig poster for Market Live. Come by and check this one out, Philly pals, it's gonna be a great show.

xoxo

Sue

2011-11-25T23:05:00.008-05:00

So I did a little "Badass Heroines of Action Movies" double-feature with Alien and The Terminator, and ended up with some creepy portraits of Ripley and Sarah Connor:

OK, they don't really look that good, but I hope you enjoy anyway. Happy Thanksgiving folks!

xoxo

Sue

drawings about fun shit

2011-11-22T14:39:00.004-05:00

So my favorite recent projects are for two very special events: First up, a gig poster Market Live's weekly open mic. It was incredibly fun to draw that old toothless man.

I'm also stoked to be doing the save-the-dates and invitations for the upcoming nuptials of my dear lovely friends Bethany and Lou. Congratulations you crazy kids!!

My poor blog has been very badly neglected lately, but I've got lots of new work to show you all. Keep an eye out here for updates!

Your pal,

Sue

WHEW

2011-01-19T11:50:00.005-05:00

The applications have been submitted and the weekend celebration has long been over! Now to distract myself during the deliberation period so I don't bite my nails off (gross). So let's have some new art in the mean time, starting with this year's Kelly Family Xmas card:

Hope you like!
xoxoxoxo
Sue

a work in progress

2011-01-05T17:20:00.004-05:00

Dear friends:
In T-minus ten days, I'll have submitted all my grad school applications. Following that I'll relax for a day or two, and then update the blog with all the new stuff I've been working on (I promise it's happening!!!). In the mean time, enjoy a teaser for a new work-in-progress:

xoxoxoxo and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
-sue

well well

2010-12-13T00:43:00.001-05:00

I've been doing some drawing but NO POSTING! :( Gonna rectify this soon; thanks for sticking around.
Kind regards,
Sue

mirepoix merriment!

2010-11-28T16:51:00.000-05:00

Here's the latest thing--I think I prefer it without the text, actually. What do you think????
Your truly,
Sue

ink therapy

2010-11-23T20:02:00.000-05:00

sunshine yellow fingernails

2010-11-22T09:17:00.000-05:00

Funky nail polish colors are awesome!
Coming up next in the foodie illustration series: MIREPOIX MADNESS
xoxoxo
Sue

scrambled eggs

2010-11-18T10:28:00.000-05:00

Gotta make eggs with butter! And that's a George Harrison poster in the background--now I want this poster for real. :P
Also, I tweaked the colors a bit on the last foodie comic:
I can't believe it's Thursday already! Gotta get back to work!!
Your pal,
Sue

cumin!!

2010-11-15T23:11:00.000-05:00

Cumin is a great spice, so I made a comic about it!
Kind regards,
Sue

quran editorial

2010-11-11T10:12:00.000-05:00

My brother, Ted--an awesome dude studying Spanish and Arabic--is working on an essay examining the Quran as a piece of literature, so I was inspired to do an illustration for it. Hope you guys like it!
xoxoxoxo
Sue
P.S.: If you were to mix the respective looks of these two environments in the background, you'd pretty much get my dream house. :D

chicken salad!

2010-11-09T16:44:00.000-05:00

Last week I came up with a pretty sweet recipe for chicken salad! So, naturally, I decided to immortalize it with a pretty girl in the colors of my mom's new-kitchen-in-progress. Hope you dudes like it. :)
Kind regards,
Sue

happy november!

2010-11-02T22:40:00.000-04:00

First of a series of four I'm working on--just a little bit of fun and an excuse to draw some art nouveau-esque patterns. Hope you find it fun too!
xoxo
Sue

queen of birds

2010-10-28T08:19:00.000-04:00

Here she is, all done... But now I feel like she needs an environment to get comfortable, sooooo gotta get to work on that!
It's Thursday morning, hope you have a marvelous day!
Your pal,
Sue

look, i can still vector!

2010-10-27T14:37:00.001-04:00

^before
^after!

Decided to mess around with the pen tool in Photoshop a little bit yesterday, here's the result. It was actually a LOT of fun to work with that little gadget again--makes me wanna dust off my copy of Illustrator, hmmm....

Aaaand just in case you thought I was off the highly-rendered-pencil-work-with-digital-coloring kick, here's this thing I've been working on, too. Colors are subject to change pretty much immediately after I post this and get back to work.:

Last night I had Nick's Roast Beef!!!! If you ever find yourself in Delco give me a call so we can go to Nick's. A++++

xoxo
sue

mad manz

2010-10-20T16:26:00.001-04:00

HAY GUYS GUESS WHAT MY FAVORITE TV SHOW IS

xoxoxo
sue

okay

2010-10-17T21:34:00.000-04:00

I haven't scanned anything in about a bajillion years but here are two things I've been working on:
Fire-conjurer-circus-guy.
Peggy! Don and Roger are coming soon.

Tomorrow I am going to scan shit and post it, this past month I've been doing a lot of sketchbook stuff sooooo there should be some coolness coming up soon.
Hope you had a wonderful weekend!
Love,
Sue

a couple of hipster farmers

2010-09-04T16:57:00.000-04:00

Here they are in color! I like these guys a lot.

Where they taking that cow?? I DUNNO!
Kind regards,
Sue

FUN TIMES!

2010-09-02T18:17:00.001-04:00

Helloooo friends! Time for me to catch you up on some of the things I've been working on, starting with two in-progress fantasy illustrations.

Gah, I almost forgot how fun doing scifi/fantasy art can be!! It's great to get back into it again!

The landscape below is from this year's family trip to Lewes, DE! I ended up giving this to my mom, she loves the scenery out there. :)
Aaaand finally, a little bit of meme-inspired folly:
xoxoxoxoxo
sue :)

Mad Men!

2010-08-09T19:56:00.000-04:00

CAUTION: Spoiler from last night's Mad Men episode:
That's Lane Pryce and Don Draper (Two of my favorite characters!)
More Mad Men work to come--I'm working on a series of portraits.
Hope you're well!
Kind regards,
Sue

girls, horsies and babies

2010-08-04T15:24:00.001-04:00

(^^^this one up here is for Mister Dak--visit dakdakdak.com my friends!!)
Also, HELLO!
xoxo
sue

masks in the desert!

2010-07-28T01:40:00.000-04:00

Remember this?? Here is another *in-progress* shot... Haven't done really rendered digital painting in a while, it's interesting to get back into it!
We'll see how it goes....
Kind regards,
Sue

janelle monae!

2010-07-18T01:36:00.000-04:00

Happy Saturday!
Kind regards,
Sue

quick post

2010-06-28T02:59:00.000-04:00

Just a little something I put together on the fly.
Good night!
-sk

new stuff

2010-06-27T19:53:00.001-04:00

Here's some of the stuff I'm working on lately, starting with a new piece for DAK (really rough colors):

New bird ladies:

A Janelle Monae portrait--when you have some free minutes, check out Tightrope, it is an awesome video:
And a sketch for a scifi-type of illustration (I actually miss doing science fiction illustration, gonna pick it up again):
Hope you're having a great weekend!
Kind regards,
Sue

hipster saints

2010-06-27T15:44:00.001-04:00

Back in May, I was part of a release party for Dak! in San Francisco--he played some banging tunes, Augie Trautz and I showed some of our artwork. I ended up making six large pieces in a fashion-illustrationy series. It occurred to me I haven't put them up yet, so here are my favorites:

My goal is to redo these in bright, colorful gouache! Hope you like them!
xoxo
sue

a clean room is a happy room!

2010-06-27T15:29:00.000-04:00

This morning I decided to put together my Ikea Laiva desk (which was only twenty bucks, hollaaa) and rearrange my room to fit in a little studio space. It's so nice and organized in here now!!

Back to work! :)
Kind regards,
Sue

(Elmer relaxing after a productive morning of watching birds and playing with his toys)

new bird

2010-06-27T02:54:00.000-04:00

I ended up having a lot of fun drawing this toilet.
Today was a very productive art day, but I am beat! Stop by tomorrow for a big update!
Have a good night,
Sue

sao tome

2010-06-24T23:16:00.001-04:00

A love letter to Sao Tome. I can't wait until I can see it for myself!!
xoxo
sue

flowers and leaves and DAK!

2010-06-24T23:08:00.000-04:00

^^^New piece for friend Dak! DAKDAKDAK.COM suckas!

And here's a couple gals with stuff on their heads!!

Your pal,
Sue

double whammy

2010-06-05T02:30:00.001-04:00

I did this when I was really jet-lagged back in May:
(this also has way too many layers for its own good excuses excuses)
Happy Friday,
Sue

damn i have not posted in a while

2010-06-04T21:57:00.000-04:00

Sorry about that dudes--here, have a new bird lady:

Kind regards,
Sue

a love letter to alexander mcqueen

2010-03-21T23:47:00.000-04:00

love,
sue

DAK!

2010-03-14T22:37:00.000-04:00

Sneak preview of the final version of this thang for Mister Dak!
Hope your weekend went well, friends! Today was a good art day for me. :)
Love,
Sue

scottie dog

2010-03-14T19:55:00.000-04:00

It's a really nice day outside!

Sincerely,

Sue

bird friend

2010-03-05T01:27:00.001-05:00

home stretch

2010-03-05T00:09:00.001-05:00

Pages two and three, more or less complete (still some technical tweaking to do). I hope you like them!
Kind regards,
Sue

a sketch, a work in progress and a work finished

2010-01-20T01:31:00.000-05:00

In that order:

BIRD PEOPLE!
xo
sue

full circle

2010-01-18T20:41:00.001-05:00

Ohhh, you thought that Rackham post was just fluff, didn't you?

It's all part of the plan, man! Friend Dak (http://dakdakdak.com/) came up with this concept based on some of his amazing music. The colors are rough on this one, so it's gonna be cleaner soon. Hope you like it!
Love,
Sue

rackham revisted

2010-01-16T15:49:00.000-05:00

I've always loved Arthur Rackham's illustrations, mostly for his pretty fantasy pieces. But while looking for inspiration this week, I started to get into his darker, more surreal stuff. His monsters, animals, ugly people and beautiful people all look really comfortable in the same universe.

Here's some of them pretty fantasy pieces by him as well:

new years!

2010-01-04T02:24:00.000-05:00

Here ya go, from old to new:

Been drawing a lot of bird people... weird!
Be well,
Sue

jacket and mittens

2009-12-16T00:33:00.000-05:00

Oh, Blogger. Why must you ruin my colors?

I love fashion illustration; I wanna do it every day!!!!!!

Sincerely,
Sue

P. S. - A love note to comics---I miss you, I'll see you again soon

two posts in one day! i am on fire!

2009-11-28T04:06:00.000-05:00

Woohoo! Thank you, four-day weekend!
xoxo
sue

xmas spirit!

2009-11-27T22:32:00.001-05:00

Black Friday has made me really excited for Christmas! This is the result.
Keep the change, ya filthy animal!
Love,
Sue

page one redux

2009-11-03T01:19:00.000-05:00

I like drawing palm tree leaves.

now this thing

2009-09-23T02:39:00.001-04:00

Juggling projects!!!!!!!!!!

newness, dudeness

2009-09-22T02:56:00.001-04:00

Top almost done, bottom in progress.
xoxo,
sue

look, a cool chair

2009-09-18T01:27:00.001-04:00

Blogger better not wash these colors out. I'M WARNING YOU BLOGGER!!

love,
sue

So angry at Harrisburg right now

2009-09-13T14:55:00.000-04:00

GIVE MY CITY MONEY SO OUR KIDS CAN GO TO THE LIBRARY, YOU FUCKS

http://libwww.freelibrary.org/closing/

Art is coming.

xo
sue

Found this mural in San Mateo

2009-07-19T02:18:00.000-04:00

I don't have a scanner out here, and I can't afford batteries for my camera, so no updates for a while. Sorry dudes.
Been coming up with a lot of ideas though! We'll see how they turn out. Thanks for tuning in.
xoxoxo
sue

phl -> sfc

2009-06-24T17:07:00.001-04:00

I took the train from Philadelphia to San Francisco. They were four amazing, beautiful days, and I have 150+ photos to prove it. Here are some of my faves.

Anyway, I'm doing great. How are you?
love,
sue

posin' in the rain

2009-06-05T00:44:00.001-04:00

And something new I'm working on:

sketchbook city

2009-05-29T01:27:00.001-04:00

Trying to get the horse down:

And some random things I've made lately that I've liked (least to most recent):

Shout out to Colin---this post wouldn't be here without you kicking me awake yesterday. (It's still Thursday in California, right??)
HOLLA

kind regards,
sue

new book!!

2009-05-21T14:07:00.000-04:00

Since I'm cracking down on work, that means Mon Cheval is back in my life! As a motivational tool/source of inspiration/extremely early birthday present my mom got me this great book on horses:

Sketches to come--because really, you can't not want to draw horses after looking at this book.

a million hugs and kisses,
sue

new stuff!

2009-05-19T21:55:00.000-04:00

two new things i'm working on--wave girl is just about done, umbrella girl should be done soon too. hope you like them!!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
sue

a big punch to the future

2009-05-11T21:46:00.001-04:00

Moving to San Francisco soon--beginning of June.
I've been making a lot of art lately--just haven't gotten around to scanning and finishing it yet. In good time.
For the moment, enjoy some Joni!

love,
sue

I AM ALIVE

2009-02-15T23:24:00.000-05:00

...aaaand staying up too late on a work night! Here are some sketches of pages for Mon Cheval Sous Les Bananiers (geez i hope i am spelling this right how embarrassing would that be). I have been slacking like a mother fucker, but page one is just about ready now. My scanner isn't big enough, but i'll see if i can photograph it for you.

dear art,
i really miss you. can we still be friends?
xoxoxo
sue

lots of work to do:

2009-01-11T01:44:00.001-05:00

1) mon cheval sous les bananiers mon cheval sous les bananiers mon cheval sous les bananiers
2) painting a mural in parents' house
3) illustration for aunt's new house
4) new portfolio work new portfolio work new portfolio work
5) painting a little garden statue for mom's friend
6) self-promo mailers self-promo mailers self-promo mailers
7) new site design?
8) i'm tired i can't think of any more
9) good night
10) love, sue

In the mean time enjoy this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnbbqiD7C7A&feature=related

frames!

2008-12-06T14:43:00.000-05:00

Found frames are fun (lol alliteration). I figured it might be cool to try putting some of my prints in some old timey frames. Here are some good ones that I found this week:

i love cats!

2008-12-04T22:42:00.000-05:00

I'm selling some stuff at the Urban Outfitters InLiquid sale, this new thing might be in there....... In progress:

AT LONG LAST

2008-11-24T21:44:00.001-05:00

I have finally, finally gotten my butt in line and updated my website!!!!

Check it brothers!!

I'll be updating the site throughout the week with more sketches and finished pieces, so keep checking back!

NO i don't have new work to put up

2008-11-06T22:37:00.000-05:00

I've been working in this weirdly-shaped sketchbook for weeks, though. So the lack of work up is just because it doesn't fit on my scanner really well.
I'm visiting Alain on Saturday to talk about Mon Cheval, so when I get back I'll try posting some of the sketches he liked.
In the mean time, congratulations and big thanks to my fellow Americans for electing PRESIDENT OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the folks outside my window seem to be having a great time!

2008-10-20T22:05:00.000-04:00

They are singing r&b outside. They know the words to all the songs. It's pretty funny, you should've been there.

I dunno, work is coming eventually. It's not a good day for working

CHRIST I NEED TO FINISH MY WEBSITE GAAAAAAAAAAAHHHDD

me being a good employee

2008-10-03T22:43:00.000-04:00

It was my boss's birthday today, so I drew her a picture. She loves orca whales and the Eiffel tower. (Warning, crappy photo of painting ahoy)

every'day i'm hustlin'

2008-07-13T23:42:00.001-04:00

Random collection of photos from NY, Philly, and in between

i pine 4u

2008-06-29T02:51:00.000-04:00

TWO POSTS IN ONE DAY GO MEEEEE

WORKING IN PROGRESS

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-06-29T02:48:00.001-04:00

Click to turn on Xmas spirit

you worked so hard. you earned this.

2008-06-23T20:26:00.001-04:00

A new thing I've been working on. Ssh, it is a surprise present.
xo's to you for reading,
smk

art art art art

2008-03-30T14:11:00.000-04:00

will be back, with a vengeance

i found more (adrien) etienne drian

2007-11-24T22:35:00.000-05:00

God I love this man's work so much, why can't I find more information on him?

inprogress*~~~~~!

2007-11-11T16:19:00.000-05:00

I'm fighting a bad cold right now.

This is based on a true story

eskimo girls

2007-10-07T21:39:00.001-04:00

stilt house

2007-10-07T15:10:00.000-04:00

In Broadkill Beach, DE, there are a lot of houses built on stilts. My mom found this run-down old stilt house partially made from a trailer, just randomly chilling on the beach in front of all these modern houses.

space tree

2007-09-07T19:40:00.000-04:00

I completely forgot this little story existed until Alain asked to publish it in a Portuguese anthology. It's going to be a collection of stories by various artists (a lot of MICAns) centered around the theme of maturity. I'll put more info about it it up here once I find it out.

a good day

2007-08-18T21:25:00.001-04:00

I drew this at the beach.

mon cheval concept sketches

2007-07-11T23:18:00.000-04:00

Alain is working on a script for a comic and wants me to illustrate it. So this is a little bit of work on the protagonist and his home in Sao Tome.

Times are really tough right now, I'll have some actual work soon enough.

chicas

2007-07-03T23:28:00.000-04:00

I've been doing a lot of cute-girl drawings lately.

a complicated array

2007-06-14T12:18:00.000-04:00

My brother is a really great singer/guitarist. He just released a CD of cover songs and asked me to do the packaging art for it!

the essentials

2007-06-13T23:17:00.000-04:00

i went to the beach

2007-05-24T22:37:00.000-04:00

SHOWCASED

2007-05-07T20:11:00.000-04:00

It's arrived!

2007-04-28T12:48:00.000-04:00

So I just got the catalog in the mail yesterday! The printing turned out really well, LuLu did such a great job. Now it's time to get back to preparing for the Illustration and Animation Showcase. Ack, only one week left until we're released into the real world!!

"Oo, what a cute dress..."

comic time

2007-04-18T15:40:00.000-04:00

I put a comic up on my writing blog.

dawly pahdon

2007-04-17T23:26:00.000-04:00

Boobs.

i'm in love

2007-04-16T05:49:00.000-04:00

I can't believe I've never been to face hunter before. It has absolutely incredible photos of some of the most fabulous outfits I've ever seen. Kind of a FoundPhotos sort of feel. Check check it.

Also, an update on the catalog. Finished all the pages today. It is really crazy to think about doing all these pieces in the span of three months. I still need to set the type and have it printed. Keep your fingers crossed that it will be in my hands by the MICA Illustration Showcase on May 3rd...

catalog progress

2007-04-03T14:12:00.000-04:00

To recap--for my last semester of senior year, I'm producing a catalog composed entirely of illustrations. The clothing featured is from the "Landed Gentry" collection designed by Free People. Here are some highlight pieces from the catalog so far.

keep the change ya filthy animal

2007-03-24T15:46:00.000-04:00

Home Alone fan art inspired by this song:

This is my house, I have to defend it.

i am like a detective now

2007-03-21T03:23:00.000-04:00

So while I was researching Victorian and Edwardian fashion plates for this catalog I came across a collection of really beautiful plates, but the site I found them at could only identify the artist as "Drioz (?)" After looking up "Drioz" everywhere I could without any luck, I just figured I'd never find out any more information. But after looking up the Catalog Parisien tonight, I came across this site, which directed me to the art of Etienne Drian.

When I saw this image, I knew I'd found my mysterious, fabulous fashion illustrator, because it was one of the pieces that "Drioz" was credited with on this one website. And if you think about it, "Drioz" and "Drian" do look kind of similar when they're written out in cursive. So I'm all proud of myself for finding some more work (not to mention the real name!) of this great illustrator. Hooray for you, Etienne Drian. You rock.

i really am doing work, believe me

2007-03-16T15:22:00.000-04:00

My thesis is coming along well, I've penciled all 32 images for the catalog and have only a few more pages to ink. Then all that's left is to color and print it! How exciting!

I'm using this image for my first ever set of postcards... If you've seen them, I hope you liked them. If you haven't, well you should ask me for one!

more from last semester

2007-01-29T22:23:00.000-05:00

future old school

2007-01-24T16:04:00.000-05:00

eternal sunshine of the spotless hard drive

2007-01-17T16:03:00.000-05:00

So yeah, it's taken me a while to get the will to draw on the computer again. I drew these like two weeks ago, they're the first things I've made digitally since the great erasure. I don't care if anyone likes them.

last semester

2007-01-04T16:07:00.000-05:00

I let my thesis last semester get really off-track, so for this coming semester I'm going to get really structured again and do more fashion illustration to put in my portfolio. The plan is to illustrate a catalog, like they did back in the day.

Thanks to this site and this site for the images.

finally updating again

2006-12-05T20:57:00.000-05:00

It's been a couple months since I've updated. My hard drive was wiped out and I've been too busy to scan my new work. By the time I get the hardware back in business and my finals out of the way, I'll have a larger update.

In the mean time, a part of a series I'm working on:

more overlays

2006-10-30T03:14:00.000-05:00

camera won't fail me--more midterm sketches

2006-10-24T01:45:00.000-04:00

mierda

2006-10-23T00:59:00.000-04:00

I was gonna share with you the sketches I did during midterm crits, but my scanner collapsed after one picture, the piece of shit.

I cropped one portrait out of this one because I didn't make her look as lovely as she actually is.

In case you didn't know, Noel Murray is my hero.
I've been thinking about autobiographical comics and I might write something about it up here pretty soon. So you know, look out.

So remember that McQueen sketch I did a few months ago?

2006-10-17T14:23:00.000-04:00