here’s a set of portraits i did for one of the beloved customers on my etsy shop.  

Hi friends!

A couple of bits of news:
The Portrait Project will not be reaching its goal so everyone who bid will be getting their money back.  The good news is that the Portrait Project is now an Etsy shop, and you can get the same exact deal by clicking right here. Many thanks so everyone who supported this project and I hope to see you on Etsy!  Feel free to contact me if you have any questions/concerns.

The other big news is that the To Teach tour starts next week!  Come see Bill and I at the following dates and places:

Tuesday, 5/18:  University Press books, 2439 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA.  6 PM.

Wednesday, 5/19:  Modern Times, 888 Valencia st.  San Francisco, CA.  7 PM.

Friday, 5/21:  The Green Arcade, 1680 Market st.  San Francisco, CA 7 PM.

Sunday, 5/23:  Floating World Comics, 20 NW 5th ave.  Portland, OR  6 PM.

We got to make a cool poster for the Floating world signing:

There should be free copies of the poster at the signing.  We’ll also be premiering the Dave’s Killer Bread Coloring and Activity Book, which I think came out really great!

Hope to see you there!  Stay tuned for more tour dates, already in the works!

i’m doing a large-scale portrait commission project on kickstarter.com.  you can check it out by clicking on this sentence. please support me!

there’s this new anthology coming out soon that’s nothing but tiny drawings of unicorns.  it’s put together by catherine peach, who’s both a brilliant artist and a great friend of mine.  if you’d like to submit a unicorn of your very own you can contact her through her website, linked to in the previous sentence.  do it RIGHT NOW!!!

i don’t think i’ve ever drawn a unicorn before.

I’ve been doing some covers for a newsletter and i thought this one came out pretty good.

here are some pencils from the upcoming daves killer bread coloring book.  its gonna be amazing!!!

so here’s the finished thing of that thing i was drawing.  i think it’s going to be on an iphone app or something.  the tech savvy gentleman who hired me to do this is going to be making some updates to ohyesverynice.com soon.  that’s right!  first update in 4 years!!!  watch for it!

i’ve been trying to post less booby drawings on here because i can’t imagine it’s helping my career in childhood education, but i really liked how this submission for the next issue of stumptown underground came out.  the theme for the issue is, “sex.”

it’s based on an old playboy pin-up.  after i finished it i thought i’d rather have done a portrait of r. kelly, but i had already used up all my spare time.

here’s a little preview of my next big project, the dave’s killer bread coloring book!  more on that soon!

happy new year, everybody!  2009 was rad!  could 2010 be more rad?!!?  stay tuned!