fish feed
3/10/26
Art flashbang.
Goodbye.
3/3/26
I saw an image I liked of a gleeby deeby cat in space, but the background was AI so I made this in frustration. It didn't take that long, and I set it as my desktop image.
Sticker ideas coming along nicely (mostly secret until I decide to reveal them)... I am arting again.. I won't let the depression win...
2/27/26
Gar-oboros? Ouro-gar-os?
Not sure what to call him! I think I'll stick with "precious."
2/25/26
Honda fih.
2/20/26 - HI HELLO HII
I am having chicken burger tonight. I have talked about my chicken burger vs chicken sandwich thing. Sandwich is where it's like a chunk of chicken breaded and fried. Chicken burger is the ground chicken that is breaded. I love both a lot... so much I had to draw something about it. Put this on a cave wall.
I drank a "potion" (instant coffee like the sugary kind), so I feel like I am losing my mind rn. I cannot keep my thoughts together.
Before I put far too much caffeine into my system, I cut my hair. I made it more mullet-y. It's not quite where I want it to be, but I'm gonna test out ways to style it first before I try to cut it more.
I have ideas for the stickers I want to make. They're super fun. I am excited. I'll also be making some zines. There may be scrolls in the future too. IYKYK
Anyways, I am going to try to not fly out of my seat. Wish me luck!
2/9/26 - cars cars cars
I've been drawing the rally cars I've seen both at LSPR and now Sno*Drift. I like to give them a line boil and overlay it on videos of the cars themselves. So far, I've only done two. 4DCAPRI from LSPR and the Subaru limited car that Travis Pastrana drives and Rhianon Gelsomino co-drives.
Pushing a car's proportions is hard as hell. Edges and panels have to line up right without looking wonky and such. I'm doing it though!
Here's the GIFs on their own.
Back to drawing :)
2/3/26 - drawing like a mad man
Idk what it is, but I'm drawin like crazy rn. Of course, the only thing I can think to draw is cars. I did one last nice spread in my sketchbook before I moved onto another.
Still learning like the structure of cars and how things tend to line up, but I think I am getting there. Because I can only draw cars right now, I want to make an illustrated map of the Nürburgring. If you don't know what the Nürburgring is, it's a really famous track in Germany. They have track days every single day that there isn't a race on it, so there's tons of videos of random things on the Nürburgring.
Only at the Nürburgring can you see a shitty little hatchback racing a Lambo. A lot of folks will bring their work vehicles too because they're in the area, so might as well.
The Nürburgring isn't like free reign let these people loose tho. They are required to take some sort of safety course. It is also an intense, long track, and there's clips of people puking. It costs a lot to get towed out too. Sometimes planes and helicopters show up? It's like a cartoon town.
On the topic of cars still, my partner and I discussed our dreams for the Kia Tasman which is a Kia truck sold on Australia. I think it has an ugly face, so I "fixed" it.
I'm mostly packed for Sno*Drift this weekend. After going to marches in the cold, I think I am prepared for the cold at Sno*Drift. Mini themselves will be there with John Cooper Works Minis. I really cannot wait to see a Countryman and Mini thrash in muddy snow. Also, a 1983 Toyota Celica, 1990 Volkswagen Jetta, 1981 Porsche 911, and a bunch of more modern rally cars. My favorites are always the old ones. LSPR had a Ford Capri with the original V8, and it was the coolest thing ever.
Here's some extra other stuff I made. Defo gonna go back to that bumper sticker. My fellow toaster drivers deserve better.
1/28/26 - yay race car
Amped for rally race soon. Connor Martell, Alex Gelsomino, and the Skoda won't be there tho :( BUT it's because they're in WRC. When we saw the Skoda at LSPR, it was really funny because everyone's midwestern accents enlongated the O. (Mostly me and the gang.)
Skooooda!
Drawing cars is really hard, but I don't hate it? In art school, a lot of my classmates avoided drawing vehicles at all. I really like it? Even though it's hard asf? It's really fun. Who knew that learning to draw something you like is actually kind of fun???
It's really difficult to turn a rigid object like a car into a cute, bouncy little thing. You kind of gotta push and pull like you do in animation. It's also really hard to stylize them because you can't stray too far away from how they actually look. I'm really into how @madeby_tommy stylizes vehicles.
I think the lancia is just so cutie. I love the weight of the lines and the forced perspective. It's just all so cute and loving AND he has good taste in cars. The 80s Nissan 720? Oh my gooood chef's kiss.
Anyways, back to drawing!
1/26/26 - making despite everything
I am having issues with making final-ish illos. It's just not feeling quite right. I have this issue of what I make not "professional" looking enough. Like I said in my last post, I have a lot of ideas about what's "correct" in illustration because of art school. I am not necessarily against art school. I'm against it costing so much, but it can be beneficial in many ways. An art degree isn't needed to have a creative career either. However, the feedback, networking, and resources I still have years later are great. The feedback from my working professional teachers did infect my ideas of how I want to present my work. Not that it was ever on purpose. They give their critique because it's what you do in art school to improve, but they also know what they are talking about. I just get too hung up on every single point ever said to me in my four years in school. Nothing negative. I'm not sad about any of it. I mean, I am pretty professional about receiving art critique. I'm excited to get it because it does help me improve. I just wonder if anything I make is like... good enough? I can't find a less sad way to describe it.
One thing that really messes with me is that I have somehow got the idea that having linework at all is "unprofessional." I really don't know where this idea comes from. I don't think that when I look at other people's work. It only applies to my own. I spent years training myself out of using linework in any of my illustrations. Shapes only, but now I want to explore lines again. It gives me some weird pit in my stomach though.
So I guess that's something I should work on.
Anyways, I just want to remind people to keep creating despite of everything that is going on. It's important to step back and just make.
Make and don't stop.
1/25/26 - miscellaneous things
I am debuting my new idea to quell my strange desire to post on instagram AND yap about it. However, we all know that instagram sucks. I just want to yap and have a chronological feed. So I made it for myself, and I have called it Fish Feed.
Official Fish Feed logo.
When I first learned CSS, I had been wanting to make a windows-esc theme on a page. It is over done, but I don't care. It makes me happy. I think it's fitting for this page. I'll be posting more casual things here because I am creating more these days. For now, I have a backlog of art and abandoned projects.
Here's an abandoned illo (illo = illustration) with freshwater fish in tamagotchis. Specifically, the tamagotchi connection V2 because those are the ones I grew up having. I have about three imported from Japan. They were for parts, and I was only able to restore one. Tamagotchis are actually pretty easy to fix. It's just replacing batteries and cleaning the connections.
Another abandoned piece of me (with a bob at the time) in my dream baja. The love for the subie baja goes really deep.
I'm really not sure what I was trying to do with this piece. I do have it stuck in my head that my portfolio needs to appeal to just children's book publishers, so I think I was trying to make an illo of a room to show that I can do interior spaces.
I do pressure myself a lot to make my portfolio exactly how all of my art teachers told me I needed to have it. While I think there was truth in what they said, I don't think it's applicable in the current illo industry. They are experienced in it, but the industry changes so much especially in economic turmoil.
Anyways, I got really bored of this illo, and I stopped.
Here's some sketchbook pages that I put on photos I took. The actual scans of the sketchbooks are defo somewhere in my sketchbook page.
Here's a few iterations of my instagram profile pics. I'm not sure if I wanna link my instagram quite yet on this site. I keep it somewhat professional with my business name attached to it.
Anyways, I think this format is fun to talk about just my art. I get a little lost in my website goofs and forget to make or show my art. I hope people find it fun also :]