Illustration

ghosting and soren solkaer and leyden jar discharge on film and ornate chrysalis into an eye-of-sauron axial fmri collage

Leyden jar teaser The image is taken from a silver print of a Leyden jar discharge by Kuele. I really enjoyed ghosting the text in this teaser and didn’t quite get the effect I wanted in the final flyer: This was another one where I felt like I didn’t really have enough to work with conceptually, but the image in the center is constructed of a murmuration, the mirrored leyden jar discharge, and mirrored moth chrysalises. ...

really struggled with this one. we were all feeling like it was hard to do anything celebratory during the genocide. i presented a few options that were rejected due to their perceived morbidity since that sort of imagery was hard to look at by members of the collective. i wasn’t really happy with this sketch nor did i feel like it really captured the event, but threw it together last minute (decay/growth on the bunnygirl). ...

just a sketch i did on my lunch break that people seem to like a lot . _ . made a sign (that L. printed) and stickers (that I ordered) for girl milk mate, a drink we sold at a small event. anime version that went over the booth

prompt: queer hedonism in the darkness, light pouring in, different levels (hosted in a 3-story warehouse with a plan to dramatically tune the amount of light coming through the blocked-off skylights to the music) used a monument valley layer as the scaffolding, redrew everything in illustrator, had fun (though spent quite a lot of time) illustrating tiny figures all interacting in the scene. gradient map cost some detail but overall okay with it. ...

it felt really good to get prints out (their weight and the texture of the riso is so satisfying in person!) and to have people want to buy them at the soundsystem check by the lake on a sunny day. i easily made back the cost of printing (2-color risos from tinysplendor.com) and made a decent profit. i still have more to move and guess i need to get good at marketing? ...

i wanted to go with a lighter theme than i usually do for my first daytime event flyer. we picked the name to reference an electrolyte drink product remembered fondly from one of the collective member’s childhoods. the background is full of electrolytes in lithium ion batteries (since this event tested the function of a custom battery build, which was successful! the entire soundsystem ran for several hours off of a custom setup of hacked tesla batteries, engineered brilliantly by L. (we did have generators ready as a backup, but didn’t need them)). ...

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For a leatherdyke night series (never ended up being thrown) at the White Horse. I looked at a lot of 80s-90s leatherdyke flyers/personals/events/errata, then asked my 2 favorite leatherdykes <3 to pose for a photo I subsequently used as a reference for the illustration.

continuation of the story from last year – the bunnygirl’s scar is healed up, she’s surrounded by blue flax flowers (native californian plant recommendation by members of the collective), the lines of past lovers are outlined on the floor, the tree shadows dapple the ground, there’s the insinuation of pregnancy. hand-drew the type inspired by several orthodox russian typefaces (but made it more legible). initially had a cross out of the blue flax which i quite liked but it gave the bunnygirl a decidedly too christ-like cast. ...