Folk Me Hard: a serious folk & blues colouring book

Today I've finished my first ever coloring book! It's a folk and blues themed one for my friend, Jason and it features such classic activity pages as match the 'stache!

and finally...

not to show off (well, actually, yes, to show off) here's a project I've been doing outside of school: it's a folk singer themed colouring book I plan to call Folk Me Hard! It's a birthday present!! Created using old photos and carbon paper and you haven't even seen the activity pages yet: there'll be a match the mustache activity and one where you cut open paper graves to see which folk singers are still alive! It's pretty cool though I do say so myself!

Also? I promised my tutor to add this...

I'm supposed to be showing that I have a little bit of contextual references, which as far as I can comprehend means showing I've looked at other peoples' art. Which I have, really, and I'm not just saying this for a grade. I've even got concrete evidence in the form of some inspired spoof sketches I did.

An artist blog

Hi! My name is Shay and this is my artist blog. I put it up not merely because I'm required to for my school, but also apparently for fun! I'd like to add some of my drawings to this blog and set myself up as an illustrator, but I'm also meant to talk about school type things like a "what I learned today" scenario. Today I learned that if you trap 75 illustrations students in a room with tape string and post-it notes it is not only very entertaining (and very creative which goes without saying) but it is also a bit like being in the 3rd grade. Literally some of the conversations I heard went thusly "I'm tired of killing zombies, let's build a rocket to the moon instead" "Yeah!". It was kind of amazing. Attached is my story: a wholesome tale about a mad cat lady who zombifies her own cats before being "cured" by a radioactive spider-elephant. Then she goes off to fight the disease.