Illustration Friday: Contraption

Here's another piece from my latest exploration. I'm really getting into combining pen with watercolor in this new way. I keep drawing these weird little monsters and I'm not sure what they are wanting from me. It's like David Bowie says "Scary monsters, and super creeps keep me running, running scared." I'm not so much scared as curious about this world they live in, I keep uncovering things about it. Like this guy, he is a software developer. I'm not sure what he's developing, but he's having technical problems.

Yeti fever!

I thought I would post this recent illo that I did on inspiration of my friend Steve's request for Yeti's for our gallery wall at work. I work at a design firm in Seattle called Hornall Anderson and we have a wall in our office that we use as an internal "gallery" called The Kathleen Turner Overdrive Gallery (if you've seen High Fidelity, you'll get the reference). It serves very much like a gallery where our curator, Steve Quenell, announces a new theme every month and then we have an opening of the gallery every First Thursday. This month's theme is Yeti's because Steve is addicted to them. So when I heard this for some reason I though instantly "Yeti Jamboree." Makes perfect sense to me. I actually did this piece first then went on to make the illo that I posted earlier in the week for Illustration Friday. I'm really stoked about these hairy critters! They are done in watercolor and pen. And I think going to one of their parties would be awesome. It even gave me a good idea for a children's book...I hope you enjoy!

I got Slogged!

Check out my Slog post from August about my Diary of a Wiener website!

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/08/15/currently-hanging-jessixa-bagleys-diary-of-a-wiener

Back up and running!

Hey everyone!
If you've been noticing some weirdness with accessing my website or my blog, it's because I've been in the process of switching over my domain and hosting so that I can update and redo my website! Yay! I've had a great site for the past six years or so, but I've decided to switch it up and make a new one! To check out my really cute under construction page visit my website:

jessixa.com

In the meantime, I'll be posting to my blog and updating on more events, website changes, and posting new work.

You can also follow my hotdog's on my Diary of a Wiener website:

diaryofawiener.com

So keep checking here and I'll keep you posted when my site is up and running!

Thanks
jx

Illustration Friday-Hibernation

by Jessixa Bagley

Illustration Friday: Disguise

Hello!
I am on vacation this week, but I am still dedicated to my latest venture of participating in Illustration Friday! I was very lucky that my in-laws have a scanner so I could participate while out of town. This week's topic is "Disguise." I didn't want to do something really obvious, so I tried to make it slightly more subtle. And I am still trying to grow my children's book portfolio pieces, so I wanted to do something that could fit into that genre. This is pretty rough as the paper in my sketchbook isn't that conducive for watercolor. I'd like to re-work and re-fine this piece when I get back home. But I thought it was fun even though it's rough.

Thanks for looking, let me know what you think.
jx

Illustration Friday

This week's topic: Influence
By Jessixa Bagley