i'm a freelance illustrator/bookbinder from nashville. this is a doodle-centric annex to my website/portfolio, mollybrooks.com. it picks up where my previous blog, 40winks, left off.
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For the Gallery Nucleus Star Wars Tribute show, opening this Saturday May the 4th (Be with You). I can never repay George Lucas for what Star Wars gave me. Star Wars is so close to my heart, I honestly couldn’t decide what image to make for this show, it was just all too important. So I just decided to draw everything… from memory.
“Let Me Leave You Breathless” is the last catalogue out of four. It’s based entirely on personal ads on Craigslist, featuring such characters as “formless dreamer with contradictory compositional constraints” and “cuddle bunny 33” among others.
My MFA thesis is completed(!) and I’ll be posted some of my favorite pieces here over the next week starting with this one. I did a series of illustrations inspired by found notes and compiled them into a book. The exhibition opens today and the reception is Tuesday, May 7th. 6-8pm 601 West 26th St. 15th floor, NY 10001
Coming soon! Click here for more information.
UPDATE! my mummy texted me this morning telling me to buy some jelly beans and send her the bill, which is officially my most hilarious easter basket. my parents are awesome and i love them. <3
happy easter, everyone!
I “inntertubed” or interviewed the puntastic Sarah Klinger about her work:
1. How did you get here? “Here” being NY and this program, but also
how you’re drawing or working now.It’s funny, I studied French and psychology, dreamed of a career in viticulture or entomology and…
my friend sarah! read about how interesting she is. :-)
In the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program at SVA, it’s a tradition that the graduating students draw portraits of each other for our thesis show invite. I got to draw my friend Molly Brooks.
Look at that friendly smile. THAT’S a face you can trust.
I only learned how to use Photoshop last year, so this was a great project to cut my teeth on when it came to drawing skin texture, hair, & using spot color.
it’s me! :-D
(and here’s mine of her. )
thingsfittingperfectlyintothings:
pencil sharpener + tic tac box = advanced pencil sharpener
(vid found by isangxbulaklak)
i gasped.
(but remember! best pencil sharpener is a knife bc the torque of twisty sharpeners breaks the graphite into tiny pieces all down the pencil)
Every September, students walk into their new studio spaces-clean, blank, empty studios-and over the next 9 months, they make highly personalized, colorful homes for themselves.
Before:
After:
Studios of: Rovina Cai, Maëlle Doliveux, Keren Katz, Boyeon Choi, Sarah Klinger, Daniel Zender, Ada Price, Federico Infante, Molly Brooks, Gyoungwon Katie Hwang, Hye Jin Chung, Andrea Tsurumi & Doug Salati.
i’m 4th and 5th from the end, and also bruce willis.
thingsfittingperfectlyintothings:
phone keys + staples
(fit found by e-p-i-c-t-e-t-u-s)
this blog is the main source of mental calm in my life right now.
buy a print!
i’ve made prints of my recent love note to hockey, and they turned out great!
for $3, a 4”x6” folding card version of me being baffled by my own sudden sports fanaticism will show up in your actual real-life mailbox. (INCLUDES postage in canada & the us. folks elsewhere, contact me and we’ll sort something out.)
click through for details and/or to read the comic in its entirety.
:-D
My friend, Dasha, started a project where we read books and make up covers for them. The first one is a slightly obscure mystery called The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey. Click on the image above to go to post.
