Kristin Tercek

Pink Eye

This may be my new favorite artist. Graduated from NYU film school, she started Cuddly Rigor Mortis LLC, hand making plush dolls of her own creation. After 3 years of sewing the same patterns, she felt the need to expand her set of characters and decided to paint Cuddly characters including food, real and imaginary animals, and charming botanical. Enjoy below, ugh so adorable!

Woodboy Flower

Zen

Citruside

Captain Kawaii

Pink Cheer

Pandasm

Muddle

Rad

Mono No Aware

No S'more

Camilla d'Errico

The emotive and eloquent artist is addicted to Saturday morning cartoons and comics and can't live without water soluble oils, green tea lattes, Hello Kitty merchandise, and her daily fix of manga and anime. Growing up, she doodled sexy damsels and dragons on her textbooks and developed her own unique characters, Tanpopo and Helmetgirls. Some of her beautiful work style...

Elephantmen Cover

Piggy Wiggly

Loveless Bird

Love Love Hime

Little Pink Ink Monsters

Blueberry Candy Sucker

Black Rabbit Kaledioscope

Ayameko

Amy Sol

The self taught artist style of work is greatly influenced by a combination of manga, folk art, vintage illustration and modern design. She has dedicated to each piece by mixing pigments and mediums to achieve a unique color palette of subtly muted tones. Her delicate works of acrylic, watercolor, and pencil...

Lullaby Nets

Tumbling

Keep Us Together

Leave the Hair and Go Free

Starlight Crumble

Sea Ice Caravel

Midnight was a Gentle Dragon

Acrylic on Wood Panel

Nokia Lumia 1020

I know a lot people don't like Windows phone and whatever floats your boat but I just bought this one :D so don't copy me lol jk you can if you want to, I guess..

Doujinshi

I've heard of fan fictions before but after reading Free Culture, I learned a new Japanese term. Doujinshi are self published comics of mangas from original creators. Interestingly, the first doujinshi were made in America called Tijuana Bibles, which were little eight panel pornographic comic strips in wallet size featuring cartoon characters or movie stars. Later, English adopted the term hentai as a genre of anime or manga pornography for marketing of explicit works. Here is an example of an American doujinshi that is not a sexual one.

It is not doujinshi if it is just a copy. The artist must make a contribution to the art he copies, by transforming it either subtly or significantly. They must be sufficiently different if they are to be considered true doujinshi.

Daily Routine

Above is my comic strip of my daily routine. I pretty much think about my boyfriend every second of the day. He is amazing and he always makes me food when I'm hungry. Everyone loves a person who can cook for you, right? LOL :P Anyway, below is a wallet size polaroid photo of me and Stephen. I finally bought a Fujifilm Instax Mini and it is awesome :D! The films are expensive though..

Free Culture

I had no idea that Steamboat Willie was a direct parody of Steamboat Bill Jr. Borrowing was nothing unique because many other early cartoons are also filled with knockoffs, slight variations on winning themes, retelling of ancient stories.

Steamboat Willie (1929)

Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)

Disney ripped creativity from the culture around him, mixed that creativity with his own extraordinary talent, and then burned that mix into the soul of his culture.