For The Boy Who Stepped from the Curb into the Sun

This is an illustration of a poem by Vievee Francis, a Detroit poet.

Kitties

I made these for my boyfriend Josh, and the alien one for my Dad. There's just too much cardboard and paint in the world not to.

Why did the old woman swallow the fly?

He got caught in her chesseburger. YEAH! Excerpts from a storyboard I did last winter in my group projects class.

The Food Ditty Production

 This is Barry Black, a hand puppet I made for Art Director Jen Newfield on the production of a live-action music video, The Food Ditty (which is soon to be featured on FunnyOrDie.com). He is my first hand puppet :D about 2 ft tall and made of fur and foam... and love!

                                            Here's my best initial sketch of Barry Black.

And here's one of the Food Ditty stars, Ellen Wroe, sporting the pork rind costume I made for the production. I never thought I'd make a pork rind costume in my years... what a trip.

Fender Bender's Guide to Bike Safety!

Fender Bender, a local bike co-op created for the female and LGBTQ population of downtown Detroit, has enlisted me to create a take-along  Bike Safety Manual! Here is my progress so far... and it is almost ALMOST done :)

And that's all for now! It'll be done soon enough, printed and ready for pick up at Fender Bender Detroit!

Moonshooter N' Smash: we're takin' out the Trash.

Here are some character designs I did for a work in progress with the talented Ms. Natalie James. Moonshooter N' Smash: they're girls with super powers, they sell their lemonade by day, fight crime after hours!

I LOVE YOU MOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is just a doodle

If I ever have this many animals,  I would like to train them to be stacking animals.

my conscience is a fat lazy cat

This is a doodle of a sad girl on a sad horse.

Nothing funny about that.

Here are some silly paintings I did for a benefit art show this week- They're made from the sides of a shoe box!

A look inside Ellen's sketchbook:

1. The day that Money Bunny Broke.

2. Drawing Spongebob with Ravi Carden.

3. Naked people and animals.

4. Josh Mulligan and I.

5. Me and Josh draw a murder. + bears with wings.

6. Meet Jollypen~o.

7. Me and Josh

8. Elephants sniffing things.

9. Clown scaring kid (this one is also a bronze sculture now).

10. Dolly and Money Bunny, dancing.

11. Goats, cats, hands and Russians (or British Royal Guards).

12. Fighting over pizza.

13. Thinker on a Toilet.

14. Tongue Creature.

15. The Birth of Venus.

16. Silliness.

17. Rabbit Creeps.

18. Old Guy Squishing a Mouse.

19. Mad Cat about to squish a mouse.

20. My Revolution Professor, Jeffrey Powell.

21. Stuff that I drew on my birthday.

22. A nun and a baby-faced killer.

23. An alien god.