Science (For Lexi)

My friend Lexi is studying neuroscience at Bard college, and this semester she has been incredibly overloaded with science classes and work. She tells me about how she is so immersed in this knowledge and loves it. So I was thinking about her and tried to picture her science world, sort of of a cheer of encouragement to keep going. Yay, Lexi!

Pavement

I saw my favorite band last night at the Williamsburg Waterfront. As I stood there alone in between the end of Jenny and Johnny and before the band of the night came on, I heard an older fan say behind me to one of her friends, "everyone under thirty should stand in the back." Even though I wasn't actually "around" for Pavement in its day, I feel like the songs are very easy to connect back to my life when they were still active. I hold a lot of nostalgia to their music for times before I even knew they existed, and in dreaming of the future. I laughed off this comment and got as close as I possibly could. I don't feel like giving an all-out review, but basically the show was amazing and I didn't even think about how this is a reunion tour. It was like they never left.
I also like the fact that they have no plans of making a new album or anything because it gives their music this permanence; they will always be a part of a certain moment in time, but their music will live on forever. And that sounds overly epic, but it's true.

Sketchbookin'

I like sharp teeth.

SPX 2010

I went yesterday and it was amazing! I spoke to so many comic artists and got to look at a lot of great work. It is actually what inspired me to make this blog and begin to publicize my own work. I've always been pretty shy about showing my art, but it's about time to do so. Thank you everyone who was there yesterday for the motivation!

Collage

I've been doing collage forever. Here are two recent ones from my sketchbook:

Freshman Year Doodles

A lot of my doodles from freshman year were about rock n' rollers hanging around and looking tough. Not that much has changed.

HIGHSKOOOOOOL

I'll probably post old work every now and then because I like holding onto it. My highskool days were pretty fun, and gave me a lot of material to work from. It's nice to look back at it every now and then.
Here's a whole dump of 'em:
10th grade self-portrait

MY FIRST CARTOON

It's kind of embarrassing being the internet nerd I am that I haven't thought to make a blogspot for my art yet.
So, well, this is it.

Lulu's Accidental Adventure from Katie Brawl on Vimeo.

Lulu's Accidental Adventure (July 2010)
My first cartoon! I'm still so excited about this. I like Lulu and it was great working with her and Clairis the cat (though he could be a little disobedient at times.) More adventures with them soon to come!