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I painted during the Chinese New Year of the Rooster. In that year, my daughter was born.

Art inspired from a Mexican tale, in a Tim Burton style.

Canvas mounted on wooden frame. Size: 25 x 30 cm Materials: acrylic, Chinese ink, brush, pen and marker. Is sold the original piece. For this reason, there may be slight differences from one piece to another.

Still from an animated GIF

Rose bush study from my garden

Quick Post-its, A work by Frida Khalo ‘What the Water Gave Me’ 1938.

Created with gouache paint.

Quick portrait sketch in procreate

This is a book Cover for a christian publishing house that wanted a pattern. The book is written for young/teenage leaders.

2,5m long 3days of work, freehand Don with molotow on4all acrylicink pens Just a better picture of the doodle

It is an ink drawing that afterwards digitalize in the computer

Maude the Hare - Pen and Ink

Sketchbook doodle seems to portray my daughter teasing my son (not sure why it uploaded sideways)

This is my illustration of the Mad Hatter, based on the Tim Burton interpretation; it was created for a recent blog post. Everything was drawn by hand on white cardstock, using illustration pens, except for the background (which was created by scanning a specific craft paper pattern). The black and white conversion/inversion, composition, and subtle refinements were done in Adobe Photoshop. © 2018 Joe Blend. All rights reserved.

This guy needs some colors. Maybe someday...

© 2017 Joe Blend. All rights reserved. — Artwork made by redacting words in a newspaper article to create a haiku. A contour drawing was added using white ink, to convey the meaning behind the haiku. The piece was scanned into Adobe Photoshop for small adjustments, to prepare for printing.

Making use of even more stickers I acquired during the weekend past… not my first choice but this Marilyn one stood out!

Oxfam delivering the goods with their new Washi tape :-)

AI-edited photograph of a bridge.

AI-edited photograph of a Flushing, NY neighborhood.

Potentially failed attempt at Macro.

My first digital comic and original characters. Meet Bugsie, Bingo, and Newt.

Moleskine Sketchbook

Moleskine Sketchbook Spread

My first attempt at a concertina birthday card. While simple to make, it can be a bit fiddly and getting the proportions and placement of objects right for each layer is important so that everything can be seen once the layers are overlapped. It reminds me of printing processes, where each layer is gradually added. It was quite an enjoyable process.

HB #2 Pencil on Moleskin Lined Notebook