shel kahn

Ahh thank you!

Thanks Sean! It was so fun to make and so fun to give to its new owner!

black and white photo of cars at an urban intersection where the only lights are the car headlamps. All the stores and streetlights and stoplights are dark.

There was a huge power out in the east end last night, so I took my new monopod and went exploring with @goshdarnheck.bsky.social

ahhh i should've picked your brain about it! ping me when you're done i have THOUGHTS

Thanks so much to @artybel.bsky.social for the recommendation of the Epson Workforce printer as a cheaper alternative for pigment ink printing, for anyone else out there who wants to try printing out their lineart onto art paper for painting! :D

epson.com/Ink-Cartridg...

A photo of someone wearing the hat with the hands buttoned together under their chin.

I redid this a bunch of times and in the process, accidentally learned Tunisian crochet, and I'm very very proud of it!

a photo of a chunky pink teal and navy blue hat shaped like a super chibi axolotl, with a big floppy fin on top and a wide eyed smiling expression and two little pink hands, laid out on an ottoman. it's huge compared to two nearby Nintendo switch controllers.

the same hat but from the side so you can see the external gill fronds.

it's been successfully gifted so i can now share this, my most ambitious crochet project yet! an axolotl hat for my friends' kid - though my friend put it on before her kid got it earlier and from her expression i have a hunch that this might be a shared hat.

playing Skate Story and thinking about the important role of game music in managing the player's oscillation between the all important "it's so over || we're so back" poles

magical!!

Once again, walking away from a problem, ignoring it for the evening, and sleeping on it, produces a simple and elegant answer in the morning.

Sleeping is the one and only true productivity app.

bored, probably, spent too long sleeping

Black and white drawing of a worn out new england farmhouse nestled inside overgrown trees and grass, being hit by lightning. Behind it a mountain looms and the lightning reveals a skull-like shape.

This is one of my favourite horror pieces I've ever drawn, and I've got prints and canvas back patches of it available at the Danforth Arts Market this spring!

Pam makes this art BY HAND and she’s one of my favorite artists so if you’re at ECCC you’d better go buy some!!!

The back patch is 16 inches tall, enough to really fill the back panel of a denim jacket or vest, say.

ah shit thanks dude 🤘

The back patch is 16 inches tall, enough to really fill the back panel of a denim jacket or vest, say.

Black and white drawing of a worn out new england farmhouse nestled inside overgrown trees and grass, being hit by lightning. Behind it a mountain looms and the lightning reveals a skull-like shape.

This is one of my favourite horror pieces I've ever drawn, and I've got prints and canvas back patches of it available at the Danforth Arts Market this spring!

Amberspire, our dice driven science fantasy city builder, will release MAY 6!

Roll dice, grow a city, forge alliances, interact with an ecology, and read a history of the future.

PC, Mac, Steam Deck - May 6!

s.team/a/3350750

A long haired girl, sitting at a cluttered art table in a cabin, is dreamily thinking of another girl. They're both camp councilors, and the other girl is the swim instructor.

Getting a summer job as a camp councillor is a great way to make money, expand your horizons and meet all sorts of exciting, new people...

white paper against a yellow & brown sketchpad on a light wood table. the paper sports a frankly psychotic graphite hatching job with a rough sketch underneath

night sky type stuff

Instead of a newsletter I'm going to do a blog post on my website every Monday. I posted one yesterday about some postcards I was commissioned to do. www.katedaviesillustration.ca/blog

Delighted to share my new cover for Ben's upcoming book :-) tales of connection in a lonely universe. Check it out and support independent comics!

i think we're putting together something magical, transporting, surprising and beautiful for you all, and I'm getting really really excited about seeing it all come together this spring.

hey friends so there's several emails chock full of incredible art in my inbox and i just wanna say I'm really grateful i get to be here art directing Swords Without Master and gawking at the amazing things the artists are bringing to the table, cause, like, goddamn

For years, Graceware has gotten away with abusing the DMCA because they've targeted large platforms that comply quickly with takedowns, or individuals without the resources to push back.

Then they fucked with us, a non-profit organization with a special interest and an expert legal team. Whoops!

Tomorrow! I have an essay in it. Well, it's sort of an essay. It's technically an essay. It's an essay I wrote like a poem because I get to be like that if I want to be like that because writing for games is fun and writing about games is also fun! bsky.app/profile/inkl...

QRP with your skull art.

I've drawn many a skull in my time but here's a coupe I like

A new small joy I'm indulging in once in a while; walking down to my local 2nd hand bookstore and picking up a book of poetry by an author I don't know.

So many of these books are funded by the Canadian Council for the Arts.

I really hope we continue funding passion.

She’s coming together 🐰🐶🐨🐭

The cover of the zine! In the centre is a screenshot from The Shape of Water of a woman with her hands against a tank containing a humanoid fish man. They look at each other longingly through the glass. The Title of the zine is: So you've seen The Shape of Water...A beginner's guide to monster kissing movies

screenshot from Tsui Hark's Green Snake. Two women in are sitting very close to each other in the grass, surrounded by huge flowers. One, in a pink dress, looks down, deep in thought. The other, in a teal dress, looks at her sister in concern

A screenshot from Agnieszka Smoczynska's The Lure. Three mermaids are snuggled together on a dingy grey bed beneath a disco ball (it's a weird movie). The one in the middle wears a dramatic red wig, and holds the other, younger mermaids protectively. The younger ones are suckling from the older one's breasts.

Screenshot from Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast. Belle, a beautiful young woman, looks in a mirror, listening intently as the cat-like beast, in flamboyant dress and cape, holds up a key and gives her instructions on how to return to her family.

In a fit of procrastination, I did a new copy edit on this zine from last year; I forgot to share it for Valentine's Day, but if you're still looking for love, you can download my Beginner's Guide to Monster Kissing movies for PWYC on Gumroad! allisonotoole.gumroad.com/l/monster-ki...