Betty Broadbent at the P.T. Barnum Circus

So for my drawing and mixed media class we had to do an illustrated biography of a person/thing. I chose to do a series of illustrations about Betty Broadbent who was one of the first women tattoo artists. She was also a sideshow act because her whole body was covered in tattoos. This is one of my in progress line drawings of Betty at the circus with a horse. There aren't any tattoos on her body yet because I am still trying to figure out how to work them into the images.

Illustration Fridays

I am going to start submitting illustrations to Illustration Friday. It is a website that has a theme every friday and people illustrate the theme. Hopefully this will become a good way to get myself out there. Right now I have been busy finishing up my thesis pieces and I am proude to say I have minimal left to do. However, in mty other classes I need to do a substancial amount of work like finishing up my final toy and my 10 page biography for my mixed media class.

Aside from that, life has been rather chaotic and big changes might happen soon that I am not exactly excited or happy about but I will get through it. So I don't leave this post empty, I will post one initial line drawing from my 6th thesis piece about obsessions with food and drink.

Exhibit A: Flapper drinking absinthe


Thats all for now. I will post some drawings tomorrow from my biography book about Betty Broadbent one of the worlds first completelty tattooed women in the 1920s. Why am I so obsessed with the 20s?

xo
Lindsay P.

Mimobot/Vimobot

I assume many of you know about my great summer achievement which was being voted top 3 of the best designs for Mimoco. So, the three winners will have their designs produced into actual toys/USB drives (to either stick into your computer for extra storage or collect some dust on your desktop). Just in case you don't know what exactly the heck Mimoco is well, it is a fantastic little company based out of Boston that creates cute little USB characters and vinyl toys. They have been featured in various magazines like the current issue of Bust. Heres a link to their Myspace and website for furter info:

http://www.mimoco.com
http://www.myspace.com/mimobot

My design was on display at Comicon San Diego about a week ago along with the other 2 winning designs. Heres the promo:



Mine was Zombie Tiki God by heyimlindsayp. The purple and green nightmare on the far left.

So this little guy will be hitting the shevles as well with the other two after the second half of the contest (there will be 3 more winners announced)! Stay tuned for updates about when and where you can buy one, I am pretty sure that Kid Robot, Toy Tokyo, and the MoMa Design store will carry them first.

Here are some better photos of the protoype (I owe it to the boyfriend for fantastic photos!):



The other design I submitted into the contest was Pacific Northwest Totem Pole bot which I was way more in love with than the the actual winning design which is here:



So which one do you think should have won?

First Post

Okay! So, just like every other person on earth, I am going to have a blog. The one on Myspace kind of stinks so all updates and happenings will be posted in here from now on. On that note, sit back and read away!

xo
Lindsay