Author: Jess Smart Smiley


  • Making Pictures David Hockney has been a favorite artist of mine for over a decade now. I love how his seemingly sloppy and improvised images utilize heavily academic techniques and approaches, as well as hint at historically important works. Hockney is not only an artist, but an art historian, who is concerned with the ways…

  • For the last month and a half I’ve been working on my own hidden object book (thinkย Where’s Waldo, but with my own characters). The book is calledย Rumpus on the Run: A Monster Look-N-Find Book and it was successfully funded via Kickstarter on March 30. As part of my Kickstarter project I invited everyone (backer or…

  • “The SMART exhibition is a collection of clever, thoughtful, andย whimsicalย artwork made by 35 international artists. SMARTย showcases the artist’s quick wit and subtle sense of humor through their use visual puns, ingenuity, guile, andย seamlessย presentations of ideas.” The exhibit opens Friday, May 17 and those of you in Minneapolis, MN canย RSVP via theย SMART Facebook event page! My…

  • Scrawl is a new prize winning, digital illustration & comics magazine created solely for the iPad.ย The Pilot issue won both the “best in the comics category” and the grand prize at the “Magnify your world contest” held by Mag+, and I’m happy to have not one, but TWO illustrations in their newest Day & Night…

  • Kid President does it again with this special message for Mother’s Day.

  • I got this awesome award for drawingย Rumpus on the Run: A Monster Look-N-Find Book. It’s pretty cool, I guess.

  • Album Preview New song from my upcoming album with the New Utah Ramblers. The song is called โ€œAvalancheโ€: [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/90054355″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] ย 

  • Every now and then I like to stop and give an overview for all of our new followers–and there are a lot of you! For those of you who are new to this blog, or are trying to figure out who I am and what I do: this post is for you. HELLO. MY NAME…

  • Trubble Club has just launched The Infinite Corpse, a new collaborative online comic that is “open to everyone in the world who makes or wants to make comics.” Basically it’s an enormous add-on comic, where each creator is asked to follow the previous three panels with three of their own. The comic is now open…