Year End Round-Up!

This is the blog post where I publicly acknowledge that I am quite terrible at blogging, and that I missed a bunch of art and publications that I did.

First up, my work on the Honestly, Dara column for Experience Life, by way of fantastic AD Lydia Anderson, which I've not posted the last 5 times I've been published there. 

The Cure is in the Kitchen, September.

Tapas Party!, October

A Caloric Evolution, November

Consider the Raisin, December

I also am the proud creator of an emoji.  If you buy the Game of Thrones emoji pack from ...somewhere, you can be the proud user of the George R. R. Martin emoji, to pep up any sort of text or online conversation where such a thing would be applicable.  While I myself never use emojis, preferring to write out me emotional states longhand, this is available via the proud folks at Random House, AD David Stevenson.

And I can't forget the funnest job I've had all year, illustrating the poetry section of WHURK! magazine.  Since the magazine is free to read online, I can include the entire print page on my blog!  Ha ha, the future is great!

I even did the cover for the November issue, highlighting the Khan family a la American Gothic.

Inktober

In celebration of Inktober, here is a selection of the drawings I did during that month.

EAT YOUR CARROTS!!!

New piece in the new Experience Life magazine!
This one, as best as I can remember, is about how the author's children's guinea pigs eat healthier than her children, and if they teamed up, they could flank him!
Kudos to AD Lydia Anderson.

Honestly, Dara!

What we have here are the June and May illustrations for Experience Life's Honestly, Dara column.  Kudos to AD Lydia Anderson, and no ice cream for me for forgetting to post May's illustration when it was on stands!

Dara Cooks Stuff!

New art from the January issue of Experience Life! magazine.  I'm going to be illustrating the monthly food column!  Kudos to AD Lydia Anderson.

Chef's Choice

March is the month when Winter turns to Spring, and in comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, or vice versa, and also March is St. Patrick's day.  Rather than do something as obvious as Irish food, and since my idea of drink recipes fell through, I turned to potatoes.  Who doesn't love potatoes? 

Even over a box o' caviar.

The Art of Fine Cuisine

For February, everyone (who has a honey) will be celebrating Valentine's day and being all mushy and treating their snuggle-muffin to fancy dinners and disasterous amounts of chocolate.  I forgot about chocolate, but not the fine cuisine.  I don't know what she's made here, but I do know that fancy food is tall food.  Soup isn't fancy unless you can arrange it vertically.

Too Many Cooks

For Christmas this year, I made an illustrated calendar.  The theme: food, and each month featured a different, seasonally appropriate chef and recipe.

For January, soup.   Too Many Cooks Spoil It.