new art every day

I made a website, um finally

2011-09-28T19:42:00.003-04:00

1. The 2012 calendar is on sale!
2. I am so proud to have a website where I can share some of my life's highlights, like praise from my heroes Alison Bechdel and Shary Boyle.
Come on over to elishalim.com!
3. Lord it's true, I'm twittering too. Want a description of the new art I still make every day? I may tweet it.

Los Sentidos

2011-03-08T23:40:00.002-05:00

Coco Riot and I made a film for the Brooklyn Armory Arts festival in March. The challenge was to finish an illustration in the course of one poem. It turned into giant golden faces over Coco's poem "Los Sentidos." My favourite lines:
"Me han dicho que no eres persona de una sola persona.

Me dices.

Te digo.

Tengo la suerte de tener tantas personas a las que querer a mi lado."

Stills collage by Coco.

365 days of new art

2010-11-20T10:35:00.018-05:00

I'm stopping at 365.

Thank you, thank you for your company this year.

I watched little dots increase all over the blog hit map with happiness and comfort.

Please come hang out with me at www.etsy.com/shop/elishalim, where I'm going to be shamelessly selling calendars, posters, zines, valentines cards, birthday cards and queer propaganda forever!

xo Elisha

Hey Homo

2010-11-20T09:00:00.011-05:00

Well, ah, this is my idea of a valentines' card. I'm selling them at www.etsy.com/shop/elishalim in packs of four. There are 3 packs: Hey Handsome, Hey Beautiful and Hey Homo. Yeah, whoop whoop!

These two are from Hey Homo:

2010-11-19T12:55:00.003-05:00

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2010-11-17T12:53:00.004-05:00

Thea moved back to Texas and I'll miss her

2010-11-16T10:42:00.012-05:00

je dessins dans l'avion sur un sickbag <3

2010-11-15T10:40:00.007-05:00

Draft 2. May I say, Sara Hennessey has been one of my best contract employers. Clear instructions and prompt payment. Yay for employers like that.

2010-11-14T10:37:00.008-05:00

first draft for the Tiny Miracles comedy poster. I love this idea of Pat in a bear in a waiting room.

elisha in love

2010-11-13T08:17:00.008-05:00

skype caught this expression on my face. Heh heh

vogue evolution

2010-11-12T08:16:00.006-05:00

read about these guys if you get the chance. They're heroes to me.

dj dreidel

2010-11-11T01:39:00.005-05:00

2010-11-10T01:37:00.006-05:00

A comic pitch... what do you think?

2010-11-09T01:31:00.002-05:00

mama

2010-11-08T01:29:00.000-05:00

today is my birthday

2010-11-07T01:23:00.002-04:00

http://onehundredpercentmixed.tumblr.com/

2010-11-06T01:27:00.003-04:00

for Diva Magazine UK 2008

2010-11-05T01:20:00.000-04:00

kings of XB

2010-11-04T15:52:00.001-04:00

I painted this in the yard when I lived at Liebigstrasse34, my beloved 25-feminists house in Berlin. At the time I remember being disappointed with the painting, but now I quite enjoy it

rojo y negro

2010-11-03T22:19:00.005-04:00

well I fell in love

my roommate advised me not to tell him, but that's not the sort of advice that I ever take...

Butch #1

2010-11-02T23:21:00.000-04:00

I really love this guy. my dad

wherever you are you are at home

2010-11-01T21:31:00.006-04:00

greatest compliment

2010-10-31T20:47:00.007-04:00

here is a friend I'll always love

2010-10-30T22:14:00.003-04:00

sometimes travelling makes me sad. Moving, moving, always an urge to find somewhere new and shake off inertia and forget who I was. But the price is so high, because you always leave something behind and your life starts to just become distant nostalgic memories. Did those places ever really exist? And those people, will I ever see them again, just the way they were? If you understand, this is dedicated to you. and Coco.

2010-10-29T18:51:00.000-04:00

2011 Wall calendar on sale now: January - December in rich full handsome colour $20

Limited run and international distribution. Hooray! xox

http://www.etsy.com/listing/60298002/2011-calendar-the-illustrated-gentleman

2010-10-28T12:53:00.008-04:00

ido's tattoo

2010-10-27T23:06:00.017-04:00

Ido I imagined my pen guiding the tattoo artist's needle across your dear arms

2010-10-26T18:55:00.003-04:00

sara hennessy

2010-10-25T08:54:00.002-04:00

I went to a comedy show alone. It might be one of the nicest thing I've ever done to myself. I felt happy, entertained, relaxed and proud of my own company. Anyhoo, the all-women lineup was full of pretty funny people, and this comic made me laugh the most. Her name is Sara Hennessy.

2010-10-24T00:21:00.010-04:00

autumn makes me glum but it's amazing to look at

Thea at the library

2010-10-23T17:52:00.005-04:00

2010-10-22T01:17:00.008-04:00

robyn

Shin Peru

2010-10-21T00:49:00.014-04:00

thanks to theGAQ for telling me about Shin Peru. She's one of my artist heroes and I'll be profiling her in the Illustrated Gentleman calendar.

2010-10-20T23:32:00.008-04:00

we made cake for Le-roi's birthday. I modelled this brownie after his necklace. I know this was a while ago but I'm still proud

2010-10-19T20:01:00.001-04:00

2011 Wall Calendar

2010-10-18T08:49:00.000-04:00

I will be selling a 2011 Wall Calendar "The Illustrated Gentleman" on etsy. How many should I print? Would you like one? Let me know - they will be full-colour 8.5"x11 glossy prints at $25 plus shipping. There will be a limited run - but I wonder how many should I print? Comment or msg me at www.etsy.com/shop/elishalim xoxo elisha

I'd go femme for you

2010-10-17T15:44:00.003-04:00

race revolt

2010-10-16T13:36:00.006-04:00

by Sara Ahmed, reprinted in the London zine Race Revolt

she said I was in her brain

2010-10-15T00:36:00.003-04:00

2010-10-14T16:11:00.015-04:00

hahahaha Muna came up with this... "I can't exactly be your sugar daddy"

2010-10-13T13:31:00.001-04:00

tv dinner evangelist

2010-10-12T12:53:00.006-04:00

hello, this is true

2010-10-11T18:16:00.000-04:00

these were the favourite of all the shoes that sena tried on

2010-10-10T12:46:00.002-04:00

ahma's kitchen

2010-10-09T00:30:00.004-04:00

this lovely place is where I spent my summer

self portrait

2010-10-08T00:21:00.002-04:00

the sister

2010-10-07T00:15:00.002-04:00

GAY GENIUS COMIC ANTHOLOGY

2010-10-06T12:29:00.000-04:00

We just moved and we haven't set up internet yet. Oh the grief, I miss my daily happy-place-blog. It'll be up on Friday and then I'll backdate all of my daily projects whoo! Meanwhile please check this out: it's an ad for the new ALL GAY COMIC ANTHOLOGY that I'm in in the U.S. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2030444721/gay-genius-comics-anthology

sartorial queers

2010-10-05T13:27:00.003-04:00

I followed Kenji fabric shopping. It was beautiful

2010-10-04T13:00:00.000-04:00

I was so proud of this invention but my math colleagues haven't been falling all over it...

2010-10-03T12:37:00.007-04:00

I love the details on Royal's clothes

tea on a rainy day

2010-10-02T16:47:00.002-04:00

2010-10-01T14:15:00.001-04:00

alright I wrote this song in a very serious frame of love mind but here's a daft video for tal

zip

2010-09-30T23:48:00.001-04:00

I love the details of a zipper

floating bookshelf

2010-09-29T17:48:00.005-04:00

today I put up an invisible bookshelf. It slides inside the bottom book. Isn't it beautiful?

2010-09-28T11:16:00.014-04:00

the best part of my sundays
...Yalim was being dramatic and Roza was getting a kick out of teasing him

2010-09-27T11:09:00.002-04:00

it's not so warm out anymore on the cafe patio, so I'm pulling out the bright colours

2010-09-26T11:07:00.002-04:00

beauties

2010-09-25T23:58:00.003-04:00

2010-09-24T23:56:00.000-04:00

okay Phantom Dick, you make one handsome mustachioed dude

2010-09-23T15:13:00.006-04:00

sigh. art for the office.

once they said "don't you draw? why don't you design us a logo?" and I said "I don't pick up my pen for less than $75." which they laughed at...
Dear office, even though you are prejudiced, ableist, transphobic and irreconcilably removed from reality, your routine and pittance spare me from a what could be a deeper depression. So truly, thanks.

2010-09-22T00:54:00.005-04:00

wow Kenji, yellow and green

dovercourt road

2010-09-21T00:39:00.000-04:00

our new house has a name

2010-09-20T10:11:00.001-04:00

To be continued

2010-09-19T10:09:00.003-04:00

I used to tuck these zines into my music demos as extra incentive to buy them.

Which gives me an etsy idea...

zine

2010-09-18T10:07:00.006-04:00

Well I found an old zine of mine from four years ago. In fact I found a few and I didn't think they were very good. But this one, I still really enjoyed it.

The Girl and the Robot

2010-09-17T23:35:00.000-04:00

I'm very proud of this directing. But the poignant acting is all credited to Patrick Salvani. And some help from Robyn, and Royksopp.

2010-09-16T00:12:00.001-04:00

of all the pictures I took he said he liked this one the best. Hoho

teatime

2010-09-15T15:10:00.000-04:00

Joseph demonstrates the teacup to scale

landing

2010-09-14T00:06:00.003-04:00

street heart

2010-09-13T11:30:00.004-04:00

this dirty little heart was outside of my door waiting for me

hanging closet

2010-09-12T23:21:00.004-04:00

well... I feel like this is my art of the day! I built it out of dollar store materials and I'm awfully proud of it, I even colour coded the shirts. I discovered that I only wear black pink and blue. So much more oddly limited than I ever realized.

2010-09-11T23:03:00.001-04:00

we don't have much but we have lovely neighbours.

2010-09-10T15:45:00.000-04:00

settling into the new house so slowly... we have just one of each hah. But both Manal and I cried, "look! we actually have a cutlery drawer!" Small steps.

2010-09-09T22:35:00.000-04:00

2010-09-08T22:34:00.000-04:00

hahah! what lyrics

2010-09-07T22:30:00.001-04:00

the Don't Be Shys

2010-09-06T22:00:00.004-04:00

I forgot that I did this! In 2004 I was in a band called the Don't Be Shys, and I made a comic out of our lyrics to give out to the audience. Rad! Ah moving to new houses, finding old things.

brunch

2010-09-05T23:17:00.002-04:00

sunday brunch how I love you

ocad show

2010-09-04T14:15:00.004-04:00

so here we go! The big day. They showed their art at our art and design college. They all broke my heart. Jonathan had made a comic about his enemy Jacob, who once upon a time, used to be his friend.

The parents were surprisingly unimpressed! "This isn't cartooning is it" one of the dads actually snapped. I think it was The Honesty - he couldn't face it.

micron .005

2010-09-03T14:12:00.002-04:00

oh these precious drawing pens that changed my life. I covet them, I save up money to buy them, I put them in special drawers. It may not have been wise to distribute them to 8-year olds... I found them scattered recklessly. Recklessly!

The Illustrated Gentleman

2010-09-02T22:43:00.003-04:00

The handsome Cynthia! on Canada's chic queer blog nomorepotlucks.org

2010-09-01T20:30:00.002-04:00

from the mixed race project onehundredpercentmixed.tumblr.com

teachers

2010-08-31T20:17:00.006-04:00

Teachers how I am in awe of you! Right now I have the tremendous task of teaching art to seventeen 8 year olds. Today we brainstormed about having enemies.

2010-08-30T00:48:00.002-04:00

I had the honour of drawing a cover for a new book edited by Ivan E Coyote and Zena Sharman: Persistence: All Ways Butch And Femme

neither butch nor femme

2010-08-29T00:46:00.000-04:00

anita, you're beautiful

toronto skyline

2010-08-28T11:44:00.000-04:00

would this be a good idea?

2010-08-27T23:46:00.001-04:00

my sister's cracker earrings. She says "representing my momma"

2010-08-26T23:44:00.005-04:00

then true came to town and the sun came out!

Lehua

2010-08-25T11:37:00.002-04:00

Lehua M. Taitano has stories coming out in The Anthology of Indigenous Writers from Micronesia and is also the University of Montana's Merriam-Frontier 2010 winner, with her chapbook appalachiapacific coming out this summer.

Colin

2010-08-24T11:28:00.002-04:00

for a tumblr about mixed-race pocs: http://onehundredpercentmixed.tumblr.com/

Cat Time

2010-08-23T22:00:00.001-04:00

pink cat pink outtakes

Cat Time

2010-08-22T09:34:00.001-04:00

My sister, admittedly, has a cute cat. It is pink.
I wrote this song with Hayden. I mean, he doesn't know that. I hope.

summertime

2010-08-21T20:10:00.000-04:00

I love how the evenings stay sunny in the summer

2010-08-20T00:15:00.004-04:00

Chelsey took these beautiful photos with my cellphone! The saturation effect makes my belt and tshirt look even more coordinated than they did. That pleases me very much.

Thank you Miyuki for this wonderful interview on Asian Gay and Proud!

2010-08-19T02:20:00.001-04:00

I figure that no one's broken cause no one's whole to begin with. We're all just a messy pretty pattern...

2010-08-18T10:00:00.001-04:00

Better editing, better music. I hope this one makes you laugh. This is a draft of a Sex Appeals song that I just love. Lyrics; A. Naqvi, N. Forde, S.Creagen. Music; E. Lim.

in love with a robot

2010-08-17T11:02:00.000-04:00

Lately I've been drawling less and nerdily absorbed with garage band, which is an amazing way to make an extreme amateur sound a little finished. I figure that counts as new art every day, so I wanted to find a way to upload this cheesy Royksopp cover, but apparently it has to be attached to a movie. So this is an extremely random collection of videos from my bedroom and the sister spit tour van. It doesn't have a narrative, but let's see, maybe it could be about anticipating the tour, and being a workaholic, and then once I was on tour, being surprisingly homesick.

lonely

2010-08-16T11:00:00.000-04:00

well it's just impossible not to be lonely. I thought I'd make a project for myself and take photographs of everyone's garbage on Palmerston ave.