Holiday Card Design 2024 (I)

To everyone reading this - and even those who aren't - thank you for supporting another year of creativity for me. It is truly a gift to make art, and I try never to take it for granted. Here's a bunch of psychedelic manta rays for you, my holiday card design for this year. You can watch the timelapse video by clicking here. 

See you in 2025!

Holiday Card Design 2023 (I)

I hope you're all happy and safe. Thank you for your support, and I'll see you in 2024!

Holiday Cards and Wrapping Paper Now On Sale! Get Some!!

I put a few of my past holiday designs on cards and wrapping paper in my Zazzle store. There should be a way to edit them to however you'd like them to look, but if you need my help please let me know! Happy Holidays!

 

Holiday Card Design 2022 (I)

A little Krampus for your New Year. Welcome to 2023, friends!

Holiday Card Design 2021 (Floating Crocodile!) (I)

My Holiday Card (Pangolin Magic!) 2020 (I)

 Thank you to everyone who's supported me over the past year. What a ride! See you in 2021!!

Christmas Card Design 2 (GD)

 My mom also wanted a card designed for her this year. I used one of her photos, added a simple design, BOOM! Done and done. 

Christmas Card Design (GD)

My dad asked me to design his Christmas cards this year, a very high-profile gig for me. I'd shot some footage in October of him surfing at his favorite spot, but it wasn't enough to edit into an interesting video like last year's, so I grabbed some stills and made five different cards for him. Sweet!

Holiday Card Design 2019

Happy Holidays, everyone!!

Christmas Card Design 2018 (I)

The annual Christmas card design. Happy 2019, everyone!

Happy Krampus (I)

Happy Krampus, to one and all! I'm wishing everyone that sees this post a peaceful and safe holiday season. More to come in 2018!!

Happy New Year (I)

The holiday card design for 2016 - hope everyone is safe and finding some measure of personal peace. Thank you all for your support - more art in 2017!

Kitsune Christmas (I)

To close out one year and open up another, here's my holiday card design for 2015, a kitsune and her owl gettin' all peaceful-like. No idea where this idea came from...

I hope your holidays have been exactly what you wanted them to be. Happy New Year!

Merry Elephant Trunk (I)

A commission for one of my biggest fans...

Dad's Holiday Card Commission (I)

I think maybe one of the best gifts I got over the Christmastimes was how stoked my dad was for this image he commissioned for his holiday card. Check out the one I made last year, too.

Happy Holidays 2014! (I)

So, there was some confusion this year for the people who received my holiday card. It's supposed to be Dickens' three ghosts of Christmas, not "Santa, some little dude on fire, and Death." Even the people who got the reference were still a little concerned. As someone tactfully texted: "Is the Ghost of Christmas Future supposed to have a scythe?" And no, he's not. I got a little carried away with the hood and the skull, and I didn't even notice until I'd sent them all out. I can only imagine what the folks at the Catholic school where I was volunteering thought. My bad, Christmas! Also, I typically go a bit more neutral with the imagery - next year I'll return to weird dudes and their cats floating in space. But I love this image - it wouldn't leave me alone - and I hope you do too.

From Owl_Henry to all of you out there, thank you for all your support. If you're reading this, I hope you're having a safe and happy holiday season, and I look forward to sharing more art with you in the New Year!

Happy Holidays 2013! (I)

Hello all! Thanks for all your support this past year! Despite the pressures of nursing school, I've managed to put out some fairly deece things, I hope you've enjoyed them. And I fulfilled my resolution to publish at least one thing a month! Yeah!

Above is the image I made for my holiday cards this year. The creative process is fascinating to me. Being a largely untrained artist, sometimes I have to let the pencil do what it wants, and either I like what I see or I start over. Forcing a design out if it's not coming is just painful. This year was like that; I had a really different image in mind, but I couldn't make it work. (It was a little alien sitting on a wall looking at a star, but it kept looking like a giant penis with feet. Not so Christmasy...or not the holiday vibe I was going for.) So I started doodling, and this li'l weird dude came out with his floating cats. Huh.

Happy New Year, everyone. Everyone here at Owl_Henry (which is just me, of course!) wishes you a happy and safe holiday wrap-up. See you in 2014!!

Holiday card design for my dad (I)

My dad asked me to design his Christmas cards this year, so I made three. I chose three symbols of our family's favorite place, Big Sur: a sprig of lupin, a redwood cone, and a golden eagle's feather.

If you'd like to purchase some for yourself, or another of my various holiday card designs, please check out my Cafepress site.

New holiday stuff in the cafepress store!

I added a few things to my cafepress store, including some cards modified from my holiday card last year. CLICK HERE to check out the store and, as always, please let me know if you'd like to see other designs in the store, or designs that are already there on other products. Want 'em on a shirt? CLICK HERE!

Happy New Year!

Oh hi, blog! Contrary to appearances 'round these parts, I've actually been creating some things here and there. There's a few videos to check out on YouTube, for example, including the latest Zombie! installment, Zombie 3!!!

This one stars my good friend Marianne and her super-talented kids, as well as a special cameo. There's also a new Morty, where the ancient thespian responds to some fan mail:


Click on the pictures to watch 'em now!

This is a Halloween image I made and never used for anything. It was a real struggle to get him away from looking like Abe Sapien from Hellboy, and the end result feels like "Abe Sapien's demon cousin, Lyle":


This is my Christmas card image for 2011:


I don't really know where it came from - I wanted to draw a polar bear, that's what I started with. I thought maybe a couple of bears dancing around in the snow, and then the fox and rabbit wanted to get involved, so...here they are.

A friend recently had to put his little rat friend to sleep, so I drew this for him:


It's kind of a long story, so I'll let you just appreciate the image.

And for those of you who don't know, I have another blog with my friend Matt, a very talented creative type in Los Angeles, and we've renewed our commitment to that project, so look for more stuff specifically created for our GooBlog in the new year. Read our new mission statement by clicking here.

There's more stuff coming down the line in 2012, so stay with me! And if you're reading this, thank you for taking the time, and I hope 2012 brings a whole bunch of great stuff to you. Happy New Year, all!