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Sharon Apple

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Degas bronze and a Zaku II F2 Type

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Wei Yingluo from Yanxi Palace aka Consort Ling aka Empress Xiaoyichun aka started from the bottom now we here incarnate

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Google streetview sketches of my family’s hometown Pozorrubio, Pangasinan.

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Today for Qingming, I want to offer up all the treats in the world: slivers of corn husks, tiny catnip pillows, warm laps, head scratches. I want to bridge the here and the there with an inferno of morning sun, casting squares on the floor. Missing my friends that I lost this year, Eponine and Happy.

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Around 2 years ago to the day, I had one of my "purer" illustration things. I drew my fellow citizens while waiting in line to vote, and then cleaned them up the next day to run in the NYTimes Sketchbook.

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Another one for Foreign Affairs, thanks AD Ed Johnson. For Patrick Radden Keefe's review of Matthew Connelly's The Declassification Engine: What History Tells Us About America's Top Secrets. I used open-sourced, redacted US intelligence documents about sordid things like death squad funding, nuclear weapon blast radii, and casualty estimates for the "waves." Just some more light fare in the editorial illustration world.

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Some work in context. Man things have really changed since I started this tumblr. At first I was like, wow I wish someone would pay me to draw. Now I'm like: I wish someone would pay me to live in a tree forever.