written in graffiti

A glass full of universe.

A galaxy in every teardrop.

A fishbowl-shaped space.

I’ve been working late recently to make up for the days I’ll be missing for the upcoming holidays, so unfortunately I haven’t had a lot of time to draw or design as much in my free time. but I was inspired to draw this guy when I needed to ask my supervisor a tough question (and it turned out all right, whew!). so, some peonies for bravery and a lion for courage.

this weekend I’m hoping to prepare a series of drawings and queue them up to post over next week, so stay tuned for those!

The phases of the Moon from my Solar System Series.

Made in honor of a the stripped planet status of everyone’s favorite dwarf planet.

Neptune is the only planet in our solar system that was first found through mathematical observation rather than empirical data, thus making it the ninja of the solar system.

Uranus is actually sometimes visible with the naked eye, but moves so slowly and appears so dim that it wasn’t recognized as a planet until 1781. 

If Saturn were to be placed in a large enough body of water it would float. Must be because its rings act as a life ring, right?

In the Grand Tack Model, it’s hypothesized that Jupiter smacked into a larger rock planet closer to the Sun, thus helping our four fav terrestrial planets and the asteroid belt to form. Way to throw your weight around and make babies and live up to your namesake, Jupiter.

Mars, aka the Red Planet; small and feisty.

Remember when folks thought the sun orbited between Venus and Mars instead of hanging steady at the center of the universe? Anyway, welcome to the only heavenly body in this series without an orbit. (For now we’re just going to ignore the fact that the solar system as a whole orbits the Milky Way.) 

Venus, the planet of love, beauty, and carbon dioxide.

Unlike the symbols for Moon and Earth (and instead like every other planetary symbol) Mercury doesn’t have a circle around it already! So this is the first of this series where you can actually see me adding a circle around it to make it planet-shaped.