Hey, you might notice that things got a little different around here! Guess what, I redesigned the site. Only took me 1.5 years. Aren’t you proud of me? The new site has been lovingly built with a Flickr plugin and a CMS called Indexhibit– and the blog is integrated into the site this time! Which means that updating will be more regular and useful to you, the loyal viewer. I hope you love it!

Today’s my birthday, and besides revamping the site I’m offering a present to you: desktop backgrounds!  Get them here!

This is a new piece from Las Vegas Weekly, about a new public art sculpture the city is funding– two gigantic LED paintbrushing. Thrilling. Thanks to Benjamen Purvis for the work!

I am such a bad blogger, folks!

There’s a bunch more on my Flickr, but here is some stuff you may be missing. I’m hard at work redesigning my website, so it’ll be a little while til I update fully. Also, there haven’t been any more screenprints because my powerwasher broke. But on the plus side I think I’ll be replacing that this weekend! ‘nother plus, I finally ordered a sewing machine, so I think I’ll be making some awesome things to come.

This is a personal pieces–a sample of me trying to add more kids into my portfolio so I can reach more all-ages markets. True fact: giraffes were my favorite animals as a kid!

Recent cover illustration (this week’s issue) for the Stranger, an awesome paper in Seattle. I love what the AD did with the color choice for the design to fit with my illo!

And then painting.. I’ve been trying to do something I’m calling the Daily Paint. Pretty self explanatory, gouache, paper, etc. These are some from this week– I haven’t uploaded yesterday’s yet, due to Photoshop being a royal pain. Tomorrow will be playing catch-up.

Thank you everyone for your participation in the first PAC giveaway! We had nearly 50 entrants, which was really impressive! Of course there could only be one winner, and drawn out of a hat by my lovely assistant it was– the winner being one Jeremiah Dusek, who will be getting a print and a miniprint soon (the sketch of which is below).

Remember, if you still would like a copy of the print from the giveaway, you can find it at my etsy site POGONIP–while there’s only one copy listed that’s just a technicality of etsy, and I assure you I have plenty to go around

Keep your eyes peeled, I am hard at work on another print for round 2!

Hey folks,

We’ve decided to start up a fun new tradition. You see this print? (I posted it yesterday, so pardon the deja vu)

Well, every new print I make, I’m going to make an extra and post it as a giveaway. The rules are simple: just email pogonip@meghunt.com with your first name in the email and PAC Giveaway in the title by next Friday (April 4th), and I’ll draw names on Saturday and then mail out the print on Monday probably. For now, North American entrants only though. I’ll later include other people, so don’t worry– but if you are dying for one, there’s a bunch up at my etsy shop!

In addition, the lucky winner will receive a mini-print of the emblem of the PAC.
What is the PAC? It’s the Pogonip Appreciation Consortium. For now only giveaway winners will get one– but I may make a color variant for other people if they want one. I’ll post that image next week.

Tell your friends! Tell your enemies! Tell someone!

The above are for a couple of illustrations for Las Vegas Weekly I did recently– the top being about party houses agitating the community, and the bottom is about a guy who willfully experiences the seven deadly sins. Fun!

I recently got back into screenprinting and am trying to work hard to get some pieces done. This one will be part of the Suite 100 Gallery in Seattle’s show “Happily Ever After 2″ next month. But I also have a handful of them up on my  Etsy shop POGONIP.  So if you’d like one for yourself, please snap one up!

More fun to come!

A recent illo for Plan B magazine, about music and emotions and pregnancy, and how women’s musical tastes can often change while pregnant but it’s not often talked about.

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You may or may not know I made up a blog last year called Trade Secrets, detailing all about advice to people in the illustration industry. It sat covered in dust for months, but I recently restarted the blog detailing from a more personal angle. Soon I will be teaming up with a very awesome peer to give double the posting fun! Lots of cool info to come, so keep it handy, add it to your RSS feeds, or whatnot!

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Also, Loch Ness Express wallets are now up on etsy at tinymeat! They really turned out great and I hope people like them. I’ll have to nab myself one sometime soon!

Worked on a recent job for Nickelodeon magazine last week; it’s a set of spots for a story about mistaken customs around the world. Really fun! Though I’m most excited about the texture techniques I’m using– working with both digital coloring and painted tissue paper collage, a la Eric Carle. Pretty dang pleased with it so far. Now I’m working on including it into a piece that hopefully Tiny Showcase can use.

Besides that I’ve just been practicing figure drawing again, hoping to loosen up my figures more. Also hoping to find my brush and maybe add some drybrush into the mix!

Working working working–

One of the images for the kryptobet: B is for Barometz. I had M is for Mermaid 65% done but Photoshop crashed. TYPICAL! Anyway, when I get these done I will hand letter descriptions and then compile it into an artbook. Lulu, probably?

Also finally reopened my Etsy shop. Of course, what’s up there is not exactly new (rather, they debuted last april at APE) but I never put them up for sale anyway. And there’s the spares of my notepads. Of course the pickings are small yet, but now that it’s finally up I can actually access it again and start adding things to it.

Of course, don’t forget you can also pick up giclee prints over at BlueFlip Art!

Meanwhile, working on things for a job due Friday. Fun!