FoxDeploy.com Has some JoieArt On It!

Recently I completed another client job for the website FoxDeploy.com, a great blog about Powershell and other super high-tech programming things that I know absolutely nothing about. I know just enough coding to keep a website running, and that’s about it. The blog was celebrating its 100th post, and wanted a great banner image to go with it! And with a name like FoxDeploy, of course there were going to be foxes.

“Give me all the foxes” the client says to me cheerfully. “Lots of foxes, in fox-shaped hot air balloons!”

“Can I add confetti?” I ask, always wanting to shoehorn rainbows and glitter into my work.

“Foxes! And Balloons! And Confetti! YES!”

So congratulations to my client (and friend!) Stephen Owen of FoxDeploy.com, and here’s to another 10,000 posts on your blog! 

Branding for Blogs, Youtubers, and More!

(Updated for 2017)

These days almost everyone has a side hustle! Creating content such as streaming video games, selling on Etsy, creating videos, and writing blogs have become so commonplace that you likely know someone within spitting distance who does it. Maybe it's even YOU! And if it is you, you know that all the advice on "how to start a Youtube channel, blog, Twitter, etc" yields the advice of "you’ve GOT to have branding!"

Blog header for Diary of an Aspiring Loser, a weight loss blog

Branding is defined as a "look" for your online & social media presence. Maybe it's a banner on your Twitter, a user icon on Twitch, or title cards in your video. You want someone to see your various outlets online and be able to immediately recognize that it's YOU. Good branding will boost your business and image... bad branding will undermine it.

Banner for Twitch/Youtuber ComboDropper

Design for Twitch entertainers Date Knights

That's where someone like me comes in. What better way to brand yourself than with a cartoon? It could be your cat, what your content is about (games? baking? fishing? even coding!), or it could even be of yourself-- the possibilities are endless.

"Update" art for Date Knights' social media accounts

When a client comes to me, we start by having a chat about how what it is they do, what they create, and how they want to come across to their audience. After we chat I provide sketch options, and after we put our heads together, I come up with the final piece for them to use. I typically work for clients who represent a light-hearted, humorous feel-- with great results!

Banner designs for Powershell programming blog Fox Deploy.

If you're a content creator and you need colorful, stylized cartoons to help solidify your online presence, I'm your gal! Please feel free to contact me at joie@joiefoster.com

SheMakesComics Screening at Brave New World

I’m so excited! I’ve got my creator table all set up at #shemakescomics at Brave New World!

DesignerCon in Pasadena

I’ll be at DesignerCon 2014 this weekend at the Pasadena Convention Center! I’ll have my standard fare of prints, buttons, and comics at Booth #611. I’ll also have my very first Mini Comic available, and it’s none other than Heavenly Kibble Guardian Corgi! I hope to see you there!

Guardian Corgi Mini Comic

I know I’m excited about Heavenly Kibble Guardian Corgi #2 being in production– are you? While you’re waiting, I decided to tide you over with these mini one-pager slice-of-life style comics featuring our favorite Corgi super hero! Here’s the first, and it’ll be available at DesignerCon next month!

Alternative Press Expo 2014

Hooray Alternative Press Expo is such a fun convention. I’m stoked to see all of my friends there. Plus, my brand new “A-paw-ture Science” posters are ready to go. Come check me out at Table 114!

A-paw-ture Science

“Spectacular. You appear to understand how a portal affects forward momentum, or to be more precise, how it does not. Momentum, a function of mass and velocity, is conserved between portals. In layman’s terms: speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out.” – GLaDOS

After my last Portal Corgi piece’s success, I really wanted to up the ante and do a version with the the “Chellsh” Corgi in the test chamber. I started this piece two years ago, but it kept getting forgotten or pushed to the back burner for various reasons. Hope you enjoy it!

Everstar Hits Comicbookresources.com

First of all, hello to everyone who has found this page after visiting my booth at Long Beach Comic Con this past weekend! I heartily thank you for taking the time to visit me, and supporting my work! It’s people like you that really keep me in business and making fun art and comics! LBCC was a great show, and I look forward to exhibiting there again next year.

I’m excited to announce that Becky Tinker and I were interviewed byComicBookResources.com about Everstar. CBR is one of the biggest comic news blogs on the internet, so Becky and I were thrilled that they showed interest in our title. If you’d like to check it out, here’s the link. And if you haven’t checked outEverstar yet, the first chapter is free on Thrillbent.com. I’d love to hear what you think!

Read the CBR interview here!

Check out other awesome interviews or reviews about Everstar from around the web:

Review on Geekmom.com

Announcement from Thrillbent

New York Times Discussion on Digital Comics, Including Everstar

Review and Interview on Comic Spire

Review and Interview on Huffington Post

Review on Miss Literati

Art Imitates Art - Album Cover for Worth Taking

I’m really excited to announce that I did the front cover for Worth Taking’s new album “Art Imitates Art” that’s available on 8/12!! Worth Taking is described as “Nerds in a pop-punk band.” Check ‘em out!

Pre-Order their new album here! http://worthtaking.bandcamp.com/album/art-imitates-art

The piece is inspired by the album's name "Art Imitates Art." I ended up choosing two very well known movements from art history, and combined them as if one were imitating the other. Can you guess which two I chose?

WonderCon Was Wonderful

Wow, it's been two months since Wonder Con already! I've definitely fallen behind on my blogging, but my life went insane the last day of the convention and has been even since. Wonder Con was absolutely wonderful. It's the biggest convention I've ever worked, and the amount of friendliness and support my boothmate Ria Art and I received was astonishing!

In additional exciting news, Heavenly Kibble Guardian Corgi completely sold out at the show! I had to order a second printing of comics, and then promptly sold out of them again through my online store. I've plenty more in stock now, and am selling them both through online store, and at Indyplanet as well-- additionally, Indyplanet also has an option for a digital version for $0.99. If you'd like to buy them from a physical store, House of Secrets on 1930 W Olive Avenue in Burbank is now stocking it, too! HoS is a great comic store, if you've not checked it out yet. Super friendly Amy and Eric always make you feel welcome, and they have quite a selection.

That said, I can finally get to the part where I explain why my life has been so crazy since the convention. Not only did I get a lot of opportunity to travel, but I also got an offer to join Thrillbent Comics as an artist on one of their upcoming new titles! I'm extremely excited about the title I'm working on, and the Thrillbent crowd are all pretty cool people. They've got lots of great books already, and have a cool digital app that allows you to read your comics on the go. Check them out if you haven't yet. The title I'm on will be releasing in late Summer of this year-- keep your eyes peeled for it!