Jennifer Montes

Commercial artist, illustrator, or what have you

Nasty Hands

Nasty Hands

UPDATE: Curious about how I took those pictures? I’ve got the answer right here.

Not everyone is happy about the DC revamp…

Not everyone is happy about the DC revamp…

On Tuesday DC Comics announced that it would be renumbering more than 50 of its superhero titles, starting with Justice League #1 on August 31st. This morning DC put up a new blog post that gives a few more details about the titles that will be restarted, but it isn’t an all-inclusive list. The big [...]

The only good Alice is a dead Alice

The only good Alice is a dead Alice

Everyone seems to have fond memories of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, so I decided to give the book a try. The story is echoed and referenced in many other cultural works, so I confess that my standards were very high. Within a few pages of reading I already hated it, but I [...]

Photoshop Templates for Less Framework 4

Photoshop Templates for Less Framework 4

I’ve been helping out a few friends with their websites recently and I’ve come to love using the Less Framework as a CSS layout solution. It’s not really a “framework” if you compare it to other tools like the 960 Grid System or Blueprint, but the minimalist approach is what makes it so attractive to [...]

Can I walk your Lillipup?

Can I walk your Lillipup?

I won’t even pretend that I know the first thing about Pokémon, so let’s leave it at that.

You changed your website again??

I have a love affair with WordPress, alright? Deal with it.

Influence Map

Influence Map

A great meme has been going around the Internets for the past couple of months and I thought it would be a great exercise: figuring out my biggest influences in the visual arts. The Influence Map meme comes from fox-orian at deviantART and it basically involves filling out this template with your artistic influences. Naturally, [...]

Pigeon post

Pigeon post

When Illustration Friday had the ‘Mail’ theme a few weeks ago, I began to think of all the different ways that people have communicated over vast distances across the ages. I figured that homing pigeons made the cutest image, so here we are. Actually, I was just curious about how the whole homing pigeon thing [...]

Cat worship

Cat worship

Now that I’ve posted images of cats onto my site, I need only to wait for my inevitable fame. People. Love. Cats. I mean, sure, there are certain individuals out there that abhor cats, but in general, the statement is absolutely true. Just look at the abundance of kitten videos on YouTube or the pervasiveness [...]

Art and boredom

James Elkins wrote a terrific article in The Huffington Post that asks whether artists are ever bored with their own work. Mr. Elkins explores the topic through a comparison of Renaissance and modern artists and their processes for creating art. The article then takes a surprising twist: it turns out that boredom is a fairly [...]