…An illustration from part of my birth story. Go here for the full complete story.
Category Archives: works in progress
The Numbers
Again, this is part of a birth story I am currently illustrating. What numbers are currently haunting you and why?
What giving Birth is Actually Like (According to my yoga Instructor)
“ Imagine pooping in front of a room full of people while they watch. If you can do this without closing off your {anal] sphincter then you can have a natural birth.”
-my Prenatal Yoga class instructor
Fire
This is part of an illustrated birth story I am currently drawing.
It’s Game Time and the Crowd is Gathered for the Big Event…
Another work in progress about what it’s like to give birth in a hospital. Will post the final story with illustration when finished.
The Sounds of Labor
A work in progress about the experience of giving birth. More to come…
Now Featuring: your bodily functions!
This is a work in progress about what it feels like giving birth in a hospital. Stay tunned for the fully illustrated story, which I will post once I am done.
More Things that She Carried….
Here are more things that I planned to take in my hospital “ready bag” that did not actually make it to the hospital. This is part of an Illustration that I’m currently working on. Will share the final piece when I’m done.
The Things She Carried:
This is part of an Illustration I am currently working on about birth plans and the things you actually end up taking with you when you go into labor.
This is part of a comic panel I am working on currently about the new born stage of parenting and just how exhausting and crazing it can feel when you are trying to satisfy the needs of an insatiable and unhappy infant. I showed it to my husband and he laughed out loud but added,
“Get rid of the Hitler mustache. It’s kind of offensive”.
I have to admit I kind of like it. Some art is meant to be offensive. But just to be sure I uploaded two versions. The “clean shaven version” and the original. What do you think?