This past weekend Monkey + Seal took the long trip over to Kansas City for Spectrum Fantastic Art Live!  It was three days of being su...

Monkey + Seal get a lot of questions regarding what it was like to show at our first craft fair. Believe it or not, we started out very hum...

With 2011 left with only 3 days left, we thought it would be timely for today's post to be about resolutions. Often we hear of New...

For those that didn't know, Monkey + Seal have about 18 or so years of higher education under our belts. We both have Bachelor's de...

While we might not have the best sleep schedules, please don't take this graph too seriously. Get some rest! Most of what we write abou...

Only show stuff like this to your clients if they happen to be some of your best friends. Often time as we're first setting out to becom...

Monkey here: Seal recently got interviewed by Northern Forcus , a Norcal-art blog run by Shannon Dutra that also interviewed me a while back...

Tangential World Cup reference: Keisuke Honda wanted a goal against Camaroon. Read the post and the link between the World Cup and art will...

Are you creating for someone else? Some outside entity whose stamp of approval will suddenly make your life meaningful and perfect? While...

Monkey, as he slowly builds up his portfolio to start taking over the illustration world, has stumbled upon some awesome resources. Here he...

First off, a quick thank you to everyone who came out to the SF Etsy Sampler Trunk show! It was awesome, and we had a great time hanging ou...

For all those print artists, card makers, crafters, DIY-ers, and other people who do cool stuff, you should definitely mark your calendar fo...

As creatives, Monkey + Seal have found that society as a whole tends to think that for whatever reason, our services are negotiable. Monkey...

Today's process post is by Monkey, who will take you through a coloring of a illustration of some monster lady (who is holding a fish). ...

Today's Paper Hat Productions' spotlight shines on the witty, ever-talented Francois Vigneault . One of the lead organizers of the ...

This week Monkey shares how to lock transparent pixels in Photoshop to make coloring things easier. Okay, so recently I found out about lock...

So in Monkey's last semester of study at the Academy of Art, he took a silkscreen portfolio class. Never having attempted to work on a ...

Below is Seal's animation layout drawing of a surfer's beach hut in Hawaii. She didn't know how to draw a beach hut or what spec...

Seal is in love with this illustrated book titled The Arrival by Shaun Tan. The book depicts the collective immigrant experience through a v...

Above is Seal's most recent illustration. Normally she works in gouache or watercolor, but for the next couple of illustrations, she is ...