Profile
Summary
bio:
Val Freire is a female writer/artist/designer, born in historic Greenwich Village, New York in 1979, to two creative, albeit offbeat, educators. She is the second of four rather sheltered and inspired children.
early life:
At birth, she was expected to be a boy, and thusly dubbed "Mathew Alexander" until the minute of. This surprise abruptness set a life-long precedent in her development.
Young Miss Freire was self-educated and at 14 decided she was too intelligent to graduate from high school. It would take two more years to convince everyone else of this. At 16 she actively pursued interests in typography, photography, illustration and of course, story-telling. Thus keeping her engaged as a Tattooist apprentice and shop manager, a Logo designer for a photo lab and an overactive member of the Harvey Milk High School youth program. The combination of which would inexplicably drag her through 48 states, and entirely against her will, back to New York, in time to turn 18.
currently:
New York is where her home resides, her loyal pets and an ever-expanding collection of comic books. However, it isn't likely where you'll find her. She spends a lot of her time world traveling, hunkered in cafes, drinking endless cups of coffee and telling stories.
interest: inventive expletives, fashionable weaponry, decadent intoxicants and drawing on objects that are not intended for it.
favorite artist: (but not limited to) Salvador Dalí, Norman Rockwell and Vincent Van Goph, all of which have died, as Val expects to do one day as well.
Love and cherish her for this one reason.
Experience
- 2010 - 2011Desginer/Artist / Th3rdworld Studioscreated Graphic "Rune" Pieces for cover layout & internal use in their 8-part series "The Mortal Instruments", as well as advise in character design.
- 2008 - 2011Artist/Volunteer / MoCCA Artfest
Posts
I’ll be sending these out for New Years Cards, message me with your address if you should like one ;o)
Its the Year of The DRAGON!
- go check out your horoscope!I’ll be sending these out for New Years Cards, message me with your address if you should like one ;o)
Whoa! A reader and her husband got the binding rune tattooed on to match. And the Dante quote! Now that is love.
Hey fandom, you’re fucking fierce. So, is my love for you. Never change. ;*
(via mortalinstrumentsinfernaldevices)
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This is a very pretty thing. You know you want the pretty.
NY-COMICON2011/NYAF2011 BUTTON DESIGNS
RE: Still have some left over for sale, $1 each. There were some excluded, some never got finished, some still come to me yet in feverish dreams. But for now this girl is a done thing. before I go I just wanna tell you - you were fantastic… absolutely fantastic…—
NY-COMICON2011/NYAF2011 BUTTON DESIGNS
RE: Still have some left over for sale, $1 each. You’d think I’d be nearly done by now, wouldn’t you. People assume that tumblr is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually—from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint—it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly…timey-wimey…stuff.—
NY-COMICON2011/NYAF2011 BUTTON DESIGNS
RE: Still have some left over for sale, $1 each. I think I’ve earned the right to call this a collection rather than a sketchdump. It’s that all inclusivity, man, it’s killing me. Everyone’s got a fav doctor, fav companion, fav villan, fav alien, fav quote. Admittedly near to fifty years is hard to summarize. Don’t Even Get Me Started on INSPECTOR SPACETIME!—
NY-COMICON2011/NYAF2011 BUTTON DESIGNS
RE: Still have some left over for sale, $1 each. MWROAR Elevenses, only without 11. Didn’t see that coming dija? Next Friends then Foes, or vice versa.—
NY-COMICON2011/NYAF2011 BUTTON DESIGNS
RE: Still have some left over for sale, $1 each. So, Many Elevenses. So many more. So tired. Tomorrow then—
NY-COMICON2011/NYAF2011 BUTTON DESIGNS
RE: Still have some left over for sale, $1 each. heheh, evidently I made too many Tens for there to be room for Eleven’s in this post. awkward. (2Bcontinued)
NY-COMICON2011/NYAF2011 BUTTON DESIGNS
RE: Still have some left over for sale, $1 each. Feel free to comment, e-mail, message or note accordingly. While putting them all on-line doesn’t prevent theft, what it does encourage is love… something I feel these little buggers have need of (some more than others ^^;)
All buttons are (1”) one inch in size & $1. Free shipping in the States.
Evidently LJ images are LJ friendly only, and asshats to everything else.
SO, here they are again, Whovian Arti-ness, made into conveniently affordable & adorable BUTTON-NESS.
More Info: Comment, note or e-mail “VF @ Far-Eviler. com”
For a moment there, I’d forgotten this was a sketch journal. Expect a sketchdump soon.
If you’re at New York Comicon this weekend, come visit us upstairs at the Anime Artist Alley, (table ) wherein we will be peddling wears, some for as little as a cup of coffee.
Seriously, if you bring coffee, good things will happen =)
*i had to reblog off someone else, cuz tumblr is all about the not letting me reblog myself. gee vain much tumblrbot >.>
Baby steps, as it were. Open up for commissions* to pay for convention cost as well as the recent upsurge of medical bills.
- $20 Chibi [tablet drawn] such as…
- $30 Chibi’s [hand drawn] such as…
- $40 Personalized Runes, such as…
*Although created with cassandraclare’s permission, these will not be official, sanctioned, Clave approved Runes, etc. but they will be personalized & yours. Maybe if make enough of them I might upload them all into a glorious new sheet of tattoo flash. Who knows?
**have listed more convention details over at deviantart.
beautiful, beautiful (Ashleigh Scott).
…i just had a moment. thought of tattoo sheet flash hanging in my old shop, years after various me’s have come and long goings gone. my words, the stroke of my brush on the skins of enumerable peoples, it gave me a permanent lump in my throat.
So, here’s a thing that popped up on the dashboard today. (via cassandraclare)
Never not funny when that happens. Might make these into buttons for NYAF/NYC-COMICON. Con deliberating has begun!
2003. “Kaye” of Tithe by Holly Black. Rushed inebriated piece of art for an equally inebriated peaceable friend.
Denizens, Sîdhe & Tîer”, lineart by Gabe, Inking & colours by mys’elf.
REvisit. What I wouldn’t give to find this original drawing and rework it from scratch.
