Attack of the Life
Well, I blew my streak of consecutive weekly posts last week. There was a very good reason, though: LIFE! But first: ART. Back in June, my brother's family dog, Tweed, passed away. He was 15 years old and had been struggling with several health issues for many years, it's kind of amazing he lived as long as he did. In fact, the reason he did is because of the love and care my brother and his wife gave him. I know they were understandably both really broken up about his passing, my brother especially. Tweed couldn't have asked to be
Inside Toby’s Brain: MediBANG!
You thought I was going to forget to update the site this week, didn't you? DIDN'T YOU!? Me too. But I 'membered. I think this may be the last of the big catching up posts. About a year ago, when my Samsung tablet still had that new tablet smell, I was looking for the "perfect" drawing app to suit my needs (I've got several favorites, but the search will continue). I stumbled across the free app, Medibang Paint. It looked pretty robust, and it was free, but the interface was "weird", so I set it aside and decided to focus
Gallery Update: Still Catching Up…
Oooh! Three weeks in a row? Something like that? I may catch up on all the ideas for blog posts yet... Don't get your hopes up, though. Life is still happening. Anywhat, before I go back a few weeks...or months...I'll post this: My awesome wife picked up on the fact that my favorite ballpoint pens for drawing were running out, so she did a little research and found me (and the kids) some cool pens. They're nothing special, amazingly, just Amazon Basic 1.0. But, they work really well. They have good flow and are very responsive to pressure, meaning
Gallery Update: A Moleskin Story
Alright, two weeks in a row of updating the website! Shall we take bets on how long the streak will last? I vote for Q, because my brain. Speaking of spelling (I know we weren't, but my brain and I were), am I even spelling "moleskin" correctly? I've noticed it autocorrects to "moleskinE", which doesn't make much sense to me phonetically, unless I've been pronouncing it wrong all these years as well. Either way, I don't care, so let's move on. If you actually had the interest or patience to have read last week's blog entry, you may recall that
Gallery Update: The Moleskin Awakens!
Hi! Yes, I'm still alive. I don't know why I need to keep reassuring everyone of that. Why is everyone expecting me to be dead? Maybe you just like the sense of elation you feel when you realize I'm still breathing and working towards my Artistic Destiny (TM)? Whatever it is, I'm still here. Now that the kids are back in school and all on the same bus schedule (gone are the days of 3+ bus stops a day for me. I drop them off at the bus stop at 6:30am, they walk home after getting off the bus in
Gallery Update: I’m Baaaack
Hello! I'm back from my two weeks in the woods wrangling Cub and Boy Scouts! It was a great experience (and with the week at Cub Scout camp being my fifth and final, it was a bit emotional), but very draining. I'm still trying to get back into the swing of things and remember what the heck I was doing before I left. In the meantime, I thought it best to catch up on some posting while my brain sorts itself out. Waaaaaaaay back at the end of June, my youngest son finished out his last days in our little
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