Tobywan

Gallery Update: The Moleskin Awakens!
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Gallery Update: The Moleskin Awakens!

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 the

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Gallery Update: I’m Baaaack
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Gallery Update: I’m Baaaack

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 elementary

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Update: I’m Alive
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Update: I’m Alive

Update: I’m Alive

Yes indeed, I’m not dead! Yet! (I feel happy…)

It’s been far too long since I’ve updated, and almost as long since I’ve had consistent studio time. I spent almost all of June plowing through some house renovations (some of which have been on the “to do” list for 11 years, so it was about time anyway) that needed to be done before we hosted my wife’s family for a reunion the first week of July. Between that and scout responsibilities, the studio time sadly gave way first. However, the family have returned to their respective parts of the country, so

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Gallery Update: Two People in the Hand is Worth…Um…
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Gallery Update: Two People in the Hand is Worth…Um…

Gallery Update: Two People in the Hand is Worth…Um…

Look at that! Two weeks in a row! I’m surprising myself given how strapped for time and generally overwhelmed I am these days. I’ve been keeping busy in the studio as well as on the tablet at night (which might be leading to even more projects for my never ending list, which I’ll talk about here in the near future). I had to divert from 10 Things again, this time to focus on tshirt designs for both the Boy Scout Troop (the one that I’m now Scoutmaster of) and the Cub Scout summer camp shirts (my last one! I’m struggling with

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Gallery Update: Happy 2 Days After Mother’s Day 2017!
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Gallery Update: Happy 2 Days After Mother’s Day 2017!

Gallery Update: Happy 2 Days After Mother’s Day 2017!

Well, hello there! Yes indeed, I am still alive! I realize it has been quite a while since the last site update, but if you’ve been following me on FB or Instagram, you know that although I’ve been extremely busy, I haven’t been absent from the studio. Not completely, anyway. I’m even further behind on things I wanted to post about, so some of those ideas might just get canned (they probably weren’t all that interesting to begin with). There have been a lot of developments in my art life, as well as real life, but before I get

Tablet Art: Smile For The Camera
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Tablet Art: Smile For The Camera

Tablet Art: Smile For The Camera

Right. So, once again, there’s been a gap in posting. There’s been a gap in studioing, too (yes, I’m making that a verb). I had to spend a week performing my civic duty by serving on a jury in a particularly disturbing trial. If not for the subject matter, the whole experience was actually kind of interesting and rewarding. I have a new found understanding of and respect for the concept of a jury of one’s peers. I’m glad to be back in the studio, though.

The first tablet drawing I did (a few weeks ago, now), after finishing up that

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Gallery Update: Gasp! A Non-Witch Series Cover!
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Gallery Update: Gasp! A Non-Witch Series Cover!

Gallery Update: Gasp! A Non-Witch Series Cover!

I’m still behind on posts, and I expect it to stay that way for a while. It’s good to always have fuel for a post when I actually have the time to sit down and craft one. In current Toby events, after I finished up working on the subject of this post, not only did I return to more regular IPMDT panels, but also (are you ready for this?) returned to working on 10 Things! I know! I’ve been saying that forever, but I did! I actually dusted off that file and started pushing pixels around again on that project.

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Gallery Update: More Witch Stuffage
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Gallery Update: More Witch Stuffage

Gallery Update: More Witch Stuffage

I’m still trying to catch up to current projects in these blog posts, which I’m making more challenging for myself by continuing to produce work…which is a good thing. More on that subject later.

Hot on the heels of finishing the cover for the fourth installment of L.S. Gagnon’s Little Witch Series, I was asked to come up with four story illustrations, one for each of the four original books. I had some general guidelines about what scenes to represent, but was otherwise left to do what I do. This was a very interesting and fun exercise. The images were intended

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Gallery Update: The Little Witch Book 4
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Gallery Update: The Little Witch Book 4

Gallery Update: The Little Witch Book 4

So much for my unofficial resolution to update the site once a week, oops! I was otherwise swamped working on the latest commission, which I think is done and just awaiting final approval and payment, and for the first time it wasn’t for author L.S. Gagnon! I guess I’m branching out a little. I’ll get into the challenges I faced on that cover when I post about it, but basically I had to employ some new tricks, build a few more brushes, and in general push my skills. As usual, to my eye, the final product has some issues that

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Gallery Update: Passions Collide
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Gallery Update: Passions Collide

Gallery Update: Passions Collide

I’ve been back tracking and posting about art that I created around xmas 2016, but let’s do a little time traveling to before that, to Novemberish. Those who know me well know that I have two main passions: art, and “exercise”. I put “exercise” in quotes, because that’s not an entirely accurate label. Movement might be a better term, I simply like to move, whether it’s hoisting weights and odd objects, gymnastics and handbalancing, calisthenics, snowboarding, hiking, bike riding, kayaking…if it involves moving through space and physically challenging myself, I’m excited about it. One subcategory that I’ve devoted a considerable

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