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NEW SHIRT FRIDAY: Bang Your Head!
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NEW SHIRT FRIDAY: Bang Your Head!

NEW SHIRT FRIDAY: Bang Your Head!

Look! A consistent posting pattern! How long will it last?

I can’t answer that, so enjoy it while it lasts.

In case the title wasn’t obvious enough, I’ve decided Friday is going to be New Shirt Friday. At least until I make it through the various new shirt ideas I’ve got. This week’s offering targets a particular nitch. Well, I guess you could say all my shirts target specific nitches of one kind or another (like fans of monkeys with plungers on their heads. That’s pretty specific). I am a self-proclaimed metal head. I’m not a die-hard concert goer (because people. I’ve

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Get On Your Cats and Ride!
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Get On Your Cats and Ride!

Get On Your Cats and Ride!

Hey! Look at that! Another new shirt design available at the Plunger Monkey Designs Etsy store! And you can get it in PURPLE!

I originally drew this image in black and white as a “shout out” to my youngest son in his elementary school year book. Plunger Monkey’s sign originally said something specific to him and moving on to fifth grade, which obviously needed to change when I decided to color this and make it a shirt. I went with “get on your cats and ride!” as a bit of a nod to

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Finally! Time to go BACK to Braining!
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Finally! Time to go BACK to Braining!

Finally! Time to go BACK to Braining!

Hey. How’s it goin’? It’s been awhile.

Again.

However, I have been keeping rather busy. Aside from all the standard life and scout related obligations, I spent the bulk of the first 3 months of 2019 (how the heck has it already been 3 months?!) finally trying to tackle some big goals that I’ve been avoiding, tasks that I have been referring to as “braining” (business stuff), as opposed to “Braining” (being creative and manifesting all these things running around my skull). I don’t try to hide the fact that the financial, administrative, and business aspects of being an artist are not

Tags: #affinitydesigner, #applepencil, #bobcat, #digitalart, #digitalillustration, #illustration, #ipad, #ipadpro, #parkourbobcat, #tshirts|

Some Things This Way Come…Soon.

*Sigh* I wasn’t that far into this post before I accidentally clicked outside of the text block window and lost all progress, but it was enough to be annoying. I have a real bad habit of accidentally clicking where I don’t mean to, or just a hair outside of where I’m trying to, which usually launches some app that takes 12 minutes to boot up and 22 minutes to fully shut down. That’s the kind of relationship technology and I have most of the time.

Anyway, the original intent of this post was to talk about my recent wool coat project: The Tabbard

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Happy New Year (two and a half weeks ago)!

This really ought to be broken up into several different posts, but I know the way my life works and I’m already a solid month behind when some of these updates should have been made to be even remotely timely. So, you’re going to deal with a monster update and like it!

Where to start? Well, as happens to many, life got very busy the closer we got to the end of December. I stayed busy with some studio projects, but many of them were gift related so I had to keep quiet about them. At this point, I’m a little

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NEW SHIRT(S) UPDATE(S)!
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NEW SHIRT(S) UPDATE(S)!

NEW SHIRT(S) UPDATE(S)!

I’ve been absent from the blog for a while, but that’s pretty normal these days. However, I’ve still been getting in the studio, but this last week has been particularly unusual.

I think I’m viral.

No! Wait! Don’t leave! I’m not contagious!

You see, on November 29th, while I was sitting on the couch eating breakfast (yes, I eat on the couch and not at a table, I’m a heathen), my wife walked in from her office and glanced out the window towards the back yard. She saw a bobcat sneaking around. We watched him for a while, and I even managed to

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Make Mine Marvel
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Make Mine Marvel

Make Mine Marvel

Well, true believers, I don’t have it in me to be particularly fun and witty right now. It wouldn’t be terribly appropriate, either.

I’m guessing if you’re a regular reader (all 2 of you) or if you’ve found your way here somehow, you probably know who Stan Lee is and undoubtedly heard about his passing on November 12, 2018. His is a name that can be placed on the same list of world renowned creators who have had a major impact not just on future generations of creators but on entire cultures alongside the likes of Walt Disney (and probably George

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Here Be LEE’s Dragons
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Here Be LEE’s Dragons

Here Be LEE’s Dragons

Well, it’s a few weeks late, but I finally pulled off the next phase of my wife’s birthday giftage: custom shirts depicting the dragons I draw for her birthday. I attempted yet another new process, and I had to hide my work from her again, and life was getting in the way, but, I got it done. Right now, her shirts are the only ones. If there’s enough interest or encouragement, I may release them to the public at large as their own line of shirts: Lee’s Dragons.

Anyway, about that new process. I uploaded all the layered PSD files of

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Gallery Update: Here Be Dragons!
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Gallery Update: Here Be Dragons!

Gallery Update: Here Be Dragons!

Everyone loves dragons, right?

Of course. But few love them as much as my wife.

It’s birthday time for my wife again, which means another dragon wallpaper from me! I went back to Procreate for this one and spent over a week noodling away at it. Here’s a breakdown of how it came together.

The first step to any art I create-whether it’s digital or traditional, whether the media is pencil, ink, or paint-I start with a rough drawing. I knew I was going to draw a dragon. I even knew it would be a

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Gallery Update: I’m Ready for My Closeup
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Gallery Update: I’m Ready for My Closeup

Gallery Update: I’m Ready for My Closeup

I don’t even know how long it’s been since the last post. I’ll refrain from “lying” and saying I hope to be more consistent starting now, because I know that’s unlikely. I mean, I want to be productive and focused, but I’m also aware of what my real life schedule is over the next few weeks. On the upside, summer camp is around the corner, which will hopefully mean being out in nature with my moleskin. I’m not quite sure how camp is going to be this year, with it being the first time since my son’s type I diabetes

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