A Recent Read: The Metabarons
Inktober is all wrapped up for this year. I managed 31 self portraits in 31 days. I'll put together a big post showcasing and comparing all of the images later, but if you want to check some of them out now, go to the TOBY'SBRAIN FB page (if you love me, you're already following it. If you're not following it, you don't know you love me yet.). Anywho, in the meantime, I thought I'd share an epic graphic novel I recently read: The Metabarons. Bonjour! I come from France! This 536 page, gorgeously illustrated beast tells the family
WIP: 10 Things Status
Well, for anyone who isn't aware, I've been participating in the Inktober challenge. It simply entails doing one ink drawing a day for the month of October with the goal of improving one's inking skills and fostering good art habits (daily practice). It seems it has taken up most of my studio time these days, especially because I've had the problem of falling a day or several behind due to weekend commitments and life thingies. I am currently caught up, though, with 23 drawings in the tank. I've been posting them to my Facebook page (which you should all be
WIP: A Bunch of Stuff
Still crazy busy around here, but I've actually been somewhat productive in the studio. I'm still plugging away at the 10 Things project, currently working on this page: Yes, I am "cheating" a bit by continuing to copy and paste that army, but I do want to finish this project in my lifetime. The real trick, and what I hope will bring some added entertainment, is on these combined pages I'm trying to show increasing levels of interaction between the various "things". Every time something new is introduced, the previous "things" react to it, and there's a bit of a
Process GIF: 8 Brass Monkeys
I finished up another page from the 10 Things project: Oooh, shiny monkeys! The pages that are just a single phrase are a tad quicker than the combined pages. The next page, obviously, is going to be: 1 hen, 2 ducks, 3 squawking geese, 4 limerick oysters, 5 corpulent porpoises, 6 pairs of Don Alverso's tweezers, 7 THOUSAND Macedonians dressed in full battle array, and 8 brass monkeys from the ancient sacred crypts of Egypt. These last pages are going to be tough. And nuts. Definitely nuts. But in a good way. I'm holding off posting any more
WIP: 10 Things
Some time last week I finally dusted off the 10 Things file and got working on it again. I'm currently working on page...well, I don't know which number it will be, I haven't been keeping track. But, it has 1 hen, 2 ducks, 3 squawking geese, 4 limerick oysters, 5 corpulent porpoises, 6 pairs of Don Alverso's Tweezers, and 7 THOUSAND Macedonians dressed in full battle array on it: These last pages are getting complicated... I have corner registration marks roughed in on a separate layer still turned on here. They just give me a visual reminder to
GALLERY UPDATE: Shadow of the Flute-The Return of the Cello Flute
Well, here we are, almost two weeks since my previous post. Here I am, still hoping to be more consistent in the studio now that the kids are back in school. Here I am, starring down several more hectic and busy weeks. *Le sigh* (that must be read as Pepe le Pew. If you didn't know to do that already...then either I'm old or you're uncultured). Anywhat, I haven't been completely not in my studio or otherwise making art (though it sure feels like it). On the second day of school, my wife took her last vacation day of the
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