New Shirt Update: It’s Plunger Monkey Dynamo Time 2.0!
Hey, look at that! Another new shirt already! We are 3 months in to 2020 and I'm still on pace for my goal of 6 new shirts this year, so that's good. I turned this one around relatively quickly (for me), but then again, it's not a super complex image. Then again this is me we're talking about, and I could very easily have spent another several weeks spinning my wheels, noodling around on details and variations and second guessing myself and never being ready to call this one "done". I have found that generally I need to force
New Shirt Update: Samurai Helmet
A bit longer in the making than I intended, but my first shirt offering of 2020 is finally done and available over at my Etsy store, Plunger Monkey Designs! This started as a potential embroidered patch design for a karate friend's bike club, but we went with a different image. I liked the sketch enough, and I had thought about a samurai helmet design before, that I turned it into a shirt (and potential sticker). This is another "theme" image, I have several other ideas to turn this into a series. I have always had a bit of
Year End Review
As I currently type, we are being smacked with a snow/ice/sleet/thunderstorm. Hopefully the power stays on long enough for me to finish this and get it posted. 2019 has simultaneously felt incredibly long and stupidly short (like, really? There's only one more day left of 2019?). Before I get into everything that did (and didn't) happen this year, who wants to check out the annual xmas card envelope art? Anyone? Your opinion is irrelevant, because I'm going to show them anyway. This was the first envelope I drew in 2019, and it went to my sister. One of
Inktober 2019: Now With 100% More Plungers!
I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to do Inktober at all this year. I've had too many other things on my mind, too many other projects and outside "real life" stuff vying for my attention. I figured I had to at least give it a shot, though, and if I was going to bother, I needed to come up with something to make it even more interesting for myself. That's when I decided to incorporate PMD. I fell way behind right out of the gate, but the first several prompts inspired some pretty clear images
Enter the (Forest) Dragon
I'm pretty proud of that title...cuz, like Bruce Lee...Enter the Dragon was a Bruce Lee movie...my wife's name is Lee...I'm a big Bruce Lee fan...I'm a big fan of my wife...it's allllll connected. Anyway, it's September, so that means it's time once again for another annual tradition I started (this being the fourth year): drawing a dragon for my dragon-loving wife for her birthday. I do these in Procreate on my iPad Pro to take advantage of the time lapse feature, but the fact that I use it so infrequently leads to problems for me. I have to relearn
STOP! Moleskin Time.
Hey, look at that. I posted last week and said I would post this week, and here I am doing what I said I was going to do. Time to post the annual summer camp moleskin sketches. As I mentioned last week, summer camp this year was an emotionally challenging one for me. It is the first year since I became a leader and started attending summer camp that my middle son did not camp. My oldest son has always been more on the extroverted side with plenty of self-confidence when it's needed. He was the one who wanted
Please let me know what you think, it makes my brain happy.