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
Obsession, Compulsion, and a Hobby.
So. This is my first post in how long? I have no idea where the summer has gone. That's a lie. Time passes as it always does, and I continue to be oblivious to it's passage until a big enough chunk of it to be noticed has slipped away. I also am aware of the things I've been doing or otherwise occupied by that have used up that time. Today is another day in a long line of days like today: too many things I want to do, too many things I need to do, too many things others
An Age-Old Question: Chicken-Squid or Squid-Chicken
Well, which is it?This began as a sketch in Affinity Designer on my iPad so I could experiment with some of it's features I downloaded it for (like mesh transform and texture maps). I never got around to that as this sketch took on a life of it's own. I switched over to Affinity Designer to turn this into a complete vector image. It was incredibly time consuming, but I love the crisp edges and lines that come with vectors. And as is normal for me, I put a lot more detail into some areas than can possibly
Happy Mother’s Day 2019!
Here it is, the 2019 Mother's Day card for my awesome wife! Another year, another card for my wife on Mother's Day. The dragon/kids keep growing. It's always a challenge to come up with a new image, as I usually try to have it reference something we've done of note over the past year. It's tough when the things of note are often the same, like hikes we've taken. We certainly try to hike a lot, so reflecting that is fine. It's just coming up with scenes and compositions that aren't too repetitive. In the last few years,
New Shirt Friday: 10 Things for Your Torso!
It's New Shirt Friday time! As promised, here's the much anticipated (well, not really) 10 Things shirt! I wish I could say I came up with this design idea myself, but it was my middle son that inspired this. I was going through a gazillion variations for a 10 Things shirt when my son peered over my shoulder at my iPad and said "Oh, I thought you were going to do each page in a grid", similar to the Faces/Emotions of Vader (or Chewbacca) shirts (I have them both). It's brilliant. I originally had 10 Things written at
Please let me know what you think, it makes my brain happy.