New studio mascots via @Taxidermied

Added to my collection of studio toy supervisors: Mr. Gosh, Lenore, Ragamuffin and Pooty Applewater based on the Lenore comics by Roman Dirge. I’ve been eyeing these little guys up for a very (very) long time. I don’t usually take PVC sets out of the box, but these are so adorable, how could you not want to cuddle them?

Friday the 13th

A black cat for your Friday the 13th. I drew this with a marker in my sketchbook first, took a photo of the drawing with my iPad, and brought the drawing into the Procreate app to add color. I tweaked the colors and added a tiny bit of texture in the background in Photoshop.

My Sketchbook Project has been digitized

So I kind of made the mistake of signing up for the Sketchbook Project: Limited Edition earlier this year, and I ended up getting pressed for time (doesn’t everybody?), and delivered a sketchbook that tells the story of what a bad time I had trying to make a new medium (markers) work. I started posting the pages here and here …

Animal Muppet puppet in my studio

Meet my supervisor. He stares at me while I work. Somewhere I also have an autographed 8″x10″ black and white glossy of Animal. Yes, somebody actually autographed it for me.

Twisted: Tales to Rot Your Brain has won two awards!

My book Twisted: Tales to Rot Your Brain Vol. 1 won two Purple Dragonfly Book Awards! First Place in the Fiction: Collection of Short Stories category and Second Place in the Interior Design category. Here’s a link to all the wieners: http://www.fivestarpublications.com/bookcontest/book-award-winners.html#2012pdbawin They sent me stickers that I can stick on the books that show that it won, but they’re …

I’ve been painting on my iPad

So I’ve been messing around with the brushes and settings and gestures in Procreate on my iPad, and I’m finding out it’s a lot more powerful than I expected. I still have a lot to learn, but this is Marley. He’s the first all-out painting I finished there. I added textures in Photoshop to finish him up.

Sketchbook Project Special Edition 2012—April Fool #sketchbookproject

And this would be the second double-page spread from my Sketchbook Project Special Edition sketchbook. The initial Square Kats drawings seem to be fine; it’s the coloring in with markers thing that’s really turning me off. I think I’ll still use the Kats in paintings later though, so all is not lost.

The Audacity of Earning a Living Making Art

I’ll be the first to admit I’ve been slacking in the social media arena lately. I haven’t been keeping up with my blogs or my Twitter updates or my Facebook posts. It’s hard to post when you don’t have anything to show for yourself. Here’s the thing: I haven’t had anything to post because I haven’t had time to work …

Sketchbook Project Special Edition 2012—Vincent #sketchbookproject

O.K. Here’s my first poor attempt at marker art. Markers feel like all the bad things that watercolor and pen & ink have to offer: none of them are very forgiving. I’m also kind of stuck with the colors I have, and I’m not able to blend them very well. I ended up going over the cat fur with a white pencil …