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This is a blog covers everyday things that occur to me. No no particular theme other than just my own thoughts and ideas.
I also have another blog following my attempts to get my book bought by a traditional publishing company. That one's here:
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on 1/2/2015
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Here’s an illustration I made for 435 Magazine. It will be in the January 2015 issue.

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Here’s an illustration I made for 435 Magazine. It will be in the January 2015 issue.

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Some quick motion sketches. 
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I haven’t posted any macro photos for awhile. So, here you go. Some mushrooms I found this summer in my garden.
I’m not sure what kind they are. They could have bee small puffballs, but I didn’t risk it by eating any of them.

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You can tell he’s evil because he has a goatee.

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Now he has some color. Why do I have a feeling he’s a cat burglar or something like that?

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He looks kinda sad. Wonder what’s wrong.

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Here’s a couple of recent tearsheets from 435 Magazine. I had illustrations in both November’s and December’s issues.

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I was hanging around the internet today and someone posted something and I was like…
…you did NOT just say that.
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My free font (Big Bottom Cartoon) is now in a ROAR Games product called Calamars Attack. I haven’t played it, but here’s a link to it on Google Play and on iTunes. Remy Trolong, the founder of ROAR Games, tells me that my name’s in the credits, which is a condition for using my font in something like this.
So, that’s interesting. :)
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on 12/2/2014
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Okay, personally, I think the idea of an elf on the shelf is just super-creepy. Creepier than the idea that one old man knows when you’re sleeping and when you’re awake. I mean, it’s an apparently inanimate object that’s spying on you all day and then going off to report on you at night. How is that not creepy?
But, here you go. A perfectly nice, ordinary, non-creepy, elf spy on the shelf.
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on 12/1/2014
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An illustration of mine for the December issue of 435 Magazine.

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on 11/28/2014
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Here I am working with my Wacom graphics tablet on my laptop. This is more-or-less how I think I look when I’m working. Sometimes there’s also a cat.

As you can see, it doesn’t really take much. I don’t even need a studio unless I’m framing prints. Just me, my laptop, and my tablet.
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on 11/27/2014
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I sketched this today. I was playing with expressions. I wonder what they’re so nervous about.

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on 11/24/2014
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More sketching. I think this lady knows she’s all that. :)

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I was sketching this evening. Here’s what came out of my stylus.
Bare feet are fun to draw.
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on 11/12/2014
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I was doodling tonight. Thought I’d share.

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on 11/7/2014
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Moving right along, here’s the finished lines without color.
I suppose I should mention that the illustration is copyright by me and the characters and story are copyright J.K. Rowling.
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Here’s a sketch of an image I’m working on just for myself. I’ll post the final when it’s finished.

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on 11/1/2014
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Here’s an illustration of mine that’s in the November issue of 435 Magazine.

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on 10/30/2014
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I’m not entirely happy with the composition. It feels sort of unbalanced, somehow, no matter how I crop it… Dunno. I may need to work on it some more. *shrug*
I really like the colors and the way I drew the guy, though.
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on 10/26/2014
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So, here’s my “Girl Reading” image published in the November/December 2014 issue of the SCBWI Bulletin.

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