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Drawn for hoots and giggles, a brown owl drawn with a brush pen and a bit of verse – from poet Jane Euphemia Browne's The Great Brown Owl – and texture added digitally.

Illustration Friday's brand-new theme of skinny allows me a chance to show off a brand-new freelance illustration endeavour. It also sends me spouting off about blogs' inabilities to showcase or scroll long and skinny horizontal pieces (like comic strip panels and stitched panoramic photos, which I love making).

The whole back-story and process can be had – devoured, even – right over here.

Submission for Illustration Friday's recent theme of pretend. Drawn with varying thicknesses of Pigma Micron pens and coloured in Photoshop (with musical note added from Illustrator).

Check the whole story here, and a more detailed look here.

Curious? Read more, here. And view larger here.

(Oh, and hullo, SFG-ers ... long time, no chat.)

A recent submission for Illustration Friday's theme of choose. I suspect there's a few sci-fi nuts on SFG! – so I'll spare the groan-worthy punchline. But if you don't get it, click on over here.

SFG's theme of hats makes me think of the quite-funny Flickr group Bears In Ill-Fitting Hats.

(Click here for the whole story.)

An illustration done last week for Illustration Friday's theme of stitch. So why a painted bunting for this theme? Well, there's an answer to that here – if'n you want it. Access to a more detailed version can also be had here.

A submission! For both SFG's theme of "B is for" and Illustration Friday's recent theme of "superstition" – and one of the superstitions that intrigues me most is that of the bird in the house.

Originally a doodle on scrap paper, then inked, scanned and coloured in Photoshop (type and speech bubbles created in Freehand). Click here to read the whole story, and here for a better look at the detail.

Hi, SFG friends!

A rare recent illustration of a fine young urban man who can't juggle potatoes to save his street cred. Not much to it other than that, but further insight can be had here – and a larger view can be had here.

... and I had never drawn a hippo before. That calls for a drink at my house.

Click here for a closer look at the detail, or here for the whole back story. Good to see you guys again – it's been awhile. Some of you don't look familiar ... you, namely. And you. And that guy. But you're all still a fine-looking bunch.

Every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man ... Read the rest of this post

I imagine that when I die, I will be riding a bike, swerve to miss a dangling cankerworm – and run head-on into an oncoming bus. Following each spring, I wonder why it hasn't happened yet. These hanging caterpillars freak me right out.

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Illustration Friday’s weekly theme of polar makes me think of the raven. Not entirely a polar bird (and I think, by absolute definition, there are no true polar creatures), ravens are still strong symbols of the higher latitudes and icons of the Great White North. I drew this raven in pen from a photograph (not my own) for an unrelated recent project and decided to snatch it for I-F’s theme also – adding dashes of subtle colour to the mix to give a bit more resonance.

Click here for access to a better look at the detail, and here for the whole story.

Submission for Illustration Friday's current theme of "green", a straight-up homage to one of my favourite all-time characters, Kermit the Frog ­ with a slight eco-touch tossed in for good measure. As always, check out the whole story here, and have a closer look at the detail here.

A submission for Illustration Friday's current theme of "I Spy". Take a few moments out of your busy schedules and see if you can spy the thing that doesn't fit in this piece. Then be sure to click here for the obligatory back-story and access to a closer look at the detail.

A recent submission for Illustration Friday (theme: communication). We live in an officially bilingual nation way up here – but like this chap on the left, this is what it'd actually be like for most Canucks if plonked down suddenly into conversation with one of our french-speaking countrymen. Click here for the whole story, if'n yer interested.

Any SugarFrosted folk here losing the battle to gravity? Then this is for you, my first drawing of any kind since December (been having a fling with the camera lately), sketched for Illustration Friday's current theme.

The full story on this illustration can be checked out here, and a closer, more detailed look can be had here. Sketched in pen, coloured in Photoshop.