Character Development Special: Schwartz
Meet Schwartz, the unprepossessing! Schwartz is Saralactra's chief minion, (and probably the only minion who could actually be called a minion...) An occult engineer aided by a team composed of his...
View ArticleA Calendar of Tales: January and July
Well, I went and got involved in yet another contest-type thing, despite a complete lack of time, but but but... It was Neil Gaiman's Great Big Group Project! So I wanted to play, too. It's the...
View ArticleLife studies for the Calendar of Tales
Here's a batch of life studies I did for the soldier dude in my crazy January illustration for Neil Gaiman's Calendar of Tales project... (The second illustration here.) Mostly I was trying to sort out...
View ArticleSketchy Sunday: Samurai Silliness
Super quick live-action doodles from a performance of the "Samurai Sword Soul" improv group at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (Yes, I have a ton of sketches of that troupe. They're incredibly goofy but...
View ArticleWhatever Wednesday: A Few More Deer
Remember the group of deer sketches I was posting earlier? Well, here's the rest of them! (This is the same gang of deer posted here and here...) Yep, lots of deer! That was such a prime sketching...
View ArticleSketchy Sunday: Coots
Tiny little doodles of park birds... I think these are coots? Anyway, they show up in the pond now and then, cute little waterfowl, black, with white bills, and they make a noise like a creaky hinge.
View ArticleSketchy Easter Sunday: Ducklings and Mamma Duck
Happy belated Easter! (Or April-Fools-Easter-Passover...) Have some seasonally appropriate duckling doodles! With mamma duck, too. Extra sketchy because the ducklings were being hyperactive and would...
View ArticleWhatever Wednesday: Random Tree Sketch
So, it's getting to be that time of year again where I can go hang out in the park and work on things. Frequently I take my comic supplies outside and work on thumbnails and penciling. (Somehow it's...
View ArticleSketchy Sunday: Rough-Legged Hawk
Okay, quickie (late) post and then I gotta send out my taxes (why do I always get my taxes out at the extreme last minute...) And with taxes out of the way hopefully I can scan some more stuff and get...
View ArticleSpring is Sprung!
Spring is sprung with a vengeance! Sure, it started with a few sporadic daffodils and whatnot, no big deal, and then WHAM! all the magnolias and cherry blossoms at once in the past couple of weeks....
View ArticleSketchy Sunday: Sharp-shinned hawk and red-shouldered hawk
More hawk sketches, from the same batch as these guys. This batch includes a sharp-shinned hawk and a red-shouldered hawk (the red-shouldered hawk is the one with the long gangly legs.) Sketched at a...
View ArticleSketchy Sunday - iPhone Critters
So, this Saturday it was raining, so I thought I'd go to the Brooklyn Museum and check out the Sargent watercolors (excellent exhibit, by the way - check it out if you're in the area! Several rooms of...
View ArticleSketchy Sunday: Doggies!
Tis the season to sketch dogs in the park again... So, here's an assortment of random doggies!
View ArticleGolden Queen
Whoops, almost forgot, I meant to post this here, too...BEHOLD. Her Majesty in Solid Gold! Just a little something to mark the fifty page point of The Wayward Queen… What better way to do so than with...
View ArticleSketchy Sunday: More Doggies!
Pff, I keep taking work out to the park thinking I'll get some sun and be productive at the same time, and then I end up sketching cute doggies instead... It must be Summer. (Sooooo many cute doggies...
View ArticleSketchy Sunday: Restarting With More Doggies
I'm back. The big deadlines and heat waves of Summer are cleared away, so I guess I'll try reviving this blog... Of course there are now Autumn deadlines to contend with (and, apparently, another heat...
View ArticleSketchy Sunday: Golden Eagle
Delayed Sunday post due to IlluXCon... I almost missed it this year due to lack of planning, missed the bus on Saturday, but managed to get there just in time on the last day (Sunday.) I blasted...
View ArticleWhatever Wednesday: Canadian Geese
Seeing as it's going on Autumn and the geese are about to be passing through, how about some goose sketches? Done in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and park, as usual (there's always at least a couple of...
View ArticleSketchy Sunday: Falcon and Goshawk
Quick (late) update... More raptor sketches from the same batch as last week, this time a bunch of tiny doodles of a northern goshawk and a peregrine falcon. (Sketched at a raptor rescue center quite a...
View ArticleSketchy Sunday: Turkey Vultures
More raptor sketches from the same batch as these guys... Turkey vultures! These guys are reeeeeeally weird looking. They have these big holes in their heads, I'm not sure what they're for - the better...
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