Creating a Colouring Page from a Photo
It’s Christmas Eve! One of the delightful array of holidays this time of year. Whether you celebrate Solstice, or Christmas, or Kwanza, Hanukkah, Galaxy Day, or one I don’t know […]
Category Archives: Technique
Drawing a Crow in Coloured Pencil
Seems like crows are everywhere these days. For us urban dwellers, they’re one of the few representatives of wildlife we see on a regular basis. Social media is full of […]
Painting the Caracal
I can’t believe the Zooly Art Challenge is over! A month of drawing and painting animals was great fun, despite missing out on some due to my adventures with my […]
A Spooky Christmas!
Christmas-and-spooks seems to be A Thing, and it’s not new — of course Dickens’ great classic, A Christmas Carol comes quickly to mind, and modern tales such as “Nightmare Before Christmas” […]
Colored Pencil Magazine Article!
Hey, art-process fans! Want to know how I made this comic? I just got word that the article I submitted to Colored Pencil Magazine is now in the June issue, […]
Painting Mermaids and Merboys
Why are mermaids always maids? What do you call a boy, er, mermaid? Merboy? Merlad? A grown male mer-person is a merman, or sometimes, a triton (though they usually have […]
Mermaid Music Returns!
I’ve just resumed, after a summer break, my webcomic, Mermaid Music. I thought I’d celebrate by documenting my working process for the first page of “Chapter Two — Over the […]
New Technique Links!
I’ve just made a new menu (look to your left) for tutorial and educational pages I’m making based on some of my classes. So far I have three links you can […]
Fiddling with Green
Summer Drawing Challenge Day 3 I’ve been experimenting with markers for a little while, gradually slipping down the proverbial slope. It started with three grey Prismacolor markers I got to […]
Technique-of-the-Week: Polishing a Page
Making a graphic novel involves a lot of steps! I’m getting close to finishing the artwork, and running all the pages through Photoshop to get each one ready for publication. I […]
Technique-of-the-Week — Comic page in watercolour
Today I painted the first double-page spread of Spam and the Sasquatch, and took pictures as I did each stage! So follow along if you like, and help me celebrate […]
Technique-of-the-Week: Texturing Acrylic Paintings
This is my 100th post! Yay! And it just happens to fall on Technique Saturday: Coincidence? I think so… Here’s a fun way to paint if you are into acrylics […]
Technique-of-the-Week — Demystifying Watercolour Paints
Every Saturday I post about some aspect of art technique. This week’s technique is more of a pre-technique. I’m a strong believer in knowing your materials, in order to get […]
Technique of the Week, or, finishing Spam the Cat (part 4)
It’s been ages since I worked on my Spam the Cat polymer clay maquette, and I’m attempting to get it finished for the comic conference at Camosun College tomorrow. So […]
Technique of the Week — Plein-Air Tips
Plein- Air: just a fancy way of saying you are going outside to paint! With spring upon us in the northern hemisphere (more or less), it’s time to start thinking […]
Shapechanger Goes Camping
The process of making a comic, step-by-step Yesterday I posted a one-page comic that I did as part of a school program, at the beginning of the year, and I […]
Technique-of-the-Week — Through the Eye of a Flower
Last week I did a step-by-step coloured pencil demo of a flower, in response to a question from a follower. The second part of her question, however, was a little […]
Technique-of-the-Week — Coloured Pencil Flower
Also, this is Drawing-a-Day number 18! A double-duty drawing! A few weeks ago, I had a request from Ilex of Midwestern Plants (check out her wonderful blog here!) for a tutorial […]
Technique-of-the-Week — Combining Pen & Ink and Watercolour
It’s time for another dive into my vast pile of workshop handouts! I have been using this technique a lot lately, as it is my favourite method of colouring comics. […]
Technique of the Week — Collage, beyond the Magazine
Almost everyone has made a collage at sometime in their lives; often by cutting up pictures from magazines and reassembling them to express a theme or an inspirational message. This […]
Technique of the Week — Demystifying Watercolour Paper
Since I was testing watercolour paper yesterday, this article that I wrote up for my watercolour students came to mind to post for this week’s technique. I’ve inserted some of […]
Technique of the Week — How to be a Watercolour Wizard
This week’s Saturday Technique post is really a whole suite of techniques — sweet, eh? From time to time I teach a one-day workshop called “Watercolour Special Effects Magic”. It’s […]
Playing Fast and Loose with Watercolour
It’s been a busy week! I’ve completed the thumbnails for the graphic novel about Spam and the Sasquatch (now I get to start drawing the actual panels — both nervous-making […]
Technique of the Week — Celtic Knotwork
It’s Saturday, time to post one of handouts from the various and numerous classes and workshops I have taught over the years! This gives me a bit of a break […]
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