There will be a short delay…
Today was supposed to be my Technique-of-the-Week post, but due to circumstances beyond my control that rendered my house temporarily uninhabitable for the day I wasn’t able to finish my post. The […]
Dancing Muse
Drawing-a-Day 25 Iris the Art Muse has been working very hard of late. So tonight I invited her to come along to a contra dance. I play flutes and pennywhistle […]
White Wolf Woes
Drawing-a-Day 24 You know how some days, no matter what you do, you just can’t do your best? That’s how I’m feeling today. This should have been an easy little […]
A Golden (Retriever) Opportunity
Drawing-a-Day 23 I haven’t had a dog friend of my own for many years (my cat Mak likes being an only child) but every now and then I encounter one […]
Miss Penelope Chi-Wawa
Drawing-a-Day 22: Meet Miss Penelope, a lady of impeccable breeding and good taste. She may look demure and delicate, but she has nerves of steel when in a pinch. She’s […]
Dinosaur, Digitally Drawn
Drawing-a-Day number 21 — three weeks! A toy Triceratops, abandoned in a parking lot, gained a new life on my shelf of animal models. I have a collection of realistic […]
The Evolution of Spam-the-Cat
Drawing-a-Day number 20 I’ve been pencilling comic pages all day, and itching to get my hands on some colour. This is drawn from one of the panels I penciled today […]
The Muse Never Sleeps
Drawing-a-Day number 19 Iris the Art Muse is back. Well, really she never left. Now she’s thinking she might want her own zine. What do you think?
Celtic art
Originally posted on Anakin's reveries in multiverses:
An accidental follow led me to a beautiful gallery of Celtic art that pulled me into a time warp to my childhood;…
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 […]
A Feline Swashbuckler
Drawing-of-the-Day 17 Here’s another character from my doodles of last Sunday night, turned into a finished painting. I tried an experiment that was suggested to me by my mentor today […]
An Irate Mama Eagle
Drawing-of-the-Day 16! Blog post number 50! Whoo-hoo! In the graphic novel I’m working on with writer Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, there is a lady eagle who is quite irate, and telling Spam […]
Drawing-a-Day 15 — Birthday Card
My pencils and pens have been flying today — I’ve begun work on the pencils for the graphic novel, so I actually did a lot of drawings today, but I’m […]
Sid, Me, and the Bard
It’s about time I posted another comic — here’s a very silly one-page thing that I did for a class assignment last year. In our character design class, we had […]
Drawing-a-Day — Fortnight!
Today’s sketch marks two whole weeks I have been doing this. Sometimes I’ve only gotten a sketch in before midnight by the skin of my teeth, but I’ve done it, […]
Doodling a Drawing-a-Day — Little Bird Guy
Last night my hubby and I went to our usual Sunday evening haunt, the Victoria Folk Music Society’s weekly coffeehouse. I like to sit and doodle while I’m there, in […]
When a Drawing-a-Day Becomes Four Little Paintings
Today I taught my introduction to Watercolour Techniques class. I love beginner’s classes — it’s like getting to show your beloved city off to someone who’s never been there. And […]
Catching up on the Drawing-a-Day thing
It’s been a crazy-busy couple of days, and as I mentioned yesterday, I was away from the internet and didn’t have an opportunity to post yesterday’s sketch. So here it […]
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. […]
An Experimental Post and Pic
Today I won’t be able to post my regular post, as i will be out of the range of the internet (what?!? is anyplace out of range of the internet […]
Digital Dragon Delight — Drawing-a-Day 9
I can’t help it, I just like alliteration. Really, this is more of a painting today, but that starts with a P. Yesterday I posted the beginnings of a dragon […]
Drawing-a-Day 8
Sometimes an artist has to take some time to do other things in life. For some reason, housecleaning, social obligations, the procuring of supplies, unexpected phone calls, and spur-of-the-moment expeditions […]
Drawing-a-Day 7 — building on a gesture sketch
I didn’t forget my drawing of the day, but it’s been a very busy day, so I decided to go with the theme of this evening’s main post and build […]
Practice, Practice, Practice! — Achieving right-brain bliss through figure drawing
There’s an old musician’s joke: A fellow is walking down the street in Manhatten, looking lost. He sees a couple of guys on the street corner, busking, and asks them, […]
Drawing-a-Day 6 — a portrait
My drawing a day challenge is going along swimmingly, though I’m starting to obsess about it a bit. Tonight I went to life drawing at the studio co-op I belong […]
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