The Little Artist that Could
I ink I can, I ink I can, I ink I can… I’m almost finished with the inks for Spam and the Sasquatch, and so my mantra. Serious eyestrain happening […]
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A Theory of Muses
I’ve been making art pretty much every day, intensively, since the beginning of the year. Iris the Art Muse (see her page in the menu bar if you haven’t met […]
Sneak Peek 3!
Spam, his friends, and the Sasquatch are seeing more of each other than any of them expected. In today’s isolated and therefore hopefully not spoiler panels, the Sasquatch looms large […]
Sneak Peek 2 — In Which Spam Meets the Sasquatch
Yesterday I started a series of postings of the work I’m currently doing, which is inking Spam and the Sasquatch. I’ve finally gotten to the part with the Sasquatch, and […]
Spam and the Sasquatch — Sneak preview!
As those of you know who’ve been reading this blog regularly, I’m working on a graphic novel called Spam and the Sasquatch, written specifically for this project by Elizabeth Ann […]
New — Colouring Thursday!
A few days ago, I got a message from a lady in New Zealand who had found my line drawing version of Eostre, Saxon goddess of the dawn, and downloaded […]
Spam-the-Cat Gets His Stripes
Spam the Cat Maquette went for his first outing yesterday, and charmed his adoring public — but without his stripes. Tonight I finished his paint job so that he is […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Anime, Manga, and Another Day, Another Drawing.
I had a great time at Tsukino Con this weekend, hanging out at the Camosun Comics and Graphic Novels Program table in artist’s alley, going to panels, admiring all the costumes, […]
Browsing the Blogs — Cat Deficit Alert!
Tonight I finally got a chance to sit down and look at the blogs I’m following for the first time in a week — some fantastic stuff you’re doing, folks! I only […]
A Bit of Studio Drama — Spam the Maquette gets Surgery (part 3)
I’ve been neglecting my Spam the Cat maquette for the last couple of weeks (see the previous posts here and here) because I had run into a problem I had to […]
A Typical Morning at our House
This is the first comic I made, in the evening class that led me to commit to a whole year’s full time study. I made thumbnail drawings, and corrected thumbnail […]
Spam the Cat Becomes a Character Maquette (Part 2)
This afternoon I took some progress shots on the new Spam the Cat maquette. I forgot to take pictures in the wire armature stage, sorry! I’ll remember on my next […]
New Year, New Career, New Blog
So. Somewhat to my surprise, I’ve been on this planet for very nearly 60 years. I’ve been an artist for most of that time, sometimes making a living that way, […]
