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 […]
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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?
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
Wooing the Muse
Sometimes Iris just gives up on trying to keep my nose to the grindstone. I wanted to try using my brush-pen to do some really delicate details that I […]
Persuading the Muse
Iris is still not convinced about this drawing-a-day thing. She’s a bit high-strung but she’ll settle down soon, I’m sure. I, however think it’s a great chance to practice stuff […]
The Muse is not Amused
Uh-oh — now I’ve done it. Forgot to check in with the muse. Meet Iris, whose name means Rainbow. She’s my art muse. I have a bunch of muses, and […]
Testing Watercolour Paper with Renfrew the Raccoon
Renfrew the Raccoon is a character in a graphic novel I’m working on with author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, and as I’m just about to start on the full-sized drawings, I […]
Character Study — Renfrew the Racoon
Another character in the Spam and the Sasquatch graphic novel that I’m working on, in partnership with author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, is Renfrew the Raccoon. (see yesterday’s post for links […]
Cougar Annie — a west coast tale in comics
Cougar Annie is the story of a legendary woman of Vancouver Island’s pioneer days. I did this comic as part of last year’s Comics and Graphic Novels program at Camosun […]
A Comic in Process: from Thumbnails to Finished
I just finished the 64 pages of thumbnails for one of the graphic novels I’m working on, and am feeling like celebrating! Whoo-hoo! Since I’m watching my calories, I won’t […]
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 […]
Horse Sense — a short story in comics form
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 […]
Spam the Cat Becomes a Character Maquette (Part 1)
I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s mentoring session with Joan Steacy. We’re going to work on character maquettes all day, one of my favourite things to do. It doesn’t even seem […]
Comics Jam Medicine
This evening I was very blue. Seeing too many disturbing posts on Facebook put me over the top, and I was paralyzed with blueness. Maybe even shading into ultraviolet. I […]
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, […]
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