Going Digital in 2023, Part 2
Nearly every October, I jump on the bandwagon for the Inktober art challenge. This year I did Inktober/Catober, using Inktober prompts with a cat theme. I didn’t do all of […]
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Sketchbook Roundup 5: Sketch Cards
It’s Day five of my sketchbook series, but today is not going to be about drawings from my sketchbooks, but sketch cards. Sketch cards are tiny cards, often (but not […]
Sketchbook Roundup 2: Hoofing It
Today is the second in a series of peeks into my sketchbooks. In honour of Earth Week, I’m posting some of my animal drawings that I’ve done over the last […]
Meeting the Art Challenge
The word “challenge” conjures up a lot of different connotations: a dare, a provocation, an opposition, a task, a problem. An Art Challenge contains many of these; it’s a kind […]
Pine Cone, Artichoke, or Pangolin?
Now that I’m back in my nice quiet studio, and caught up on all the things that need catching up on after a trip, I’m starting to make some time […]
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 […]
Zooly Comics and Drawings
The Zooly Art Challenge has got me back in the studio, though my eyesight challenges are still, um, challenging. This week I’ll be getting my other new eye, and hopefully […]
Magic Vision — Through Science!
As a visual artist, my eyesight is of prime importance, and I’ve just embarked on the life-changing experience of having my vision corrected — surgically. I’ve been extremely nearsighted since […]
Everyday Art
Hi everybody! February has been a busy month of art-making for me. I wrote at the beginning of the month about the Opus Daily Practice Challenge; now it’s the end […]
Bunnies and Squirrels!
On the last day of the year, what better thing to do than to draw! I’ve been working on some character drawings, and decided to practice a bit of digital “inking” […]
Dinosaur Sibling Rivalries
Dinosaurs! My first ever illustrated book was created when I was in Grade 3 (I think). I loved dinosaurs. I checked out every book on dinosaurs in the school library […]
Galapagos Mistaken Identity
One place I’ve always wanted to go is to the Galapagos. Since reading articles in the National Geographic as a child, I’ve longed to see the islands that inspired Mr. […]
Ask an Elephant!
I’ve been having an ongoing conversation with a lot of my friends lately over the lost art of map-reading. Seems all this GPS usage is eroding the ability to read […]
They call it… Camouflage
Why do animals hide? Lots of reasons! When I saw today’s Inktober prompt word,”hidden”, of course I thought of all the ways animals have as built-in blending strategies. Colours and […]
False Felines
Inktober, Day 5. I’ve been digitally filing illustrations and doing last little tweaks to the book art all day in Photoshop. Getting to do a wee quick drawing was a […]
Meanwhile, in Australia…
Day 3: Today’s Inktober word was “collect”. I suppose I could have just drawn my animal model collection, but it was too obvious. Also, too many animals! So… what’s the […]
Quadra Cats Book!
I’ve been working on a mini-comicbook of the Quadra Cats cartoons! I’ve got the script done, which will tie together most of the existing cartoons into a continuous story. Because they […]
Black Cat Evolution
I’m on a roll with these black cats that I’m doing for Inktober. I’m really enjoying the challenge of trying to capture the sheen of their fur, and the intense […]
Cats & Pumpkins
Here’s the new Halloween cover photo for my Facebook and twitter pages — thought I’d continue with the black cat theme I’ve been doing for Inktober. I’ve been languishing lately over […]
Inktober Black Cats
More Inktober goodies — this time I decided to tackle the challenge of black cats. Shiny black cats. Black cats are notorious for being hard to photograph, and drawing them […]
More Inktober Drawings
I’m really enjoying Inktober (see my last post for more about that), especially with these little elf characters I’m designing! Here are three more little guys that I’ve done in […]
Inspired by Inktober!
I’m doing Inktober! I’ve been hearing about Inktober for several years now, watching my friends post their ink drawings on their social media, but didn’t know what it was about. […]
Art Supplies for Comics — Ink!
This is the fourth in a series of posts based on the weekly handouts I give my comics class – if you’re just happening upon it now, there is a […]
A Feisty Mama Raccoon
Summer Drawing Challenge Day 4 Raccoons have been much on my mind lately, what with drawing the character of Renfrew for Spam and the Sasquatch, and discovering that the mysterious […]
Informing the Muse
Summer Drawing Challenge Day 2 Do we need words? No, we do not. For more Iris the Art Muse comics, click her tab in the menu bar at the top. […]
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