I dare not write the 1K words that should accompany this illustration, for fear it will make my blog Rated XXX. But I do hope they used prophylactics on those prehensile tails. The last thing we need is a runaway outbreak of salmonella. Cartoon created for Loose Id. Share this post:
I’m not sure what this is yet, but I made it completely from scratch in Photoshop. There appears to be a lot of potential, as I see butterflies and fairies—masses of them. I see gnarly tree trunks and vines, an explosion of flowers, a riot of leaves, swirly clouds in the sky, and a castle in the distance. I’m afraid to try to paint them all in and wonder if it’s better to simply leave this as it is. Perhaps…
Doodles of mine like this one piss H.E. off because they’re not on proper paper. He hates when I draw on crappy scratch paper and is always on me about not using my store-bought sketchbooks, my pretty black hardbound art books full of super white acid-free paper, most of them so woefully blank. But I really couldn’t help it this time. The paper where this doodle lives is actually one of my three to-do lists, which are always so handily…
Meet the bunny… …the bear… …and the love monster. These are just three of the stuffed toys in my bedroom. One of these I got for my birthday. Another I got for Valentine’s Day. Another was for just because. One sings. Two are on my bed, one on top of the other, probably doing it. And one is not really quite the color portrayed. Jen, who is one year younger than Ted, is two years older than Mike, who is…
I was hoping to have one more cover to show this week, but it’s still in draft hell these past three or four weeks. The feedback e-mail on it always seems to travel by Pony Express, not just from one end of the country to the other, but from some other galaxy to this one. Fitting, I suppose, since the book is science fiction and all, but still… So really, the first two covers you see here are the only…