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Last year I dabbled with a character for #MerMay2019, the annual month-long mermaid illustration event on the Internet. If you use Instagra...

Hard to believe it's been about two years since I created this story and character while doing jury duty. The long hours waiting was the...

Back in May, I wanted to do the #mermaychallenge, an online event where artists draw and share their mermaid illustrations during the entire...

UPDATE: New Type for Title I'm playing around with type, trying to develop a title design for the book. Placed the type on a lower l...

As mentioned in my previous post, this image is coupled with my Day#2 image. Always fun to flip the roles of the characters, now having Scar...

I decided that Mouse would be the companion of Scare D throughout Inktober. You can now see the ring from Day 1 is placed on the collar and...

Yes, it's that wonderful time of year again, Inktober. This will be the 5th year I will "try" to complete the daily inking ch...

Another Mer-Kat image for MerMay2019. Borrowed a fish image I did a few weeks back. Encountering the obnoxious BelchFish.

So with work, moving to a new home, and many other things making May insanely busy, I still wanted to do a few #MerMay images for 2019. Thi...

I have been struggling to create this character for some time. I needed a funny yet threatening Dragon for a picture book manuscript. I beli...

Cap'n Manchot is another support character for my picture book story Pirate Dreams. The story is getting bigger and bigger so I may have...

A video of inking a new character in real time I call Moon-Boy. This is a new character I'm developing for an original picture book sto...

It was obvious Hector was going to be a problem as soon as he hatched. Image inked with a Kuretake black pen brush on Canson marker Paper...

Inktober 2018 - Day 04 SPELL. I like really stepping out of the norm, and here's a great example. (Don't think you're going to...

My quickie image for Inktober2018 for Day03 for prompted word: ROASTED Thought Process:  I'm cheating a little. The prompt word immedi...

My quickie image for Inktober2018 for Day  01  for prompted word: Poison. Thought Process: I basically thought of a poison bottle. That...

Someone wrote to me asking why I sometimes mention what pens I'm using for different illustrations. What you use often makes a significa...

I have been gearing up for Inktober as mentioned previously. The plan is to do the letter-a-day/alphabet with this character Arnie Geddon, b...

With October approaching, been thinking a lot about what I want to do for Inktober 2018. Last year, in the final week I did several images o...