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Getting ready to kick in the New Year! 🎉 I've been doing variations of this image every couple of years. Each time, a slightly differ...

UPDATE: Color! (Originally published on Saturday, January 26, 2019) It's been quite a long time since I stepped foot in this blog.  Not ...

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

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

UPDATE I was working on this illustration a while back, but I had no spare time and had to put it aside. The composition was too busy, but...

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...

I've written many picture book manuscripts over the years. Sometimes I'll write a story and I "see" the characters. Other ...

This image was initially done sometime around Sept 2018. I'm only getting around to posting it here on the blog today . . .  My siste...

Throwback Thursday: A Valentine sketch I did for my wife several years ago. They say a picture paints a thousand words. Nuff said. Valen...

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...

This image was inspired by a blog by two of my favorite online illustrators, Guy Francis and Stacy Curtis. Their blog is called: Dueling Ban...

I created this image based on my New Year Baby image from last month. This one goes out to all my friends and co-workers on the other side o...

Ever wonder what ladybugs do during their winter vacation? Quick ink and watercolor warmup from this morning.

A poor little Meep-Moop is being picked on by one of those alien-bully Skarggs. Someone should do something about this . . . These alie...

This image pretty much explains all the feelings I have now that the holiday break is over, and a new year has begun.

This will probably only make sense to people who buy toilet paper. If you don't get the joke, go out and buy toilet paper soon. Chri...

Some time ago my sister-in-law, Steph, asked me to do this image. She never mentioned why, but I had fun creating it. So now I'm sharin...