• New Year, New Projects!

    New Year, New Projects!

    Happy New Year! Whether celebrating or sleeping through it, I hope we get an amazing start this year. The bar may be low, but we can clear it! Now that the holiday season is over, some of us will be making resolutions and plans while others will be saying to hell with it all. I…

  • Promptober was a Success!

    Promptober was a Success!

    Success! We did it! Every drawing done on the day! Not one missed! Considering past years where I’ve ended up several days behind (or the one year where I dumped over a week of drawings at once), let’s just call this year a big win.  I also took the opportunity to try some different techniques…

  • Prompt, Draw, Ink!

    Prompt, Draw, Ink!

    Inktober. Drawlloween. Promptober, Prompt O’Ween! (Wait, what??) The season is upon us! It’s time for the best drawing challenges of the entire year and I’m 100% on the bandwagon. Not only am I putting a full list out ahead of time this year (last year I posted the prompt each day), but I made it…

  • New Year, New Goals!

    Happy New Year! Let’s start with a nice virtual hug. Come on, bring it in! We all need a nice, solid hug. The new year doesn’t mean things automatically change for the better (or worse), but that symbolic fresh start sure is nice. I don’t know about you, but I’m not aiming for any resolutions…

  • It’s 2020! WTF Happened??

    It’s 2020! WTF Happened??

    Seriously, what the actual fuck? I’m not going to list all of the WTF things that have happened so far this year. I’m also not going to make some silly “it can’t get any worse”-type statement. Let’s be real, that’s just asking for (more) trouble. What I am going to do apologize for largely neglecting…

  • It’s 2020! Happy New Year!

    It’s 2020! Happy New Year!

    Welcome to 2020! I hope the new year finds you well! What’s New?  Last time I posted Inktober was approaching and so was my carpal tunnel release surgery. I sat down a bagillion times to write an update, but… ok, no excuses. I just didn’t do it. But it’s a new year and the perfect…

  • Inktober is Almost Here!

    Inktober is Almost Here!

    The lists are out!! That’s right kids, Inktober (and Drawlloween) are less than a week away! Last year I combined the *official* Inktober list with Mab Grave’s Drawlloween list to make a double-whammy drawing each day. Some combos worked out better than others (and you can pretty much tell which days were “catch up” days),…

  • Third Time’s a Charm – Jewelry Making with the Kiddo

    Third Time’s a Charm – Jewelry Making with the Kiddo

    It. Finally. Happened. I made some new jewelry! I hope you weren’t holding your breath this whole time… Everything was laid out – beads, copper pipe sections, cord, glue – EVERYTHING. I *thought* about playing around and making some new pendants. I thought reeeeaaaalllly hard.  Then I put it all away because it was just…

  • Bookbinding Doesn’t Take that Long

    Bookbinding Doesn’t Take that Long

    Well, it shouldn’t, but it did for me and not for the reasons you might think. I started my handmade sketchbook adventure back in January when I decided that I wanted one with all different types of paper in it. That’s not something you can zip over to the art store and buy (why not??),…

  • Body Kun Alternatives?

    Body Kun Alternatives?

    Over on my YouTube channel I posted a review video of some knock-off Body Kun figures and later another for the most recent run of Figma Archetype figures. Someone commented on one of them asking if there were any other figures out there similar to Body Kun that have more manga-style proportions. The Figmas are…