Man, this has been a crappy month for sales. It’s not just me, I learned last night–a fellow artist was saying that yeah, it’s been the worst month for her in a long time, too. I’m not sure what it is–January is always fairly slow, and being right up against Further Confusion doesn’t help for […]
Monthly Archives: January 2006
So I just got home from a friend’s party–similiar to a Tupperware party in some basic regards, but featuring a highly specific line of items (it is perhaps worth noting that this was a girl’s only affair)–which was quite entertaining. I got home, and acting on some vague impulse, was gazing out the back into […]
Giant food and small cute animals! Still foolin’ with the technique. Didn’t quite get it in this one, but it’s still kinda cute. http://www.deviantart.com/view/27962661/
And now there’s a squirrel orgy. This differs from the usual raunchy rodent romp in one key element. There’s a branch that hangs suspected over my deck, which was originally rather more horizontal, but which split in half where it meets the tree during a storm some months back. It’s too firmly attached to get […]
I took a nap this afternoon, and had the usual struggle with hypnogogic hallucinations and false wakings on the backend of it. In one of them, I was looking outside, and there were three or four indigo buntings there. “YES!” I thought–and then “CRAP! Am I dreaming?” So I kept closing my eyes and thinking […]
There are sparrows hopping around the platform feeder. This may seem like an absurdly common occurance, but for me, it isn’t. For whatever reason, sparrows are generally completely uninterested in my feeders. They may occasionally prowl around the ground under my landlady’s feeder, but they come up on my deck once in a blue moon, […]
I really want to keep playing with that technique I was foolin’ with yesterday. I also have six sketches to finalize and nine and a half zodiac animal paintings to do before the end of the month, plus Digger. Carrot, meet stick. (Hi, stick.) Stick, say hello to Carrot. (Pleasure to be working with you, […]
I have sooooo much work to do… And of course, because of that, I get this great idea for a technique experiment. I did a loose pencil sketch, inked it very sloppily with a black brush pen (PITT acrylic, if you haven’t been using them, go buy them NOW NOW NOW, they are wonderful things) […]
I am doing a set of illustrations of the animals in the Chinese zodiac, as I might’ve mentioned, or not, I dunno. Can’t put ’em up ’til the game is published, in any event, so the art itself is somewhat moot to this post. However. In the last week, I have done a great many […]
Man, I’ve been painting a LOT of pigs lately. For some reason, for the last couple weeks, it’s just been pig central. I’m working on a revised sketch of yet ANOTHER pig, and ranting to James about my pig-heavy workload lately. (I mean, I love piggies, but I’m in some kind of weird Swine-Space at […]