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The tenth edition of Toby's Annual Hand-drawn (despite being exclusively a digital artist at this point) Mother's Day card. On the heels of the 2012 and 2013 cards where I was trying to capture some element of family life or a family activity, I chose to put the dragon kids up on top of some

In the ninth installment of hand-made Mother's Day cards for my wife, the dragon kids are older, and they have a new puppy, just like their human counterparts. Kuma (the dog) is an Alaskan malamute and is quite a bit bigger these days. As usual, still trying to capture some of the kids' expressions in

The eighth Mother's Day card for the wifey, for this year I was really aiming to capture their spirits and put them in a situation that represents something we do as a family: ski and snowboard. I started using more photo reference to inform how I drew their faces, trying to get their little details

The...seventh (?) Mother's Day card I made for my wife. Still trying to capture the unique looks and personalities of our boys and put them in dragon form, trying to make them age alongside their human inspirations. If you squint your eyes, you can kind of tell that they're supposed to by lying down in

Another year, another dragon kid Mother's Day card for my wife. At this point I was really starting to refine each kid's look, trying to imbue them with certain traits and the personalities of our boys. Once again, fine and brush tip pens with greyscale Prismacolor markers.

No need for a double take, I do appear to have missed 2008 in my line of hand made Mother's Day cards for my wife. I'm not sure how this happened, I hope I had a really good reason, but I can't figure out what it would have been. My wife wants to think I

The fourth in this now traditional series of annual Mother's Day cards for my wife. The two dragons are a bit older, and later that year we were expecting our third, hence the egg. Our actual children pretty much reacted the same way to his arrival, too. I opted to do this one in ink,

The third Mother's Day card for my wife, this time there's a new addition! By 2006 we added another son to the mix. The older dragon boy has aged a little more. This was the last color card I made, I'm not really sure why I switched to the black and white cards afterwards. I

The second Mother's Day card I made for my wife. Our son was a little older, so was his dragon alter ego. This was pencil, ink, water color, and colored pencil on water color paper. The inside of the card. The sketches for this card. As you can see, I don't usually

The initial sketches trying to figure out the characters and composition. This is the first, hand drawn, Mother's Day card I made for my wife after the birth of our first son. My wife loves dragons, so I started this little tradition of drawing all our kids as cartoony dragons. This is the