INKTOBER 2024 Day #5: BINOCULARS
INKTOBER 2024 Day 5: BINOCULARS. “Hey look, another ‘Star Wars’ reference. I always thought Luke’s macrobinoculars from ‘A New Hope’ were cool. That is until I did the visual research for this prompt and realized the macrobinoculars I have envisioned for I don’t even know how long were the one’s the Rebels had on
INKTOBER 2024 Day #4: EXOTIC
INKTOBER 2024 Day #4: EXOTIC. “Polly wanna…plunger? We actually have three macaws (at one point it was four, but the oldest one sadly passed away unexpectedly at 35 years old. He was a blue and gold, and their life expectancy can be 50 or more years). Actually, all but one are older than my
INKTOBER 2024 Day #3: BOOTS
INKTOBER 2024 Day #3: BOOTS. “The crossover absolutely no one was clamoring for! A meeting between the two apparel-based simians: Plunger Monkey Dynamo and Boots the Monkey! The world will never be the same! My kids grew up in the ‘Dora the Explorer’ era and were sort of fans (or at least tolerated it)
INKTOBER 2024 Day #2: DISCOVER
INKTOBER 2024 Day #2: DISCOVER. “You see, this one’s layered, like an onion. PMD is using one of the most common symbols for discovery: a magnifying glass. He’s also discovered you can harness the sun’s rays with the lens. And he discovered fire…or something. Okay, so it’s not a very big onion, nor is
INKTOBER 2024 Day #1: BACKPACK
INKTOBER 2024 Day #1: BACKPACK. “Why yes, this is a ‘Star Wars’ reference. It’s also a reference to the hilarious song ‘Seagulls! (Stop It Now)’ by the folks over at the Bad Lip Reading YouTube channel (if you’ve somehow never seen the video and are even moderately a fan of ‘Star Wars’, you must
INKTOBER 52 2024 Week #39: GLOVE
INKTOBER 52 2024 Week #39: GLOVE. “I’ve always really liked ornate, magical gauntlets in video games. I don’t really know why. Maybe because it’s an area of the human form, an article of clothing, that usually doesn’t have a lot of ornamentation to it. Gloves in the real world tend to be more plain,
INKTOBER 52 2024 Week #38: CHASE
INKTOBER 52 2024 Week #38: CHASE. “Get it? Wild goose chase? Yeah. I don’t have much to say about this one. I suppose I could go on a random tangent about the few years we had geese as part of our flock of ducks. We have since switched to chickens because waterfowl just make
INKTOBER 52 2024 Week #37: TATTOO
INKTOBER 52 2024 Week #37: TATTOO. “I don’t have any tattoos. There was a time in my youth where I wanted to get some, and, like anything art related, I wanted to design them myself. It wasn’t long before I realized what a bad idea that would be because I’m never satisfied with my
INKTOBER 52 2024 Week #36: MUSIC
INKTOBER 52 2024 Week #36: MUSIC. “I don’t even know what to say about this one. As usual, after pondering this prompt, one of the first things my Brain went to was what I ended up going with. In this case, it was ‘The Music of the Night’. I don’t know that I’ve ever
LEE’S DRAGONS: SNAIL DRAGON
This year's dragon for my wife's birthday clocked in at almost 30 hours. It's the most complex illustration I've done for this annual tradition to date. I was originally going to go with a different animal to chimerize (yes, I made "chimera" a verb), but one night, unable to sleep (as usual) I randomly
INKTOBER 52 2024 Week #35: LOFT
INKTOBER 52 2024 Week #35: LOFT. “I don’t know, man. The first thing my Brain said when I saw the prompt ‘loft’ was that song ’99 Luftballoons’. I mentioned the prompt to my wife to see what she thought when hearing the word, and she also said ’99 Luftballoons’. So, here we are. I
INKTOBER 52 2024 Week #34: RIDE
INKTOBER 52 2024 Week #34: RIDE. “Presumably my fellow Metallica fans will instantly get this one. We’ll also conveniently ignore the darker meaning to the phrase ‘ride the lightning’ that the song is about. I got bullied a lot when I was younger, I felt ostracized and different. When high school rolled around, it
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