The Gi Coat 2.0: The Beast Coat
I. Am. Tired. BUT, at long last, my latest wool coat creation is complete (except for maybe some random adjustments that come up after wearing it around a while)! It's built off of one of the first sewing projects I did several years ago: my "Gi Coat". I've been a martial artist since 1995, and I have a great appreciation for martial arts related fashion (and Asian fashion in general). I've always liked the simplicity of my karate gi, overlap one side on the other and fasten with a couple of ties. That first wool gi coat I
PMD Xmas Card Envelopes 2021
Somehow, here we are in 2022. I intend to do a year in review style post about 2021, which should be...interesting. I didn't post here as much as I intended, and I dropped the ball on a lot of goals I had set at the start of the year. But, I think I did accomplish a lot, some of which wasn't on that goal list (at least initially). Before that post, though, I have to do the annual sharing of the xmas card envelopes. For anyone new here (which, given my stats and how little time I have to
Inktober 2021 Wrap Up
Here we are, another year, another Inktober infused with plungers and monkeys (everyone's favorite plunger-wearing monkey, specifically). I've taken to doing these recaps/wrap ups at the end of the challenge, but this one will be a bit of a general "what's been going on?" as well, since I've barely posted anything here this year. If you follow me on my other social media thingies, then you know I've been staying busy. I'll do an end of year/year in review post like I usually do, but just in general, I'm a bit off of the goals I set for myself
Lee’s Dragons: Cat Dragon
'Sup. It's been awhile...Since June 18, according to my last blog post. Life has been, well, nuts. I've made art over the last 3 months, but not as much as I'd like. If you follow the Toby's Brain FB page, you're pretty aware of all the "real life" things that have been getting in my way. My last blog post here was about an illustration I drew for my oldest son's high school graduation. Since then, he was scrambling to get his Eagle Project and paperwork done and submitted before he turned 18 (which he did. Mostly. Thankfully he
I Have A High School Graduate?!?
Yeah, that title is accurate. Somehow or another, my oldest son suddenly became high school graduate age. At the same time, my youngest just graduated 8th grade and is on to high school. It's been a whirlwind busy week of graduation related "stuff", and none of it has completely sunk in. I may be actively denying that reality in my head, though. I'm not quite ready for any of them to be grown up. There are so many things I feel like I missed out on with them, things I wish I had done with them, lessons I think
New Shirt Alert: A New…Plunger?
Well, here we are in May (?!), and I'm finally getting around to releasing a new shirt (and if you want to skip my rambling and go straight to decorating your torso, and you missed the other links, you can go get yourself the new PMD Wars shirt here). This one was almost ready to go, much like the Blade of the Monkey shirt from the end of 2020, but I got hung up on the final look. I'm still not 100% sure (not that I ever am about anything) that this one is "done", it's one of those that
Please let me know what you think, it makes my brain happy.