Gallery Update: Merry Plunger-mas!
The first month of 2o17 is almost in the books, but it's not too late to post about xmas, right? I hope not, because I have several posts coming up somewhat related to that. I've been trying to finish up the book cover for the fourth Thea: The Little Witch series. I'm currently awaiting approval. I still have a handful of illustrations, plus a book cover for another author, awaiting me, but, I don't want to fall too far behind on postings. I haven't had the time to work on IPMDT while working on the cover, but I hope to
Gallery Update: I Haven’t Posted Since Last Year! And Other Hilarious Jokes…
Alright, that title was the only joke, and not much of one at that. Unless you consider me or this site a joke (or the fact that I first posted this blog post in the gallery instead of on my blog...)...but at least you're here... Anywhat, I thought the tail end of 2016 was crazy, project-wise, but the start of 2017 is looking even more packed, with some actual paid illustration work mixed in there! As far as the last projects of last year, I'll be posting about each of them in the coming weeks (that't the plan, anyway), but
Gallery Update: Let There Be Star Wars!
On December 15th, the wife and I decided to surprise the kids after school by taking them to the first pre-opening day showing of Rogue One (yes, I thought it was awesome. This is not news). For a while now, I've been thinking it would be fun to do some PMD illustrations outside of IPMDT to commemorate certain events or happenings. Star Wars Rogue One was the perfect event, given the overall significance of Star Wars in my creative life. I've always thought of Plunger Monkey as somewhat of my alter ego, a manifestation of some of the crazier parts
Insert Clever Title Here
Alright, trying to get back into some kind of productive nightly ritual and put my tablet to good use. I have several other post ideas, but I'm skipping over those to get to this one...I just can't come up with a title... I love working digitally, but I miss "traditional" media. It's part of the reason I've been drawing It's Plunger Monkey Dynamo Time! exclusively the old-fashioned way, then scanning, tweaking, and formating the panels into strips. I like the feel of pencil and ink on different textures of paper. I like erasing the pencil lines to fully reveal the
Life Lately and Happy Turkeys!
(Given the date, I should stick a link in here to Turkey Man, my Thanksgiving Super Hero drawing from a long, long, long time ago to start this post. I also ought to do a current version of him at some point...) So, as I was checking in on my almost non-existent site stats, I realized it's been over a month since my last post! That's a bit too long. I do more frequent posting/updates to the Face Book page and my Instagram account, but I do want to stay more active here. But, as I've said before, if I have
Tablet Art: Making Technological Frustrations Mobile!
Okay, a couple of things right off the bat. First, dang it's been a long time since I've posted! There's been lots of "life" stuff going on, plus, it's Inktober! I've been trying to spend my evening hours pumping out It's Plunger Monkey Dynamo Time! panels rather than trying to update this place. Given a choice, I'm usually going to chose to draw, which is good, I guess, though if I don't put myself and my work "out there" via this place and FB and Instagram etc, then my theme park dreams are going to be hard to realize...Anywhat, most
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