Gallery (and Stuff) Update: Insert Witty and Creative Title Here
I told you my hot streak of blog posts at the start of the year wouldn't last. It's been a month or more since my last post here, but, as is usually the case, I've been keeping busy. I've been working on Inside Toby's Brain a lot, as well as focusing on my latest sewing project for more than a month now, I think. Somewhere along the way, I also did another book cover for L.S. Gagnon: Thea The Little Witch: The Search for Coco is the sixth book in the series. You can get a copy
Who’s Got the Best Smile?
Four weeks into 2021, four new blog posts?! Yeah, I don't know what's up with that. I can tell you right now I already don't have a plan for next week, so my streak likely ends right here. It was good while it lasted, at least, though, right? These posts also have been taking a considerable amount of time between editing/prepping files to upload, captioning them, waiting for sluggish load times, and getting into fights with technology in general. I have spent four hours so far (as of...this word) putting this all together, which is fine. I still count
Xmas Card Envelopes 2020, and Some Stuff
I think at this point it's safe to assume all of the xmas card envelopes I illustrated are in their respective intended hands, so I'm going to go ahead and share them all here. As I mentioned...somewhere, I returned to the theme I stumbled onto last year: Totally Reasonable Uses for a Plunger. It proved fun in 2019, it was equally fun in 2020, and I'm much more confident about the potential of turning the idea into a picture book of some type. I'm building a list of "uses" to illustrate, and the envelope art will serve as some
Inktober 2020 Recap
Just a few months late with this one. I intended to do the annual Inktober recap right after I wrapped up, which was a week or so into November. But, life sidetracked me between October and November, and the crunch of getting the Xmas cards done (which probably still haven't all been received yet) and trying at least to hit my 2020 goal of six new shirt designs all threw me off my game completely. If you want to know a bit more about that, or anything else from Toby's Brain in 2020, you can read my year-in-review post from
2020 Year in Review
Well, here we are. 2021. Time to take a look back at the year that was to gain a little perspective while planning for the year that is. I could take this post in so many different directions, and despite having a little outline of things I want to remember to cover, I'm still not sure what I'm going to write. Should I stick strictly to what goals I started 2020 with and which ones I accomplished? Should I get into some of the personal "stuff", since that impacts and is reflected in art? Should I go by project,
Lee’s Dragons: Arctic Dragon
It's that time of year again! My wife had a birthday, so she got another dragon illustration! This year's dragon for my wife's birthday: the Arctic (or Polar) Dragon. This clocked in at about 56 hours and 4 minutes, give or take. It's a slight departure from the previous entries in that it's (digital) pen and ink, rather than a fully rendered digital painting. It was my wife's request, she prefers my ink work I guess.I studied some images of polar bears to get an appropriate gesture as well as looked up some arctic scenery. I wanted it
Please let me know what you think, it makes my brain happy.