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Tag Archives: around the studio
fude festival! part 1
Back from a little break from the whole internet thing and ready to make June a pretty exciting month here on the old blog. In addition to the festival that starts today, there will be a Really Big Event later … Continue reading
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Tagged a cartoonist's life, around the studio, drawing, drawing tools, writing
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poem about a (shark-shaped) pencil case
Disappointment on seeing a “shark-shaped” pencil case. Not shaped much like a shark. Not a very good pencil case. I think I will buy the one I saw on eBay. My shark is swimming here from China. I wrote this … Continue reading
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Tagged around the studio, photography, poetry, sharks, writing
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best of the drawing of the day: lizbet, ron, and humberto
Three characters in search of a story. I’m kind of distracted by the most major of major new projects (the initial training of our latest corgi, the Floofy One, aka The Martian) so it will take a while to get … Continue reading
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Tagged around the studio, drawing, drawing of the day, sketchbook world
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on finding a dunkleosteous
Everybody who grew up in Cleveland, as I did, knows the Dunkleosteous. He’s the giant Devonian predator fish that is pretty much the official giant Devonian predators fish of the city. We all grew up visiting him at the Museum … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, around the studio, on the road, photography, writing
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cover pencils
The first of what I what I hope will be (and which darn well better be) a series of posts in the work-in-progress division of “around the studio”. First up are the pencils for the new cover for the reprint … Continue reading
today
Today in the studio: bright lights, small comics. This project *will* be finished today! The art, anyway. (Lenka black and white from the new iPod touch.)
meet the monolith
I honestly don’t know what to do with myself after having spent the last 12 days enjoying an absorbing new hobby called “checking the Royal Mail package tracking website five times a day trying to figure out when my important … Continue reading
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Tagged around the studio, gadgets and technology, photography, superheroes, writing
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it’s inktober!
Inktober Day Three: Poison. It’s up to you whether you think that some of the refreshments on offer are slightly toxic. Or maybe “Poison” is the name of the Horrible Creature on the left. Inktober began a couple of days … Continue reading
a soft pencil girl
I sat down this morning to pencil the drawing of the day. Couldn’t find my favorite aluminum bodied Rotring mechanical pencil in The Many Coffee Cups of Doom and Art Supplies, so I pulled a little plastic one out at … Continue reading
distraction; dragonflies and disorganization
This start of the Interesting Fourth of July Project has been put off one day due to poor organization in the studio. And also I got to go out and drink coffee and photograph to different kinds of dragonflies in … Continue reading
a cartoonist in Kekionga 