HOHOHO!

It's that time of year!  This is just the BACK of my Christmas card this year.  Needless to say, if you receive one, I think you are awesome.  The front, I will post after the holidays, because I am exhausted.

LIGHTS!

The Nutcracker suite ballet.  It's so twinkly.  This image, among others, can be found in my new calendar, 365 Reasons to Dance, which included holidays for every single day of the year, and super-awesome illustrations for every single month, and is now for sale in my BigCartel shop.  It's seasonally appropriate, too.

Party Talk

Two pieces I did for Experience Life magazine, on navigating parties.  Call it a Field Guide, if you will.

I just did.

Included in this blog post, please find assorted sketches...

Sea Art!

A bunch of art I made for my uncle a few months ago about what will happen to coasts with rising sea levels and over fishing, and how to successfully manage that.

Big Cartel Man

I just created an online store upon which to sell my home-published wares.

The first three items listed are my two self-published comic books Dark Ambrosia and Bad Knight, and my 2015 Calendar, 365 Reasons to Dance.

This calendar is a yearly tradition, previously only available to clients, employers, and family members, all of whom will still be receiving one non gratis this year too.

But ANYONE ELSE, check around here, and finish up your Christmas shopping in one fell swoop.




UPDATED: by popular buyer request, an image of all 12 Calendar Months to peruse.  Go to BigCartel.  All of this can be yours for only $20, plus shipping and handling.  At that price, I'm practically giving these away.

The Greek System

 
I had always suspected that the Greek System was a breeding ground for dicks.  Now we know it's a breeding ground for predatory dicks.

The Blood of Salsa Dancers

Upon delivering the final blows, I was covered with enough red to do a pretty good Patrick Bateman in the bathroom mirror.

Inktober Day... who am I kidding?

Some free drawing exercises I totally and absolutely did on consecutive days in October to close out Inktober.  Ha ha ha ha.

Inktober Day 27

I like drawing water like this.

Inktober Day 26

Seaside.

Those animals seem kind of cramped, don't they?

Inktober 25

A Sharpie comic I made this afternoon.

Inktober Day 24

Lots of boats.

Inktober Day 21, 22, & 23

Goddamn it Harry, half the crazy stuff that happens in these books happens because you refuse to follow simple instructions or tell an adult, and every decision you make is wrong.

The real title of the series should be "Hermione Saves Her Dumb Friends Again."

Inktober Day 20

Finished buck.

Birch trees are fun to draw.

Inktober Day 19

This is an unfinished experiment to see how well I can control ink bleeding on watercolor paper.  I''ve planned enough background detail that I can practice and get good at this before I try it on anything else.

Inktober Day 18

Something a little different.  This image is print-size.  Print it out and fold it like THIS:

And you have an infinite little storybook you can amuse a small child, or a person who hasn't been a child for decades but still enjoys Power Rangers, for hours.

Inktober Day 17

So, I was listening to "This American Life" earlier today, and they had a story about a troubled black teen who was slowly reforming himself with the immense help of charter school teachers.  Then, during a field trip, a guy on the subway bumps him and he says, "Say excuse me."  The guy starts yelling expletives and picks a fight, and only after two teachers intervene does he whip out a badge and say he's a plainclothes cop.  He arrests a couple of students who have to spend the night in jail.  Fortunately, the teen's classmates had been through this sort of scenario before and took video with their smartphones and discreetly slipped his electronics out of his pockets so the cop wouldn't confiscate them.

This coincided nicely with the segment I had seen the night before on the Daily Show where Jon Stewart tries to convince Bill O'Reilly that white privilege is a thing that exists.

With those two things buzzing around my head all day, I thought it would be helpful to Mr. O'Reilly if I made him a visual aid of how prejudice in America still affects black people.

Incidentally, like last time, I did this drawing straight.  No pencils.

Inktober Day 16

"Will You Dance" and sketches.

All of these were done with no pencil sketches, which is a skill I need to work on more, since I quite like the super-loose vibe you get from them.  Mistakes will crop up, but that's why you must not be afraid to fail and try again.

Inktober Day 15

Someone wanted a Gonzo. 
I wanted to practice watercolor. 
Everyone wins!

Inktober Day 14

Inktober Day 13

Biirds in a cadge, with vines.

Inktober Day 12

Hobbit fan art.  A little Smaug action for you.

Inktober Day 11

Girl with Bunny Eyes.

Inktober Day 10

So, what exactly is my 24-hour comic about?

Coffee. 

Really, really good coffee.  Just put the finishing touches on this panel today.

Inktober Days 8 and 9

Let's make some value judgments here.

Inktober Day7

Day seven on this wretched island I have named "Inktober."  Our resources dwindle.  Last night my only source of nourishment was a bottle of Cholula hot sauce.  I fell in love with the woman on the label.  She is my angel, my last bastion against insanity.

I fear we will be forced to resort to cannibalism within the month.

Inktober Day 6

This is sort-of drunken kung-fu.  Actual drunken kung-fu uses core strength to tilt and sway as if you were drunk, while maintaining perfect balance.  You hold your hands as if they were filled with drinking cups to fight, and the whole thing is supposed to put the enemy off-guard.

The Jackie Chan movie Drunken Master is a pretty good interpretation of drunken kung-fu, except for the part where he has to get actually drunk to be good at it.

Inktober Day 5

Edgar.

He's a cat I'm allergic to.

Inktober Day 4

Inktober happens to happen at the same time as 24-Hour Comic Day, which means that another page is all I have the time for today.  It's a day late, but you try making 24 pages in 24 hours.

Inktober Day 3

24-Hour Comic Day coincides with Inktober.

How convenient.

Inktober 2

What if Tintin were revamped as a manga?  It would be terrible!  See a colored version on my comics tumblr, and at The Line: It Is Drawn.

Inktober Day 1

Inktober is a National Month of Thing in which those sufficiently motivated complete and post one (or more) ink drawing every day on October.

I start a day late, and make up for it with two ink drawings.

The second one was inspired by a Tom Robbins metaphor about the kind of cheese Lima, Peru would be if all cities were equated with types of cheeses (Swiss on a waffle.  I assume Zurich would be Swiss Cheese on Swiss chocolate, as prepared with Swiss army knives.)

Noveltea

How rare is this kind of moment these days?  The kind where you feel okay just ignoring your phone.  Let me tell you, it's AWESOME.

First watercolor I've done in months.