Dec 04 2007
A while back, I got really into doing these “grid” things in my sketchbook where I’d start with a small image of something and then fill the page with progressive iterations of the image, each new one being drawn based on the one that directly preceded it. I was looking through an old sketchbook last …
Dec 04 2007
If, like me, you’re interested in things cartooning-related, then chances are you’re either reading, done reading, or plan on reading Schulz and Peanuts, the new bio of Peanuts artist Charles Schulz. In the book it mentions that Schulz’s first published work was a one-off “guest strip” in the Ripley’s Believe it or Not comics page …
Dec 03 2007
In addition to the usual holiday treats like seeing friends and family, good food and general good cheer, folks in Winston-Salem have another thing we look forward to each holiday season: the Tanoshii Chinese restaurant’s annual calendar. This year’s theme is the Beijing Olympics and you can see that each animal not only corresponds to …
Dec 03 2007
“Miracle” is probably too strong a word, and of course it’s more of a catastrophe as far as our finances are concerned, but the exterior of “The Crackhouse” has finally been repainted. The top image of its original state doesn’t really do justice to how dilapidated the paint was. Our next-door neighbor told us that …
Dec 03 2007
Here’s what I posted as my contribution to week 90 of the Newsarama art group: Better late than never, I suppose… Here’s my contribution for this week’s “Punisher” theme. It’s not one of my better pieces, but it was fun to experiment with two techniques I almost never mess with: crosshatching, and the dodge and …
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