Here we have another menacing fellow. The approach with this drawing was a little different than the previous sketches. It includes a "subtractive" medium in the form of white gouache, which I'm a big fan of. I started using it for my comic Last Caress (which I'll get up on the site here soon enough, I promise). I also mixed in some photo reference, which can help add to the weight of the forms.

​- D

I thought I'd break up this series of horror drawings with something, or someone, a bit lighter. This lady we have here goes by the handle of Bamboo. As you may have noticed by her expression she can have the occasional "mood". Overall though she's a pleasant companion in the studio.

A few of her likes include bolting from room to room in the middle of the night as loudly as she can, beating up her partner-in-crime Cooper as he squeals defenselessly (he's a cat but he squeals), enjoying the effect of her favorite white mouse dipped in catnip, and or course biting human flesh. She's also fond of napping. As I type this she rests comfortably next to my longbox of comics (I believe she too enjoys banned horror comics from the 1950s).

A couple dislikes? Knowingly being drawn and/or photographed (and possibly blogged about behind her back) as well as pedestrian food that does not live up to her status as a feline.

Have a great weekend everybody,

- D

When we're babies our skulls aren't fully formed. They're soft, malleable. They a can be shaped and manipulated.  What shape is preferred I suppose is subject to opinion.

​- D

Everything I've posted this year have been drawings from my sketchbook - or sketchbooks with an 'S' as I've accumulated a number of them over the years. There's something exciting about a blank, brand new sketchbook. ​In recent years I've not regularly kept one, perhaps not since college. But I always had one and would use it for preliminary sketches on larger pieces though I found it difficult to simply sit down after a long day of drawing... and for just myself draw some more. I also take on other duties outside of sketching, drawing, or painting such as writing and this added to my distance from a regularly maintained sketchbook. However, last year I made a year-long commitment to sketch, draw or paint everyday, which I did (and so far I've predominately kept that routine this year as well). That included weekends, holidays, birthdays, vacations, Sundays or sick days. 2017 accounted for 365 straight days of sketching, drawing, or painting. And much of that was working within a sketchbook. Within those pages you get to explore. Areas you don't delve into you can and mediums or tools you've put down or are curious about you can pick up. It's great exercise and now I find it's something I don't think I can go without. If it's been a while for you too do yourself a favor and start filling up those pages.

- D