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Neon Dragon
Gouache and pencil crayon on paper. Some detail shots for the texture: And here’s the piece at the gouache only stage:
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Concept Art
professional vis dev work
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Across the Old Battlegrounds – Environment Concept
Herders and their stagmoose, dramatic geology, and a landscape strewn with the remains of history. Loose sketch concept.
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Comics
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Hourly Comics Day 2024
very proud of these sketchy pencil crayon autobio comics! and an arm update for y’all as well:
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photography
digital camera snaps and thoughts
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Cellphone Photography: All About White Balance
Okay, this first in-depth cellphone photography post is going to be about white balance. One of the things that I often struggle with is getting the colors to look right on my phone. If you’ve…
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Digital Camera Blogging
Folks seemed interested and excited about my Your Cellphone Camera’s Digital Processing Settings and You post, so I think I’m going to do some more specific posts about different things you can do to your…
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Inspiring photographer: Em Sharnoff
With the death of cohost, I have tried to make sure to catch my favourite cohost photography folks’ new rss feeds as best I can! And seems worthwhile to share these links with you –…
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Your Cellphone Camera’s Digital Processing Settings and You
I am mad about cellphone cameras hiding the processing they do to my photos, and I am glad about software I found that lets me control it and opt in and out.
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Pocket Dungeons
system agnostic ttrpg modules that come in a cute pouch
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The Ghost Houses of Phylinecra – Pocket Dungeon Zine & Pocket Pack
The Ghost Houses of Phylinecra is a system-agnostic, story-heavy dungeon crawl about a community recovering after disaster, and how a goddess might try to understand mortal grief. The village of Phylinecra was a tight-knit community of artists and creatives, until it suffered a devastating flood. In the aftermath, as the survivors try to salvage their […]
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The Corruption of Pelursk – Pocket Dungeon Pack
The Corruption of Pelursk is a system-agnostic tabletop RPG hexcrawl/dungeon, written by Shel Kahn. The Isle of Pelursk holds a glowing, steaming, mist-shrouded secret at its heart, and once you’ve entered its clutches it does not want to let you leave. Designed to fit easily as a sidequest into an ongoing campaign or stand confidently…
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Keep on the Shining Isle – Pocket Pack
Keep on the Shining Isle is a system-agnostic dungeon featuring a haunted ruin, a mystery cult and some very tempting apples. Pick this up to send your home campaign on a memorable sidequest, or try out your favourite new system with this 1-2 session scenario. Written and published by Shel Kahn as the first of many…
Teaching
professional vis dev work
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Teaching Comics, Zine-making and Visual Literacy at OSF
In autumn 2017, I taught a four week comics course at the Oasis Skateboard Factory, an alternative highschool within the Toronto District Schoolboard. OSF has a project-focused curriculum, so our comic project was multifaceted, to…
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Art
paintings and drawings and more
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Neon Dragon
Gouache and pencil crayon on paper. Some detail shots for the texture: And here’s the piece at the gouache only stage:
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LongStory 2!
So my day job at Bloom Digital has kept a lot of my life under NDA, and it’s a real treat to get to tell you about LongStory 2 and all the hard work we’ve been doing to make this game a reality! LongStory was originally created in 2014 as an alternative to shallow “insert…
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one year of arm stuff – part 9 – accessibility is a thing though! what about adaptive devices?
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one year of arm stuff – part 8 – okay but ARM recovery—
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one year of arm stuff – part 7 – no, really, what has recovery been like?
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one year of arm stuff – part 6 – recovery
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one year of arm stuff – part 5 – wait, I have wrist pain/finger weakness/tingling in my hands too! what if…?
short snippets
pinned thoughts and quick snapshots
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Dragon WIP Gouache Painting
I loved the sketch for this and the painting isn’t quite capturing it, so I’m wondering if, at this WIP stage, it might make sense to go in next with pencil crayons and see if i can’t capture more of what I’m looking for gesturally.
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remember to unclench your jaw
watercolour, including some amazing shimmery blues gifted to me by a friend, white gouache, metallic gelly roll pens, white pencil crayons, and tense neck muscles.
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Sketchbook Wizards on Crystal Islands
I’ve got a few iterations I’m exploring here and I’m thinking these might be worth doing full paintings of at some point.
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Toronto scene in Gouache
A lovely array of flowers i used to walk by every day after work.
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New Gouache Paint – Cascade Green
got a new tube of gouache paint! Winsor & Newton’s Cascade Green. You can see the tube colour pure in the top left swatch – the rest are mixes. Teals are wonderfully fun pigments to work with because of this incredible breadth of mixes possible. Functionally, Cascade Green is working like a very highly saturated…
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gouache portrait study of a singer
heck, i love gouache, I’ve missed gouache
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Lee Pace in The Fall – gouache study
Process shots: Honestly, I love the tiled effect I had going before the tighter rendering and, while the drawing wasn’t solved yet at that stage, I am curious if that isn’t a more appealing style for a potential finish for me on future studies. Something to explore.
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little crystal island with a little wizard
watercolour and fountain pen, in my sketchbook. I’ve been drawing modern wizards for my wizard puberty zine and what if they hung out on crystals islands.
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oil pastel mini portrait study
Browsed through Earth’s World for some great natural light portraits to practice with. This was made in a new little 5 x 7ish sketchbook I picked up that’s filled with recycled cotton rag paper. I’d been noticing that rag papers have taken my softest oil pastels the best – you can see one pushed to…
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while i am gardening this website i realize the weeding process is maybe invisible
As I edit posts for spelling and grammar and tagging and layout and all these little invisible things I do to try and learn how to wrangle my website and all its content, I realize that a) this seems to kick them back into RSS “unread” status, which must be annoying..? and b) most folks…
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Gouache hawk study
got the gouache out again for the first time in months; arm recovery really took the fun out of it for me for a while there! but I’m feeling more myself when it comes to holding the brush again, and it was lovely to sit and do a study of the hawk I watched kill…
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Oil pastel robin
I’ve been doing studies in the Robert Bateman brand sketchbooks, which are a pretty smooth vellum surface; the oil pastel slides around wildly on them but gosh it’s fun! This drawing is maybe 7 x 7″ or so in size. Reffed my own photo. Again I did an underdrawing with the cray-pas expressionist oil pastels…
whoah that’s so cool you took this idea and ran with it! I love the soft pallette you used, and…