Month: June 2025
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WIP – Northern Forest City
Felt like doing another environmental piece. Here’s an update on my work-in-progress! Everything in my brain these days is a little solarpunk-tinged, but I wanted to try using some ref from our travels along the north of Lake Superior for the environment, since I feel like Solarpunk as a genre usually goes for a more…
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Customizing Shortcuts (and more) in Clip Studio Paint
New to digital art? Switching to Clip Studio Paint? Either way, it can be helpful to know how to learn and customize all the various keyboard shortcuts it offers! I wrote this up in an Art Director capacity but seems like the kind of thing other folks might want to reference sometimes too! So, here…
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Purple Dragon Design
I’ve been drawing a lot of dragons in my sketchbooks but it seemed like it would be fun to properly work one out digitally! I took the time to do some rendering tests on its head as well, to test some techniques I’ve been using on paper as a digital painting approach:
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Doodling with Chunky Supplies
I recently got my hands on some kids’ tempera art sticks, after watching some artists I love show off their use of them to add abstraction and texture to their sketchbook work. These are not professional tools – they aren’t opaque, they are likely not lightfast, they are slippery and goopy and inconsistent across colours…
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Find me at TCAF!
I’m really excited to announce that I’m going to be tabling at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival this coming weekend! As you might guess, it’s located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the Mattamy Athletic Center – old fogeys like me will know the building as the Maple Leaf Gardens, though it’s been through a thorough…