Driving Pig Lady

This one is a diversion stylistically, but this blog is basically a sketchbook so why not. Our friend Allison is moving to North Carolina and she collects pig figurines. This morning my wife asked me to make her a card with a cute girly pig driving an old car out of town. And that's what happened.

Dragon Kid

Disgruntled Owl

Oops - that was supposed to be a displeased owl. I can't help thinking this owl looks more peeved than displeased. Here is the Little Britain sketch responsible for this nonsense.

More Disappointed Horse

I think this is a step up. Now for the disgruntled owl…

Dissapointed Horse

The tortoise drawing really was a study for a more complicated piece I want to do - but I'm going to Pennsylvania soon and don't have time to get into that one yet. So I took inspiration from a Little Britain sketch where a man asks for a painting of a disappointed horse. I just threw this together tonight. The regret of posting without reflection is sure to follow, but this is an experiment. This is the drawing before I've fussed with the colors very much or added textures to the shapes. There is some texture overlaying the whole piece, but that's it. After it has been finessed we'll see which is better. Good pie.

You Are Here

This is a study for an illustration of a story that includes tortoises with candles on their backs. In Vietnamese folklore, a giant tortoise carries the universe on its back. The candle light fills in for the universe here.

WMD revisited

Good feedback, Derik. The magic of digital illustration is that it is so easy to tinker with. Now Bill is a little smaller and less centered. I also tried a green screen version instead of the less realistic blue screen. I kind of liked it because the green says "dragon" but it also says "hey I'm really freaking green"


I googled "William H Macy dragon" to see if anything fun came up that I might include in the drawing, and I found out the Billy was in one of my favorite movies as a 12 year old - The Last Dragon! This video is ridiculous. Apparently Macy plays himself??

The Making of William H Macy Dragon

For those of you who like watching DVD extras, these are the masks after they are scanned, but obviously before they have been layered and put to work maskin' stuff.

William H Macy Dragon

Is Bill Macy playing a dragon in a movie or is the dragon playing a man in all his other movies? We may never know.

I'm getting the hang of my new masking technique and waking up to the obvious - it doesn't need to be all shapes or all lines - a few well placed lines inside the shapes go a long way.

Ice Cream Dragon

Ice Cream Dragon is more popular than literature dragon.