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One Finished Piece 2023 - January. To push myself I drew Usagi Yojimbo in the rain with something I usually shy away from, a background. I wanted to tie in the new lunar new year of the water rabbit into this month's art piece and wavered between many rabbits but chose Usagi as he's one of my favorite characters to draw. #usagiyojimbo #yearoftherabbit #pencilmeditation #mmbart #procreate #procreateart #digitalart #digitalartists #artistsoninstagram #whereswiltdogat https://www.instagram.com/p/CnteKLfOjVE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Check out my ongoing comic Crow Time. It has crows, and also neat pantheons of epic beasties.

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You know what messes me up?

This dinosaur skeleton is incomplete. But, it doesn't look that way to us, because the parts it's missing are parts we don't have.

See how there are ribs on the bottom? Those are called gastralia. That's right, dinosaurs had ribs on their stomachs as well, and modern crocodiles and alligators still have them! (Also, notice that the ribs keep going to the hips instead of stopping above the waist. This is also true of modern birds, and why a bird can't have a concave stomach!)

Next, notice that ring floating in the center of the eye socket? That's called a sclerotic ring! Fish, reptiles, birds--with the exception of mammals (and, oddly enough, crocodilians), pretty much all modern vertebrates still have them! It's literally an eyeball bone. Afaik we haven't found a T-rex specimen with any intact, but since we've found them in other dinosaurs, it's very likely they had them too.

So, keep that in mind next time you see a dinosaur skeleton.

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I'm glad people are as excited as I was to learn about the Secret Dinosaur Bones

Haven't just let my mind and hand wander in my pocket sketchbook in a while. I really like the way this turned out. Ballpoint and black marker 30 min sketch.

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(9/15) “Every Santa gets a handler: to walk him to his chair, to bring him water, to give him Tic Tacs. But nothing in Santaland is called by its actual name. Santa handlers are called straw bosses. It’s an old circus term, for people who handle the elephants. I made sure that my straw boss knew: when the Tammaro family arrives, bring them straight to my house. My son came bounding in first. He was four years old. He jumped in my lap and started telling me his list. But in the middle he stops, and says: ‘Hey! You sound like my Daddy!’ I started to panic. That’s when my brother Steve stepped in. He said: ‘It doesn’t sound like your Daddy, Jack.’ And I made it through the rest of the visit. But I never risked it again. I didn’t want to ruin the magic. Jack would write these letters to Santa. He never went straight to the toys. He’d write things like: ‘How is your wife? Are the reindeer OK? Did you go on vacation?’ Only then would he get to the list. He had such empathy. I like to think we had something to do with it. The way we are at home. We don’t like to argue. We keep it calm, cool, and collected. We have this thing called ‘Family Sandwich.’ One day Tabatha and I were hugging in the kitchen, and Jack came running up behind us, and hugged us both. He screamed ‘family sandwich!’ And it stuck. We still do it today. I was never a sports dad. But that’s ok, because he wasn’t a sports kid. We loved doing legos. In the beginning he’d just watch me do them. But as he got a little older, we started doing them together. The holidays were always rough for me. It was the busiest time a year at both my jobs, so I’d barely be home. Jack and I would be watching a holiday movie on the couch, his head on my chest, and I’d have to get up to go to work. He’d pull me down by the shirt and say: ‘Don’t go.’ He knew that I worked at Macy’s during Christmastime. But I told him that I worked in Men’s shoes. I told him that I needed the extra money to buy everyone presents. Every day when I started my shift at Santaland, I’d take a little lego Santa that we’d built together, and I’d place it on the shelf. All the elves knew. The lego Santa, that was Jack. It was to remind me of my boy.”

One Drawing a Month - November 'Bite Me!' I really enjoyed working on this Wolf Girl piece inspired by @theenvyanne I like how the line work and colors came out. I also included a "Shiny" alt colorway that I liked too much not to share!

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WIP shots of my November art piece! Finally making some progress!

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Babysitting those weird kids that boss your dad around

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Panel from Black Hammer: Visions by Cullen Bunn, Matt Sheean, me, and Dave Stewart

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Raw #4, Charles Burns

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Some explorations for Luz and Amitys Azura/Hecate costumes, from “Thanks to Them” (There were also some great ones made by Dana and Emmy Cicierega that I used as inspiration for these)

I thought the slasher mask design was really funny, but it would probably have been too distracting hehe. Their final look really ended up being the best I think.

It's been quite some time since I posted! Since then I've been doing 1 finished art piece a month in 2022 to get my illustration chops back, here's January through October!