How Do I Get an NFT?
I know for a lot of you, my previous post did not make a lot of sense. For me, when I first heard terms like NFT, Minting, ETH or Ethereum, my eyes glazed over and I stopped listening, thinking I…
Water Gilding – 24k Gold Leaf
There is no sugar coating this… Water Gilding Gold Leaf was extremely difficult for me to learn. There are so many variables and stages.This project was the first time I’ve used traditional water gilding techniques. The learning curve was very…
The Carving | The Day Boy & The Night Girl
In February 2020, as the world shut down, due to the pandemic, I decided to learn how to carve. I purposed to go out side each day and spend a few ours carving. This video was filmed from February 2020…
Quarantine, Carving, & Social Break
This year so far has been a pretty strange one (under statement I know 🙃). When Quarantine started, I took a massive break from all social media. I’m currently still on that break. Not sure when or if I will go…
The Day Boy & Night Girl
I started this piece 2018 with a really raw thumbnail sketch (see below). A few months later I tried to develop the concept more for a few weeks and felt like I didn’t have the skills to pull the drawing…
Character Sketchbook 201
Good Afternoon! Shoot, i think all the late nights caught up to me today! Ended up over-sleeping by a few hours today, so i’m playing catch up right now so i have to make it short, because i’m trying to…
Ammon’s Horn
Happy 2020! I’m happy to start this New Year post with an inspiration Friday post. If you are new to the blog, the way Inspiration Friday works is I pick a song that inspires me, then as I’m listening to…
Character Height Chart – WIP
For the last few months I’ve been working trying to finish all the character design for “Lost in the Crowd“. It’s taken me a lot longer than I thought it would, but I’m starting to make a lot of progress…
The Panel Girl
This piece was quite the experiment. It took me several months to get the colors and textures right. The concept was cutting up my portaits of Rasa Zukauskaite, Laura O’Grady, and Tanya Dziahileva and putting them together to make one…
Julia Hafstrom Post-it Sketch
I keep a couple of stacks of post-its sitting on my desk, just for when I get the urge to draw I can quickly get my fix. This sketch was from a photoshoot I did with Julia Hafstrom years ago….
Knightcat Redesign
I’m excited for finally showing you the redesign of my brother and my book character Knightcat. She might be my favorite character to write scenes for. She is an amazing character and her character design felt close, but not perfect,…
character sketchbook 31
It’s fun looking back on the Character Sketchbook series. This was one of the first drawings in the series where I felt like I was getting the hang of it. The drawing is of Gemma Ward. I hope you all…