I’ve been drawing a lot this year, but wasn’t seeing the kind of improvement I wanted. One hard lesson I’ve learned in life it that you can do something every day for many years and never get any better! You have to consciously decide to get better to have any hope at achieving it. So, beginning October 1 I used the Instagram hashtag “Inktober” as a framework to improve. I’m not satisfied with my progress, but I think you can see definite improvement over the month, the question is do YOU see the improvement? Let me know what you think!

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It’s been a full year since I started my sabbatical, while much of it was spent grieving the loss of my parents and brother (not to mention the pandemic), I was able to devote myself to the task of improving my illustration skills. No small task I can assure you, it’s been more than 25 years since I was serious about it – and I wasn’t terribly good then!

This year has been the equivalent of a musician playing scales, doing my best to get some basic drawing and inking skills to a point where I can tackle sequential art. I thought I’d be further along, but that’s the thing about letting your skills lapse, there’s no telling how (or if) you’ll get them back. Continue reading Site Updates – New Art from 2019-2020

These drawings don’t fit into the other categories, so I needed to create a “kitchen sink” page to present them. The first 16 are from the past year, the others just randoms from the archive. This gallery contains a number of experiments I did in 2019 to get a sense of where my skills where. I tried some noir, some barbarian and some superhero styles to varying degrees of success. But I love them all for different reasons, mostly because I kept my pencils, pens and brushes moving while fighting the sense that I don’t have what it takes to be an illustrator.

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I have a bad habit of abandoning sketchbooks, leaving many pages untouched. Another one of my goals for the year was to begin the habit of filling every page. Haven’t quite finished the 200 pages in this book, but it’s filled with a lot of ideas, practice and designs for future drawings. Also, I began poking around with digital coloring this year, using pages from the sketchbook as guinea pigs and some of those are included here.

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I’ve spent the past year focused on improving both my drawing and rendering skills, to varying degrees of success. I use my sketchbook to do day-to-day practice and explore ideas and layouts, but the big challenge is to do 11 x 17 drawings on bristol board. The earlier drawings are tentative, but I began to get a groove going these past few months.

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