dilly bar

This time of year reminds me of springtime in Merrill, WI. My family lived there in the early years. When the snow was almost completely gone and it was warmish outside, Dairy Queen (one of those tiny setups where you make your order at the window) would finally open after a long winter of inactivity. Then my parents and sister and I would get the red wagon and walk to Dairy Queen, and I always got the same thing.

Darklands

Lindsay, Chris and I made some darklands fanart. Just a quick number. I went the literal route.

See? Dark lands. There's also a character in there. Her name is Gretch.

Nothing to do with April Fools

Characters and some more characters! Most are invented, except for the guy with the cigar, scar and sleezy look (that's Crocodile. From One Piece). The top setting is from life, the bottom one is from my imagination and some acrylics. Turns out that Fabriano sketchbook is really good for acrylics!

Memorial Run

A tee design for the 2011 John Jarvis Memorial run.

Sketches from here and there

This batch has some Tangled (Rapunzel) stuff–it's not quite right, but I plead lack of reference–a bunch of brush pen life drawing and Valentine from Mirrormask, which is still probably my favorite Neil Gaiman thing: book, audiobook and movie. Oh, and a bike thrown in there. Been drawing lots of bikes lately.

St. Francis

A small gift painting for my grandpa. I really love working this way.

watercolor, ink and gouache on 300 lb cold press paper

Spring, please

It's snowing right now, and according to the forecast, will be for the next three days. I'm ready for it to be over.