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Category: Art
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Odd Prompts: The Garden
Same characters and timeline as last week, just a bit further along. I don’t know yet what, if anything, I’m doing with this story. *** “John?” Bonnie paused at the foot of the stairs, looking up into the darkness. Their joy in arriving at their new home, and being on their honeymoon, had been tempered…
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Art Process: Making of Hess House
The other day I was dabbling in artificial intelligence, as one does. The role of AI in art is growing rapidly. It’s one I started playing with a few years ago, at first dismissing it as ‘lazy art’ but over time I’ve come to find that it’s a useful tool. It’s not that I can…
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Vintage Book Cover Design
I recently came across a treasure trove of illustrations and book covers from artists stretching back over the last hundred years. Everything from ads, to book covers, to what really caught my eye: the simple line art illustrations common to magazine and books. The same thing I’m working on for the hunting anthology this month. …
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Odd Prompts: The Gavotte
Sadly, I’ve never learned to dance, much less the intricate dances nearly lost to history now. But the springs and prances that occasionally enliven a gavotte seem to suit this peculiar pair as they court. My prompt this week was “The red dragon danced with the white unicorn.” from AC Young. I simply had to…
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Being at Rest
Since I have been attempting to keep Sunday as my rest day, and given that yesterday was a lovely but strenuous day, I have done remarkably little today. Perhaps next week I shall do even less. Even (gasp!) schedule ahead a blog post. This week, I shall give you my daily art. Which is, I…
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Odd Prompts: Fury of the Llama
So this week I did a totally different prompt response. I’ve been focused on finishing up a story, but it’s not one I could do in public. However, I did get it done! and I am all written out today. So I made art, instead. The prompt was “The llama ate it” with an assigned…
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Cover me! I’m going in…
I’ve done a lot of book covers over the years, and had a lot of fun doing it. I’m not quitting, just celebrating some recent releases. Most recent is Kal Sprigg’s latest. Valor’s Inheritance was a different challenge for me. It’s the latest release in a long-running series, so I needed to fit the series…
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Self-Portrait with Flowers: Tutorial
I’ve been very, very busy recently, as you may have noticed. Also, I wrapped up the AstroLizards illustrations in time for TulKon at the end of the last month. You should get yourself a copy, and maybe one for a friend! In the wake of all those illustrations and handling the stuff of life, I…
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AstroLizards
Coming soon, the third coloring book and humor collaboration between Lawdog and I. This one will have three reptilian themed tales in total, along with over thirty illustrations. Just like The Ratel Saga, this will be available as an ebook as well as the paper version. Ebook comic-style will be available by the end of…
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Practicing Art
I’ve been doing daily art for six years now. It’s been interesting to look back and see my long, slow evolution of style, tools, and approach to color, lines, and much more. I’m still not where I can pull an image out of my head and render it perfectly on the page, and likely I…
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Art and History
Great art not only captures the spirit of a historical event, it can serve as inspiration for later generations. Take The Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks for an example that is playing out as I write this. Commanded by the Sultan to submit, the Ukrainian cossacks sent an epic reply: Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Turkish…
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Sundries
Today has been both a long day, and a quiet one. This weekend was emotionally taxing – good! but still, that much of a charge leaves you feeling drained – and physically. I welcomed spring with a trip to the Fort Worth Botanical Garden in the company of friends. We saw the butterfly exhibit, which…