Texas Power Bill

With the children out the way, I'm starting on that Texas power bill graphic.

Entirely Relatable

Perhaps now that I've finally figured out the hair for these little f$&kers I'll be able to go ahead and finish this one.

Okay … whatever … I spiced it up.

I may tinker with the dirt on that last one … kinda torn between the wicked alcohol coloration and the dirt looking like … well … dirt. Pretty sure I managed to save a pre-smudge layer.

Backyard

A couple more additions in that back right corner come morning and I'll be donzo.

Still some foliage to add; but, hurray for defensible shortcuts. I figured I could just lay the chair pixels from the photo directly into the art since I knotted the damn chair, convincing myself it's totally what Basquiat would have done in the digital age.

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Still more detail to add, but the watercolor is starting to come together.

Got bored … so I've been playing around with watercolor for the next one.

Amazonian Tribe

Babel Fish

Well … I more or less have my Babel fish. Now I gotta channel my inner graphic designer to set the text and tie the two together.

Tribesman

Tribesman be coming together … just gotta force myself not to rush through the smudging.

The collection of Dragons going into the rewrite of my dragon essay (tap or click to open the lightbox).

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Chinese Tapestry

Nearly done with this little f$&ker, just gotta tidy him up a bit in the morning.

Medieval Tapestry

When you're about to sacrifice the dragon you wanted to (and f$&kin' started to) draw and replace him with a slightly later model because the tapestry metaphor is everything, dammit.

Piasa Bird

Medieval Manuscript

Goguryeo Tombs

Hokusai