The Great Outdoors

I was laid up this past week. As my symptoms subsided, I was greeted by a warm sunny weekend. Taking the opportunity to bask in the rays of the welcome spring-like sun, I watched from a lawn chair as my 3 year old boy tromped through the woods as if he were discovering treasures every 2 feet, and hit everything else with a stick. So I had some time to draw, and I wasn’t willing to give up my basking to hit the PC. So I made a piece in my moleskin. Finished it up at the kitchen table. I don’t know if I’m completely thrilled with it. The forms don’t separate all that well from each other, but it was nice to draw with ink. I’ll figure it out.

Also, the votes for the Thorndyke Photo Contest seem to be winding down. So Tuesday and announce the winner on Wednesday! Get those last minute votes in soon!

Dragons

I’ve been exploring some new painting technique lately trying to find ways to speed up the process a bit. I continue to tip my hat to Enrique Fernandez as he cranks away on completely painted graphic novels. I can’t say I’ve made all that much progress, but I’m chipping away hoping to find the holy grail of light speed!

The Thorndyke contest is just about wrapped up – there were certainly some hilarious submissions (you need to login into Flickr to see the entire set). We’ll be closing the group later tonight and will have a voting page up soon so you guys can pick the winners.

Ok, enough chit chat, time to get back to Thoughts, Scribbles + Madness: Volume 3!

Villians

Weeeeeeee’re back!! Hope you guys like the fresh coat of paint! Wow, I’ve never seen weeks go by so quickly. The time spent with the family was a blast and my wife and I even had a chance to visit Washington D.C. That’s one heck of a town filled with amazing art. I only got tazed once while trying to jump the White House fence.

The days were certainly busy but fortunately we’ve been able to get plenty done during our time away. Aside from the website redesign (which you can read more about here) Greg and I have been planning out some new content. We have some designs and webcomics in the works which you’ll see updated regularly. It seems as though we can’t stop giving ourselves things to do. I blame Greg.

We’re excited to be back and hope you all had an awesome holiday. I guess we should get started on 2010. Onward!