Another very welcome return: regional nature journaling meetups, hosted by the indispensable Kate Rutter. On April 16, we went to Shoreline at Mountain View, which connects to the Baylands Nature Preserve.
Nature Journaling Field Trip
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Quick Studies Workshop
To my delight, my old school has started running in-person figure drawing workshops again, so I’ve been abusing my alumni privileges to crash the occasional Quick Studies session. These are all one, two, and three-minute drawings of humans in the proverbial “state of nature.”
The season started off with the wonderful Dragonfly on February 22. I’ll add more sessions here as I gradually scan them.
San Diego Travel Journal
Our March adventure was a quick trip to San Diego to celebrate a family birthday, drink wine in Mexico, and admire fat seals and vintage autos.
LA Travel Journal
Four years after our last visit, Julie and I returned to Los Angeles for a Valentine’s Day getaway. Let’s see what we saw!
Labyrinth of the Orb Weavers
A discussion of my favorite local spiders, an investigation into their habitat, and a surprising twist ending!
Let’s Investigate: Bugs!
A few installments of my irregular series of insect drawing tips. It’s a whole tiny world of alien anatomy…
MACHINA-X
In between other projects, I’ve been noodling on some original anime-style giant robot designs. It’s probably time I posted a roundup so they’re all in one convenient place!
Here’s a scale lineup of all the designs thus far…
Read on for a gallery of detailed design sheets!
Continue readingThe Odyssey
A few years back, I started doing a series of mini-comics to accompany my reading of Homer’s The Odyssey (Robert Fagles translation). Now that I’ve finally completed the whole thing, here are all the installments in one place!
Suddenly Summer
I recently ran a workshop on cartooning techniques for nature journaling, and by way of preparation I kept a running log of this summer’s outdoor adventuring.
2019 LA Adventure
A little flashback to a pre-pandemic trip to Los Angeles, in which my wife and I saw lots of cool things.
On July 4, the LA Zoo!
