My current Sketchbook is an interesting one. It's an OOLY I bought at an independant book store over the holidays and it's interesting. The pages are very thin, but they have a nice tooth. And I brought it to Disney World with me:
I got to see the baby elephant play in the water!
As previously seen on BlueSky! This year Hourly Comic Day coincided with The Superbowl! Click for big, as usual:
And a special bonus epilogue comic!
I don't travel to Cape Cod all that much, even though it's one of New England's most popular summer destinations. But last month, I found myself in Dennis, in the wintertime, in the ice and snow. And it was a very unique experience.
I got a Lifer! Which is to say, I got to add the Surf Scoter to my Life List, the big list of all the birds a birdwatcher has encountered and/or observed their whole life (or, really, since they started keeping track). I love beautiful ducks and this fellow is a stunner!
Can I recommend visiting the Cape in winter? Well, not much is open after Labor Day and won't be open again until Memorial Day. It's eerie, but the birdwatching and beachcombing was terrific. Common Eiders, Black Brants, gulls of all sorts, and even a wintering Common Loon were among the other birds I got to see and sketch over the weekend.
As a bonus, here's a scan of a whole Sketchbook page! I just like to share ~*~The Process~*~ sometimes, you know?
Once again, we're in that one viral Sketchbook - BUT during the Dog Show I finished it and moved on to my next Sketchbook. More on that in a bit. First, good doggos in Smudgytown:
Now about halfway through the Dog Show, my dear sister and her lovely husband who were visiting at the time and are both cat parents asked, innocently, "There must be a National Cat Show! Why don't they ever show that?"
Well, there is a CFA International Cat Show and... anyway, have some sketches of sweet kitties, most of whom look like they're wondering which of their human friends is making them do this:
That brings us to my new and (as of writing) current Sketchbook, which is about as close to a diametric opposite of the viral Sketchbook as you can get. It's a Canson Photo and Scrap Book, with twenty sheets of nice thick toned tan paper with just enough of a tooth. I bought it at Mardens (once again, if you know, you know. And if you don't, enjoy) years ago and I love it! It wasn't meant to be a Sketchbook, but it's so fun to draw in. And unfortunately, it seems like they don't make this line of books anymore. Darn. Worry not, I have some very nice Sketchbooks lined up so back to the dogs.
How is everybody doing? I bring you drawings of animals I met at a lovely local farm. Did you know chickens can just have Microraptor leg-wings? Because they can and it is a trip to see them just running around with them in real life.
Don't think I wasn't doing my semi-silly/semi-serious tradition of doing long sketches while watching the National Dog Show on Thanksgiving.
We're back in the Viral Sketchbook; darn thing is so big, I feel like have an entire Sketchbook left to fill while being more than halfway through this one. But I got into something of a groove this time (the trick is a really soft, dull pencil it turns out) and I hope to keep it up.
"Niagra Falls" was a surprisingly good episode; I like the ones that focus on a whole ecosystem and a wide variety of animals. This one also had interviews with local scientists, including Paleoartist Jenna McGuire, and that was incredibly cool.
(Hey, WNET, are you planning an episode on The Maine Lakes and Mountains Region? Because if you want help from a local artist... 😅)
