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!
While I'm aching for a rerun of "Raptor Force" some day, this was an outstanding episode. Secretary Birds! Seriemas!
Me and many other very cool artists are participating in the Extinct Fine Art Gallery. My paintings are going to carry over into the next "cycle" of exhibits on Friday, so you have a couple more days to see the first round and-
"Trish, this is your first blog post in two years, where the blazes have you been?"
Ah yes. Well, in a word, I've been busy. I've been gradually shifting my online presence over to BlueSky, and that's proven to be more of a project than anticipated. It's been hard, but I hope to get back into the art sharing and blog-posting groove. Thank you for your patience.
The older I get, the less inclined I am to do daily drawing challenges. But it turns out if they're funny, I cannot resist. Thus, Botober! Created by Janelle Shane, who asked a neural net to create a set of drawing prompts and wound up with this:
Because I so dearly love it when humans play along when computers ask for silly things, I have generated drawing prompts for #botober2021!
— Janelle Shane (@JanelleCShane) September 12, 2021
I've managed to get GPT-3 to follow themes. Here's "animals".https://t.co/eJM6abeEdR pic.twitter.com/9llXqeV1Hc
As you can see, all of these are hilarious. Here, collected for your enjoyment, are my Botober drawings.
A big catch-up page:
Another catch-up page:
So TetZoom 2021, which occurred about a week ago and ran all day and into the night, was an absolute blast! This was the second ever TetZoo Convention I've ever been able to attend and I really really hope they keep the online/livestream portion of the show. Handy Sketchbook on my knee, I took a lot of notes on the presentations and here they are, though considerably cleaned up:
One of the highlights of the show was getting to attend the Paleoart Workshop, which I wisely snapped up tickets for as soon as I could. And so I drew this beautiful Kronosaurus along with our teacher Mark Witton. What an awesome experience!
At the time of writing, it's October 27. My entire enteric nervous system feels like a clenched fist. Not knowing what else to do, I am going to share some of my recent drawings of animals:
So... how about something light and fluffy? Literally?
My sister's lovely Bobtail cat Stitch visited for a while. Before I knew it, I'd filled half an Illo Sketchbook with drawings of the little guy.
