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best of the drawing of the day, week 61– the inexplicable werewolf dance

A werewolf dances, inexplicably, in this unplanned, unstructured and possibly un … sane? little drawing.  No underdrawing here, and precious little good sense.  All I remember is drawing the face, followed by the reaction shot of the rather draconic Animal … Continue reading

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best of the drawing of the day, week 60– floating jack

This week’s “best of …” is Floating Jack #1.  And it depicts Jack, floating.Jack, as in Jack Swann, that is, aka the superhero Foursquare, and one of the Kekionga core cast.  Jack is actually pretty hard to draw, since I … Continue reading

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best of the drawing of the day, week 59 — angel and devil

(The second of the catching-up posts, as promised.) These two have been hanging around in my sketchbook for four or five months, but this is the first drawing that captures both of them at the same time.  Every storyteller who … Continue reading

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best of the drawing of the day, week 58– iowa, josef, and the professor

Yes, we are a week behind on the best of the drawing of the day.  The project goes on in the background, no matter what is happening around front.  The extra catch-up post will go up in the next couple … Continue reading

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500th post– drawing of the day bonus

Back in April, I let the first anniversary of “a cartoonist in Kekionga” slip by without notice in the wider pattern of cartooning, blogging, and everyday life.  So when the software told me this week that we were sneaking up … Continue reading

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best of the drawing of the day, week 57: octopod

This happy little guy is an octopod.  Not an octopus, but a person with a very rare eight limbed body type.  Ordinary people, of course, are almost always born as tetrapods, with four limbs.  In the story world of the … Continue reading

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best of the drawing of the day, week 56: an old lady in a black dress

I have been drawing old women in my drawing of the day sketchbook for a week or so.  The process started as design work for a walk-through character in a story undergoing a revision, but now the old ladies are … Continue reading

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best of the drawing of the day, week 55– draconic

The sketchbook is a very draconic place.  Whenever inspiration fails to strike, you can always draw a dragon.  This is because nobody knows what a dragon looks like, so it’s pretty hard to get them wrong.  This drawing explores the … Continue reading

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best of the drawing of the day, week 54: werewolf cop

It’s very odd that you’ve never seen one of these drawings posted here before, because one of the things that I really love to draw is a werewolf wearing men’s clothes.   There’s just something about a wolfy creature in menswear … Continue reading

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best of the drawing of the day, week 53– three french pens

Not French hens.  French pens.  And really only one of them.  Which is good, because they are expensive.  But I really did buy a French pen last weekend: a ballpoint, stubby, with the point set well back, and very well … Continue reading

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