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Well, I’m Not Dead Yet

WesT — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:03:40 +0000

Just in case you’ve been lurking about in vain hopes that you’d see an update…well, I congratulate you on your patience. It’ll be rewarded soon.

I’m working on a completely revised website, loaded with all sorts of goodies, but it’ll be in the oven a little while longer. Never one for doing it the easy way, [...]

Thanks for holding, we’ll be with you shortly.

WesT — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 02:10:42 +0000

Every so often, for one reason or another, I find myself re-evaluating my life.

Anybody who knows me offline will be up to speed on what’s going on in my life, but for readers who are really only familiar with my presence online, I probably owe you an explanation. So here goes.

Earlier this year I went [...]

Something Beautiful (and a little sad)

WesT — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 02:39:57 +0000

Sometimes, we find really good stuff on the internet.

Daily Dragon #157: Sargasso Wraith

WesT — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 04:05:59 +0000

One of the larger aquatic guivres, or “sea serpents.” The sargasso wraith is notable for its translucent flesh, and for the thick layer of skin which grows over its scales – internal scales are a rarity in the draconiformes family tree. The leathery hide of the wraith is covered in muscular, prehensile growths resembling kelp [...]

Daily Dragon #138: Medusa’s Locks

WesT — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 03:09:23 +0000

I picked up yet another nice little Taschen book the other day – about the life and work of Alphonse Mucha, one of my favorite illustrators and one of the historical artists I find most inspiring. Tonight’s…er…dragon is basically what happens when I’m suffering from an overload of Mucha on the brain.

I had meant to [...]

Daily Dragon #135: Mandarin Warbler

WesT — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 06:40:53 +0000

Scribble scribble scribble scribble….

Sorry this one’s pretty much phoned in. It’s kind of my birthday, so I thought I’d take the day off. Sort of, anyway. It’s been a pretty good day, and I spent some time at Chicago’s Renegade Craft Fair. If you have the opportunity to hit one of the RCF events, go [...]

Just a quick note…

WesT — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:51:28 +0000

…that I ended up spending most of the evening away from my desk doing necessary parenting and grownup things. Then when I got here, my limited time was spent doing prep for a big secret project I can’t talk about yet. I will scan this weekend’s scaly beasties and get ‘em posted tomorrow, with any [...]

Daily Dragon #118: Beautiful When You’re Angry

WesT — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:23:00 +0000

Ink applied with brush and dip pen, then watercolors. This piece is small, about 3 inches by 5-1/2 inches, on Bristol board. The corners are rounded – you can see them in the scan – which looks pretty sharp. The rounding was done using a 1/2 inch Fiskars squeeze punch corner rounder. This trick is [...]

Daily Dragon #111: Stratosferic

WesT — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:13:16 +0000

Manga Studio, phoning one in because I’m not feeling all that great tonight and should have been in bed hours ago. Heres to hoping I feel better in the morning.

I will leave you with walking tables and amazing bubbles:

HA! (I’m Alive.)

WesT — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 05:48:23 +0000

Whew. Two weeks later….

This has been perhaps the most dismally grueling move of my life, made moreso by how long it took, my current social circumstances, and the fact that I was only moving a whopping 32 miles across Chicago.

Of course, I can claim some small excuses (working long hours, newly single parent, blah blah), [...]