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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), [...]

Note: Daily Dragons Update Schedule Still Wonky

WesT — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:53:44 +0000

I’ve been absolutely buried with moving all week, and I haven’t had the time to scan and post the growing stack of dragons on my desk. At this stage in the game, it’ll have to wait until Monday-ish as I’ve got to dismantle my workstation and move it this weekend, among other important end-stage items.

On [...]

Daily Dragon #70: Ludwig’s Hatchetface

WesT — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:39:56 +0000

One of the things I’m noticing is that I’ve had a very strong tendency to draw these dragons in a limited array of poses. On thinking about it, this probably stems from a couple of factors: I’m drawing a new type each time, so there’s a desire to show them in a fair amount of [...]

Daily Dragon #69: Barroom Listener

WesT — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:35:05 +0000

Another marker drawing done while out and about – my schedule until I’m done moving is gonna be hectic at best, and I’m finding that I just haven’t got the time right now to sit down with watercolors or a dip pen and ink to work.

If it seems like I’m on a kick of pencil [...]

Daily Dragon #68: Alchemical Basilisk

WesT — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:28:42 +0000

He curtseys and bows

Then folds his wings

Ever so politely.

He lifts his brows

Then oh, he sings

‘Til you pass on quietly.

Daily Dragon #67: Koi Lóng

WesT — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:08:29 +0000

Koi Lóng – literally, dragon carp, in pidgin Japanese.

The Japanese get their dragon mythology in large part from the Chinese, who (I’ve heard) believe that a dragon passes through several distinct ontogenic stages in a kind of epic metamorphosis from eel-like creature to full dragonhood and a life in the Celestial Bureaucracy.

In China, there lives [...]

An Update

WesT — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:30:08 +0000

So, yeah, this month’s schedule will in fact be a little odd. I’ve got a stack of updates to scan and post, and I’m gonna try and get them all caught up tomorrow after work. After that I may go to a once-a-week update schedule if things get crazy, and drop back to daily updates [...]