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collages and sketches
the last couple of nights when drawing with wendy mac before bed, little guy has been cutting up his drawings and pasting them in his sketchbook and mine, collage style. based on the pile of leftover paper triangles, i think he enjoys the physicality of cutting the paper more than the act of drawing. the…
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drawing with wendy mac: peacock
For the last week or so, Little Guy and I have been drawing with Wendy Mac before bedtime. This was my peacock drawing from yesterday, made with crayon and ink.
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star trek next generation is bad at social distancing
Last night I watched a rerun of Star Trek The Next Generation and couldn’t help but notice how bad the entire crew was at social distancing. And I guess that’s how this works, right? Our brains adapt and now movies and television, and maybe comics that were made before the coronavirus just looks, wrong, somehow.…
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oatmeal soup
Little Guy likes to grab a few bowls or pots and pans and some ingredients and ‘cook’ at the kitchen table. (Last time he did this, he said, ‘I need to cook this now, and slid the pan underneath the table, just like putting it in the oven.) Saturday he made oatmeal soup. in the…
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baking cookies for the first time because i have time part 2
Hi, I’m Tone. I draw. I read. I write. I have no idea what I’m doing. Welcome. This post is about me having no idea how to make homemade Not -Golden – Oreo cookies. It’s part 2 of a two-parter. Here’s part 1. Onward! The cookies I made didn’t taste like Golden Oreos at all.…
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my first moc, part 2
If you’re like a lot of people, you’re stuck at home, and maybe feeling a little anxious about the world around us. Many, (most?) of us haven’t been in a situation like this before and we’re all just trying to get through it best we can. So if you’ve got some free time, dig out…
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organizing the studio
organizing the studio last week and dug up these marker drawings i drew about a year and a half ago of little guy while he was drawing:) i’m writing this while sitting in the waiting room of a tire shop. the valve stem on the front driver side tire broke. i walked over to the…
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collaborating with kieron gillen
Honestly, that’s a woefully misleading title. Grabby, though, ain’t it? In January, comics writer Kieron Gillen teamed up with Project Art Cred to write a script, release it to any artist that wanted it, and bask in the wide variation in storytelling that resulted. You can check out the results that resulted here. Amongst all…
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building my first moc part 1
Little Guy is in to Lego, so now I’m in to Lego. And I’m probably more in to Lego than he is. All of this began with me watching his sets that he had gotten for Christmas or for birthdays, and we had so carefully built together, slowly disintegrate back into the box of all…
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photos from little guy
This past January, Little Guy, who is now 4, started to take photos with my phone. “I want to take a picture of everything,” he said. Here’s just a few. I’m biased, of course, but I think they’re great. They’re worth the price of admission simply because he takes photos of things I never would.
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archive doodles
while organizing the studio today i found a couple of drawings from about a year or more ago. marker. the only time i can draw him is when he’s sitting still. and he sits still when he draws:)
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current self improvement projects
If you’re like me, you saw the new year (and new decade) as an opportunity to create some new, healthier, habits. If you’re like me, you’ve tried this before. If you’re thinking about starting, you don’t need a new year, a new month, or even a new day. You can start now. (You’ll note I…
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reading update and outlook
finished dune. the best book i’ve read in a decade and a half. some consider it the greatest science-fiction novel ever written and i think that still underrates it. i read the 50th anniversary addition with a beautiful cover. starting leonardo da vinci again. my plan is just dipping in a chapter a day. no…
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paper airplane
It’s 630 am and I just folded a paper airplane for little guy. He brought a page torn from a small activity book, set the it down on the desk and asked me to make him an airplane. There was a scribble of green and orange crayon, and a torn corner on the page that…
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legos, writing, and a lego selfie
Right before bed last night I started thinking about Lego. Thinking about how following the instructions and building the sets with my littel guy is a lot of fun, and an exercise in patience, for both him and me. Of course, freebuilding out of the big box of random legos (that all of the sets…
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reading dune
and drawing ornithopters and sandworms… dune’s been on my to read list for awhile now i expected it to be a slog, but it’s not. it really moves the first chapter throws a lot at you, but after that it goes non-stop star wars owes so much to dune, but elements of the novel seem…
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inktober day 15 legend
inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 15: legend. as you probably noticed i’m behind. and skipping around. inspiration for the giant book that link consults is the lindsfarne bible, which i’d never heard of before doing the research for this strip. this is the first day this year that i used a wash. i…
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inktober day 12 dragon
inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 12: dragon made some changes to the way i worked on today’s inktober and it really helped. the final piece looks more like i imagined. here’s how it went down. (if you find this sort of thing just mindnumbingly boring, here’s the color version, colored digitally, of today’s…
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inktober day 11 snow
inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 11: snow i’m pulling a swerve and giving day 10 a miss because i have an idea for pattern that i need a little more time on. so here’s today’s: it works a lot better in color the way i drew these snowflakes makes them look like potato…
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inktober and linktober day 9 swing
inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 9: swing (i know it’s the 10th. i’m behind.) i also did a digital color version lately i’ve been doing the sketch digitally, and inking over that here’s the sketch my sketches are better than my inks, but i guess that’s the whole point of inktober, right? i…
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inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 8 – frail
inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 8: frail view the color version, where color reveals a little more information about one of our characters… forgot to ink in her boots, and squandered link’s pose in panel 2, but this effort felt much stronger than day 7’s the main thing i need to remember when…
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hi, i'm tone. this is some of the stuff i've made.