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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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inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 7 – enchanted
inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 7: enchanted
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inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 6 – husky
inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 6: husky as i continue to struggle with the drawing of day 5: build, i’m moving on to day 6. only a day late. for all of you inktober purists out there, here’s today’s strip in glorious black and white if you’d like to see the comic in…
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here’s a little timelapse of yesterday’s inktober/linktober
here’s a little timelapse of yesterday’s inktober/linktober while i work on today’s comic these are the sketches i noodled out last night right now i’m at the ‘terrified i’m going to screw it up stage’ hope i can pull it off
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inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 4 – freeze
inktober and linktober 2019 continue with day 4: freeze can you spot what link is missing in panel 3? seems like i forget to draw something every day. i didn’t have any ideas going in to fit the the prompt, but i read about the freezors, and once i started getting the pencil moving the…
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inktober 2019 – day 3 – bait
i didn’t love link’s poses in yesterday’s comic, so today i tried to push them a little bit more – make them more natural here is today’s comic with a little color even more importantly, when posting my comic to instagram yesterday, i discovered that linktober was already a thing! you can follow linktober on…
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linktober continues – inktober 2019 day 2: mindless
linktober continues jake parker’s inktober 2019 official prompt: mindless penciled this piece 2 days ago felt less than confident about it inked it late last night after my soccer game hated it. told myself i’m going to throw it out in the morning in the morning i looked at it again and accepted it. (after…
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inktober 2019 is here
jake parker’s inktober 2019 is here! and i’m pretty excited because i’m adding a few wrinkles to make the challenge of doing an inked drawing every day even more challenging for me here’s the deal, coming at you in 4 parts: inktober 2019 part 1: the theme if you’ve been following the blog the past…
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itching to play some zelda
ignited by recent reviews of the link’s awakening remake i’ve been itching to play a zelda game i found a list of the best zeldas and decided on a link to the past, originally on snes right before bed i’ve been getting a few minutes of gameplay on an online emulator i really should be…
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didn’t expect to dig the rescue bots
didn’t expect to dig rescue bots – the toys looked like they barely transformed, so i didn’t expect much out of the show i expected a boring version of transformers i was wrong we’ve been watching the first season colors and character design are great most of all, it’s nice to have a superhero show…
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most of everything i do doesn’t go anywhere
most of everything i do doesn’t go anywhere case in point: these 3 comic page layouts did them a few years ago might as well dig them out and throw them on the web log maybe one day you’ll see them in some other form but for now you can watch them go by in…
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dashed off a little color behind bones and kirk
dashed off a little color behind the kirk and bones doodle from the other day i did while watching star trek 3 search for spock i must have read the comic book adaptation a hundred times as a kid…
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doodled bones and kirk while watching star trek 3
doodled bones and kirk while watching star trek 3 the search for spock hadn’t seen it in years (you can read my inauthentic haiku review on letterboxd where i’ve been writing inauthentic haiku reviews for the latest movies i’ve watched) admittedly kirk in this doodle is a little more ‘wrath of khan’ than ‘search for…
