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Poor, poor Rich Ellis.

Not only is he stuck being my studiomate at Periscope Studio, but then he has to come home and live in the same house with Matt n' me.

He must have kicked a puppy or something in a previous life.

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The December edition of the Girlamatic podcast is here at last, featuring the extremely talented Svetlana Chmakova! Find out how she first got into comics, the appeal that manga has for her, and her upcoming return to GAM. Go listen now! http://bit.ly/6jOzDB

Many, many apologies for the delay of this episode. We had encountered technical difficulties like you wouldn’t believe, and Svet’s an utter sweetheart to bear with it all. To make up for this, dear listeners, stay tuned for outtakes and goofiness at the veeeeeeeeery end of the podcast.

People, if you only knew what goes on behind the scenes over here.

Thanks again to Deb Aoki for mentioning Svet’s return to Girlamatic, and don’t forget to check out this spotlight interview of Svet! 

Originally published at Brian Moore's Sketchblog. You can comment here or there.

Around November of 2008 I got caught up in web tablet madness. Tired of being tied down to my desktop machine, I wanted a portable, high-resolution, internet-accessing device with a large-ish screen, that I could use for looking up photo reference at the drawing table and for general web browsing everywhere else.

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Originally published at Brian Moore's Sketchblog. You can comment here or there.

Time for a splash of color on the blog. In the bottom pic, Atom’s probably trying to figure out what/where that light source is.

Last post for today, I promise!


Dylan Meconis has a really great Medusa character design that I adore so I used it as reference for my very first attempt at sculpting a face.

It came out a wee bit creepier than I intended and though it's obviously a Medusa I don't think it really looks all that much like Dylan's Medusa. Oh well.
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On Etsy Now!

These are about double the size of my previous potted tentacles. Reg'lar pots were .5" and tentacles usually stood about 1.5" high. These pots are 1" and 1.5" tall with the tentacles practically tickling the sky at 3" tall.


Top-down view so you can see the pearly beaded "soil" they're sprouting out of.
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I like to keep my fingers busy.

For Sale on Etsy
Today's illustration is extra special 'cuz it is part of Periscope Studio's joint collaboration with Comics Alliance to re-create The Twelve Days of Christmas.
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Here’s the last Animals for Animals painting that went up for public sale – a fruit bat!  A tip of the hat to Jenn, who suggested the concertina.

Thanks to everybody who purchased one of the animals this month; thanks to you I’ll be able to donate at least $550 to Heifer International (I had to raise a bit past that to cover all the transaction fees from Paypal, Etsy, and my postage service).

As soon as the deposit clears, I will be donating the money to Heifer for a Knitting Basket, which represents two llamas and two sheep, and a Hope Basket, which will go towards some rabbits and chickens.

You’ll also be seeing an owl and a dormouse posted here soon (if the people who asked for them are okay with the world getting to see them once they’re finished!).

If you’d like more information on Heifer International, they’ve got a great website, and their print catalogue is the only charity publication that elicits smiles from me when it turns up in the mail.

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http://www.dicebox.net/asides/dontlookback_part4.htm#page48

Read "Don't Look Back" by Patrick Farley from the beginning

Page 164 of Family Man, now online!

A little bit late, but better than never!  It’s rather hard to draw Ariana smiling.

I’ve had A Trying Week between some runaway freelance work and putting all the orders I can into the mail before Christmas hits.  Tomorrow’s probably your last day to order something from me and have it turn up in time (barring USPS complication, mind you), so go nuts.

Thanks all of you who’ve bought something from me!  That money goes directly into the Keep Dylan From Starving fund these days, and it’s a pleasure to send nonsense out into the world.

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The penultimate Animals for Animals watercolor!  Next I’ll do a bat, and then I have one or two that have been specifically commissioned (I’m workin’ on em gang, don’t worry!) and won’t be for sale.

FOR SALE NOW AT ETSY.

…why, what else did you think hens would read?  Tolstoy?  I doubt it.

This piece does double-duty as part of 12 Days of Periscope Christmas over at ComicsAlliance.  Thanks to Laura Hudson for coming up with the brilliant notion of hiring us all on to illustrate the classic carol all comic-book style.

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I know, I know, this isn't new news, but here is my official announcement:



After six years, December 28th will be the final DAR! strip! Yay!

I'm so, so grateful for all the wonderfully positive things that have come into my life as a direct result of this comic and I am even more excited to focus my energy on my completely new projects.

It's all in the above link, but I just wanted to say 'thank you' again.

Thank you to everyone who has been reading my dumb little journal comic for the last six years. Thank you for buying my books. Thank you for writing me kind letters. Thank you for supporting me.

I'm so happy to have had an audience to share my life with and I hope people will be just as excited as I am when my new projects launch.

So thank you again and yay!

Man, I am fucking stoked :D

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I just wanted to draw octopuses.

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Originally published at Brian Moore's Sketchblog. You can comment here or there.

More inky hash-slinging. A study of one of the Vanderbilt mansions (not sure which one), some doodles after Russell Patterson, and a character design for The Sweetened By-and-By. This particular pen nib is getting a little worn and imprecise, which I find I don’t mind very much as long as I’m sketching.

I did this end-of-the-year webcomics roundtable for ComixTalk and managed to get in a few plugs for my favorites. Check it out:

http://comixtalk.com/comixtalk_2009_roundtable

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Oh my fucking god, my heart is completely bursting.

This is a comic I received from Sam and Joe this morning (regarding this week's comic) and I think it's safe to say it's made my whole year.

They don't have a website I can direct you guys towards, but obviously they are exploding with talent and I can't wait to see what else they come up with!

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Joy, shipmate, Joy!
(Pleas’d to my soul at death I cry,)
Our life is closed, our life begins,
The long, long anchorage we leave,
The ship is clear at last, she leaps!
She swiftly courses from the shore,
Joy, shipmate, joy.

Walt Whitman
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In the contemporary Methodist tradition, the third Sunday in Advent is the week of Joy.  Advent used to be a much starker time, focusing on the end of the world and the coming day of reckoning, rather than anticipation of the arrival of an infant Christ.  I was struggling with, for this week’s poem, whether to trend towards the Joy or the End.

But why choose, when you can just have Walt Whitman?  (Next year: Emily Dickinson.)

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I haven’t forgotten Hereville! I’m still working hard on the graphic novel.

Right now, I don’t have time to do much of anything but draw Hereville, which is one reason I’ve been posting so rarely. I should finish drawing the graphic novel in March, and after I’ll be a bit more active with posting.

Here’s a panel I just inked, showing Mirka’s school’s cafeteria. You can see Mirka and her sisters Gittel and Rochel, sitting at the table closest to the viewer (behind the girl with the spikey hair). Gittel is the one with glasses.

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Originally published at hereville.com. You can comment here or there.

Here's what I inked today for MA over Ustream! For some reason, my webcam lends a blurry, Barbara-Walters-lighting sort of look to everything, so 'pologies. Original will be on its way to you, MA! :) If you don't want to be spoiled about what you're going to get, don't click on it. If you don't mind getting an advanced peek, however, then peek away! :D

This, by the way, also features a cameo by the ever-adorable Sin.

Originally published at Kris Dresen Draws. Please leave any comments there.

A few asked so I have created a “fan page” over at Facebook.

kris dresen’s facebook fanpage.

Do what you will. Or won’t.