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Announcing Disney Villains Cursed Café!
After nearly three years of work, I’m really proud to announce the release of Bloom Digital‘s newest game, Disney Villains Cursed Café. I art directed this game, and I’m so excited to get to share the results of all our hard work! You’ve probably heard me talk about Bloom before – we’re an indie game […]
Concept Art
professional vis dev work
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Across the Old Battlegrounds – Environment Concept
Herders and their stagmoose, dramatic geology, and a landscape strewn with the remains of history. Loose sketch concept.
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Comics
comics of many kinds
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A Brief Guide to (early onset) Wizard Puberty
A Brief Guide to (early onset) Wizard Puberty is a silly but sincere explanation for bystanders of what is happening when their friends become disabled, as narrated by a very tired wizard. This comic has…
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photography
digital camera snaps and thoughts
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Cellphone Photography: All About White Balance
Okay, this first in-depth cellphone photography post is going to be about white balance. One of the things that I often struggle with is getting the colors to look right on my phone. If you’ve…
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Digital Camera Blogging
Folks seemed interested and excited about my Your Cellphone Camera’s Digital Processing Settings and You post, so I think I’m going to do some more specific posts about different things you can do to your…
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Inspiring photographer: Em Sharnoff
With the death of cohost, I have tried to make sure to catch my favourite cohost photography folks’ new rss feeds as best I can! And seems worthwhile to share these links with you –…
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Your Cellphone Camera’s Digital Processing Settings and You
I am mad about cellphone cameras hiding the processing they do to my photos, and I am glad about software I found that lets me control it and opt in and out.
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Pocket Dungeons
system agnostic ttrpg modules that come in a cute pouch
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The Ghost Houses of Phylinecra – Pocket Dungeon Zine & Pocket Pack
The Ghost Houses of Phylinecra is a system-agnostic, story-heavy dungeon crawl about a community recovering after disaster, and how a goddess might try to understand mortal grief. The village of Phylinecra was a tight-knit community of artists and creatives, until it suffered a devastating flood. In the aftermath, as the survivors try to salvage their […]
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The Corruption of Pelursk – Pocket Dungeon Pack
The Corruption of Pelursk is a system-agnostic tabletop RPG hexcrawl/dungeon, written by Shel Kahn. The Isle of Pelursk holds a glowing, steaming, mist-shrouded secret at its heart, and once you’ve entered its clutches it does not want to let you leave. Designed to fit easily as a sidequest into an ongoing campaign or stand confidently…
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Keep on the Shining Isle – Pocket Pack
Keep on the Shining Isle is a system-agnostic dungeon featuring a haunted ruin, a mystery cult and some very tempting apples. Pick this up to send your home campaign on a memorable sidequest, or try out your favourite new system with this 1-2 session scenario. Written and published by Shel Kahn as the first of many…
Teaching
professional vis dev work
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Teaching Comics, Zine-making and Visual Literacy at OSF
In autumn 2017, I taught a four week comics course at the Oasis Skateboard Factory, an alternative highschool within the Toronto District Schoolboard. OSF has a project-focused curriculum, so our comic project was multifaceted, to…
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Art
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Oil Pastel Castle Ruins
After a few weeks away it was great to get home to the oil pastels! I painted this one on canson mi-teintes paper, with sennelier oil pastels, and was reminded that when used on paper,…
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Announcing Disney Villains Cursed Café!
After nearly three years of work, I’m really proud to announce the release of Bloom Digital‘s newest game, Disney Villains Cursed Café. I art directed this game, and I’m so excited to get to share the results of all our hard work! You’ve probably heard me talk about Bloom before – we’re an indie game… keep reading
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one year of arm stuff – part 12 –ambidexterity – writing
For six months I had no nerve connection whatsoever to my lower right radial nerve. This meant that all of… read more
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Added a blueberry bush
This palette really holds you accountable to relative colour! But also: you can use every pencil crayon in your possession and it will still feel… keep reading
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Derwent Drawing Pencils swatches
Twenty four colours including white, so, the 23 larger more uniform swatches at the top are the full line of pencil crayons. the rest of… keep reading
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Willow Tree WIP cont.
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Willow tree drawing WIP
Taking this limited palette on the road! keep reading
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playing around with a beautiful limited palette
these are the Derwent Drawing line of pencil crayons, and I’m having a lot of fun with them in my cheap MUJI sketchbooks! keep reading
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Feeds vs Blogs Thoughts
so when I reformatted my website, one of the things that I wanted to do was make it possible to post casually to this, with… keep reading
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Sketchbook Crystal Island WIP
Just playing around between work and comics and life. Neocolor iis and watercolours! keep reading
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Vine Tomatoes Still Life in Oil Pastel
For this one i used all my oil pastels, from the hardest to the stickiest to the softest. The grain of the canvas panel was… keep reading
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learned something important about my website
i have footnote capabilities already! Ahh, the newly distracting ways I can write, unfolding before my like cells in the library of babel… Unfortunately I… keep reading
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Neocolor carnation
Drawn without water, on a 6 x 9″ grey blue cardstock, I think Strathmore brand. Drawn from life, from a lovely birthday bouquet. keep reading
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why are they called pencil crayons in canada?
Canadian here, and I can confirm that, while admittedly I have never seen a product list itself as a pencil crayon in Canada, we all… keep reading
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Skeletons (2010)
Shoutout to Jurie and Andy for sharing this gem with me; deeply british, dry, spooky, sweet, and shows you the tip of the iceberg of… keep reading
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