Another day: another colored page.

Got another page done yesterday and, when I manage to draw her correctly, Miss Kyra is quite cute!

Can't beat high-resolution scans and color correction software.

I got a lot of great looking work done today, and I feel like my phone camera is never up to the task of documenting it. Still: can you tell I'm *outsidey*?

Can't believe my lil' bro is hangin' with the Deus Ex guy.

Did a few quick test panels to make sure that my color scheme looked nice and didn't take wayyyy too long. Four panels later: I think I got the look! This is just a photo from my phone, but this will look extra spiff once it's scanned, lettered, and posted~

My dad worked on the YF-23 fighter jet, so I drew one for Father's Day. Only two YF-23's were ever made, as it ultimately lost the JSF (Joint Strike Fighter) competition to the F22 in 2001. I was 13 at the time, and I remember my dad being really bummed about it. It really is a beautiful plane.

Hey Cody! (Scan)

Colored a quick Cody at work, since I don't have time to color a page before quittin' time.

Some thoughts on working in the growing field of Planned Obsolescence in comic form. 16 panels total (1/2).

The lighting situation at the gym is getting pretty dire

"Being correct is going to get you killed, ya know. Try being wrong, way better results."

Inked 'im. I keep trying new little things to evolve and grow my style, but it's never *quite* where it needs to be. I'll know when it is, though. It'll be obvious. I'll just keep drawing until then.

Drawing said explosion also takes forever.

illustration by Jack T Cole @newjackcole.bsky.social

Even in the relatively speedy photo-bash form: the mighty FANUC M-900 takes a good while to ink and draw. If I could be reincarnated as anything, it would be a FANUC M-900. I think they're one of the most amazing pieces of machinery ever built.

Big announcement! My husband has been, for the past few months, COMPLETELY re-lettering and formatting the 1st chapter of "Vampire Hunter Alone." It's now done and uploaded! You can, and should, read it here: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/va... Better word balloons, sound effects + optimized layout!

Everyone hates a "Well Actually!" Guy, even if they're Parappa the Rapper.

Happy Pride~ Word-games can't defend what's important to you, but someone like me can (and will, push comes to shove). ;)

Being smart and drawing a very dumb looking Bluey in robot class, while the rest of the class learns about how to use DRAW.IO. Naturally, the two lone women in class knew what I was doing ("Are you drawing Bluey?!"). The men in the department, naturally, were not allowed to partake in such whimsy.

Another day, another page of gorey fish-monster action. The blood looks all weird and stringy because they regenerate in a similar manner to the Kessen-Chu worms from "Blade of the Immortal" (a Seinen manga you will never read due to the mega popular In-A-Video-Game Trash Genre).

Listen, you wouldn't look so hot after getting hit with a 300 LB M-31 Bomb dropped out of a B-26 Marauder either (spoiler: it isn't dead).

Can the best Diesel-Tech of 19"53" stand up to the Vampire-Fish menace? ... At the very least: they can outrun it (for now).

A VERY "Devil May Cry"-esque panel from Ch. 2 (just with more fish).

Husband took some other nice ones. I didn't really care much about my appearance for the longest time, kinda bought too hard into the "don't judge people by their looks" meme. Now I just look the way I've always wanted to. I get nasty glares from the more fashionable, but that's their problem!

Tryin' to live that life regardless.

Drew a Sohei Warrior Monk at work yesterday. I think about those fellas a lot, wish there was more literature about them out there.

Got to see the Buddha's new fursuit AND some of the pictures that the kiddos colored today!

"Peeing Your Pants as a Form of Praxis" I'm 37 and I only like reading books about famous executioners. Political YouTubers are demonstrably worthless.

Drew my husband's ( @kazekoe ) favorite podcaster.

Someone else at the temple had a really neat take!

My student loans were supposed to be forgiven this year. Instead I'm back on the hook for them with an additional $6k of "Fuck Young People Tax" thrown on. Presumably, this is so Boomers can keep going on vacation for thirty more years. I'm feeling a certain kinda way about it.

This Sunday is Siddhartha Guatama's 2,570th birthday (damn bro) and, since I volunteer every week at a Buddhist Temple, I ended up designing a bunch of images for the temple kiddos to decorate for our parade signs. I colored the tiger one (plus Disco-Guatama) since I thought he looked pretty cool~

Thick As Thieves is out on Steam today!! I'm extremely proud of the levels we've been able to create with this amazing small team. Check out the intro to our world for only 5 bucks!!

My younger sibling (a 3D environmental artist) had a game come out yesterday on PC! It's called "Thick as Thieves", it's a multi-player, co-op, stealth game that they did a ton of environment work on, check it out: store.steampowered.com/app/3341000/... It's also wishlistable on PSN!

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Learned when and where to forage for asparagus in the past two weeks. They're considerably larger and tastier than the store bought ones, I find.

I get this error every time I try to post here. It won't let me save as a draft either, I have to copy/paste the text and then make a new post. THEN it posts. No idea why.

Monsters and motorcycles (plus the jeep, I've drawn that jeep a LOT, I see it in my dreams). My dad actually owned a Willy's Jeep briefly, I got to ride it in it just once. It was out in the Missouri countryside, and my dog at the time (Ranger) was gleefully chasing us. Great memory.

Husband says I should post just one image at a time here instead of 4, due to how BSKY formats things. What do YOU think? I can't really tell; husband has the eye for formatting (I just draw and program robots).

More panels that I like, with lots of big verdant backgrounds and vehicle work. I still like drawing the character's cute faces the best, but I think such a likable crew should have cool cars/bikes/planes to drive around in; and they should ride them in a lush, believable world.

These shots of the crew in their 1940's Willy's Jeep I quite like. One of the benefits of using models for vehicle shots is that I really only have to frame the vehicle. The characters just have to fit IN the vehicle; I don't really have to think about their placement in the shot as much.

I haven't been posting much art due to my RSI, but I did get these panels from a scene of a fish stampede inked a few months back and I'm very proud of it (it took forever to draw for obvious reasons). I don't know if anyone else has ever drawn a fish stampede, but now I have.

Learned how to footage for wild asparagus today. Got a LOT of it, and it's better than any I've ever gotten from the grocery store!

I'm in physical therapy for, go figure, a repetitive stress injury in my drawing arm. It hurts to draw, do math problems, and even play s video games (all things I like). Still, I try to draw at least a little something whenever I can. Even if it's just something silly on a package for a friend.

Drew my husband.

My mistake, characters start to look right after you draw them TWO hundred times.

Cody's scuffed up, but he's ok!

More of my notes from class. I draw in my notes for fun, but lately and increasingly, drawings bum me out. All anyone will talk to me about is robots or math, which is neat, but I work WAY harder on the art stuff and people will do everything they possibly can to not talk to me about art.

Oftentimes, I'll get an idea for a scene/panel and then seek out a frame that captures the energy and feeling I'm going for. Whenever this happens: I just copy the original to see what makes it tick before trying to do my own version.