A little shameless soft-launch I've been working on a little hobby project over the break around the realities of Alberta Separation. Assuming the current state tax replication with @ABProsperity promise to end income tax, the budgetary impact would be $53.2bn or 72.4% loss.

ooookkk I'm officially starting to get excited at how the new movie night & morning coffee project is turning out...

progress is nice

took a rare r&r day from the neverending to-do lists of doom, and worked on a little personal project... and I think slowly (...and finally) I'm getting the hang of digi painting from procreate. Still super foundational, but it looks proper for once with these new mechanics 😂

when your morning routine is coffee and art, but your emotionally needy velcro dog's routine is laying on you and head scritches.

the four stages of marrow coma.

Live footage of me this morning while updating the build sheet for this winter's computer rebuild and discovering what happened to RAM prices

Black Friday is about to get so much more lit

*me crosses fingers for Lord of the Rings channel and we finally get a Nordic style crime drama where this Hobbit runs around the Shire solving who stood Farmer Maggots mushrooms*

Dear Santa, I need a bigger desk. Thanks, Someone Who Was Finally Good This Year #CreativeTechStruggles

*taps signs* "flu med fueled mania"... Thanks @aaronhoyland.bsky.social

Today's #ArtAdventCalendar brought to you by the Dark Lord Sauron, the flu, and cold med mania. Sauron digital sketch | procreate 2025... *to be painted sometime in 2026. #digitalart #procreate #lotr

Oof almost forgot today's #ArtAdventCalendar ... busy day for me rigging up colman creative cloud infrastructure... I Scream, You Scream, Freddie Always Screams About Not Getting Ice Cream Procreate | 2025 #smbcb

The trend of humanizing our pets has intensified in recent years, with pet ownership shifting into pet parenthood. Writer @joshgreenblatt.bsky.social (who, for the record, loves dogs), doesn’t mince words: “Dog parents have lost their goddamned minds.” thewalrus.ca/why-were-treatin...

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 4 Even though I tried to stay focused on drawing and fundamentals for 2025, I started doing some colour studies and speed paintings in preparation for 2026's learning plans :) Freddie & The Flowers 2026 | 2026 90 minute speed painting + sketch #DigitalArt #Procreate #smbcb

Sorry late to the party, I was busy tweeting about my dog all day or something... apparently 😂 -- Fred & Gremmie's Happy Place 2025 | Procreate #ArtAdventCalendar #smbcb

Day Two of digi drawing fun, probably my favourite black and white off the year... Princess Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon (better known as Ciri) #ArtAdventCalendar #DigitalArt #Procreate

Keep your eyes out if you're walking your doggos or with your kiddos this evening and you're around the north western core folks! Just got an alert of coyotes on the loose rather early and in neighbourhoods. #yeg #yegpets

when your dog successfully side eye bullies you into taking a coffee break and cuddling with him.

I started taking digital art seriously this year; phase one was learning sketching and drawing in Photoshop/Procreate. This year's #ArtAdventCalendar yall get a highlight reel of all my favourite digi sketches from this new creative adventure! Numero Uno: Stace & Fredster Procreate Drawing #smbcb

I have this, it's a great book especially as a reference guide for non beginners!

"stupid hoomans making me wear stupid pants and stupid moose sweater. frens at dog park going to make fun of me for being nerddog. can't run fredfast in this nonsense. stupid winter" -Freddie's inner monologue today

My little personal gap project during comish down time is turning out wild.. if this month has taught anything it's that, despite my inclinations, apparently I should paint softer and slower... #yegart #abstractart #surrealism #dystopianism

It's the most wonnnndddddeeeerrrrful time of the yeeeeeeeeeeear

Hear me out: Cloudflare imploding and taking down Twitter with it is actually a good thing.

sunday scaries cure.

Untergehen | 2025 acrylic on canvas | 36x24 -- "A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an over-going and a down-going"

not sure if this is the wine or or varnish fumes but this is a nice friyay

for those who've been enjoying following along... from start to finish!

"watching hooman work is exhausting work, we need a vacation..." - Fred & Siesta Sid

a little more work on this beauty between big project washes... A little more cloudiness to bring in and some highlight details, and I think it'll be a wrap tomorrow!

roughing out a little something new while big things are curing out...

inch by inch, each time I refresh the masking and see it all together again she feels closer finally.... Good thing, because her brother is now prepped and taking up the last remaining sq ft of the studio ready for repeat 🫤

Me living in a former British colony: "first time dealing with the Windsors, eh?"

what a fucking time to be alive..

Absolutely breaks my brain that Procreate/Savage Interactive watches Adobe in free fall, and a massive amount of creatives seeking a legitimate alternative, and are still like: "nah mates, we're going to stay singularly locked into one device and format" YOU COULDA BEEN A CONTENDER #digitalart

“Ahh, old Greybeard. I have a token I was bidden to show thee….” A little Mouth of Sauron sketch to start figuring out the new digi painting process with!

just the (tri) tip

After 20+ years of being mouse jockey for digital guesssss who got himself his first real pen display as a little treat for not losing his shit at his client's over the last design contract's shenanigans. So excited to be able to digi paint properly and not be constrained by the iPad!

May I introduce my finest creation, I hereby dub thee: Mega Brush. The first of your name.

Me right now: alright time to start final interview prep. My brain 2 hrs pre-interview: IF YOOOOOOOU LIKE PINA COLADAS, AND DANCING IN THE RAIN 🎶

Well after a summer of struggle and setbacks, I think I'm finally starting to win against the bane of my existence! Also Freddie made a new bestie at the dog park today 😀

c/c @aaronhoyland.bsky.social

Looking over some sketches since starting on daily doodles a year ago and comparing to tonight's WIP study, and I must say my crosshatch game has wildly improved in 2025. I used to be so bad at this 😂

Apparently Freddie is now pub doggo.

We know no Queen but the Queen of the North, whose name is Stark!

Time to take The Ring of Power to Mordor and defeat the Lord of Darkness: 6 Months. Time to execute a strategy for Frodo to leave the Shire unnoticed: 2 months. 25% of the entire effort and plan was mitigating the Hobbit gossip mill. I think that's beautiful.

As a rare creature (in my networks at least) who practices art digitally and traditionally equally, I will say I am uncertain why more don't. There are so many benefits that each side brings to the other in terms of learning, growth, and creative development as well as how well they mix together.

Working on some digi painting technique studies... My "fuck it, not much different than oils" attitude has been coming up short at the end stages