In a year when I've been inundated with AI slop Christmas images from friends and family, it seems more important than ever to hand make all my cards. #drafting

Inspired by pinup Hilda and her physics-defying onesie. This time of year, all I'd like is to set up on the couch with a few cans and listed to records all evening but somehow I feel too lazy even for that. #Hilda #ballpointpen #drawing

Even skeletons want to celebrate the holidays, I suppose. #drawing #ink #deleter

A Christmas present to myself: A vintage lettering scriber. I've wanted one of these for ages. A Muji ballpoint pen cartridge will fit the scriber which makes practicing a bit less intimidating at least. It's too bad they didn't make left-handed versions though.

WIP. I hardly ever remember to stop and take photos of things in progress. Also, I heard that extreme angles of faces are a meme or something right now. I hope up-nostril counts. #ink #drawing #skeleton #cats

Killing two birds with one stone by covering the parts of the drawing you don't like and finishing an old bottle of India ink. #drawing #ink

I assume the mighty AE86 is the car of choice for robots everywhere. Probably should have used a ruler for all those straight lines. Oh well. #ae86 #gynoid #drawing #deleter #ink

Still on the astronaut and Deleter screen tone kick. The ref is from @trueref.bsky.social and was really fun to draw. #truerefdt0010 #drawing #ink #deleter

I'm jealous of all the aurora photos popping up. Nothing but rain in my neck of the woods right now but at least the weather cooperated for the big geomagnetic storm last year.

Skeletons pout when they don't get to wear the space suit. Might try putting screen tones on this one. #drawing #skeleton #ink #astronaut

I found this fanart of Chii, from a manga where computers look like schoolgirls, on an old SD card from 2004 or 2005. I recall selling this for the princely sum of 80 Canadian dollars. Wish my anatomy had improved more in the last 20 years. #chii #chobits #fanart

A bit late for Skeleton Season, but I'm still getting the hang of these screen tones. #drawing #ink #skeleton #deleter

I've drawn our cat, despite being the least spooky creature on Earth, every single Halloween for the last decade. I guess this year will be no exception. #ink #cat #jack-o-lantern #crow

First go around with Deleter Screentones. Not as intimidating as I feared though I think I'd do better with a sharper knife. Seemed fitting to draw some schoolgirls. #screentones #schoolgirls #indiaink

In Tokyo for a few days and looking forward filling my luggage with as many Deleter tones as will fit. I’ve always wanted to try them out but they cost like $30 a sheet back home.

Aw geez, nearly a third of the way through October and I'm way behind on my skeleton quota. #sketchbook #ballpointpen #skeleton

I've never tried drawing someone doing a hand stand before. Or wearing fishnet stockings. The ref was taken during an event where people sat on pies. On reflection, I think pies are better eaten than sat on, but there's no accounting for taste I guess. #sketchbook #ballpointpen #handstand

An illustration I did for a Taco themed charity event a few years back. I assume Giant Taco said yes. #digitalpainting #illustration #tacos

Getting ideas out for a larger project. Done with a Muji ballpoint pen and a sharpie. The Muji pens are better than some fineliners that cost three times as much. Very nice but I think I still prefer the humble BIC. #ballpointpen #sharpie #skeleton #picnic

We started a new team at work and the members chose a Darth Vader pun for it's name. This spawned a company-wide torrent of AI slop images that ruined my day and made me daydream of blowing up data centers. The only thing I could do was make something by hand as an act of self care. #sketchbook

Took a ferry ride and did some people watching. I have been mired in a huge home improvement project which is now many weeks overdue and my sketchbook has been the primary victim of this. #sketchbook #ballpointpen

Inspired by something I saw last winter: A woman and a cat passing each other on the sidewalk the same way two strangers would, each off to run whatever errands they had for the day with no interest in the other. Personally, I would have tried to pet the cat. No reference.

A quick sketch referenced from a pair of dark, blurry photos made on a ~2005 flip phone. Despite only being 0.3 megapixels, I recall the phone could only store 15 or so images before running out of space. #sketchbook #ballpointpen

Some maniac stole my patio umbrella. While I decide if I should wage a campaign of destruction against the city's criminal underbelly or go buy a new one, memorializing the old one in ink seems an appropriate way to grieve. #ballpointpen #sketchbook #restinpeace

A quick sketch from a recent beach trip. I'm happy with the dimensionality of the pool floaty but underwater caustics are hard. #ballpointpen #sketchbook #swimmingpool

When cats lounge around in weird poses it's cute. When humans try to do the same thing it's inappropriate. Flagrant double standard right there.

The equivalent of pulling an old sketchbook out of the basement: Looking through ancient Photoshop files. I forgot I did this during my digital painting days, which were so long ago now that this .psd would be able to legally purchase alcohol in several countries and Canadian provinces.

On reminiscing about HBO's Chernobyl miniseries. #sketchbook #ballpointpen #virgins #chads

The first and last pages of my current sketchbook. About 16 months apart. It usually doesn't take that long for me to fill a sketchbook, but the last couple years have been full of distractions. All from reference. #sketchbook #ballpointpen #progress

Someone I know from high school with large, intricate tattoos on her back and leg. I find tattoos difficult to draw as they obscure the forms that I look for when drawing people. Yet another thing I should practice more, I guess.

"Forget it dude, she only dates skeletons" #ballpointpen #sketchbook #skeleton

Sometimes I need to travel for work and I usually bring a sketchbook with me, but rarely ever manage to use it. I forced myself to find the the time on my last trip, which I'm proud of.

Wow, a hundred followers! I came here to make a clean break from other social media. No existing connections, no friends from other sites. Somehow it makes every follow seem “earned” .

From a photo of a friend who has a fun-to-draw face and is ready to strike a pose whenever the camera comes out. Always stratifying to drain another pen as well. #sketchbook #ballpointpen

There's a joke in here about only one thing being on every skeleton's mind. Most of this was done during a three hour zoom meeting in which my participation amounted to saying "hello" and "bye". #sketchbook #ballpointpen

I found this half-finished Appleseed fanart in a sketchbook from 2022. I think I gave up because using India ink with dip pens on Moleskine watercolour paper was too annoying. #sketchbook

"Guys stop everything. I can see the bottom of my food dish. Guys? GUYS???!" I think I redid the lady's face five times before it looked okay. #sketchbook #ballpointpen

I usually just rough things in with pencil before switching to ink, as I'm lazy and impatient. It's nice to spend the time and work things out before committing but something always seems to get lost when inking. #scetchbook #ballpointpen #crab

My wife once found a dog's skull with a bullet hole in the top of it. It now hangs on our living room wall. Looking at it made me wonder: Among the polytheistic belief systems, does one exist that ascribes a god or spirit to animal companions put down?

Somebody recently described the contents of my sketchbook as "witchy". It's certainly more concise than "mostly ladies, human skeletons, deer skulls, and vaguely religious iconography."

Does anyone actually do that square thing with their hands when taking photos?

Looking at an old sketchbook I found an ink wash drawing of a nun doing the shocker. The shocker is hilarious and I found myself drawing it again before too long.

Do skeletons have a space program and that's why this one's wearing a space suit, or did they put it on while alive and then become a skeleton?

I have, over the course of my time making "art", tried just about every medium available but have landed on the unnatural combination of very expensive sketchbooks and very cheap pens. I do love the Moleskines and what's one more vice to add to the pile?

I sucked it up and opened Photoshop to clean up the line art. How can it be so slow and terrible compared to what it was over a decade ago? F-- Adobe.

When two different sketches combine to make it look like Short Gandalf can summon spectral Vespas.

I always had a soft spot for Masamune Shirow's other other manga, Dominion Tank Police. It's got all the zany action with none of the Philosophy 101.

I always liked this little face. It seems to have some personality without being overly stylized, which is something I have a hard time doing intentionally.

A quick illustration for a charity cocktail event's menu. India ink and Pantone markers. I hadn't used either in over a year, it was fun to pick them back up.

Cats somehow always find the least convenient spot to exist. Even ones that live in sketchbooks.