finding joy in old patterns

I’ve been swimming twice a week for 2 and a half months. Today felt good and turned out to be the longest I’ve been able to go. Starting to find my ‘walking pace’ — I’m no longer gassed after just 50 or 100y. Progress feels nice.

*doodles while on hold with the bank*

angel of death says:

After reading #AlienClay I just had to get this vision of the Elephant’s Dad outta my head. Now it’s in yours — sorry! P.s. I loved the book. 5/5

triple dog dare you to step through

<opens hand> here, have some weird little guys <runs away>

Sneaky roller #wrx

And now in real ink!

meditation

back for another installment of illustrated D&D notes where the illustrations may or may not have anything to do with the notes!

Finally caught up with the last 6 months of #KSBD and …holy hells! bravo @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social — It’s going to be so bittersweet seeing this epic conclude after a decade of following along.

sometimes it be like that

got some new go-fast(er) bits and hacked together a combined dyno sheet showing the gains over the previous tune thanks to a new TMIC, charge pipe, and EBCS. Getting very close to my ideal OEM+ WRX. #wrx #vawrx

We’re mapping the DOGE team. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Welcome home, tiny dinosaur*, I can’t wait to draw you. *iguana

tfw u get it all to urself

The doodles don’t have much relation to the notes but I don’t make the rules. Brain draws what brain wants. #dnd #sketching

Me at my job except it’s data visualization and it’s *hours*

i don’t *love it*, but it made the second half of my flight seem a lot quicker. do you think these two have connected message stones or do they stand on the top of their towers and project their Wizard Voices at each other? neighbors? frenemies? …lovers? #wizardtowers #sketching #fantasyart #ink

first time painting a #warhammer40k mini — well, any mini to be exact. the shop in Ann Arbor does a free painting demo for newbies!

eff yeah we scored an empty middle seat.

last one from the archives for a bit. the next #art will be new! <he said to himself in encouragement> im not nearly as comfortable working with color these days. #wizard #sketch #skinnyjeans

seeing red #art #sketchbook

after years and years i set up my turntable again. feels great man. #stonerdoom #dopesmoker

look, sometimes brain says draw big dinosaur. so we’ll see where this one goes #dinosaur #sketch

So I’m following a bunch of artist and I keep seeing “QRP” in their posts. I have no idea what this stands for or means and at this point I’m too scared to ask. A regular google search turned up something of HAM radios so…

o lawd she comin

I’ve been reading KSBD almost since its inception on a little creative writing forum and it has become something altogether astounding. Part comic, part esoterica, part philosophical meditation, part religion. A towering piece of Art with a community of devotees. Praise YISUN!

digital charcoal jacob’s ram boi. why? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ever just wanna delve into a cave? yeah me neither. i think i was just listening to The Cavern by Inter Arma. #sketchbook #dungeondelving

more #dnd campaign notes. #sketchbook

dinosaur brain while doing laundry. tangentially: I’ll forever see hashtags as cringe but this is a new frontier of sharing so #sketchbook #dinosaur #art

Hey, just a quick reminder: there is no Planet B. kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/album/infest...

Are illustrated dnd campaign notes a thing people like? I started doing them to help us remember wtf was going on, but over time they morphed into something … more? They make us smile so maybe I can pass it on. These are the most recent. #dnd #ttrpg #illustration

Post more unfinished / practice #art! Here’s me with bad proportions & novice-at-best anatomical understanding. Sometimes practice includes doing an initial outline trace of the reference to get the feel of the shapes and bone structures before moving onto my own loose sketches. #drawing #dinosaurs

general mood #art #resist

Fascinating example of how #geospatial data can be used in beautiful and unexpected ways: international espionage. #gischat

Ok last one for now. This was a #penandink #masterstudy of Moebius with the foreground and skull being original. Lotta learning from this one.

And some newer #penandink stuff that I liked the feeling of

Some old #penandink drawings

and a new one i enjoyed

starting to make good on the namesake.

the good stuff

reminiscing. iceland and the faroe islands circa 2016.