December 9 2024

This is me drawing me waiting for a batch of bread to cool.  I tweaked the recipe and the dough rose beautifully twice, but in the oven it developed a big 'ol bubble in the middle and sort of baked into a sad blob shape.  Oh well...it still was good with a nice smear of butter and splash of balsamic vinegar on top.

November 15 2024

This is me drawing me drawing me. Been on a navel-gazing bent lately with my sketching/journaling. Trying to artistically figure things out...

I used a Zebra Sasara ballpoint, Karin Brushmarker Pro, and a Daiso brush pen.

September 1 2024

Spent my day watching lots and lots and lots of online training videos and eating tons and tons of fiber.

August 5 2024

From my sketchbook... It may be because I haven't had cheese in ages, but this lunch utterly hit the spot! So simple but soooooo good!

July 29 2024

From my sketchbook, drawn with a Micron PN...

I spent a day out at Irvine Park breathing fresh air and sitting under trees. Summer weather has been pretty decent this year and I appreciate that as a very pale, somewhat translucent heat-sensitive individual.

July 18 2024

From my sketchbook...been busy working on art for a gallery show I want to enter later on this year. I'm still messing around with the Uniball/Speedball ink combo I mentioned in my last post. I like the method, but I'm waiting now for coupons to drop so I can pick up some waterproof brown ink to experiment with. The colors may be a little more lively if there's a warmth to the values versus pure black.

I was impressed by the organized chaos of my desk post-art frenzy so I took a pic to memorialize it. Things to note...the yellow little pot is a ceramic yogurt container I picked up at Sprouts. That tiny jar of yogurt was three whole American bucks (!) and tasted okay, but I was more interested in using that cute container for watercolor than the probiotics inside. I've also been obsessed watching/listening to Campaign 3 of Critical Role. I started from the beginning earlier this year and am up to episode 60 now. I'm also watching the Thursday livestream each week too. It's sort of weird consuming the story at two different points in time, but the lore is so heavy it helps to watch/rewatch things as they progress.

April 25 2024

It's crazy how you can go from feeling great one day to feeling like utter crap the next. I had the worst head cold mid-April! This was the sickest I've been since I had Covid back in 2022. I had an allergic reaction to the cold medication I was taking, my eyes swelled shut, I had various multi-colored substances leaking out of my head, and I made the most unholy noises.....IT WAS HORRIBLE!

The first sketch was a method I found on Reddit for draining blocked-up sinuses. It works so you gotta have tissue ready to go when the mucus starts to flow!

The second sketch was how I slept for almost a week. When I laid flat, the post-nasal drip caused me to cough so propping myself up with couch cushions was the only was I could get any shut eye.

I do not recommend getting sick. Definite 0/10 experience.

April 8 2024

From my sketchbook, drawn with an 05 Micron...

Fun fact: I drew today's eclipse on the same piece of paper I used seven years ago for the August 21, 2017 partial eclipse.  I now have a souvenir for two outer space events!

April 2 2024

From my sketchbook...details in the sketch. :)

Fun fact: my coffee mug makes an appearance in a comic I illustrated, Book 2 of Camp Epic: Villains.

January 1 2024

Happy New Year!  Time to get back on the bandwagon and blog!

Last year I went down the rabbit hole of plant-based eating after reading Gut by Giulia Enders.  This book talks about the importance of the gut microbiome and the relationship between it and our overall health.  I'm focusing now on eating tons of fiber and a wide variety of plants to make the tiny creatures inside of my gut happy.  Happy bacteria = happier and healthier me!

Cooking for me is essentially throwing a bunch of veggies together in different combinations and seeing what tastes edible.  I've been tracking my culinary experimentations by drawing meals in my sketchbook.  Above is what I ate in the evening of the first.  I don't like how I drew my breakfast sketch so it's MIA, but I had banana carrot bread, a scramble of egg, spinach, bell pepper, and onion with a massive cup of coffee and almond/coconut creamer-hooray!

Hello blog, it's been a while...

It's been 7 years since I've posted here!!!

This site was my main online hangout back in the day, but I gravitated away from Blogger when I started my Instagram account back in 2015.  With all the turmoil on social media this quiet spot is now an oasis I want to spend some time in again.  I have some catching up to do talking about what I've been up to these past years, but in the meantime, here's a sketch of me drawing me and my yummy lunch from the other day...