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Tuesday Doodle

Posted on December 17, 2024 by Joe

I am having a lot of fun using my Sailor Fude fountain pens in a couple of small, mixed media sketchbooks. Sometimes I have a subject in mind, and other times — like the drawing above — I go wherever … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Tina!

Posted on October 7, 2024 by Joe

Being that it is October I am once again leaning into a Halloween theme for Tina’s birthday card. Happy birthday, Tina!

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Tuesday Doodle • Stubborn Strathmore Sketchbook

Posted on April 9, 2024 by Joe

I finally killed off a small Strathmore sketchbook that was lying around the house. It was picked up years ago while it was most likely on sale. The price was probably too good to resist. I honestly don’t remember. It … Continue reading →

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Available for Birthdays and Bar Mitzvahs

Posted on March 13, 2024 by Joe

This is a variation of the frightening clown I produced in Affinity Designer back in 2019. I was on a streak back then making a number of vector Halloween heads in Serif’s superlative software, and my basement dwelling Bozo was … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Digital Doodle • Type of the Living Dead

Posted on March 5, 2024 by Joe

Affinity recently updated their whole suite of desktop publishing applications to version 2.4 so I’ve been trying to catch up with some of the new features of these programs. I’ve been mostly playing with Affinity Designer which is their vector … Continue reading →

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The Green Ghoul

Posted on January 30, 2024 by Joe

Recently I’ve been traipsing down memory lane revisiting the people and impressions I had of grade school and junior high in the form of cartoons. Today I offer some images that I probably doodled in the margins of notebooks when … Continue reading →

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You Can’t Keep a Good Vampire Down

Posted on January 4, 2024 by Joe

Although the TV series ended in 1971, vampire Barnabas Collins continued to haunt the comic book racks of newsstands and convenience stores well into the 1970s. The comic above was published by Gold Key in 1974 — 50 years ago! … Continue reading →

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