Yoksdream from Katarina Countiss Today, I finished a “children’s book.” I used tracing paper to draw out the pictures and text, then scanned it in and colored it in Photoshop. I made it as a Christmas present for Dan, who is co-creator (dad) of Yoks (a baby horse who has a series of comics and…

This is the front of a birthday card I drew today.  

Today is the first day of winter break. I spent a good chunk of the morning setting up a to do list and sending out emails and paying bills. I want to take advantage of the next two weeks to get some stuff done that I’ve been putting off. I also wanted to start an…

Inspired by this image (as shared by Tom Lenon on Facebook), today’s drawing club meeting, after a warm up with a collaborative drawing exercise, was coming up with our own device. The device we came up with makes toast.  Here’s the plan. First, you must insult a bald guy (not pictured) to the point where…

Today in drawing club, we drew portraits of our teachers. Here is Marc (top middle and lower left), Tom (the one with the glasses) and Jason (top right). Drawing people you know is known to reduce stress. Try it. Good luck with finals everyone!

At today’s drawing club meeting (consisting of myself and Nino), we did a collaborative drawing exercise where you draw one figure and your drawing partner draws the other. The other exercise we did was drawing from doodle where the draftspeople draw one line at a time, taking turns trying to incorporate into a picture of…

This Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams. Today in drawing club, we illustrated a poem. After considering Edgar Allen Poe’s Raven, we decided to go for a simpler poem and Emily suggested this lovely little poem. We parsed up the phrases and gave each person a bit of the poem to work on for…