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Long Lost Friend Studio is my self-publishing imprint, the studio space where we work, and a YouTube channel featuring videos about art and creativity. This blog covers everything happening with me and Long Lost Friend Studio.
Investigating Colored Pencil Solvent with Scooby Doo’s Velma Dinkley
This week I worked on a Scooby Doo tribute featuring Velma Dinkley and the Ghost of the Black Knight — the very first spooky villain Scooby and the gang encountered back in 1969! — and experimented with some colored pencil techniques for the first time.
Making An Eight-Limbed Villain With My Own Two Hands
Recording stuff in our studio for our YouTube channel means someone’s always hovering over your shoulder with a camera, capturing everything you work on, warts and all. But sometimes it works out. Like when it caught most of my Doctor Octopus sculpting process and gave me some relatively-wart-free content to post this step-by-step this week!
Burying Myself In My Work
Long Lost Friend Studio is back from our summer YouTube break. As Herman Munster would say: Oh, goody! This week we ink and tone those classic horror-sitcom characters, The Munsters. And it’s all because that zany Rob Zombie trailer is on everyone’s lips.
A Bone To Pick
A little over two years ago, on our Long Lost Friend Studio YouTube channel, I drew and inked this skeleton sailor from the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney World.
Process: Kermit the Frog Thank You Note
I ran across some snapshots I took while working on a thank you card for a client. I haven’t posted in a few weeks, so I figured I could turn these pics into a quick, informal, process post.
My Long Lost Sketch Wallet
Working in a Sketch Wallet for the first time (after receiving one for a gift and promptly losing it).
Morels 10th Anniversary Booster Cards Are Here…and Gone!
Ten years ago, Brent Povis asked me to illustrate his vision for a card game he was developing. That game was Morels, and it was an indie hit, earning multiple awards and getting phenomenal ratings in all the gaming forums where it was discussed. As of this writing, the game has a solid 7.0 on Board Game Geek.
Untold Tales of Bigfoot Gets A Bizarro Shout-Out
You’d think I’d pulled Bizarro cartoonist Wayno out of a burning building at some point in the past from all the times he’s referenced my Bigfoot graphic novel in his nationally syndicated comic, but no. He’s just a real sweetheart.
Work In Progress: New Website
Hey everybody. You’re looking at the skeleton of a website undergoing an overhaul. A work-in-progress. And the reason for this overhaul is organization.