Callisto 7 – take 2
So, I’ve decided to give Callisto 7 another go. You can read about the abandoned first attempt here and see all fifteen pages of that version here. Even though I walked away from it, the ...
Life? Or Theatre? By Charlotte Salomon – Pages M004237, M004245, and M004300
As I mentioned before, Life? or Theatre? tells the story of Charlotte Salomon’s family, keeping the given names but changing the surnames. So far, I took us through the first hundred pages which cover the ...
Drawings from 2022 notebooks
I have posted some of these previously from cell phone photos, but as I mentioned I recently scanned a bunch of notebooks drawings from the past two years. Here are the ones I shared on ...
Drawings from 2021 notebooks
I scanned a bunch of images from old notebooks a few weeks ago, thinking about putting them together into a little book. Instead, I just decided to post them one at a time on my ...
Inking: Black on Black
Working with pen and ink, you often run into the issue of what to do when you have a black element on top of another black element, such as when there is a black figure ...
nijomu site update
I’ve revised a few things around here for the new year. One, I added a new plugin to use with the store page. So now besides Paypal, I can accept credit card and Venmo payments. ...
2022 – Year in Review
2022 has been an eventful year personally, professionally, and artistically. For this blog, I’m going to stick to the art. In January, I had some nice reviews. One for my book This Wasn’t the Plan ...
First Two Pages of “Hands”
This story is based on a very vivid dream that I had a year ago. The emotions in it were strong and so different than the emotions of my waking life that I felt like ...
Life? Or Theatre? By Charlotte Salomon – Introduction and pages M004179 and M004211
The rise of the graphic novel is intimately, and of course tragically, tied to the Second World War. If we consider the book that broke through and captured a wider audience and showed the reading ...
Inking Tool: the Nail
It just struck me the other day that there is an essential tool that I use when drawing in pen-and-ink that I have never read any writer discuss. Now, I don’t ink with a nail ...