This October, I asked MB to make monsters with me out of clay. He agreed and we had THE. BEST. TIME. The class was for children (like, 7 and 8-year-olds), but we paid our money and went anyway. And our monsters turned out BOOTEEFULL!

MB's sleepy Cthulhu:

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I'm writing a story about people with tattoos. I decided to illustrate the latest one I wrote about (though it looks a lot less like a tattoo and a lot more like a storybook illustration).

These things just happen, I swear.

Made in PowerPoint.


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Waking In The Lonely Dark has been a hard-won labor of love for my friend, Deejaymil (Criminal Minds AU, Prentiss/Hotch + Prentiss/Reid, NC-17). But it is a beautiful, horrible, achingly sad story that captured my attention and wouldn't let go. She didn't ask for art, but that's never stopped me before, and frankly, I wanted to give her something ( Read more... )

Here's more fan art no one asked for. This time it's for deejaymil's Reid/Prentiss story, In Free Fall, which is so heartwrenching that somehow I was moved to make art for it?!?!??? Hmmmm... silly artbrain...

Anyway, I did two versions because I added a bunch of extra elements and then I couldn't decide if they worked or not.

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Okay, so it's that time of year again. This time I was paired up with the lovely vernie_klein for her Sam/Dean AU fic called My Empire of Dirt. And seriously, who can resist a fic named after a NIN lyric, amirite? Damn straight. It's a dark story with plenty generational song references that you'll appreciate if you are a person of a certain vintage like me ( Read more... )

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Stolen from snailbones. Author Elizabeth Gilbert discusses the psychological damage of the modern "genius" and perhaps a healthier way to negotiate our creative tendancies. With a really amusing Tom Waits story in the mix.

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I don't really believe in relocating part of your creativity outside of yourself, primarily because I don't know how you manage that ( Read more... )

My friend just gave me a belated Christmas present: A COLORING BOOK FOR ADULTS!

Currently, I am a lot like this:


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Ooops, missed another day, so today will be a double feature.

Yesterday's love would've been COMIC BOOKS! Specifically, graphic novels of a dark, anti-hero variety ( Read more... )

So, here I am ready to post another video by someone about whom I'm indifferent. This time it's Amanda Palmer. I don't like her music at all, or even most of her assorted art projects, and I get a little tired of all the Amanda-and-Neil stuff. But she has some interesting things to say about creativity, and she can be quite whimsical when she wants ( Read more... )