Ninecrow Kickstarter is live now!

Hi all! Just wanted to post a quick update here for anyone who follows the blog and might not have seen me talk about this elsewhere--the Kickstarter campaign for my webcomic Ninecrow is live now! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inkybeaststudio/ninecrow-a-graphic-novel-of-homegrown-horror?ref=7yvj4u I'm raising funds to create a graphic novel version collecting the whole webcomic, plus additional content not available online.…

Chihuahua sketches

Once again I'm making a resolution to post more often! Going to try to keep up with posting some of my little daily drawings and news about ongoing projects. Lately I've been kicking around a picture book idea starring chihuahuas, so I've been doing some quick character design sketches for inspiration. It is very challenging…

The Haunted Serpent: Sneak peek!

Just going through some files on my computer that I haven't looked at in a while and came across an illustration for my (currently unpublished) middle grade novel The Haunted Serpent that I'd forgotten all about! That book has SO many illustrations (80 or something crazy like that...I forget/have blocked out exactly how many) that…

NaNoWriMo Quandary

Well, as always, it's been about a million years since I posted, despite my constant resolutions to start posting more frequently. My problem is that anytime I say/write/think anything, I assume most people are eagerly waiting for me to shut up (yes, even when I'm just thinking). This feeling makes writing and posting things that…

Shiny New Illustrations, with ICKY BUGS!

Thought I'd share a few illustrations from a new picture book I've been working on (click to view larger versions)... The first page is just a rough sketch-- when I'm working on illustrating a picture book I start by sketching out the full book to plan the page layouts. Then I do a few finished…

It’s called branding

I just noticed that someone found my blog because they were searching for "miserable pen and ink." Somehow my artwork has become associated with misery without me even trying. And here I think of it as whimsical! Perhaps Google's search algorithms know more about my state of mind than I do.   But merciful heavens,…

Work in progress

Here is a thingie I've been working on for just ever and ever, it seems like, and since it seems to be on the road to never actually being finished I thought I'd just post a (terrible) photo of it in progress. This is one of the times where I've set myself the task of…

Web Presence, New Year’s Resolutions, etc., etc.

Holy cow, I just realized I posted all of four times last year! And here I thought I'd actually posted more regularly. Ha. Well, I'm really going to make a SERIOUS EFFORT this year to post more often--although my life has actually only gotten more boring, if anything, so it is going to be challenging…

Monkey and Bear

Ta-da, new illustration! This one is for a song by Joanna Newsom called -- you'd never guess by the title of my post --  "Monkey and Bear." It's, um...kind of a folk-y, ballad-y story-song sort of thing that I just love, and since it does tell such a vivid, weird story I thought it would…

guinea pigs and lettuce and rabbits, oh my!

I'm working on too many projects right now, so that nothing actually gets done, but I've made some progress on one thing that I thought I'd post... I have a picture book called "The Lettuce Rancher" that I'm getting ready to submit to publishers, and right now I'm doing a bunch of sketches to lay…