Looking over your shoulder. Look over your manuscript, your sketches, or even your shoulder and you may discover your character. The character of your story that is. Character is all around you. In people, animals, sometimes even in the objects around you and the spaces between them. Sounds strange, I know, but I'll share a drawing sometime of a character I saw in the combination of a tree and it's surrounding spaces. Today's shared …
Illustration
Laughing is good for your health.
Don't however, share humor with a dragon. I always feel wonderful after a good laugh. It doesn't take much to make me laugh. Slapstick works, unless it's way over the top, or overused. I'm a sucker for goofy faces. Ironical humor sometimes goes over my head. But whatever the variety, I never want people to stop trying to make me laugh. I think it's the key to a long life. My dad was always laughing and being goofy, and he lived to be 95. …
Santa is in the Workshop
Back in the workshop. While I am always busy creating in my workshop, I am now taking some time to focus on holiday ornaments for sale. Come shop a few new Santa ornaments I have just posted. But I am also working on some fall ornaments as well. I'll post some pumpkin head fellows shortly. Happy Holidays! …