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Sketchbook: Me, Kirk, and Wikipedia
I’ve been really enjoying drawing my Bird Presidents the last couple of weeks, as much as anything because it’s reminded me that I actually like to draw, something I used to do all the time but...
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Be My Walkentine
A sketch I started the other day, but this seemed like as good excuse to finish it. Happy Valentine’s Day.
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Bird Presidents #18: Ulysses S. Grouse
I don’t underrate the value of military knowledge, but if birds make war in slavish obedience to the rules, they will fail. ~ Ulysses S. Grouse Ulysses S. Grant; the grouse, a bird of order...
View ArticleTwine, and You’re In A Garden Or Whatever
I wrote a very short choose-your-own-adventure type game yesterday, and it’s called You’re In A Garden Or Whatever. It’ll take you maybe two minutes to play. It’s really just a learning experiment (a...
View ArticleWilliam Can’t Sleep, a text adventure about William Carlos Williams
Spent some of today writing another very short Twine game (see previously), this time playing around with one of my favorite poems, “This Is Just To Say” by William Carlos Williams. And so: William...
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Bird Presidents #19: Rutherford B. Hawk
Let me triumph as a bird or not at all. ~ Rutherford B. Hawk Rutherford B. Hayes; the red-tailed hawk, one of a big variety of birds that fall under the “hawk” label but one which I’ve always...
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Happy Bird Presidents Day
What better day to put together an anthology of my ongoing Bird Presidents project than Bird Presidents Day? I’ve been drawing these for a few weeks now, ever since I knocked out Theodore Crowsevelt as...
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Sketchbook: Star Trek & Dune
Bird presidents have been on pause while I binge on some video games I’ve been ignoring and otherwise get distracted by things, but here’s a couple Trek sketches from tonight and some Dune scribblings...
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Bird Presidents #20: James A. Guineafowl
Few birds in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it. ~ James A. Guineafowl James A. Garfield; the guineafowl, which apparently tastes like chicken. It’s been a bit of a...
View ArticleI Knew You Were Tribbles (When You Dropped In)
Probably about the third time that Taylor Swift sangs the “trouble, trouble, trouble” chorus hook in her song I Knew You Were Trouble, I found myself singing “tribble, tribble, tribble” instead, and...
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I’m a little bit in love with Jerkcity HD
Jerkcity is one of the ur-webcomics, a weird chat-transcript-as-comic habit among some friends that started way back in 1998, facilitated by the almost nearly as weird application Microsoft Comic Chat,...
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Mary Worth’s Howl, by Al “Screwball” Ginsberg
So, Lauren LoPrete‘s Peanuts + Smiths Lyrics mashup blog, This Charming Life, has been making the rounds; it ended up on Metafilter yesterday, which led to much riffing on other possible comic/band...
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Calvin and Markov
I’ve spent the last few days building a random generator internet toy called Calvin and Markov. It generates random new weird variations on Bill Watterson’s classic, wonderful comic strip, Calvin and...
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The Hardest Part Is Not Drinking It
Tackling another project: I wanted to do something with some serious specular highlighting, and some transparency, and distinct shapes that I’d have to not try and cheat my way around too much. Beer!...
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Lessons From a Crappy Sierpinski Carpet
This is a Sierpinski carpet. Or more precisely this is a dodgy approximation of one using brush-tip marker on post-it note. It’s got all kinds of problems, and those are interesting to me. Let me...
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Greyscale freehand Menger sponge
Drawn in a notebook last night, while listening to The Black Tapes with my wife. Faber Castell greyscale brush pens.
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Large die-cut Sierpinski carpet
12″x12″ paper Sierpinski carpet, with shadow and background Menger sponge for maximum visual argh. I bought a consumer die-cutting machine late last year, after thinking a lot about the possibilities...
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Isometric graph paper!
Simple isometric Menger sponge with orange striped shading on one face. Little things make me happy a lot of the time, and fancy graph paper is a pretty little thing — a few bucks for a pad of 50...
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Fractal Mailbag #1
Lego Sierpinski carpet, Kacy. Blanketing my friends and family and social media network with fractal imagery for months on end is paying dividends: I get people throwing found imagery and straight up...
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