Postcards: Pretend This Is Normal

Sometimes I stare at my art supplies, and hope that they make something of themselves.  This time, though, inspiration hit me via text.  Maggie and I were chatting and bam!

I knew I had to make a "pretend this is normal" postcard.  I looked around for a while to find a good Maggie, and settled on this dinosaur.

Who should this dinosaur try to blend in with?  Post-dinosaur-dinosaurs!

Time to over and over again practice the composition.  Not at all a tedious exercise in layering... not at all.

Let's create a setting, shall we?

Okay, why don't I just layer it all again?

Oh god, I've glued my face to the table.

Once again, with feeling!  And glue.

So much glue.

Postcards: Cretaceous Punk

In my Field Notes is a sticky note on which is written (in clearly not my handwriting) "the secret is I'm almost always a dinosaur" - Jane M.  It was something Jane said that cracked me up; I asked her to write it down thinking I would eventually put it in Barista Powers.

So... I haven't written a Barista Powers in a while.  I thought, what if I just drew Jane as a dinosaur?  By that I clearly meant "I am going to draw a dinosaur, but maybe I can give it blue hair or something."  So I did.

Are you familiar with Webcomic Name?  Because it captures so much of my artistic process.

Sigh.

Might as well keep adding!

And with borders, it hopefully all looks like I planned it.