Postcards: G'day M'Skeleton

In keeping with trying out new styles, I saw this friendly skeleton, and thought I'd give his style a try.

I decided to use that derpy skeleton's style with a previous drawing of a skeleton tipping his hat.

Postcards: Tentacles

I felt like it was time to play around with other arts's styles.  I love Mike Mignola's work, including his post-Hellboy paintings.

Now, I have no idea how to do that, but it seemed like a good style to draw inspiration from.

Postcards: Something Food Related

I don't have much to contextualize this one, other than Maryanne asked for "something food related."  All I could think of was smoked cocktails, so I tried that.  Glass is... tricky.

Postcards: The Jabberwock

I was stuck for ideas when Westen suggested a frog or the Jabberwock.  Guess what appeared on the next two postcards?

Postcards: Some Things

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: CJ's Robster Attack

Using prints in my collage is a good way to break out of a funk because it lets me play around with images I already like.  So for my reply to CJ's elaborate Christmas card, I returned to the style of postcard I was sending over to Scotland: the animal card.  While I'm not responsible for the evocation of the initial imagery, these are still a fair amount of work; I am not skilled with a knife, and there were many, many tiny cuts.