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Got to revisit some of my childhood Henson favs with this variant cover for BOOM!'s JIM HENSON PRESENTS #3, in stores now!

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Another past commission for my gf of their half-elf bard Lazarus (he/him). My most beautiful son~

For the full process and notes on the creation of this (and more sketches and art I don't always share online), check out my Patreon!

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Early-access sketch pile is now public! Brainrot on display. I'm not over it.

Whatever free time I have outside of work is being consumed by OC brainrot, so there's a new early-access sketch pile up on the Patreon!

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Whatever free time I have outside of work is being consumed by OC brainrot, so there's a new early-access sketch pile up on the Patreon!

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From :01 FIRST SECOND books comes ARCHIVES OF THE UNEXPLAINED: UNWANTED GUESTS, written by Steve Foxe and illustrated by me, is now available for preorder! Get an exclusive discount through Barnes & Noble that ends Feb 7th! ✨👻✨ Unwanted Guests hits shelves August 5th, available through all major book sellers! 📚

Welcome to the second venture into the Archives of the Unexplained, a middle grade fiction graphic novel series exploring historical and mysterious hair-raising events. Witness the tales of Atlanta’s own Blood House of 1987, and the isolated Australian tragedy of the Guyra Ghost!

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Iron and Sugar: No Going Back

Yesterday was my good friend Kat's birthday, and to celebrate I turned our OCs into a movie poster.

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First Patreon post of 2025! (Free for all members, not just paid tiers.) The last thing I drew in 2024 was a study of a man's back in my physical sketchbook and the first thing I drew in 2025 was Dev Patel. (Materials used: HB #2 pencil, Zebra ink pen, a Kuretake brush pen, and Awaii markers in a Strathmore 400 Series sketchbook.)

This sketch and more over on Patreon, as well as a bit of a life update/blog post.

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A year of orange, green, and blue apparently!

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This post is now available to the public and free members!

Notes on painting portraits with saturated color and early access to a new piece up on Patreon! 💫

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Another study session is up on my Patreon for Sketchbook Flippin' and Studio Access members! A collection of portrait studies and notes as I continue to do my homework and exercise my drawing muscles.

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Hi! Just wanted to say ive been obsessed with the movie marmalade recently and your sketches in it looked amazing!

Thanks so much! I'm so happy to see the film getting such appreciation, and my art as well <3

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Notes on painting portraits with saturated color and early access to a new piece up on Patreon! 💫

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Marmalade (2024): making art for set dressing

Two years ago, I got an email from Kiwi Smith (the writer of the comic series, MISFIT CITY, that I illustrated for BOOM!). She introduced me to the actor, writer, and director Keir O'Donnell who was in need of some sketches for an upcoming film of his. The request? Sketchbook pages from the hand of Otis (Aldis Hodge) as he sketches and takes notes on the mysterious Marmalade, the bank-robber and love interest of his prison cell-mate Baron (Joe Keery).

I'd never done something like this before, but his prop master was pretty straight-forward with what they needed. Ultimately, I only had to draw two pages of new sketches specifically of Marmalade-specific content. The rest of it consists of old sketches I'd already worked up over time (some of which you may recognize from past sketch dumps).

The goal was to make them look like real pen, ink, and pencil so I had to get creative in Clip Studio. I gave them the sketches mostly separated so they could cut, paste, and arrange them in the prop as they needed. They merged some, omitted others, and the end result looks amazing to me. Never thought I'd get to see Joe Keery tenderly brushing his fingers against my art, but here we are.

What's funnier is how many of the extra sketches I included were sketches of my OCs and D&D characters. Since Aldis Hodge had to pretend to be the one drawing these, I hope he liked the material!

Either way, it was so fun watching this movie with my friends and cheering like it was a contact sport whenever my art showed up LOL. Always grateful to have pals who are excited to gas me up.

For more sketches, check out my Patreon where I've shared these and more for free, open access!

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The amount of tags and comments calling this The Substance-coded when I illustrated this cover pre-The Substance trailer announcement proves to me that a woman sloughing off her skin never goes out of style LOL

Just needed a change...

Cover illustration done for Oni-Forge's relaunch of the EC series, Epitaphs From the Abyss #1.

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Gave myself a little homework! It's always a challenge to keep up with good study habits when you're already balancing work and life. While this is hardly a tutorial (nowhere near enough to comprehensive I think to qualify as one), I realized as I was sketching from reference that it might be beneficial for others if I wrote down my thoughts on how I approach drawing hands.

See these studies and notes for free up on my Patreon! I want to share more of my studies, available for the free membership. Subscribe for first access to my other sketchbook entries, WIP illustrations, and process posts.

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Vampire appreciation from the archives.

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Paint/color study WIP