Posted on June 21, 2025 by James
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Several of my pieces of original art were chosen to be part of an art gallery showing at Vision Gallery in Chandler, AZ! I was very excited to take part and had a great time for the recent opening reception. This particular theme was…
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Posted on May 27, 2025 by James
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Have you ever felt like this red balloon? Having a day where everything feels like it’s going to pop you? I have been drawing more of my feelings this past year or so. This was a doodle in my sketchbook a couple weeks ago,…
Category: Blog Tags: anxious, Arizona artist, artist, balloon, Character Design, character designer, drawing, emotional, emotions, feelings, funny, illustration, illustrator, inked, nails, nervous, pins and needles, red balloon, silly, sketch, sketchbook, spikes
Posted on February 17, 2025 by James
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I recently was asked if I would come for a return visit to a local middle school. I did a presentation explaining about various art careers, as well as a breakdown of my illustration process for children’s books. I thought I would share just…
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Posted on February 14, 2025 by James
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I was thinking of my sweet wife when I felt like drawing something really cute. I ended up doodling an adorable mouse couple sitting on a crescent moon. These mice lassoed the moon, then spent a date night admiring the stars. They enjoyed some…
Category: Blog Tags: adorable, Arizona artist, artist, artwork, Character Design, character designer, cheese, crescent moon, cute, date night, drawing, eating cheese, illustration, illustrator, lasso the moon, mice, moon, moon made out of cheese, mouse, mouse couple, sketch, stars, sweet
Posted on February 6, 2025 by James
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My wife found some Mechanical Colored Pencils that she loves, and she asked me to try and draw something with them. Since it’s getting close to Valentine’s Day, here’s two cute little lovebugs! They met by chance, and the boy bug was just smitten…
Category: Blog Tags: adorable, Arizona artist, artist, artwork, awe, bugs, bugs in love, cartoon, chance encounter, Character Design, character designer, couple, cute, drawing, heart, illustrator, insects, insects in love, love, lovebugs, meet cute, purple, rose, saying hello, sketch, sweet, valentine's day, valentines
Posted on February 5, 2025 by James
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I was feeling a bit grouchy the other day, so I drew this goat that was feeling the same… I sketched this grumpy goat with a Prismacolor Col-Erase pencil, then inked it with a Japanese Brush Pen, and colored it with Prismacolor Soft Core…
Category: Blog Tags: angry, Arizona artist, artist, artwork, billy goat, brush pen, caged, cartoon, cartoonist, Character Design, character designer, colored pencil, creature design, creature designer, doodle, drawing, farm, goat, grouchy, grumpy, illustration, illustrator, inked, odd, penned in, sketch, strange, weird
Posted on January 15, 2025 by James
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To relax one day, I doodled this adorable and very round cartoon armadillo! This guy was drawn with Prismacolor colored pencils on ordinary printer paper. Sometimes drawing on “throwaway” paper can help you not feel so pressured to make an extraordinary piece of art….
Category: Blog Tags: adorable, animal, animals, animated TV series, Arizona artist, armadillo, artist, artwork, bubbly, cartoon, cartoonist, Character Design, character designer, children's book illustration, children's book illustrator, colored pencils, cute, desert, doodle, drawing, illustration, illustrator, kid's book, round, sketch
Posted on November 17, 2024 by James
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I’ve always been a fan of different animated styles over the decades. And I love drawing in a wide variety of styles. So, just for fun, I drew a fun newsboy fox character in a 1930’s – 1940’s cartoon animation style. I sketched this…
Category: Blog Tags: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, adorable, appealing, Arizona artist, artist, Character Design, character designer, clothing, concept art, cute, doodle, drawing, fox, happy, illustration, illustrator, newsboy, newsie, orange, outfit, retro, sketch, vintage, walking, wolf
Posted on October 17, 2024 by James
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I was simply doodling one evening, and randomly sketched out a Creature From the Black Lagoon style swamp monster girl. I gave her a bit of an 80’s style prom dress and corsage. And then that led to drawing her a date… I sketched…
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Posted on August 30, 2024 by James
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So, I continue my journey of practicing real-life watercolor on paper, with some successes and some flubs. It has proved to be challenging both in practice, and emotionally. I’m a recovering perfectionist, lol, and this medium sure is hard to control at times. I…
Category: Blog Tags: adorable, Arizona artist, artist, artwork, cartoon, cute, daisy, drawing, farm, flower, flower pot, happy, illustration, illustrator, inked, inking artwork, little, painting, pig, piggie, piglet, pot, sketch, sweet, terracotta, watercolor
Posted on April 29, 2024 by James
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I had this idea in my head and on my ideas list for a while. I finally got around to drawing it out! It’s two aliens operating a robot crab from the eye stalks. You’ll see one is more exuberant and the other more…
Category: Blog Tags: aliens, Arizona artist, artist, artwork, cartoon, Character Design, character designer, crabs, drawing, illustration, illustrator, robotic, robots, sketch
Posted on April 26, 2024 by James
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So I was invited to draw for Pencilish Studios in a live YouTube Cage Match against another artist! It was a lot of fun! And if you couldn’t catch it live, you can rewatch it here on YouTube anytime: The cage match was hosted…
Category: Blog Tags: 2D animation, animated, animation, artist, cage match, cartooning, cartoonist, character designer, Disney animator, doodling, drawing, fun, funny, illustrator, live drawing, online, Pencilish Studios, silly, sketching, youtube
Posted on April 5, 2024 by James
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This pigeon is strutting his stuff! This pompous bird has found a coffee creamer cup to use as a top hat and a half-eaten candy necklace for some bling. Sure to boost the confidence of any city pigeon!! I wonder what I should name…
Category: Blog Tags: Arizona artist, artist, artwork, bird, bling, candy necklace, cartoon, character, character artist, Character Design, character designer, city bird, city pigeon, cocky, colored markers, colored pencils, common pigeon, confidence, confident, drawing, fineliners, funny, happy, hat, illustration, illustrator, inked, markers, ohuhu, peacocking, pigeon, self assured, self-assured, silly, sketch, strutting his stuff, trash, treasure
Posted on April 1, 2024 by James
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Since the Walt Disney Company now owns the Aliens franchise, I recently got an advertisement for the new Alien: Romulus movie on one of Disney’s social media pages: It got my wife, some friends, and I thinking… what if Disney combined their characters from…
Category: Blog Tags: alien: romulus, aliens, Arizona artist, artist, cartoon, Character Design, character designer, characters, combining, Daisy Duck, Disney, Donald Duck, drawing, funny, goofy, hybrids, illustration, illustrator, merging, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, movies, odd, Pluto, pop art, silly, sketch, strange, street art, Walt Disney, weird, xenomorphs
Posted on February 22, 2024 by James
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This is an alien ladybug habitat maintenance worker… On their planet, they had to create artificial grass landing areas in the sky to help bring back the purple ladybug population from extinction. These little ladybugs are very sensitive though. They won’t land on a…
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