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Cartoon illustration of a snail holding a match, about to light the wick of a classic cartoon bomb.

Inktober Day 8: “ Reckless.”

Cheaper paper does not work for nice-looking ink washes.

#inktober #inktober2025 #drawing #cartoon #comic #art

I’m working on my Inktobers the night before and didn’t finish this until past 11 pm. Coffee at 9 pm and listening to documentaries and interviews while I draw help.

#inktober #inktober2025 #drawing #art #ink

Sepia-toned illustration of a silhouette of a person in a boat fishing with a star as bait. A crescent moon is about to take the bait.

Inktober Day 7: “Starfish.”

Just to show how long these Inktobers take, this seemingly-simple drawing took me over 2 hours, not including the time spent conceiving the idea, photographing and editing, and writing this post.

Look at what we could have. look at what our tax dollars could pay for. Instead we’re paying to have ICE pepper spray directly into the air hole of a guy in an inflatable frog costume

Illustration of a punk rabbit, with pierced ears and nose, as the singer of a hardcore punk band. Based on an illustration by Beatrix Potter.

Inktober Day 6: “Pierce.”

This is based on a Beatrix Potter illustration of Peter Rabbit eating a radish — with apologies to the late great artist!

#inktober #inktober2025 #punk #drawing #art

Cartoon illustration of a young deer using flowers to represent antlers.

Inktober Day 5: “Deer.”

#inktober #inktober2025 #art #drawing #ink

Thank you, he’s ripe for a dangerous mission!

Thank you! It’s fun to work with them.

Sepia drawing of a cautious lizard carry a sword as it crosses through a spooky swamp.

Inktober Day 4: “Murky.”

#inktober #inktober2025 #ink #drawing #art

Thank you!

Sepia drawing of a dragon using a castle’s tower as a crown.

Inktober Day 3: “Crown.”

#inktober #inktober2025 #art #comics #dragon #drawing

Sepia drawing of a bird looking at a worm in a woven-pattern tangled mess.

Inktober Day 2: “Weave.”

#inktober #inktober2025 #ink #inking #drawing #art

Sepia ink drawing of a skeleton with a very long curly mustache. Two crows are resting and cawing on the mustache bars.

Inktober Day 1: “Mustache.”

Inktober begins! This year I’m using sepia/walnut ink exclusively — follow along all month of this madness, and try it yourself!

#inktober #inktober2025 #ink #art #drawing

Inktober starts tomorrow! I’ll be posting every day, so follow along all month long of this madness! I’ll be drawing exclusively in sepia/walnut ink this year.

#inktober #inktober2025

It was a pretty good interpretation of the first book!

Vinyl sticker of a robot trash can that resembles a classic striped burglar and is carrying a flashlight. It’s carrying a trash bag of art supplies, and the words “A.I. ART IS TRASH” are written to the right of the robot.

AI art sucks, so here’s something new by me I drew out of annoyance!

As we all know (or should by now), AI art creates a massive amount of pollution and is nothing but theft built on the work of real artists.

#noai #noaiart #drawing #art #artist

None! I made all of them up!

An illustrative poster of various imagined cryptids surrounding a simplified map. The text at the top of the map reads “Known Cryptids of Center Hill Lake, Tennessee.”

Here’s my recent 11 x 14” poster design inspired by my surroundings. I live near Center Hill Lake, a popular tourist destination in Tennessee and have spent countless days on the lake and hiking around it.

(All of the cryptids here are my own creation.)

#cryptids #comics #design #art #tennessee

A drawing of an anthropomorphic goat and sheep, the goat is saying “THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THE FORCE OPPOSING HOPE IS DESPAIR. THE DESPAIR WE FEEL IS MANUFACTURED. AND WHAT HAS BEEN MANUFACTURED CAN BE TAKEN APART.”

Oil pastel painting of a cartoon typical gray alien being robbed by a white daisy flower. The flower is saying “And I said wallet.”

Cartoon sketch of a typical gray alien being robbed by a white daisy flower. The flower is saying “And I said wallet.”

Work in progress of an oil pastel painting of a cartoon typical gray alien being robbed by a white daisy flower. The flower is saying something but the cartoon speech bubble is empty.

This is a 16 x 20” oil pastel drawing/painting. I like to have some large colorful, weird, and readable pieces to draw people into my booth at fairs.

The second image is the original sketch for this, and the third shows the piece in its early stages.

#art #comics #painting #aliens #cartoon

Screen printed comic of a poem titled “Three Blind Snails.” It featured three snails and reads: “Three blind snails? / Three blind snails! / See how they crawl? See how they crawl! / They all crawled over the farmer’s wife… / So she fed their shells to some garden mice!! / Did you ever see such a sight in your life as… THREE BLIND SLUGS?” The final panel shows three slugs with scars on their back.

I’ve being screen printing again a little here and there for the last few weeks and made a small run of this 2-color comic.

#comics #comicart #screenprint #artist #illustrator

Cartoon painting of a stressed-out blue rabbit in the middle of a desert. The rabbit is saying “oh no.” In the bottom right corner, a small beetle walking by is muttering “deal with it!”

Oh look! Another new something!

#art #illustrators #painting #drawing #comics

Digital illustration in a soft colored pencil style of a blue cartoon cat in a ridiculous outfit, including a birthday hat on its head, muddy boot on its right foot, a wet green flipper on its left foot, a rubber inner tube around its waist, a fuzzy striped orange scarf around its neck, a boxing glove on its right paw, and a sock puppet on its left paw. The sock puppet is saying “Do Whatever Your Weirdness Requires!”

It’s been a while, and I need to be more active on sharing art. Here’s something I finished tonight!
#illustration #cats #weird #childrensbookillustration #comics

Hey! Check out my portfolio on my website, www.labideas.art!

Still pluggin’ away at art, I’ve just not been feeling social media much lately. Here’s another album cover, this one I did for ‘The Circle of Life Choir’ last week.

#illustration #comics #illustrators #cartoonists #newart

I'm an artist, drop me an email via my website, www.labideas.art, if you're interested.

Happy to see you here!

Here’s my artistic highlight of 2024— my art for @rifftrax.com’s first-ever vinyl record release (available on their website)! Special thanks to Kevin Murphy for asking me to do this R. Crumb parody.

#rifftrax #mst3k #mysterysciencetheater3000 #mysterysciencetheater #albumart #comics #rcrumb

Watercolor illustration of a cat playing a banjo with a Christmas tree in the background. A titmouse is singing on the banjo’s head.

Merry Christmas! Here’s my 2024 Christmas card painting — I’ve been painting a unique card design every year for over 20 years, see www.labideas.art/xmas.html to see them all!

#christmas #xmas #merrychristmas #cats #bluegrass

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