The sheep blend in too much with the landscape, and I’m not too fond of some of the sloppy markings in the far background, but people really responded to this one. it got a lot of likes of Cara and Bluesky.

The cacti ended up looking weird, but I played around with a really loose brush in CSP with this one to try and get a “realish” quick sketch vibe. I like how the sky turned out and the overall composition.

What I like about the prompt list this year is a lot of the words chosen can be taken into a variety of directions. I thought of the remote worker, others thought of remote control cars or TV remotes. It was cool to see the variations this year.

Food is always so hard to draw to make it both look like food, and food you want to eat that is appetizing. Ask any artist how hard it is to draw food.

When I showed this to my friend Chuck, he said it looked like a Biblical art piece when I drew it of a modern refugee.

Egyptian lore has always fascinated me and I love the story of Horus.

This was a fun experiment of making textures in Clip Studio Paint. I tried to make it look like wood, leaves, and tree bark.

I feel like the little version of her doesn’t look like the big version of her. But it’s just a sketch, so it’s not life or death if the likeness is off.

I always thought Brent Spiner had interesting facial features. He had an angular nose and chin with a kabuki-like performance.

Depth is a hard thing to convey on a flat surface. I did use photo reference for this pic which had an accurate field of depth because it was a photo of a real thing in real space. I’m not sure they look like toilet paper rolls here like in the original photo.