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A collection of 103 posts

Self-Care

The Covid 19 (aka The Covid Diet)

My goal this month was to find alternative ways to decrease the inflammation in my body (without any "procedures" or shots into my joints). I had been reading books by Mark Hyman, MD - and I will post the sketchnotes I drew on this blog soon. I started with the

Animals

The Search for the Perfect Toy

Well... the perfect dog toy - other than ME! Basically, if it dangles... it's a TOY. When she latched on to my sweater, she just stood there on her back legs meditating on how perfectly her teeth fit into the weave of the sweater. Pure Zen. On the right side

Comic

Going SOLAR!

Bill was up at the Flying Goose Pub in New London, NH and texted me this amazing sight! It's the poster I designed for Granite State Solar!I had gone to a Solarize Kearsarge meeting this spring and decided this was the perfect time for me to solarize my house.

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Comics Camp Day Five

The final assignment was to design our cover!?! That does seem weird to do the cover last, but now it makes sense. I thought designing the last page was really hard, but this was worse. It took me two hours to think what it should look like and what to

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Comics Camp Day Four

Today's in-class exercise was about Dialog. We were paired up and given two characters and commanded to create a comic that used dialog to show the characters interacting and changing in some way. Part of the challenge was brainstorming and working with another person! This first one is the one

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Comics Camp Day Three

As usual - I'm not working on the project I thought I would. I've been working on the Demons, and their new friend(?) and other stuff from inside my head. I am so so so tired! But I don't want to go home and lose this momentum and unlimited possibility.

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Comics Camp Day Two

This was a fun, exhausting exercise we did in class today! If you'd like to see what I've been drawing for my personal projects, take a look at my Patreon page. Each student got a large sheet of paper that was divided into twelve sections (we have 10 students and

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Graphic Medicine ComicCon

I was trying to think of how to sum up the past... month. "Things went as expected, but not as I'd hoped." That's the Optimistic-Pessimist in me. Truth is - the hormones, the surgery, the pain, the PTSD, the insomnia... things have not been going very well. I'm not exaggerating

Art

READ! Behind-the-Scenes

In my QUO VADIS Kickstarter Project Rewards, I have an option for Custom Original Artwork. As I was writing the description, and trying to describe what I would actually create for a Backer - I wrote this: To clarify, here's another example: Let's say you are a librarian and want

Books

Alrighty, Universe...

I take the melatonin. I take the Trazodone. I sleep until 11am. And I'm excited and start to think of all the cool things I had been working on and all the new projects I want to do and places to go and people to reconnect with... And then I

Books

A Little Nap'll Do Ya Wonders...

It's amazing what can happen in a week, right? Last week, I was curled into a tight, painful ball of frustration and panic. I reached out to you all on Facebook and here on my blog. (Hys-ter-ic-al) That post got me into a bit of trouble with my ex (someone

Problem-Solution

Hys-ter-ic-al

I have spent a lot of time... months? curled up, staring at the backs of my eyelids... thinking. I have sketched out numerous pages for the graphic medicine/autobio comic I  want to write about my hysterectomy. In my head. I have written emails and sent cards. In my head.

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More stuff I'm working on...

I was very productive this past month, not only did I complete three rounds of antibiotics for ear infection, sinus infection, AND STREP! - I also decided to turn the front end of my house into an apartment, and scheduled a hysterectomy (more on that in the next post). We'll

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Inktober 2018 - Weeks Four & Five

The final week and a half of Inktober! Week One HERE Week Two HERE Week Three HERE Day 22 - EXPENSIVE Day 23 - MUDDY Day 24 - CHOP Day 25 - PRICKLY Day 26 - STRETCH Day 27 - THUNDER Day 28 - GIFT Day 29 - DOUBLE Day

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Inktober 2018 - Week Three

Just one more week of Inktober! (And one more week of Kickstarter - not related - but very cool.) Week One HERE Week Two HERE And a quick recap of The Rules: • Draw a picture based on the word prompt for that day • Ink it • Post it on social media

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Inktober 2018 - Week Two

I'm still going...! Some of my gray markers are running dry, but I MUST KEEP GOING! So here are all the drawings I've done for Week Two (you can see Week One HERE). Day 8 - STAR Day 9 - PRECIOUS I thought it looked pretty cool - with just

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Inktober 2018 - Week One

In an effort to get myself back on track - DRAWING COMICS EVERYDAY - I joined Inktober - 31 drawings in 31 days. Started by Jake Parker, cartoonist, to get himself and others to perfect their inking skills - Inktober has become a "thing". Basically, there is a list of

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The Tarot-Concert-Poster

This was a really cool project I finished in August - but I promised to wait to post anything about it... My client, Naomi, had seen the piece I had done for Emily Clement, the Life Coach - - and she wanted to know if I could create a poster

Books

Sketch of a Sketch-note

I got distracted by a bunch of things so I didn't post this right after the Graphic Medicine Conference this weekend - as I had planned. I was photographed while sketching David Macaulay's Keynote Presentation on Saturday at Dartmouth - and thought you might like to see a little of

In-Progress

Let's Go With Plan... J?

I've got a bit of a mess that I need help sorting out. I apologize for the long post, and I understand if you don't read it - but if you do make it through - I would really appreciate any ideas, encouragement, suggestions, or large checks. ;-) I'll try

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Animation - The Rest of the Week

Again - I have all the animations up on my Patreon page - take a look! I stayed up late inking the pencils and scanning them, then ruined the whole thing with a botched batch processing... But this morning - I realized the black background actually looked better... so I

Event

The Craft & Business of Illustrating Children's Books

I wanted to let you all know about a fantastic online program that will be starting up in August - The Craft and Business of Illustrating Children's Books - run by Mira Reisberg of the Children's Book Academy. This isn't an affiliate link thing, I don't get paid for telling

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...And it Got Worse

"Cheer up," she said, "things could always be worse." So I cheered up... and sure enough... things got worse. I'm not going to whine about stress and panic attacks (at least not in this post), but I do keep working myself into a tither trying to "figure stuff out" and

Art

Berlin-ish...

Back in October, I was contacted by one of my teachers, Luke Howard, at the Center for Cartoon Studies to see if I'd like to participate in The Secret Berlin Project. He wanted to celebrate the completion of Jason Lutes' epic comic, Berlin, which had taken 20 years to complete!

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Hello Universe. It's Me, Sandy...

A really nice studio space suddenly became available on the second floor at Concord Community Arts Center! The room is about 850-square feet - It's big and bright - lots of windows, and painted white. (I can fix that though...) It's about a gazillion times bigger than my current studio.