First webcomic!

I drew my first webcomic this weekend. With inspiration from the r/trees community on reddit. It's for the ents in my life, and those fighting for awareness of a simple yet vastly versatile plant. Enjoy.

Storm in the evening.

Maybe I should just try to draw more instead. Or sculpt. This is what gets me in trouble. I do a little of one, and want more of the others.

One day I'll get a handle on how to manage time between these things. I even have a new idea for a few stencils, too. One stencil idea I had was to contribute to the Keanu meme floating around reddit at the moment.




This is a quick sketch for next months baby shower cake. This cake should be pretty adorable. I need to make a trip to babies-r-us and take a few close ups of the bedding they told me about so I can get the little animals just right.

Pour one out.

I've been trying to take more photos lately. I've slipped from one of my passions. I could easily drop all the others I have acquired to gain this one back again.



We received some bad news about a co-worker/great guy this morning. He succumbed to the cancer he was battling for two years.
Victor was incredibly funny, easy going, constantly cheerful even when he was in pain. He'll be greatly missed by many many people. My heart goes out to his family and what must be a ton of friends this genuinely positive man must have made along the way.
When he was in the office, he'd go to lunch with us as often as possible. For some reason we ended up going to BW3's more often than not. Tonight we went to B-Dubs for dinner, minus the company of such a cool guy.

It was too humid to hike this weekend.

But we had a nice day at the parents' house. Third photo is where Jake is buried in my mom's backyard.

mini update

I have no pictures to offer today, although I have been working on my projects. 

Mostly it is a pro bono that I'm doing for my sister's twin boys.  I'm currently painting a Star Wars mural across their bed room walls.  It's going to consist of several of the main ships from the original 3. As well as the more important planets in the Star Wars universe.  I would say I'm about 60% done with the room so far.  I can't wait until it's finished, I'll get to set up my tripod and camera and attempt a panoramic of the thing in it's entirety.  Should be great.

I do have a few more things lined up for this coming month as well as July.  A co-worker has asked me to photograph her wedding on July 10th.  Then I also have a cake due for a baby shower on July 24th.

Decorating cakes has been something I've never been paid to do, this will be the first.  I'm still not sure what to charge, as it's for a cousin's friend.  Family discount?  I read somewhere that charging 3-4 times the cost of materials is a reasonable rate for a cake for family.  But even then, with cost of fondant, mix, icing, food coloring, 3-4 cost of materials will be in the 100+ dollar range.  That seems too much to me, but after all it's my first time.

I'm also hoping to have my work bench finished by next month, so I may have a few furniture pieces under my belt.  I have several ideas, including a redesign of an old gamer chair that I'd like to basically give legs so it sits higher up off the ground.

Even though I have very little to share today, I felt the need to post because it was a beautiful day. We're winding down after a wonderful afternoon in the sun, and dinner at my parent's house.  The dogs are napping (they're obviously so tired from sleeping all day), the husband is in the other room laying prone and surfing Reddit no doubt, and here I am posting the second of what may be many official blog entries to document my creative process.

Enjoy your days.

-Aske.