Their days were filled with backyard adventures.
A digital drawing by Dan Tabata
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drawings & illustrations
Their days were filled with backyard adventures.
A digital drawing by Dan Tabata
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It is said that when a pink flamingo wearing a fez appears on your front lawn you will enjoy good fortune for one hundred years. Or is it misfortune? Ha, just kidding! I don’t know anything. A pink elephant, on the other hand…
Pen and watercolor drawing of a fez-wearing flamingo.
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After acquiring the fez, kitty developed an uncanny obsession with brandy, cigars, and nineteenth-century explorers.
Pen and ink drawing with digital color.
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“We climb and fall. United by a common struggle, our happiness is found in unexpected places. This mask removed, reveals a truth.”
-Anonymous (bear)
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I drew this comic during the Inktober ink drawing challenge. The inspirations for the comic were the challenge’s final five daily prompts:
Climb (Oct. 27)
Fall (Oct. 28)
United (Oct. 29)
Found (Oct. 30)
Mask (Oct. 31)
This bird remains calm, cool, and collected.
A.K.A., I remember back when everyone wore a hat. Now, get off my lawn. 😉
Unflappable – pen and watercolor. Drawn with a TWSBI Mini fountain pen (extra fine nib) using Platinum Carbon Ink. Winsor & Newton watercolors. Digital scan adjusted and edited in Photoshop. Background color applied in Illustrator.
Based on an updated (with fez) version of this daily drawing:

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When we first see a drawing, we might imagine a flash of inspiration leading straight to the finished artwork. Many times that’s what happens, but not always.
One of my favorite drawings took a few years and several versions until the art finally matched up with my imagination. The fez fish began as a 2013 sketch book drawing that I scanned and colored in Photoshop. Continue reading “Evolving Art” →
A fish, a fez and a cuppa.
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Let me regale you with tales of my adventures in Casablanca.
See another version of the fez fish at Night of the Cuppa.