Musings on and examples from various creative and constructive projects.
18 Sep 2025 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
I’m learning to paint with watercolors. Doing exercises from “30-Minute Watercolor Painting For Beginners” from Callisto Publishing. First try, exercise #1: second try at exercise #1 exercise #2 exercise #3
18 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
I made this amigurumi for my niece :D
28 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
I was really interested in the way he was standing.
15 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
Each year in early September my family gathers for a giant pig roast, and there are pig-themed coloring pages on the tables. This year I decided to draw my own pig rather than color one of the piggy pages. This is done with graphite pencil, Crayola c...
29 Feb 2024 1 minute read 1 comment DoctorPlatypus
Wednesday Art Zoom was this evening, and I drew some old friends from Hanna Barbera.
4 Jan 2024 1 minute read 1 comment DoctorPlatypus
Apparently Steamboat Willy entered the public domain yesterday, so for the first time ever there are now public domain images of Mickey Mouse. Not ALL images of Mickey Mouse though, just the ones from that movie. For example, Mickey as Wizard from Fa...
30 Dec 2023 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
My art zoom is going to start back up on Wednesdays, so I am very very excited about that. We got together tonight for the first time in a while, and I decided to bust out my charcoal - it's NUTS how different working with charcoal is from working wi...
16 Apr 2023 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
My Wednesday evening art zoom has been on hiatus for a couple of months, while the host has been taking calculus or some higher mathematics course, possibly related to how Origami works. In the meantime, I find that I am not practicing enough, so tod...
9 Feb 2023 1 minute read 1 comment DoctorPlatypus
Saw this old photo of Keanu Reeves just loving his life today, and thought we all could do with being reminded what joy looks like. So I decided to give it a try, drawing from that as a reference photo. Here's where I ended up: I am happy with how h...
1 Feb 2023 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
I haven't posted my sketches from figure drawing in a while, but some of these came out pretty great, so I wanted to share them. This was a zoom hosted by Gay Men's Sketch, featuring talented model Emil. This one was the final sketch of the evening,...
