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Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!

Feel free to share these with your friends, family, colleagues… whoever.

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I just got an account on Bluesky Social. If you’re looking for some of my photography or if I ever get back to making a finished piece I’ll be posting them their first.

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Trying something new and yet old for my sketchbook posts.

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Kinda binge watched all of “The Dragon Prince” on Netflix, I can’t wait for season 3.

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Hey look it’s another vector landscape, only this time instead of finger painting I used one of my jot stylus from Wacom.

I also figured out how to make this print large enough to properly work on Redbubble.

So if you ever wanted a colorful throw or shower curtain now is your chance just checkout the link in my bio.

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Trying out the new style for Goose and Mallard, still not sure on the colors.

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I’ve been reading a lot of the Dune series lately which kinda inspired this vector landscape. So here’s the 5th “background” painting for the summer.

This was also another finger painting, even tough it was digital.

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Tried my hand at doing a complete vector landscape using only Wacom tablet and adobe illustrator. I definitely need more practice...

This is a recreation of a photo that I took of Alexander Liberman’s “The Way” which is currently on display at Laumeier Sculpture Park.

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A post shared by Ratkey Publications (@ratkeypublications) on Jul 25, 2019 at 6:34pm PDT

Finished up another background painting this time on my iPad Pro only using my finger.

Why Apple, did your latest update screw up the connectivity of my Apple Pencil to my 2017 iPad Pro?

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Happy Caturday everyone!

“Madame, must I remind you that I am a Cat and therefore do not require clothes? I will however keep the bow tie.”

#catsofinstagram #caturday #art #sketch #ink #catinahat #ratkeypublications

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There’s now an coloring book available on Amazon!

You should check it out and stay tuned for another coming out hopefully in April.

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Some old animations from last year, but the theme seemed to work for this year too.

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Just hanging with a fifteen minute sketch of a fruit bat 🦇 before art camp.

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While watching some creature mashups on YouTube this little dragon dude materialized in my somewhat new sketchbook.

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Tried painting with some cheap gouache. It’s interesting how they work like watercolor yet not. I might use them more often depending on how the leftover paint behaves in my pallet.

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A post shared by Ratkey Publications (@ratkeypublications) on Jun 17, 2019 at 9:31pm PDT

Just finished up the flat colors. Next step shading and more shading, then some highlights and more shading...