at least that’s what it’s felt like here the last few months. we’ve been so busy and in a lot of ways so stressed, that it’s felt like we’ve been buzzing around inside a huge bee hive trying to keep up with all the other worker bees and keep making enough honey to keep the hive going. Maybe a terrible ...

The last week has been rather rough.  However nothing to the point of making life itself seem a terrible thing.  We all experience stress and hardship from time to time.  I've frankly had much worse things happen in my life, and while I have been a bit stressed lately, it hasn't been the sort of thing to make me lose sleep ...

this week has felt almost like a soap opera in some ways. today, took the wife into the ER this morning because she was slumped at her desk crying with a headache when I got back from dropping the kids off at school. Was not a good thing to witness. She barely ever cries, so I knew it was pretty bad. After much diagnosis and stuff ...

so yesterday I had a REAL sore back, still sore today, but I realized it was likely a combination of having slept on it wrong the previous night, and also the height at which I was working with my new Cintiq.  So after getting some things done, I HAD to rearrange my entire studio so I could work on the Cintiq in a more comfortable way.  ...

For the first time in 8 years, I was upset that I owned a Mac yesterday.  After talking with Apple support on the phone, talking with the people at Wacom, chatting online with an Apple tech, I was assured my iMac G5, albeit an "OLD" mac, purchases a whopping 2 1/2 years ago, would work with the new Cintiq I was getting.  Well ...

going to attempt to find that artistic zone again today.  there's a lot of stuff going on this week here, kids are home from school for a few days I think, and have a couple half days as well.  I'm on the verge of having that "feeling" that you get sometimes as an artist, where you think you're about to get a ...

haven't slept good in over a week here.  My mind is just racing with thoughts at night now.  From work to family things to creative things...it's nuts.  I've never had this problem before really either.  I can totally understand why they make sleep aid medicines now :D  It's Friday.  Which means ...

woke up laughing out LOUD this morning. Forget it was only about quarter after 9 and WAY too early for me, I'm dragging now. But what does my wife do? Comes into the bedroom with a camera behind her back. heads into the bathroom asking what was so funny, and as I'm lying there relating the dream to her, proceeding to laugh all over again, ...

-i suck at math but when my kid needs help on learning how to draw dragons, I can help with that. a quick 15 minute color study after going through the basic dragon shapes with her so she could work on her own. Prismacolor markers, colored pencil and a tiny bit of ink. (see below)   -so dishes are done, garbage is at the road, homework help ...

Novelist C.E. Murphy (The Negotiator Trilogy,The Walker Papers) has signed a deal to produce her superhero comic series Take A Chance, with the Dabel Brothers! Issue 1 of the series is completely done, issue 2-5 will have art by the amazing Ardian Syaf, and I will be providing digital inks AND colors for this series. More news and updates to come ...