It’s Inktober!

Inktober is here! That spooky month where illustrators flit about Twitter with smudgy fingers, eschewing ctrl-z and abstaining from erasable pencils. Ink! Messy, permanent, committed. I've gone deep into my art cabinet and excavated my late grandmother's ink nibs and fountain pens. I think I'll go with a "prehistoric creatures with jack o'lanterns" theme for the month. Find all my sketches here on The Flying Trilobite blog, or on Twitter @FlyingTrilobite. If you want more artists…

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It’s Inktober!

Inktober is here! That spooky month where illustrators flit about Twitter with smudgy fingers, eschewing ctrl-z and abstaining from erasable pencils. Ink! Messy, permanent, committed. I've gone deep into my art cabinet and excavated my late grandmother's ink nibs and fountain pens. I think I'll go with a "prehistoric creatures with jack o'lanterns" theme for the month. Find all my sketches here on The Flying Trilobite blog, or on Twitter @FlyingTrilobite. If you want more artists…

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It Begins

When I started my new full time job at Combustion Training earlier this summer, I treated myself to a new Moleskine sketchbook. if there's one thing I've realized, it can be hard for m to create when I'm worried about job hunting and paying the bills.Time to start drawing and sketching daily again! Woke up at 6:30 today and scribbled this out. 

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A Definition of Covfefe

A clay-based pigment, #covfefe was popular in Russian Neo-Classical paintings depicting decadents in orange drapery. (Anton Losenko, 1763) pic.twitter.com/WNgrw1T2BR— Glendon Mellow (@FlyingTrilobite) May 31, 2017 Even in my jokey shit-tweets, I still credit the artist.— Glendon Mellow (@FlyingTrilobite) May 31, 2017 One more entry into last night's meme-fest on the US President's bizarrely unfinished, long-published typo:"...Covfefe" https://t.co/CR52jO7dba pic.twitter.com/GYNbM6Xg9U— Mellow Covfefe (@FlyingTrilobite) May 31, 2017

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