I'm guest hosting a session of Figure Drawing Club over Zoom tomorrow (Sunday, September 3rd) at 4:30pm Pacific/7:30pm Eastern! You can sign up by sending Babs a Tip of $15 for a single session 2023-09-02 18:47:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a quick audio dispatch of gratitude. (Pairs well with this playlist.)
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2023-08-02 05:55:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Some of you have likely already caught this news on Instagram, but I'm finally releasing my secretive, deeply personal card deck project from 2020!
I made a new 2023-07-31 17:48:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Ramble Day!
All over the place in this one, but it's so good to be walking again. Hit play to hear me yell about snakes and coyotes and get lost on someone's private property and also discuss the question of "What is my job, really, when you get right down to it."
Links:
Hello, hello!
Woof. So. Been a minute. Rather than trying to fill in all the events of the past month before I let myself get to the good stuff, I'm going to skip to the end:
Serpentine, my next collaboration with poet Tara K. Shepersky and pu...
2023-06-26 14:43:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Some of you probably recall that I'd been putting off reprinting my four travelogue minicomics for ages, and finally set the ball rolling to get them redone last summer.
While the logistics of finding the right print files (my big fear) turn...
2023-03-22 19:52:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally caught an installment of Babs's online Figure Drawing Club last month! Here's a few noodz, all drawn straight to ink with my smelly, leaky Ahab fountain pen.
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2023-03-08 19:31:30 +0000 UTC View Post
I dunno about you, but sometimes when I get anxious I decide it's time to make a little graph.
I joked with my partner that this behavior feels like stacking my pocket change. "Look! I can make a pyramid! Or a square! Ooh this one has rust on it, but the other one doesn't! I WILL CATALOGUE THEM." It's fun, but at the end of the da...
2023-03-03 05:01:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Back at the beginning of 2021, you might remember this conversation I had with my pal Robin Rendle about websites and webcomics and other...web...things? Lotta web things. I was driving south for my first test run of Moving to Ojai and met up with him whi...
2023-02-16 23:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Over the past five months I've been verrrrry slowly moving forward with getting my 100 Day Project from 2020 printed up into a physical object. It's so different doing something like this without the pressure and visibility of a Kickstarter—not to mention working around the stress and complexity of caregiving.
It feels urgent and endless...
2023-02-11 21:24:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Way back in the mists of my early freelance career, my pal Matt asked if I'd be game to design a t-shirt for Ojai's beloved outdoor bookshop Bart's Books. I found the idea terrifying because Bart's has been my favorite bookshop my entire life and they'd also just gotten...
2023-02-06 05:31:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Shay Mirk was visiting town last month and put on a really sweet little zine-making meetup at a local brewery. I've been thinking about drawing this tiny collection of items in my dad's desk forever, so it seemed like a perfect opportunity to Make a Thing.
It nice t...
2023-01-16 22:34:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh the deep, deep relief of releasing a Ramble! There's nothing like it.
Today it's bucketing down with rain, but yesterday I grabbed a break in the clouds to go walk around the preserve and chatter about community and queerness and activism and different types of grief and trees and practices. The usual, I suppose.
Mentione...
2023-01-09 20:58:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Not even writing anything smart I'm just so fucking relieved here's a video of a bunch of tiny goofy dances and a screenshot of my progress bar and now I am collapsing in a heap GOOD DAY SIR
Real important question to lead off this week's Seacritters update:
I've been well into the climactic final action sequence for the past week...
2022-12-02 05:44:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I've actually been back from Canada for a while but it was so good I had to bask in it quietly for a minute/dive right back into my regular caregiving life/start drawing pages like a maniac. It's hard to break momentum actually doing the thing to talk about how I'm doing the t...
2022-10-21 15:28:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes you stop drawing comics because it's summer and you fall in love out of the blue and your whole world gets turned upside-down and you just want to be alive in your animal body every second of every day and then sometimes you start drawing comics again because it all goes to shit.
2022-08-21 18:22:43 +0000 UTC
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Tell the Turning, the collection of Tara Shepersky's contemplative nature poems I illustrated last year, is entering its second printing! I'm so excited that we were able to find homes for all 500 copies in Print Run #1, and that Stefan Lorenzut...
2022-08-11 22:33:42 +0000 UTC View Post
This week I received another sweet, out-of-the-blue email from someone who'd read my minicomics about rafting down the Grand Canyon and wanted to know if they could buy hard copies anywhere.
I love and also dread these emails.
It makes me so happy to know that people are still finding my work years after I've put it out into the worl...
2022-07-26 21:39:10 +0000 UTC View Post
There's a lot of pictures in this so I'm doing the ones I've already shared elsewhere on social media in the gallery and then the new stuff inline in the post??? Semi-ideal solution. Thanks to all of you who weighed in on where and how you're reading things. It's really helpful for figuring out what to dedicate time to. (I'm so over trying to fo...
2022-05-23 21:06:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Here we are again: another month, another chance to gather on Zoom and have some low-key drawing hangout time together.
This month's prompts are...
RODENTS 🐀
&
FLOWERS 🌺
&
PASTRIES 🥮
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RSVP for the Zoom link 2022-05-03 00:24:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey look it's one of these!
Mentioned herein:
Caught another installment of Babs's monthly Figure Drawing Club today, which felt more like medicine than recreation after the events of the last 72 hours.
I know what to do at figure drawing. The brief is very simple: there is model, draw model on paper with pencil and han...
2022-04-11 02:32:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Content Warning: this post talks about an ER visit, elder care, and grief.
Two days ago I was trying to explain to a partner how intense being a caregier is despite there not being very much "action". My dad is stable. He doesn't have a clear timeline. I just know that he is old, and often confused, and needs my help.
Yester...
2022-04-08 22:35:00 +0000 UTC View Post
[PSA: if you missed the live call, all the images we drew from are attached to this post in a PDF so you can follow along at home! I'll be adding prompt images to past months' posts, too, so check back if you'd like more inspiration.]
Once again it is somehow the end of the month, which means it's time to gather on Zoom for chill ...
2022-03-29 00:41:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Babs New is back to hosting a monthly Figure Drawing session on Zoom! This was the first one I've caught in a while and I'm extra glad I went because there was a VERY GOOD DOG whose name was GUMSHOE and he had AMAZING FACE WHISKERS. You can see him a little bit in the last image of the series, insisting on snuggles.
I've been working my wa...
2022-03-19 18:41:23 +0000 UTC View Post
If you were a Patron back in 2020, you might remember this livestream I ran with my pal Wendell Britt about his coaching course, Mastering the Game of Allyship. (We also ran a month-long mini-workshop version of the material here on Patreon for $10+...
2022-03-08 20:15:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Doing some hard drive cleanup today and came across some pre-Patreon work that I thought might be nice to share. This silent short was written by Shan Campbell for Waterlogged, a nautical-themed anthology put together by Cloudscape Comics up in Vancouver back in 2012...
2022-03-05 18:52:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi friends,
The short month of February has flown by, and there's so much happening in the world right now. I invite you to take an hour or two this coming Friday to switch off the news, gather in a Zoom room of friendly faces, and let yourself draw. Time to refill the tank.
This week we'll be switching up the order of operations a b...
2022-03-02 02:22:41 +0000 UTC View PostRecently, a fellow member of a Discord server sent me a DM about the Pumpkin Spice Goat I'd illustrated for Derek at Milk Barn Farm. They had a friend, they explained,...
2022-02-20 04:57:12 +0000 UTC View Post