I drew a picture of the four main characters from my new story in hats,

and somehow couldn’t stop until I’d colored them in.

My wrist regrets my choice.

- Love, Sammy Odette

Just a practice illustration of two characters from my current story.

It began as a practice on painting a tree, because on the back of the same canvas I ruined - irredeemably - an illustration straight from the story line itself…

Because I didn’t know how to paint trees.

Then is turned into Habogi and Faust chillin’ on a spring day.

Habogi is about to shimmy up the tree to steal some eggs from a nest.

- Love, Sammy Odette

on a barrel in a storage room eating snails.’

This is Rattle-Skin, one of the main characters of a children’s book I’m workin’ on.

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I have been on my roof.

Ever since I was very small, the simplest desire of my heart was one thing;

I want to hang out on my roof like they do in cartoons.

Unfortunately, two of the houses I lived in did not have easy access to the roof…

And then I came to this house out in the country.

I was up on the roof, with a wide view of the farmlands and cows…

And it was everything I’d ever dreamed it would be.

- Love, Sammy Odette

The four main characters from the story I’m working on.

Clockwise from top:

Handel

Faust

Habogi

Rattle-Skin

- Love, Sammy Odette

This is watercolor practice of my character, Handel.
He’s a kobold (or at least my version of what I think they’d look like) from a story I’m working on.
A kobold’s diet consists mainly of what ever they can scrounge up from a forest; mushrooms, rodents, insects (snails are staples of their diet) nuts, plants – anything, really. They take what they can get.
I wanted their clothing to be influenced from 1600′s fashion; nothing fancy, just a doublet, jerkin and breeches. They don’t wear boots; beyond the fact that it doesn’t fit their weird feet, then the soles of their feet are like leather anyways.

- Love, Sammy Odette

Watercolor practice ~

Oh, an for information’s sake, I need to warn you:

I’ll be on a irregular schedule.

I’m trying ot get better at my illustration style, which I can’t do if I’m cartooning 24/7

So I’ll be updating every few days with artwork unrelated to my comic.

Like this one!

See, you’re getting used to it already.

- Love, Sammy Odette

I’m so mean to myself.

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I love the pool at our gym. We go on Friday’s early in the day, when it’s ‘Ladies Water Aerobics Day’;

really nice old ladies dancing and singing in time to music.

I feel oddly comfortable and at home with them…

I think I was meant to be born seventy.

- Love, Sammy Odette

I have no idea who this boy is, or what his story is; it was just a watercolor practice.

But there is a story behind it!

When I was nine I went fishing with my siblings and my Dad.

It was my first time, so I eagerly cast my line from where I stood on the shore of the richly stocked lake, into some reeds where a few frogs were sitting.

I felt a snag and pulled up, eagerly expected the pretty, glimmering rainbow trout…

And I pulled up a big ugly crawdad

Thus ended my career as a professional fisher.

- Love, Sammy Odette

As Chancefellow has so kindly explained, there is an update in the character profiles section.

This means new artwork regarding said characters.

- Love, Sammy Odette

Donut day, donut day ~

I mean Sunday.