It’s May the Fourth and about this time every year that I start gearing up for more art making and comicking as the Spring Semester wraps up. Even though this school year seems to be stretching infinitely into the future, in a few weeks I will be closing out the semester for some summer fun in the studio. So I’m taking a quick break from checking in with my digi-students to get out another Dragon and Goat Star Wars coloring sheet for you all to enjoy until I can get back to work on the next book!
I’m working on prototype 1.0 of Dragon in Lego’s. Still waiting for another batch of bricks, but I kinda like how flat he is in this one. Eventually I’ll be making the instructions available on the ole’ website, so stay tuned! #dragonandgoat #lego
I’m working on prototype 1.0 of Dragon in Lego’s. Still waiting for another batch of bricks, but I kinda like how flat he is in this one. Eventually I’ll be making the instructions available on the ole’ website, so stay tuned! #dragonandgoat#lego
After moving to Champaign, IL from Tennessee in 2005, one of the biggest things I had to get used to was the piles of snow- and how they stuck around forever. Now I’m shoveling my own piles of glorious snow and still imagining- like in this Dragon and Goat mini-series from 2007- what lurks beneath these mountains…
Hope you’re enjoying a day celebrating love and companionship with whoever is in your bubble (real or virtual!)- or, at least, buying yourself a big box of chocolate!
It’s that time of year again when I get out the box of polymer clay, wire and make a completely unplayable toy for our daughter for Christmas. It’s something I’ve done for nieces and nephews over the years (the longest streak was 12 years) but by now they’ve become more complex and BIGGER.
For Cora I choose critters that we’ve been talking about a lot or playing with. Her first was a naked mole rat in honor of her crib buddy and last year was the Christmas Beaver.
This year I figured I’d try a time lapse of me making her sculpti-buddy. Since we’ve been really into dinosaurs this year thanks to a lot of at home preschool, I wanted to tackle a prehistoric creature. We’ve been doing full week lessons on dinos, paleontology, and it’s been helpful to talk through the pandemic … and extinction. A four year old gets that we gotta wear masks to stave off extinction…better than a bunch of American adults.
Her favorite dino is the T-rex. Alli’s is a triceratops, and I’m partial to the parasaurolophus, but also the stego and anklosauruses respectively. So check out the video and let me know in the comments- what’s your favorite dino???
Also this is the first video featuring the new Foto Dojo Music from Joey Jones Music. Be sure to check out his work out on Instagram @joeyjonesmuzic Thanks, Joey!
Started with a wire frame with a thick gauge wire. I wrapped some of the looser parts with a thinner gauge wire to firm it up.
Ready to hunt, Christmasaurus Rex was on the prowl for reindeer.
At first her teeth looked creepier- like those human teeth toys that are at now…what are those about?
To navigate 2020 Santa called on Christmasaurus to guide his sleigh.
If you’re stopping by our virtual table for Virtual Pocket Con 2020- take a look around our site for some fantastical comical adventures from Dragon and Goat and other free to download activities.
Get your COMIX on!
If you’re stopping by our virtual table for Virtual Pocket Con 2020- take a look around our site for some fantastical comical adventures from Dragon and Goat and other free to download activities.
If you have not yet tapped into the wondrous digital stream that is this year’s VIRTUAL POCKET CON-it’s today- December 5th, so hop over to: https://www.facebook.com/events/937811050076111
SOOO assuming you’re stopping by for Pocket Con- WELCOME! Adam Fotos is the creator of the all ages comic DRAGON and GOAT which is a comic about…a dragon and a goat. These lifelong buds go on wild and crazy adventures from searching for Pi-Rat Treasure to stitching back together holes in SPACE-TIME. The comic has been running since 2003, and there are loads of books to dig into.
We also have pixel loads of downloadable coloring and activity pages from our free coloring book from the beginning of the pandemic. Just download print, color and draw with our Quarantinuum Quoloring Book and other stuff in the Activities tab.
We at Dragon and Goat also want YOU to make your own comics! So be sure to check out the COMICS GENERATOR and get out your 20-sided die to randomly generate a story to draw your very own comic creations.
If you want to see how to draw your own cartoons, make your own comics, and do other artsy stuff hop over to FOTO DOJO on our Youtube channel and see how to make your own fantastical toons and worlds.
I’m really looking forward to the Comics workshop I’ll be running this afternoon with Kendra Mealy of Chicago Public Library’s Little Italy Branch. It’s the launch of a series of workshops with comics artists leading a group of young artists through the process of making a 4 page comic from start to finish, leading up to Pocket Con’s digital day Dec. 5 (check out Pocket Con here!)
For the workshop I’ll be walking through story building and how we can come up with ideas/ brainstorm and create a story. Drawing upon improvisational theory (I assume there’s some theory to it- I don’t know, I just kind of make it up as I go…), I’ll be showing my Comics Creator 2.6 system (the free version online is the earlier 2.4 version) and how to generate a random batch of things and characters to work with your comics.
To warm up I’ve created a new Foto Dojo video for our Youtube channel that I’ll be editing and putting up over the next couple weeks (if I ever get caught up on grading!). In the mean time, check out some of the new Foto Dojo videos that are up for Blind Contour Drawing and painting– not really cartooning, but fun creative and drawing/painting exercises.
D’ahm Quinlestrial, then Ranger now Druid and a Hero of Nightstone
A couple years ago I picked up my die again started slinging spells and arrows after a long hiatus of playing Dungeons and Dragons. It had been about 15 years since my last game, and since then the new owners Wizards of the Coast have streamlined the game so it’s a little less complicated and easier to ease into.
Thanks to the pandemic we had to stop playing in person- but thanks to being in the 21st century we were able to move our sessions online. But also because of the pandemic with everyone being stuck at home, we moved to playing once a week…and occasionally twice. In fact, the daylight savings was much more easy for me to manage thanks to back to back nights of playing past midnight.
So about six months in we’ve logged… let’s just say A LOT of hours in our characters’ skins. Managing families at home on top of each other, job losses, crazy work schedules, and COVID scares here and there- the game has a new importance in our lives (or at least mine) not just as a great distraction but as a kind of hearth around which we gather and find community in storytelling.
I think soon I’ll start making a comic about playing D&D since back in my middle school days, but in the meantime enjoy a few character shots I’ve put together (though, not just fully for the fun of it- my DM gives XP for art!)
Tark Grindumvu’ul, Knight of the Underlight, taking a break on a broken beastie with his Sun Hammer and taking a break with Eversteep- a magical tea kettle that needs no heat to steep the perfect cup of tea (with matching cup)
We’re proud to be a part of the Vernon Area Public Library’s Mini Comic Con at Home this year! To celebrate the opening of our VIRTUAL TABLE (basically…our website) Dragon and Goat have gotten together a print-at-home Halloween coloring book with all sorts of monsters ready for you to pop with color!
If you don’t know us Dragon and Goat is a comic about…a dragon and a goat. They go on wacky adventures from searching for Pi-Rat Treasure to spelunking in the Underworld with Beelzebob Spongepants with their robot dog Magnet.
Follow these Easy Steps to make your own Pence Fly:
Get your Supplies! Just 1/2 a Black Pipe Cleaner, 2 Googly Eyes, White Card Stock (or just paper), and a Pencil.
2. Cut Out your Fly’s Wings. Think a stretched out infinite sign or figure eight- maybe a mouse bra?
3. Fold the wings in half and then fold the tip of the pipe cleaner in on itself about 3/8s of an inch to hold the wings in place. Begin to coil the pipe cleaner around itself to bulk out the body of the fly.
4. Give your Fly the Gift of SIGHT! If you don’t have a set of Compound Eyes laying around a googly pair will do.
5. Put the Fly in your hair…or someone else’s hair before they get on a Zoom call!
