Kat Johnston

Tag: bear

  • Announcement: Like Kat on Facebook!

    Kat Johnston: I've made it to Facebook!

    I’ve finally done it. I’ve been procrastinating about it for ages, but I bit the bullet today and got it done. I’ve made a Facebook Fan Page for myself, for art updates!

    Admittedly, it doesn’t have a large amount on it yet, but that will change, with a little time. First thing was first though – a nice cover image. The sketch is one I did the other day, and I added the colour today, to bring it to life. I think it worked out pretty nicely, don’t you?

    So what are you waiting for? Check out Kat Johnston on Facebook!

  • Sketch: Panda! It’s a panda!

    Kat Johnston Sketch: Look! It is a panda! I drew it specially for Andel Rhiadra of A.D.D Andel.

    So here is a quick panda I drew for a friend of mine, Andel Rhiadra! I asked her what I should draw today; I am not surprised that ‘panda’ was the answer. She is obsessed. I think if she could have a pet panda, it wouldn’t take long until she stole one from the zoo and set it up with some bamboo in the guest room, with much fawning and petting. I’m not even sure if a panda would let its kidnapper pet it… but… I’m sure she’d try!

    Today, alas, is more studio/house cleaning, along with much-needed work on my site. I know that nothing can be seen of it yet, but things are a’changin’! So far though, it has been upgrading and updating all the back-end stuff before getting to the fun things. No point in painting a house all pretty if it is going to fall down in the next gust of wind, right? Right.

    One of the things that I’ve updated which will have an immediate effect on those visiting the site is that I have installed a captcha device on comments. I know it is a pain, but my spam filters are getting hundreds of comments trapped in them per day… and it is just way too much effort to try and go through them all to sort out if any are legitimate comments. I know it is an extra half-step, but I hope it doesn’t bother you too much.

    If someone could post a legitimate comment to test it out, that would be awesome. If it continues to deter spam postings, perhaps I can turn off the need to manually approve comments altogether! Yay!

  • Teddy T. Bear is alive and well.

    Kat Johnston – this is Teddy T. Bear… why the name? Just because. It suits, even if it is unoriginal.

    I’m getting the post out of the way early today, so that I can get back on with the rest of my weekend. The little sketch for today is of a little bear… Teddy T. Bear, in fact. Count your blessings – so far as unoriginal names go, it could go further and be ‘Ted E. Bear’, and I agree that just does take it a step too far to the left. Anyhow, I happen to think he’s cute!

    No big story today, or even little one… I think it might be good to take a break from the longer posts on the weekend, to keep me properly limber for the weekdays. Either that, or I’m just being lazy. Probably the latter more than the former. On the up-side, it means that you don’t have to read so much if you do happen to read the posts as well as look at the pretty pretty pictures.

    Ok, I’m off to lay down for a bit, then get my wacom set up properly on the computer again! I have photoshop brushes to make.