Drawings
Blog posts about drawings, sketches, design, and other art that wasn’t created for a book or a zine. It’s mostly fun drawing practice.
![Robot is stranded on a floating rock.](https://ryanreid.com/wp-content/uploads/postcard-robot-stranded-on-a-rock-189x189.jpg)
Floating
March 17, 2024 | BlogThe past couple weeks have been a blur of prioritizing other people over myself, and I’m exhausted. Of course this happens all the time as an adult, a parent, a husband, an employee. You strive for balance. It hasn’t felt very balanced. It was made worse of course by my complete failure to organize the […]
![Crow chewing gum and blowing a big bubble.](https://ryanreid.com/wp-content/uploads/postcard-crow-chewing-gum-189x189.jpg)
Chew chew chew
February 11, 2024 | BlogI was sick this week. Some mild flu I guess, nausea, muscle aches, chills. It wasn’t bad enough to keep me in bed, but I didn’t have enough energy to do anything. So I just sat around being bored and feeling like crap for 3 days. Then I slipped on some ice and hurt my […]
![Francis the sheep sitting on a rock enjoying a sandwich.](https://ryanreid.com/wp-content/uploads/postcard-francis-sandwich-189x189.jpg)
Enjoy a break now and then
February 3, 2024 | BlogThis watercolour drawing of Francis the sheep sitting on a rock eating a sandwich reminds of this discarded lyric from Fitter Happier by Radiohead: Fitter, healthier and more productiveA sheepOn a rockEating a sammich None of this is true. But! Fresh air and a walk is good for creative thought, and it’s generally free, so […]
![Goldfish in a bowl atop a small tower of rocks](https://ryanreid.com/wp-content/uploads/postcard-fish-tower-189x189.jpg)
![Robot wearing a Napoleon style hat](https://ryanreid.com/wp-content/uploads/postcard-robot-napoleon-189x189.jpg)
Robot with a Napoleon complex
November 5, 2023 | BlogIt’s not that robot thinks he’s better than you. He doesn’t think about you at all.
![Crow in an army helmet smoking a cigarette.](https://ryanreid.com/wp-content/uploads/postcard-crow-helmet-and-smoke-189x189.jpg)
Yes, and…it’s a crow in an army helmet
October 3, 2023 | BlogI was writing about how I had nothing to write about, so just enjoy this silly illustration of a crow in an army helmet, but then that reminded of something to write about and so now I’m writing about that.
![An alien satellite spies on a tiny bug on a mushroom.](https://ryanreid.com/wp-content/uploads/postcard-mushroom-bug-satellite-189x189.jpg)
Little voices can suck it
September 9, 2023 | BlogIt’s amazing how convincing those little voices can be. They don’t even exist! How do they have so much control over my creative output?
![Weird cat stalking you over the blanket.](https://ryanreid.com/wp-content/uploads/postcard-cat-morning-loser-189x189.jpg)
Art and sausages and probably aliens
August 28, 2023 | BlogThis year for my birthday I decided to not be a depressing sack of gravel and actually enjoy life.
![Francis the sheep in her astronaut suit holds a ridiculously oversized laser gun on her shoulder.](https://ryanreid.com/wp-content/uploads/postcard-francis-and-giant-blaster-189x189.jpg)
Firing on one cylinder
August 12, 2023 | BlogCreative malaise creeps in with cat-like efficiency, a million tiny unseen movements by a living statue, completely unnoticed until it’s suddenly asleep in your lap.
![Pig riding a robot scooter wile eating chips.](https://ryanreid.com/wp-content/uploads/postcard-pig-eating-chips-189x189.jpg)