It's my sister Shauna's birthday again, and I went with the trite Halloween theme that I have done before, (since her special day is so close to the 31st), just a different scene.  I always struggle to come up with different concepts for my homemade birthday cards, especially when there aren't specific events in the lives of my family that I can draw on for inspiration.  Hopefully the effort to do a fun drawing is more meaningful than a store bought Hallmark card.

Well here we are getting close to Presidential election time, so what better time to draw caricatures of the candidates; Obama and Romney.  As a cartoonist, I am extremely bi-partisan...neither is exempt from getting skewered!  That's the fun of it!  This is done with pen and watercolor.

My eldest, Heather, just had her birthday on October 1st and I decided to do a Halloween theme for her card.  Our relationship has been rather strained for the past five years, so this is the first card I've drawn her in quite a while.  We now converse, hug, and say "I love you", but still working on a complete thaw from the frost...hopefully this gets me another degree in the right direction.