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Read an Ebook Week 2026 is Here!
Happy Read an Ebook Week! You can find my book, Derrick the Dog , available now at @Smashwords at a promotional price to help you celebrate. Find my book and many more at https://www.smashwords.com/sale from March 1 - March 7! #ebookweek26 #Smashwords
Draw with Brian #3 – King Knight Shouting (Color)
Welcome back to Draw with Brian . In this episode, we continue working on the illustration for Derrick and Max’s Beach Adventure , focusing on coloring the King and Knight during their shouting match scene. This session dives into layer management, color consistency, and some real-time problem solving as we refine the image and experiment with emphasis and tone. Transcript Hello. Let’s get our camera going… hey, there we go. Helps when the cover’s open. Welcome to the channel. Last time I started working on the king and kn…
Read an Ebook Week 2026
Hello, Readers! We are fast approaching Read an Ebook Week, a week that encourages readers to pick up the digital device of their choice and download a new book to read. I'm excited to announce that my book, Derrick the Dog , will be available as part of a promotion on Smashwords to celebrate Read an Ebook Week! This is a chance to get my book, along with books from many other great authors, at a discount so you can get right to reading. You will find the promo here starting on March 1, so save the link: https://www.smashwords.com/sale …
No YouTube No More, Part 3
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay If you haven't read it yet, you might want to start with Part 1 (and Part 2 ). Picking up from there: On February 14, just over three weeks after the second suspension, I filed the following prorated refund request with Google Play, which is where I'd subscribed to YouTube Premium: Hello, My YouTube account associated with this email was disabled, which has resulted in loss of access to my annual YouTube Premium subscription. The subscription was purchased for $139.99 annually, and I had approx…
Well This Was a Surprise…
Amazon surprised me today — they’ve marked the paperback of Derrick the Dog down from $12.99 to $7.99 (38% off!). I have no idea how long they’ll keep it on sale, so if you’ve been waiting for a good moment, this might be it.
Draw with Brian #2 – Halloween Artwork: Power Pole & Pirates
In this episode of Draw with Brian , I take a look back at two early digital drawings — including my very first digital piece, “Power Pole,” and a Halloween-themed Derrick and Max coloring page. Ad-free, downloadable video hosted on Internet Archive. Transcript Hello, welcome to my channel. I’m Brian, and welcome to Draw with Brian. I thought we’d do something a little different today. Halloween is coming up, so I thought I’d look back at a couple of my more holiday-appropriate drawings. The one we have up on screen is simply titl…
