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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure

@colmancreative.ca
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#yeg 's two most beloved idiots. brittany span stan. data nerd by day, artist by night. prob off doing hot nerd shit. lotr/asoiaf/witcher obsessed. ColmanCreative.ca

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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 05/01/2026
A little shameless soft-launch I've been working on a little hobby project over the break around the realities of Alberta Separation. Assuming the current state tax replication with @ABProsperity promise to end income tax, the budgetary impact would be $53.2bn or 72.4% loss.
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 28/12/2025
ooookkk I'm officially starting to get excited at how the new movie night & morning coffee project is turning out...
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 27/12/2025
progress is nice
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 21/12/2025
took a rare r&r day from the neverending to-do lists of doom, and worked on a little personal project... and I think slowly (...and finally) I'm getting the hang of digi painting from procreate. Still super foundational, but it looks proper for once with these new mechanics 😂
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 15/12/2025
when your morning routine is coffee and art, but your emotionally needy velcro dog's routine is laying on you and head scritches.
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 14/12/2025
the four stages of marrow coma.
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 13/12/2025
Live footage of me this morning while updating the build sheet for this winter's computer rebuild and discovering what happened to RAM prices
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 11/12/2025
Black Friday is about to get so much more lit
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 11/12/2025
*me crosses fingers for Lord of the Rings channel and we finally get a Nordic style crime drama where this Hobbit runs around the Shire solving who stood Farmer Maggots mushrooms*
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 08/12/2025
Dear Santa, I need a bigger desk. Thanks, Someone Who Was Finally Good This Year #CreativeTechStruggles
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 08/12/2025
*taps signs* "flu med fueled mania"... Thanks @aaronhoyland.bsky.social
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 08/12/2025
Today's #ArtAdventCalendar brought to you by the Dark Lord Sauron, the flu, and cold med mania. Sauron digital sketch | procreate 2025... *to be painted sometime in 2026. #digitalart #procreate #lotr
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 06/12/2025
Oof almost forgot today's #ArtAdventCalendar ... busy day for me rigging up colman creative cloud infrastructure... I Scream, You Scream, Freddie Always Screams About Not Getting Ice Cream Procreate | 2025 #smbcb
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 05/12/2025
The trend of humanizing our pets has intensified in recent years, with pet ownership shifting into pet parenthood. Writer @joshgreenblatt.bsky.social (who, for the record, loves dogs), doesn’t mince words: “Dog parents have lost their goddamned minds.” thewalrus.ca/why-were-treatin...
On the left: an image of a woman holding the paws of a black and white dog on a light blue background. On the right: text that reads “Why we’re treating dogs like people and people like dogs. In an age of shrinking community, the pet has become our friend, therapist, and emotional crutch.”
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 04/12/2025
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 4 Even though I tried to stay focused on drawing and fundamentals for 2025, I started doing some colour studies and speed paintings in preparation for 2026's learning plans :) Freddie & The Flowers 2026 | 2026 90 minute speed painting + sketch #DigitalArt #Procreate #smbcb
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 03/12/2025
Sorry late to the party, I was busy tweeting about my dog all day or something... apparently 😂 -- Fred & Gremmie's Happy Place 2025 | Procreate #ArtAdventCalendar #smbcb
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 02/12/2025
Day Two of digi drawing fun, probably my favourite black and white off the year... Princess Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon (better known as Ciri) #ArtAdventCalendar #DigitalArt #Procreate
A black and white digital ink drawing of Princess Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon (better known as Ciri) of The Witcher Saga standing over a freshly slain Nekker.

Drawing by Brent Colman in 2025, in Procreate.
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 02/12/2025
Keep your eyes out if you're walking your doggos or with your kiddos this evening and you're around the north western core folks! Just got an alert of coyotes on the loose rather early and in neighbourhoods. #yeg #yegpets
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 01/12/2025
when your dog successfully side eye bullies you into taking a coffee break and cuddling with him.
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 01/12/2025
I started taking digital art seriously this year; phase one was learning sketching and drawing in Photoshop/Procreate. This year's #ArtAdventCalendar yall get a highlight reel of all my favourite digi sketches from this new creative adventure! Numero Uno: Stace & Fredster Procreate Drawing #smbcb
My whole heart in a drawing, Stace the momma bear of this crew of misfits and Freddie the Britney Spaniel snuggled up and having a summer time nap in a wicker lounger in our yard.
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 29/11/2025
I have this, it's a great book especially as a reference guide for non beginners!
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 29/11/2025
"stupid hoomans making me wear stupid pants and stupid moose sweater. frens at dog park going to make fun of me for being nerddog. can't run fredfast in this nonsense. stupid winter" -Freddie's inner monologue today
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 21/11/2025
My little personal gap project during comish down time is turning out wild.. if this month has taught anything it's that, despite my inclinations, apparently I should paint softer and slower... #yegart #abstractart #surrealism #dystopianism
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 18/11/2025
It's the most wonnnndddddeeeerrrrful time of the yeeeeeeeeeeear
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 18/11/2025
Hear me out: Cloudflare imploding and taking down Twitter with it is actually a good thing.
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 16/11/2025
sunday scaries cure.
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 15/11/2025
Untergehen | 2025 acrylic on canvas | 36x24 -- "A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an over-going and a down-going"
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 15/11/2025
not sure if this is the wine or or varnish fumes but this is a nice friyay
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 14/11/2025
for those who've been enjoying following along... from start to finish!
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 13/11/2025
"watching hooman work is exhausting work, we need a vacation..." - Fred & Siesta Sid
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 13/11/2025
a little more work on this beauty between big project washes... A little more cloudiness to bring in and some highlight details, and I think it'll be a wrap tomorrow!
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 12/11/2025
roughing out a little something new while big things are curing out...
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 03/11/2025
inch by inch, each time I refresh the masking and see it all together again she feels closer finally.... Good thing, because her brother is now prepped and taking up the last remaining sq ft of the studio ready for repeat 🫤
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 30/10/2025
Me living in a former British colony: "first time dealing with the Windsors, eh?"
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 30/10/2025
what a fucking time to be alive..
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 16/09/2025
Absolutely breaks my brain that Procreate/Savage Interactive watches Adobe in free fall, and a massive amount of creatives seeking a legitimate alternative, and are still like: "nah mates, we're going to stay singularly locked into one device and format" YOU COULDA BEEN A CONTENDER #digitalart
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 14/09/2025
“Ahh, old Greybeard. I have a token I was bidden to show thee….” A little Mouth of Sauron sketch to start figuring out the new digi painting process with!
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 13/09/2025
@coolhandkas.bsky.social
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 08/09/2025
just the (tri) tip
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 07/09/2025
After 20+ years of being mouse jockey for digital guesssss who got himself his first real pen display as a little treat for not losing his shit at his client's over the last design contract's shenanigans. So excited to be able to digi paint properly and not be constrained by the iPad!
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 07/09/2025
May I introduce my finest creation, I hereby dub thee: Mega Brush. The first of your name.
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 04/09/2025
Me right now: alright time to start final interview prep. My brain 2 hrs pre-interview: IF YOOOOOOOU LIKE PINA COLADAS, AND DANCING IN THE RAIN 🎶
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 03/09/2025
Well after a summer of struggle and setbacks, I think I'm finally starting to win against the bane of my existence! Also Freddie made a new bestie at the dog park today 😀
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 28/08/2025
c/c @aaronhoyland.bsky.social
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 24/08/2025
Looking over some sketches since starting on daily doodles a year ago and comparing to tonight's WIP study, and I must say my crosshatch game has wildly improved in 2025. I used to be so bad at this 😂
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 24/08/2025
Apparently Freddie is now pub doggo.
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 20/08/2025
We know no Queen but the Queen of the North, whose name is Stark!
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 17/08/2025
Time to take The Ring of Power to Mordor and defeat the Lord of Darkness: 6 Months. Time to execute a strategy for Frodo to leave the Shire unnoticed: 2 months. 25% of the entire effort and plan was mitigating the Hobbit gossip mill. I think that's beautiful.
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 14/08/2025
As a rare creature (in my networks at least) who practices art digitally and traditionally equally, I will say I am uncertain why more don't. There are so many benefits that each side brings to the other in terms of learning, growth, and creative development as well as how well they mix together.
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Brent & Fred's Excellent Adventure @colmancreative.ca · 14/08/2025
Working on some digi painting technique studies... My "fuck it, not much different than oils" attitude has been coming up short at the end stages
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