I occasionally put together a calendar of original artwork. The last one was in 2002 for 2003. As 2003 started I also started thinking about what subject I could focus on for a 2004 calendar. I got the idea of doing illustrations of Sasquatch visiting various statues around town. He would be helping a little troll find a lost relative who had been enchanted into a statue somehow. (The relative would not be the Fremont Troll. That would be too obvious.) The Ss are my first attempts to design a font to be used for the words on the calendar.
Author Archives: skook
Arrival
Another base sketch for an illustration for The Black Seal. The final illustration can be found here.
Look Up
These are the base pencils for an illustration that was done for The Black Seal #2. The final version of the illustration can be found here.
Fungi from Yuggoth
The Mi-Go are one of the alien races invented by H.P. Lovecraft. They’re a sort of sentient funguslike, crustaceanlike, extradimensional species. The Mi-Go, as they appear in The Whisperer in the Darkness, aren’t that interesting but over the years other authors have added to their corner of the mythos.
Humans and Aliens
I must have been thinking of world building when I sketched this page. I don’t know what the spiky demon thing at the top right is but along the bottom of the pages are heads for a dunak, a burrabb and a mi-go. And I obviously spent some time thinking about the clothes that hobbitty gentlemen in the top left is wearing.
Humans
One of my many sketches featuring different species of humanity. Species, not races. Any interbreeding would have result in sterile children. I’m fascinated with the idea that Homo Sapiens is just one of, perhaps, many forms of human beings. What would the world have looked like if the other species had not died out?
Surrounded
This guy really doesn’t look happy. Maybe he doesn’t like his company on the rest of the page.
Monkey Style
This young woman is holding a stance from monkey style kung fu. This is one of the sketches I did for the uncompleted Mandate of Heaven RPG game.
Open Wide
I love the turnipy sort of fellow on the right. I wish there was a story behind him. He just appeared on the page as is. Perhaps I’ll get around to making up a story for him one day.
Sketching Forward
More lines on paper. More mysteries in unravel.
