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New Sketchbook 2005 – 2007

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And so we begin another sketchbook, this one of fairly recent vintage – 2005 to 2007. I’ve had more than one sketchbook to work in the last few years so it took a little longer to fill this one. At some point the book got damp and the pages warped so many of the scans are less than stellar.

This image is one I did for my church bulletin. I did the layout and provided the cover for the weekly bulletin for about a year. Most of my cover illustrations were repurposed public domain images I found on the internet. I’d originally intended to do a quick new illustration every week but soon found that –

A. That was more work than I had time for.
B. Most of the scenes in the Bible that I’m inspired to illustrate are not appropriate subjects for polite company.

Serpent People, Part the Fifth (and Last)

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The project flamed up and faded off fairly quickly. A lot of good ideas got passed around. It would have been a blast illustrating it. Given how often creative projects flash and then hibernate only to spring to life again years later I might still get the chance to bring it to visual life.

Serpent People, Part the First

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Back in ’06 I did some brainstorming with some folks on an RPG set in the Cthulhu Mythos milieu. Over the next few days I’ll be posting the sketches I did. I ran across them recently when I was freeing up space on my art station and decided I wanted to share them. I don’t want to say any more about it in case the project ever gets revived.

Got To Dance Now

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I’m not sure when this piece was done. I’m guessing it was 2004 or 2005. I found the image back in some old files on my art computer. I forgot to check the date on it before I moved it onto my storage drive. Anyway, dancing burrabbs. Could be dancing as a religious rite, could be dancing for tea. Nobody tells me anything.

Don’t Mess With Badger

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Don’t mess with Badger. Badger can drive. He might have to sit on a pile of rocks in order to see over the dashboard but that won’t stop him. He’ll drop one of those rock on the accelerator and go, baby!

And thus we come to the end of another sketchbook.

Coyote Goes To War

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It’s not that Coyote wanted to help the pilgrims. Scarecrow really didn’t give him much choice. She took his wagon and his patent medicine and said he could come along. Badger now, Badger drove the wagon off the cliff and through the walls of the Wiretemple. When Badger does the right thing he does it with enthusiasm.

Coyote’s Paws

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For the Scarecrow story I didn’t want to just have Coyote be an anthropomorphic creature; standing on two legs with human hands. He wasn’t Coyote the trickster (though he was a trickster), he was an evolved (mutated?) coyote. I imagined him with articulated paws that he knuckle walked on like an ape. When he sat down he could use the paws to manipulate tools as well as a human.