These sketches were done to see how simplified I could work. I have a tendency to add a lot of detail to my work. It seems more like a compulsion than a stylistic choice. I often have to decide ahead of time the limits of detail that I’ll put into a piece otherwise I can noodle it to death.
Author Archives: skook
First Page
Second day of the new year and the first page from an old sketchbook. I’m pretty sure this book was finished in 1999. The lumpy thing at the bottom of the page is a sketch of one of Jeremy’s Germboys from the story Jeremy Loader Never Could Pick Up After Himself. I wrote the story back in 1992 or ’93 and it saw print in Asylum #3. Pia Guerra penciled it and I inked it.
In 1999 I was considering redoing the story with my own illustrations. Nothing wrong with Pia’s work (it was excellent), I just wanted to have a version of the story that was all me. I never got further than the sketching stage.
Happy New Year!
Say hello to 2008. I’ve got another sketchbook’s worth of posts set up that should carry us into February. Life is still pretty busy but with the Holiday jams passed by I think I’ll have time to keep up a daily rhythm here again.
Today’s sketch was done this month. It was intended for a future issue of Worlds of Cthulhu for an article on gangsters. The editor and I had some miscommunication and the job for illustrating the article has gone to someone else. No biggie, he was needing more illustrations than I can provide at the moment and has assigned me to a different article.
We Had a White Christmas
And the rain washed all away by this morning.
(Photo by Michael Byam)
Merry Merry
On Hiatus
Bah. What free time I’ve got is going toward finishing illustrations for Terrors From Beyond. Add in the Nephew’s birthday, a visit from Little Sister and that Christmas thing and I don’t see myself getting much posted in the next month. So I’m officially taking December off. I’ll be back on New Year’s Day.
Happy Holidays!
Great Cthulhu
Not sure when I’ll have a chance to restart with the sketchbooks. Busy busy. Anybody want to borrow a twelve year old for a few days?
Another Milpitas Monster
I did this piece as sort of a palette cleaner after finishing up the Basic Roleplaying illustrations. For the earlier version I did of this creature I tried to stick closer to the monster’s original done-on-the-cheap design. This time I just let my imagination go where it wanted.
Fourth Head
This is the last of the illustrations I did for Two Heads Talk.
Third Head
The third head. But the post title here gives that away doesn’t it?
