This sketch is based on an illustration I did years earlier of a levitating witch. The witch in the earlier illustration was clothed in flowing robes.
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Daylight Caravan
When I was a kid I did an illustration of a camp of lizard people, their tents and their pack animals. I rendered it in colored markers and my mom liked it so much she had it framed.
In 2002, when I was thinking of scenes for the Sentient 39 series I thought I’d revisit the lizard people. This sketch is the result.
Wirepriest After
All finished in Photoshop. Rejected by Epilogue.net.
Wirepriest Before
The Wirepriests revere the connection, worship the flow – of information, of electricity, of power. They seek to contain it and to send it out. They don’t convert others to their religion, there’s no evangelism, they wire you in whether you’re interested or not. And then they go looking for the next connection.
Tomorrow I’ll present the finished version of this sketch.
Watching the Bats at Moonrise
Every picture tells a story, so it’s been said. I’ll leave it to you to figure out what the story is.
Mascot
This sketch was an attempt to create a mascot for the Sentient 39 illustrations series. It didn’t need a mascot but mascots are fun. And evil and disgusting. This one didn’t have quite the mix that I wanted.
Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
Man with a Suitcase
It’s a sketch of a man wearing a spacesuit standing on the outside of a spaceship or spacestation. I’m guessing that the case holds tools but maybe it holds a picnic lunch and he’s on his way to meet his sweetie so they can watch the sun rise over a planet. Or maybe the case holds his prize collection of fingerpuppets and he’s going to duct tape it to a secret part of the ship.
Be Careful What You Summon Up
Another sketch from the 2002 section of the sketchbook. Apparently this gentleman is summoning up something unpleasent. Whether the unpleasentness will be turned outward or reflected back I couldn’t say.
Burrabb Shepherd
I’ve imagined that the burrabb were a more generally carnivorous species that humans but I’d have to do some research before I committed to the idea. The more specialized the diet the less adaptable the species. Human civilization grew out of agriculture. The burrabb might have developed agriculture in order to feed their food animals rather than as a way to feed themselves. With the farm comes the town. With the town comes space travel. I’m probably hopping over a couple of steps here but you get the idea. A space faring culture is less likely to arise from a nomadic herding culture than an agrarian/industrial one.
