I got caught up in wrestling with the new version of Photoshop and forgot to post yesterday. So, through the miracle of redating, here’s yesterday’s post today.
The fellow with the horns is an old style burrabb, only two nostrils and two “ears” on the head instead of the current version that has multiple nostrils and “ears” at the base of the skull.
The elephant is one of many species of animals that humanity has re-engineered.
Sunny day before a three day weekend. I’ll be elbow deep in corpses myself. I’m the illustrator for Sixtystone Press’s handbook on ghouls by Daniel Harms. Which has nothing to do with this image but there you go.
Wednesday?
Yup.
Carry on.
I feel even less coherent this morning than usual. So I’ll just let the sketches speak for themselves.
And now we begin a new (old) sketchbook. As near as I can figure this book dates from the fall of 1998 to sometime in 1999.
This is a portrait of a sasquatch, specifically of the protagonist for Zazquotch. Zazquotch was a silent comic that ran in the GLYPH newspaper tabloid.
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.
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.
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.
The story title was something like: “How Coyote Did a Good Deed”. In the story Scarecrow ropes Coyote and Badger into helping a band of pilgrims escape from a Wiretemple.
The figure with the short hair and facial marking on the left (as well as the sketched in, unfinished, undetailed figure on the right) is from Scarecrow. I got the idea to do a short story featuring the character when my King Roach story was bogging down. I hadn’t given up (the King Roach characters on the page indicate that) but other story/character ideas were crowding my imagination, demanding that I pay a little attention to them.
