This is another one of my attempts to do a redesign of Gigan that I liked. The fact that I keep trying to come up with one says more about my own occasional inability to love the absurd than it indicates the possibility of a good “organic” design. Japanese entertainment is full of wildly ridiculous monsters. For the most part Godzilla’s adversaries and allies are, at least in my kid mind, somehow, rational designs for monsters. They’re radioactive dinosaurs, space dragons, giant insects or well armed robots. Gigan is a new wave parrot headed dandy with hook hands and a buzzsaw in his chest. He’s goofy. Maybe one day I’ll just accept that and let him be.
Category Archives: 2005
Last of the NPCs
This is the last of the NPC illustrations scheduled for the next issue of The Black Seal. Not a character you’d want to run into even in a well lit alley.
More Oz Squad
Upper left Jinjur. Upper right a mechanical man. Lower left a hammerhead. Really vague sketches – more mechanical men.
Sketching the Squad
On this page we have a Dorothy or two, a Scarecrow, a Nick, a Wizard and an anonymous Munchkin girl with an attitude.
Color Weasel
And here’s the colored version of yesterday’s drawing.
Pumpkin Weasel
One of my co-workers at the day job asked me to do an illustration for the label of his homebrewed beer. He and a friend had a tradition of brewing a pumpkin ale in the fall. They called the beer Pumpkin Weasel. Here’s the black and white version. I’ll look around and try to have the color version up tomorrow.
Misc. Sketches
Mostly just playing on the page here. The only two images that relate to later projects (that I remember anyway) are the Munchkin on the lower left (the guy with the mad curls) and the scheming weasel on the lower left (who I’ll write more about when the sketches for that project get posted).
The Parable of the Sower
This was another church bulletin cover illustration. In Matthew 13 Jesus tells a lot of parables and gets no respect.
Yeah. I’m a real bible scholar.
New Sketchbook 2005 – 2007
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.
