This is Ryan. Ryan is the engineer (I think) for The Unspeakable and the Inhuman. I don’t remember ever meeting him and I only had one wonky photo to work from. Hopefully he wasn’t too repulsed by the result here.
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The Unspeakable and the Inhuman, part 2
Tim asked for portraits of main creators of The Unspeakable and the Inhuman. This is Derek Fetters, producer and co-writer. He was the easiest to draw since I’ve known him for over a decade now. He was the best man at Nizzibet’s and my wedding in Seattle in 2001.
The Unspeakable and the Inhuman, part 1
The Unspeakable and the Inhuman is a radio comedy/drama/serial that my friend Derek is putting together. Recently our friend Tim started putting together a website for Derek to host Unspeakable on and he asked me to do some illustrations for the project. The site isn’t up yet but, since I’m between sketchbooks at the moment, now seems like a good time to post the images. I’ll be doing that over the next few days.
The post today is the original logo I did for the CD Derek handed out at the HP Lovecraft Film Festival in 2006.
Sketch’s End
And so ends another sketchbook. Plenty more where that came from.
Yellow Sign and Others
The symbol at the top of the image is my version of the Yellow Sign used in the Black Seal t-shirt. Then I just used the rest of page to sketch whatever/whoever came to mind. The guy in the hat looks like he should be someone significant but, if so, I’ve now forgotten who he was supposed to be.
Yellow Sign
I did an illustration of the King in Yellow as a t-shirt for The Black Seal. And what’s the King without the Yellow Sign? The thing is, the Yellow Sign as commonly seen was designed by Kevin Ross for Chaosium and is copyrighted. So I designed a new sign. These six drawings here are the choices I sent my editor.
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 NPCs
More NPCs who will not see the light of day until the next issue of The Black Seal sees print. Oh woe. Oh tragedy.
Feeling guilty yet Adam?
NPCs
NPCs are Non Player Characters in RPG (Role Playing Game) vernacular. These guys were done for an issue of The Black Seal that isn’t out yet. Adam went and became a father and got another editor position and became a complete slacker.
(I kid Adam. We won’t go into the projects I’ve been in the middle of for years (and years) now myself.)
These are recent scans from my sketchbook. The final illustrations have been photoshopped a bit. You’ll have to wait until The Black Seal comes out to see what the results look like.
Serpent People, Part the Fifth (and Last)
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.
