This is the second to last page in this sketchbook. As said, and possibly forgotten, the work in here is from 2002-2003.
Out in the real world I’m in the last stretches of art for the Ghoul sourcebook. Dinner tonight will be some sort of spicy chicken/spinach/cauliflower dish. Nizzibet and the cat are both napping – Nizzie on the couch, the cat somewhere deep in one of the closets.
The eye and the mouth on the left of the image belong to a shoggoth. ‘Cause drawing shoggoths is fun.
Today, out in the real world, is making chili day. The weather is cooperating by being gray. Gray days are chili days.
A page of alien sketches. The fellow with the beaky nose is a variation on Ka D’Argo from the Farscape series. I liked that show. It was a bit of mess but it was a unique mess.
The burrabb get most of their information about their environment through a combination of hearing and smell, with sight being a somewhat secondary sense. Their hide is fairly thick and heals quickly so the burrabb decorate themselves with scars and piercings in much the same way that humans tattoo themselves.
I like girls with distinct eyebrows but I think I made the eyebrows on this girl a bit too extreme.
The Mi-Go are one of the alien races invented by H.P. Lovecraft. They’re a sort of sentient funguslike, crustaceanlike, extradimensional species. The Mi-Go, as they appear in The Whisperer in the Darkness, aren’t that interesting but over the years other authors have added to their corner of the mythos.
I must have been thinking of world building when I sketched this page. I don’t know what the spiky demon thing at the top right is but along the bottom of the pages are heads for a dunak, a burrabb and a mi-go. And I obviously spent some time thinking about the clothes that hobbitty gentlemen in the top left is wearing.
One of my many sketches featuring different species of humanity. Species, not races. Any interbreeding would have result in sterile children. I’m fascinated with the idea that Homo Sapiens is just one of, perhaps, many forms of human beings. What would the world have looked like if the other species had not died out?
Mara Winikat is the current alter ego of King Roach. This image is a scan of the first page of a sketchbook from 2002. I did this sketch soon after I’d realized that Brian Daniels, my original choice for the human half of King Roach, was going to drive me crazy if I had to live with him as protagonist. Poor Brian is unfortunately too much like me – whiny and reluctant to act. Bad enough I have to hang out with me all the time. Mara is actually excited about being able to turn into a giant bug.
I’ve never found a name for this guy. I’ve given him a number of different roles in a multitude of unwritten stories. He is both intelligent and athletic, clever and energetic. Most of the roles have required him to be heroic and he’s managed to take on fearsome foes without the benefit of superpowers. Perhaps one day he’ll get a name.
