This is a scan of the original pencils for my portrait of Space Godzilla. The final version can be found here.
Category Archives: sketchbook
Christmas Angel
Megalon
Return of the Unfinished Kaiju
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.
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.