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.
Category Archives: sketchbook
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.
Don’t Mess With Badger
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.
Coyote Goes To War
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.
Coyote’s Paws
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.
Coyote, Wirepriest, Badger
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.
A Little Bit of Scarecrow
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.
Brian Daniels
It’s Brian Daniels. I don’t think it’s Saturday for him. Poor Brian.
