I think I used this image for May in my 2003 calendar. Unfortunately I don’t have a calendar handy to check. This was the last image in the sketchbook from 2002. I set it aside for about a year. The next image in it is from 2004. But that’s for tomorrow.
Category Archives: sketchbook
Detritus, Moe and Lili
Not At All Human
All Human
Superfreak After
Superfreak Before
King Roach vs Saur Thirteen
While the basic premise of King Roach (kid becomes monster to fight other monsters) has remained the same since the first inspiration, the setting of the series has shifted many times. Sometimes I’ve imagined the story taking place in modern day Seattle. Sometimes it happens in a 1950’s milieu. Sometimes I imagine King Roach as a guide to the Sentient 39 universe; traveling from world to world, dealing with strange human cultures and stranger alien ones. And fighting monsters of course.
The other creature in this sketch is Saur Thirteen, one of those military experiments gone wrong. Saur Thirteen has skulked around my imagination for a couple of decades now. Sometimes he’s a mindless beserker. Sometimes he’s highly intelligent, a reptilian secret agent/soldier. In this version he’s been tamed by a teenage girl and is acting as the protector of a group of outcasts.
Crawling Chaos
Nyarlathotep is one of H.P. Lovecraft’s more active creations. He (she, it) has a multitude of avatars. He gets involved with humanity. He pays attention to what we do. He plays with us. The rest of the Great Old Ones take as much notice of us as we do of ants.
The finished version of this is in my Epilogue gallery.
Witchcraft
Daylight Caravan
When I was a kid I did an illustration of a camp of lizard people, their tents and their pack animals. I rendered it in colored markers and my mom liked it so much she had it framed.
In 2002, when I was thinking of scenes for the Sentient 39 series I thought I’d revisit the lizard people. This sketch is the result.