There will probably be no artwork to post for most, if not all, of the rest of the month. Nizzibet and I are moving from our overstuffed apartment to a larger one across town. We’re expecting the new place to be just stuffed rather than crammed. But to get to that stage we’ve first got to put everything here into boxes and bags and schlep it there. And then, for Christmas, we’ll get to unwrap our old stuff! Yay!

Of course that means another couple of commissions showed up in email today. One is a new RPG book for Sixtystone Press. Cover and interior illustrations. The other is work I’ve already done, years ago, that looks like it may see print in an Oz related publication. The art has been packed away since the last time we moved so it’s going to stay packed until we get to the new place.

All of this needs to be fit around the work I’m doing on Oz Squad. Uh. Yeah. Seems like I’m destined to do that series. I’ve no idea when it will see print. I’ve got 12 out of 48 pages of the first issue finished. Assuming that it sees publication as a print comic. But maybe it will end up on the web first. Or we’ll collect the first story arc in a trade paper back. But that all happens when the art is done.

I hope you’ll all having fun. Feel free to drop by now and then. Just because I don’t expect to have anything to show off doesn’t mean I won’t end up surprising myself.

My little sister is getting married today. All the fractured family will be up in Anchorage to celebrate. Should be fun.

I’m afraid the inactivity on this blog will be continuing until October 1st. The day jobs for both Nizzibet and myself are keeping us busy and tired. What energy I’ve got is focused on making some illustration deadlines for a new RPG manual. I will have one post set for the 19th but otherwise expect more silence.

This sketch was done to accompany yesterday’s “sexy” babe. She does have big Eighties hair doesn’t she?

I don’t remember the exact circumstances that resulted in this drawing. It was in 1999 or 2000 and an old colleague of Nizzibet’s (it might even have been the guy who asked for animated website serial ideas) had asked her if she knew of any comic book artists. Nizzibet suggested me. He didn’t doubt that I could draw comics. What he wasn’t sure about was if I could draw sexy babes. Apparently sexy babes were an important part of the project. So I set aside my ridiculous idea that I drew sexy babes all the time and endeavored to draw a Sexy Babe.

And was told – not what he was looking for. And, too Eighties.

Oh well.

A quick break to post a new sketch. This was done for Warren Ellis’s Remake/Remodel exercise over at his Whitechapel forum. Since he doesn’t host images there I needed to find somewhere else on the web to post it. Head on over to Whitechapel if you want to see what other artists have done with the concept.

Kip Manley contributed a couple of proposals to our package of animation serial ideas. I’ve forgotten the title of the other one (and my memory of its premise is likewise very fuzzy) but Dot Dash was a series paralleling the communications boom sparked by the telegraph back at the turn of 20th century with the then current boom of the internet. I put this cover together in Illustrator, one of the few times I’d used the program for illustration work.

Another Painter experiment from 2001 or 2002. I don’t remember what I was doing to get that weird rectangle at her eye.

Another unfinished portfolio illustration from 2000/01.

This unfinished piece is probably from 2000 or 2001. I was working up a portfolio of horror and fantasy illustration that I planned to submit to gaming companies.