The next few posts are of sketches I did recently at the day job. It’s not that things were slow. I just haven’t been able to draw much either at home or at work and I really really needed to. A lot of the time when I haven’t been drawing much I end up with pages of unfinished overlapping indistinct shapes; a riot of images that I can’t focus on enough to complete any particular one. Somehow these sketches resulted in complete images.

I just let myself draw whatever came to mind. In fact, I purposely avoided drawing anything I might have drawn before. I have no idea what this thing is.

This the illustration of George that went to the designer for vectoring.

On January 16th, 2003 I posted this message –

And because one never knows who might be reading – I’m looking for Bernice Jinkerson (or perhaps Jinkersen). We both attended the same high school in Sebastopol. Last I heard she was working for Bill Graham Productions but that was over 15 years ago. I’m not sure that there still is a Bill Graham Productions any more. SJ and I have been wondering whatever became of her. Anyone who might have a clue what’s become of her, please contact me at chaosunit@aol.com. I get a tedious amount of spam so be sure to mention Bernice in the subject line.

On January 14th I got this email –

Hi, Just wanted to let you know Bernie passed away in September 2006 from liver disease. As you most likely know she had a drug problem when in her teens which was brought on by parental abuse (dad).She beat the drug deal and had a good life until she died. When in the drug scene she got hepatitus the bad one which was the cause of her liver failure. We lived in Costa Rica for four years which she loved. She was a great person and I miss her a lot.

It’s taken me a while to figure out what to say.

And the rain washed all away by this morning.

(Photo by Michael Byam)

Bah. What free time I’ve got is going toward finishing illustrations for Terrors From Beyond. Add in the Nephew’s birthday, a visit from Little Sister and that Christmas thing and I don’t see myself getting much posted in the next month. So I’m officially taking December off. I’ll be back on New Year’s Day.

Happy Holidays!

This illustration was sample art for someone who was interested in having me illustrate a comic strip. As far as I know they weren’t specifically interested in me illustrating the strip, just someone. There was the possibility of pay involved so I worked up this piece to show what I could do. I didn’t hear back from them.

I’m assuming that they were eaten by wolverines. It’s very sad.

Today begins what I call the Rejected Series. I’ll be posting finished illustrations that, for whatever reason, didn’t get used. The person who asked for this one wanted an illustration of someone laughing his head off. So that’s what he got. Trouble is, the person who asked for the drawing had a more staid picture of what he wanted than I produced.

My brother Glenn was born this day in 1965. Yay!