Ah zombies. Who doesn’t love these shambling echoes of humanity? Who doesn’t delight in waving their tasting limbs in front of these sad creatures, laughing as they lurch after us. What a merry chase!

The finished version of this piece is in my Epilogue gallery. All the finishing was done in Photoshop.

The finished version of this piece is in my Epilogue gallery. Other than Henry (Frankenstein’s creation) and Archie (the manticore) none of these creatures have names.

The finished version of this illustration is in my Epilogue gallery. Most of the time I ink a piece before I scan it in. Many of the illustrations I did for the Sentient 39 sequence I experimented with inking them in Photoshop using my WACOM tablet. The results aren’t bad but, really, I like using a brush or a pen and making marks on paper. So the WACOM tablet gets used when I color but most of the base of an illustration is finished before I scan it.

This is a Nooknook, one of an intelligent species living on an icy world. The Nooknook are six limbed herbivores. Nizzibet loaned them to me one day and I’ve never given them all the back.

The finished version of this illustration can be found in my Epilogue.net gallery.

My next idea for a webcomic was less about doing a comic and more about doing a themed, regularly updated portfolio site. My plan was to get a year’s worth of entries done and then start posting. Since I planned to post once a week that didn’t seem too difficult. All the illustrations were to be of scenes from my Sentient39 universe. Since that universe is vast and highly varied I didn’t see myself running out of material for years.

A finished version of this piece does appear in the webcomic that I did start.

In 2002 I set out to do a webcomic. The first idea I remember considering; represented here, was a series about a woman wandering through a decayed surreal landscape. There was to be little or no dialogue. I had about 50 or 60 episodes thumbnailed out before I started drawing the episodes here.

It would have been fun to draw but it didn’t grab me enough for me to be willing to commit myself to it as a long term project.

And here is the second nude. This one is a male.

Oh.

I bet you already figured that out.

I did this piece at the beginning of November last year. I needed some Photoshop coloring practice. Most of the color work I’ve done has had a greytone base to give the drawing weight. I’m trying to develop a coloring style that’s just layers of color. I’ve seen color done that way that’s wonderfully rich and vibrant.

I did this one after the Mutant Bug.

Sigh. I think the Bug was a more successful illustration. Probably because I’ve spent more time drawing hideous monsters than pretty women. Practice, practice.

And so we come to the end of another sketchbook. Tomorrow and Monday I’ll have a couple of new color pieces and then we’ll start on one of my piecemeal books – Started in 2002 finished in 2005.

Tomorrow I’ll post the last sketch from this sketchbook. I’m mainly saying that so I have something to say. My brain is fuzzy this morning.