On the left side is a woman in a big fancy gown. For no other reason than than I felt the need to draw some ridiculusly complicated clothing.

On the right side are a trio of Matt Howarth‘s characters. From top to bottom – Savage Henry; Hiroshima, the nuclear earth goddess and a Caroline clone.

This is the final illustration that yesterday’s sketches were working up to. Still don’t remember exactly what we used it for.

No post yesterday. I never seemed to be able to access blogger when I had time at the computer. Oh well. I imagine y’all survived.

Today’s page (from 1995) was probably sketches for a greeting card or invitation. I don’t remember the occasion now. I have great fondness for the word “Hark”, both because it sounds happy and because whenever I hear it I think of my friend Blake. And thinking of Blake is never a bad thing.

I make faces when I draw, especially when I’m drawing a character behaving emotionally. I act. I generate the feelings that I’m trying to reproduce on paper. It’s not big and dramatic but it is obvious enough that I consciously have to keep myself from doing it when I’m drawing in public places.

One of the great revelations of my childhood was the discovery that other people didn’t have stories and adventures and voices and monsters and big bright worlds bouncing around in their heads. Poor other people.

From the 1995 sketchbook, more sasquatch figure drawings. The big difference between yesterday’s work and today’s is that on this page I’m no longer trying to figure out what the sasquatch looks like I’m trying to make sure that I can draw the character in action. This is an individual sasquatch meant for a specific story. Despite appearances he’s a pretty mellow guy.

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New posting at my Epilogue.net gallery – It Came from the Septic Tank, a pinup I did for Jason Levine’s Mishmash proposal. Jason is the letterer for the new Oz Squad. If I hear of any Mishmash stuff online I’ll add a link.

This is the first of a series of sketches I did for the story I planned to submit to The Big Bigfoot Book. I never got beyond the sketches (and unfinished thumbnails of the unfinished story). Nizzibet and I were working on getting Glyph off the ground and I was having a hard enough time getting my art for that project done.

 I’m writing this text on June 18, 2016. I’m going through my website to clean up duplicate posts. The image on this page was apparently posted on August 1, 2006. It might be a duplicate of a previous post. I’m not sure.

This is the first of a series of sketches I did for the story I planned to submit to The Big Bigfoot Book. I never got beyond the sketches (and unfinished thumbnails of the unfinished story). Nizzibet and I were working on getting Glyph off the ground and I was having a hard enough time getting my art for that project done.