N to Z


A very sketchy second half of the alphabet. I usually sketch with a 2H pencil and then tighten the sketch with an HB. This part of the alphabet never got to the HB stage.

Sasquatch Alphabet Designwork


Further development on a font for my unfinished 2004 Sasquatch calendar. I spent some time looking for and photographing various interesting statues around Seattle for Sasquatch and the little troll to visit but, other than some further design work on this font and a few preliminary sketches, this project didn’t get very far.

Great Race of Yith


I have a great time drawing creatures from Lovecraft’s ever expanding Cthulhu Mythos. With one exception. The Great Race of Yith, a species of time traveling entities, is just plain goofy looking.

The creatures in many of Lovecraft’s stories are only described vaguely. He usually only suggests what something looks like and then lets your imagination fill in the details. Two species that he describes in great detail are the Elder Things in At the Mountains of Madness and the Great Race in The Shadow Out of Time. I love the Elder Things. They have a wonderful fivefold invertebrate design that’s fun to work with. The Great Race? Gah. I’ve done illustrations of them that I like but I can’t seem to make them look cool. And scary? That’s beyond my meager talents.

Sasquatch Alphabet


I occasionally put together a calendar of original artwork. The last one was in 2002 for 2003. As 2003 started I also started thinking about what subject I could focus on for a 2004 calendar. I got the idea of doing illustrations of Sasquatch visiting various statues around town. He would be helping a little troll find a lost relative who had been enchanted into a statue somehow. (The relative would not be the Fremont Troll. That would be too obvious.) The Ss are my first attempts to design a font to be used for the words on the calendar.