The symbol at the top of the image is my version of the Yellow Sign used in the Black Seal t-shirt. Then I just used the rest of page to sketch whatever/whoever came to mind. The guy in the hat looks like he should be someone significant but, if so, I’ve now forgotten who he was supposed to be.
Mor(e)lock
Another sketch of a morlock. And supporting cast. Of sorts.
Yellow Sign
I did an illustration of the King in Yellow as a t-shirt for The Black Seal. And what’s the King without the Yellow Sign? The thing is, the Yellow Sign as commonly seen was designed by Kevin Ross for Chaosium and is copyrighted. So I designed a new sign. These six drawings here are the choices I sent my editor.
Nizzitoon
Nizzibet doesn’t like to have her photo taken. She needed a picture for some promotional material for a client so she asked me to cartoon her. This is the base art. I added more color and highlights in Photoshop. I’m not sure where the final version is.
Work It
Further sketching for logo for fitness trainer.
Workout
These sketches were done for a logo for a client who was a fitness coach.
Superhero Noir
This sketch is based on a character design by Nizzibet. A friend of ours asked us to contribute to an anthology he was thinking of putting together around the theme of superhero noir – that is, noir stories featuring superheroes. We didn’t get much farther than a rough draft of the script and this design for the heroine. Ultimately the story was darker than anything Nizz wanted to spend time writing and longer than I was willing to commit time to without getting paid. Unfortunately the anthology never got beyond the talking stage. Too bad. I may not have felt I could contribute to it but I would have liked to have read it.
A Different Morlock
After sketching the plant creature from Morlock 2001 I was inspired to draw a different sort of morlock, the sort that H.G. Wells wrote of. Sort of. This creature is from a graphic novel that I hope to produce someday so I won’t go into detail here. He’s called a morlock because he does live underground (at least figuratively) and he does eat people (literally).
Princess Ozma
This is a scan of the base art. The final version of this illustration is here.
Morlock 2001
One of the Atlas series that got stuck in my imagination was Morlock 2001, the story of an artificial man who transformed into a plant monster. This is a sketch of the monster.
I never actually owned any Atlas comics. My allowance didn’t have room for them. I read, or more properly, looked through them, on comics racks during the scant 4 or 5 months that the company was publishing. Reading the plot descriptions for Morlock 2001 over at the Atlas Archives makes me wonder if I would still find the character fascinating if I’d owned and read the comics. Seems like a depressing series.
