Upper left Jinjur. Upper right a mechanical man. Lower left a hammerhead. Really vague sketches – more mechanical men.
Sketching the Squad
On this page we have a Dorothy or two, a Scarecrow, a Nick, a Wizard and an anonymous Munchkin girl with an attitude.
Color Weasel
And here’s the colored version of yesterday’s drawing.
Pumpkin Weasel
One of my co-workers at the day job asked me to do an illustration for the label of his homebrewed beer. He and a friend had a tradition of brewing a pumpkin ale in the fall. They called the beer Pumpkin Weasel. Here’s the black and white version. I’ll look around and try to have the color version up tomorrow.
Misc. Sketches
Mostly just playing on the page here. The only two images that relate to later projects (that I remember anyway) are the Munchkin on the lower left (the guy with the mad curls) and the scheming weasel on the lower left (who I’ll write more about when the sketches for that project get posted).
The Parable of the Sower
This was another church bulletin cover illustration. In Matthew 13 Jesus tells a lot of parables and gets no respect.
Yeah. I’m a real bible scholar.
New Sketchbook 2005 – 2007
And so we begin another sketchbook, this one of fairly recent vintage – 2005 to 2007. I’ve had more than one sketchbook to work in the last few years so it took a little longer to fill this one. At some point the book got damp and the pages warped so many of the scans are less than stellar.
This image is one I did for my church bulletin. I did the layout and provided the cover for the weekly bulletin for about a year. Most of my cover illustrations were repurposed public domain images I found on the internet. I’d originally intended to do a quick new illustration every week but soon found that –
A. That was more work than I had time for.
B. Most of the scenes in the Bible that I’m inspired to illustrate are not appropriate subjects for polite company.
Serpent People, Part the Fifth (and Last)
The project flamed up and faded off fairly quickly. A lot of good ideas got passed around. It would have been a blast illustrating it. Given how often creative projects flash and then hibernate only to spring to life again years later I might still get the chance to bring it to visual life.
Serpent People, Part the Fourth
Yup. Miscellaneous serpent people.
Serpent People, Part the Third
They call them serpent people but that’s a misnomer. Snakes are late bloomers on reptile family tree. And snakes couldn’t stand up even if they had arms and legs, their spines aren’t made for it.
