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.
Serpent People, Part the Second
More from the project that must not be discussed only alluded to (and then only in hints and whispers).
Serpent People, Part the First
Back in ’06 I did some brainstorming with some folks on an RPG set in the Cthulhu Mythos milieu. Over the next few days I’ll be posting the sketches I did. I ran across them recently when I was freeing up space on my art station and decided I wanted to share them. I don’t want to say any more about it in case the project ever gets revived.
Got To Dance Now
I’m not sure when this piece was done. I’m guessing it was 2004 or 2005. I found the image back in some old files on my art computer. I forgot to check the date on it before I moved it onto my storage drive. Anyway, dancing burrabbs. Could be dancing as a religious rite, could be dancing for tea. Nobody tells me anything.
Don’t Mess With Badger
Don’t mess with Badger. Badger can drive. He might have to sit on a pile of rocks in order to see over the dashboard but that won’t stop him. He’ll drop one of those rock on the accelerator and go, baby!
And thus we come to the end of another sketchbook.
Coyote Goes To War
It’s not that Coyote wanted to help the pilgrims. Scarecrow really didn’t give him much choice. She took his wagon and his patent medicine and said he could come along. Badger now, Badger drove the wagon off the cliff and through the walls of the Wiretemple. When Badger does the right thing he does it with enthusiasm.
Coyote’s Paws
For the Scarecrow story I didn’t want to just have Coyote be an anthropomorphic creature; standing on two legs with human hands. He wasn’t Coyote the trickster (though he was a trickster), he was an evolved (mutated?) coyote. I imagined him with articulated paws that he knuckle walked on like an ape. When he sat down he could use the paws to manipulate tools as well as a human.
Coyote, Wirepriest, Badger
The story title was something like: “How Coyote Did a Good Deed”. In the story Scarecrow ropes Coyote and Badger into helping a band of pilgrims escape from a Wiretemple.
