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.
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.
