This sketch is based on an illustration I did years earlier of a levitating witch. The witch in the earlier illustration was clothed in flowing robes.

When I was a kid I did an illustration of a camp of lizard people, their tents and their pack animals. I rendered it in colored markers and my mom liked it so much she had it framed.

In 2002, when I was thinking of scenes for the Sentient 39 series I thought I’d revisit the lizard people. This sketch is the result.

All finished in Photoshop. Rejected by Epilogue.net.

The Wirepriests revere the connection, worship the flow – of information, of electricity, of power. They seek to contain it and to send it out. They don’t convert others to their religion, there’s no evangelism, they wire you in whether you’re interested or not. And then they go looking for the next connection.

Tomorrow I’ll present the finished version of this sketch.

Every picture tells a story, so it’s been said. I’ll leave it to you to figure out what the story is.

It’s a sketch of a man wearing a spacesuit standing on the outside of a spaceship or spacestation. I’m guessing that the case holds tools but maybe it holds a picnic lunch and he’s on his way to meet his sweetie so they can watch the sun rise over a planet. Or maybe the case holds his prize collection of fingerpuppets and he’s going to duct tape it to a secret part of the ship.