Every day, the same question –
What can I wear that will go well with the Apocalypse?
Happy Birthday to:
Rhonda Libbey
January the 1st, 2019
Begin at the beginning. That’s the advice we’re given. Fortunately, beginnings are chosen by writer of each story rather than divinely designated. Begin anywhere.
Happy Birthday to –
Steve Ahlquist
Rau Carriker
Gearing Up For A New Year
2018 ends at midnight tonight. I did much, much less redesign on this site than I’d planned.
You’ll notice two new links in the header – Mighty Nizz and The Witch Engines. I expect that I will be doing more design on these sites than here at Skookworks – at least until they look like someone has put some thought into them instead of just tossed them up. The sites will still be pretty bare bones. These are long term projects that I won’t be able to focus on for a while but I own the domains and I hate generic placeholder pages. I’ve moved most of my other pages to the Archives.
2019 will be a busier one postingwise. I will be posting a sketch a day. Each sketch is being done in a half hour or less. Most of them will be black and white drawings done over nonphoto blue pencil sketches. I am trying to get more comfortable with improvising in ink. We’ll see how I progress over the next year. If nothing else I’m forcing myself to work on art every day. I always feel better after I’ve done some art.
Just the Beginning of a Story
There would have been dinosaurs but we didn’t get that far. These pages were done back in 2013 for a proposed graphic novel.
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With No Power Still Comes Great Responsibility
Billi 99 was first published as miniseries in 1991. A collected edition was printed in 2002. The series was written by Sarah Byam and illustrated by Tim Sale.
Corporate owned superheroes have had more fan art created of them than their soulless masters would ever be able to pay for. As far as I can tell, this is the first fan art ever done of Billi. I’m a pioneer.
A Few Tweaks
I’m making a few adjustments to this website. Finally. Today’s changes were simple – I’ve moved the Daughter of Spiders and Newsletters banner links. They are now subpages under the Miscellania drop down menu.
The Groovy Frankensteins Strike Back!
Wilbur, Frankie and Helen
They don’t like you. They don’t like anyone.
Bloodsucking Atomic Zombie Fishmen Never Die!
You’d think that teenagers would learn to stay away from places where they are regularly killed and eaten. 
Valorous Cats and the Great War
It’s been a busy last couple months. I’ve been doing illustrations for two successful Kickstarters.
The first – Horrors of War – is a collection of Call of Cthulhu scenarios written by Adam Scott Glancy set during World War One. That one funded back in 2014. I originally contributed an illustration to the original Kickstarter video and illustrations to one of the scenarios. After that my life got too complicated for me to commit to meeting deadlines. Mr. Glancy’s life got complicated as well and work on the project stalled.
Things have simplified for me, enough that when he contacted me earlier this year I was able to happily commit to illustrating two more scenarios and a series of general illustrations for the book. The plan is to have the project done by 11/11/2018. I expect to have my parts done well before that.
At about the same time Oscar Rios of Golden Goblin Press let me know that things were a go for Cathulhu Kickstarter. That campaign ran from June 29th to July 29th and successfully overfunded. One of the successfully met stretch goals was to have a PDF of the illustrated edition of Tails of Terror available for October. That meant I needed to complete sixteen illustrations in August.
I turned in the last one this morning.
I’ve got lots of work yet to complete on both projects but I thought I’d take a moment to breathe and update this website. Cheers y’all!
