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Pronghorn.  Ink and marker.

"Zaphod Zoetrope is Always Last on Picture Day"

soft pastels.

I had a lot of fun with this color combination.  Using the Rembrandt brand soft pastels, I used burnt umber for the dark tone, a pale yellow ochre for the light color, and this is all on brown kraft paper.  the border is paper tape.

concept for a dead-end project I might pick back up one day when I am more proficient at 3D animation, based on the song St. James Infirmary.

Meat the Bone Beater, the bestest barbarian ever.  His main gimmick was his, er, fertility, hence lots of drop-in plots about his many children.  He had many hilarious perfect 20's during rages so there's some good stuff in his back catalog to bring out illustrations for.  Dayjob modeled after one of Joe Mangianello's characters. The character's title was inspired heavily by a Mystery Science Theater 3000 clip on Youtube, The Many Names of David Ryder.

 The first image is just a mockup, but the construction of the final relied on buckets of hot glue and a single giant branch that broke off of a sycamore tree during an ice storm.  there was enough sap in the twigs that they were pliable, and you can get an object like that to hold its shape if you bind it next to another object, so paper tape was used to pair the twigs.  the thick part of the branch was sliced using a belt saw, that's the name right?

I had a design commission for Harter House Meats for their facebook page.  The assets were all provided or edited from their website, but the cover layout was mostly my decision.  Facebook cover photo rules demand only 20 percent of the cover can be text and I'm told that it uses a somewhat crude sector-based tool to verify, which can force your placement a bit, here's a link to what I was directed to use if you are curious. Harter House in Springfield has REALLY NICE cuts.

what's that drawing app that used to be so popular on Facebook?

oh Herman!

The Giant Tentaculous Peacock Flea Egg.  The one time I put it in a portfolio, I went with the more subtle "Terra Nova" title but I still regret not being true to its flamboyance.

Advice:  Never throw out a project until you have decent pictures of it in your possession.  sigh.

So it's a big deal deciding what skin looks like when converting a fantasy-race character design to color.  What does sun-burn look like on semi-olive skin?  Making it up as we go along.

Had I not other things to do that night, I would have been been able to play a one-shot Dark Sun D&D campaign, pre-rolled characters, the whole shebang.  sigh.

Cheating perspective so you can do a big tracking shot within a crop of it later on down the road makes for pretty cinematography, but figuring out the geometry is awful.  This definitely needs tweaking but it can wait.

Brewing up publicity for Sustainable Happyness.

I thought about playing a rogue for a while, something a la Huck Finn maybe, but I have no idea how I’d role-play that.  I usually never draw a character until I roll the stats but I was convinced that the one I was playing would die off, it never happened yet but I am somewhat doubtful we’ll resume that game.  We were finally getting into serious inner-conflict territory for my character too.

Not a real flyer, although I plan on coming back to this sketch and working on it sometime.  BEARDS.

"Disobedient Knowledge"

This was a commissioned label for a custom tea blend from Adagio Teas.  and by commission I mean that in exchange for making this I earned a five pound bag of fresh pecans.  Totally worth it.  It is currently have hiding out in the freezer until the basil comes out this summer and I can make pesto with it.  SO MUCH PESTO!

  I can't explain the pole-vaulting picture, these things derail into magical tangents sometimes.