Oct 01 2012
My only other contender for “T” was Tom Bombadil–and I guess I could have done him since I could technically have claimed that my earlier drawing of Gimli was from The Lord of the Rings and Bombadil was from The Adventures of Tom Bombadil… but that’s kinda cheating. So instead, I did this guy: T …
Sep 30 2012
Here’s a quick pinup I did of the first version of Iron Man’s armor. There’s something really appealing about this clunky, gray “bullet head” version of Iron Man, I think. It has a visual sense of weight and menace that the later versions lack. As you can see I’m still experimenting with trying spotting blacks. …
Sep 26 2012
So… a few weeks ago I decided to listen to The Cure’s entire discography start-to-finish, in chronological order. Here are a few random thoughts: I have no idea why I did this. Like a lot of folks my age, I had an “angsty teen” phase in the late 80s where I wore a lot of …
Sep 24 2012
Selecting an “S” subject for this week was tough. My other two candidates were Sydney Hen from Charles Portis’s Masters of Atlantis and Sukie Rougemont from The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike. Ultimately, though… S is for Serafina Pekkala — from His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman As you can see, I mixed things …
Sep 20 2012
Well, here’s my very late “R” AlphaBooks entry. This isn’t one of my faves, but after an initial delay from being at SPX, followed by a failed attempt to draw Rick Deckard from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, I figured I needed to go ahead and get something posted. So… R is for Robert …
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