Category: General

Caricature: Ray Kurzweil

I’m really bad at caricatures, but I do them anyway. That’s how you get better, right? (In theory, anyway..) This is an odd subject, but it was the only thing I found interesting leafing through the most recent TIME magazine recently: author/inventor/futurist Ray Kurzweil. Here’s the drawing (with some sloppy Photoshop color) and a picture …

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Shameless Self-Promotion Holiday Sale!

Yeah, that’s right: a shamelessly self-promotional holiday sale! Enter HOLIDAY2010 at checkout for 20% off everything in my store. In addition to an assortment of original pages from Midnight Sun and Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean, there’re: Signed and sketched-in copies of Amelia Earhart. Great for anyone maybe 8 to 14-ish, especially girls! My convention-fave …

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Indstrial Drawing and Penmanship Workbooks from the 19th Century

I admit, there’s not much point to this post other than, “These things look cool,” but hey, they do look pretty cool. I’m lucky enough be be the recipient of a slow trickle of old family books, mostly from  the part of my family that originates in the Lancaster, PA area.  I did a post …

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Illustration: Monster Parade

I’ve had monsters on the brain lately. I think it’s because a few weeks ago I posted some art from Drew Weing’s great bestiary, 33 Beasties and at about that same time I placed my own Moleskine bestiary for sale in my store. Whatever the case, I decided it’d be fun to draw some monsters. …

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In Memoriam: Irvin Kershner – Empire Drawings

I’m sure I’ve posted some or all of these childhood drawings of mine before, but with the recent death of Empire Strikes Back director Irvin Kershner, I thought it’d be appropriate to drag them out again. While there may be one or two folks out there who’d debate Empire‘s status as the best of the …

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