Tag: AlphaBooks

C is for Conan the Cimmerian

This week’s AlphaBooks drawing came out pretty well, I think. I’m having some misgivings about the semi-dopey “old newsprint” effect that I’ve been doing with these, but I guess for consistency’s sake, I’ll stick with it. I can always post an alternate gallery of the unaltered images once the series is done. C is for …

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B is for Brienne, Maid of Tarth

I spent about three times as long on this week’s entry as I did on last week’s Ahab, and I’m about half as happy with it. But, here she is: B is for Brienne, Maid of Tarth – From A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin In the book, Brienne relates …

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A is for Ahab

And it begins… A is for Ahab – from Moby Dick by Herman Melville I’m glad I escaped high school without some teacher forcing me to read Moby Dick at age seventeen. I’m sure I would have hated it and never touched it again. In fact, I first read Moby Dick in my early 30s …

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Monday: AlphaBooks!

On the off chance that you missed it on Twitter, this coming week begins our newest group alphabet project, AlphaBooks. This go ’round there’s a slightly different submission procedure, so be sure to pop on over to the official AlphaBooks tumblr to get up to speed. I’ll be posting my completed images to Twitter with …

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