Jul 09 2012
I was on the fence for “H”, waffling between this guy and Humbert Humbert from Nabokov’s Lolita. Ultimately, I went with Hiro mainly because I got a better initial doodle of him on Saturday night, but also because there really is no description of Humbert in Lolita–or, rather, there is no reliable description of him. …
Jul 02 2012
This may be the drawing that causes me to break my heretofore unbroken AlphaBooks rule of only doing one character from a particular book. I really want to do Tom Bombadil also… but we’ll see. G is for Gimli – From The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien There are a lot of things …
Jun 26 2012
It’s only by about a half an hour, but this unfortunately is my first genuinely late Alpha-illustration for any of the three Alphabet projects I’ve been involved with. Chalk it up to how amazingly busy this Heroes Con was! But, anyway…. F is for Flay – From the the Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake I …
Jun 18 2012
These AlphaBooks drawings are skewing far heavier toward fantasy and SF than my actual reading habits–I guess because they make more interesting subjects visually. Anyway, here’s this week’s “E” entry, from a series I read ages ago: E is for Elric – From Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock With my last few entries, I’ve written …
Jun 11 2012
I’m almost a day late–my first late entry in all the alpha-series!–but, finally, here’s my “D” entry: D is for Danny – From Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck This week was a tough choice for me character-wise, since two of my absolute favorite books have strong “D” characters. So far my roster of characters for …
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