Mike Mignola’s Hellboy, falling fist-first into an abyss.

Mike’s work is a masterclass in chiaroscuro, and in saying “fuck it, this part is hard to draw, I’m just gonna leave it out/drop it into silhouette/cover it with something else”. I leaned on both of these skills while drawing this.

(Where’s Vectober 9? I did it on the floor of Geek Girl Con ( Read more... )

I drew this on the floor of Geek Girl Con and didn’t get around to uploading it until today. It’s another illustration to the story I wrote in the previous Vectober piece; this one is the first few lines about everything going grey when the King died.

It could use some more work if I want to actually put together that little illustrated story, but ( Read more... )

When the king died, the land died with him.

All the color went out of everything.

The Queen tried her best to keep it safe

But in the end all she could do was let it lie fallow. The peasants had gone for more colorful climes long ago. The stray sheep had grown too unruly to be worth keeping.
Time passed.

Nothing much happened.

Then it didn’t happen ( Read more... )

A friend tweeted about “tactical espionage djinn” scenarios, with a unit logo inspired by Metal Gear 2’s fox logo. This made me giggle so I decided to draw it instead of trying to come up with something for “contrast”.

Originally published at Egypt Urnash. You can comment here or there.

Still listening to Kobra and the Lotus’ “High Priestess” on repeat. Because it seems to be that kind of day.

This is a straight up photo trace because I didn’t wanna have to think about anything but the materials experiment. I am not entirely happy with the likeness (especially the nose, geeze)  but I spent a half hour on it and that’s enough, ( Read more... )

A day late.

Drawn while listening to Kobra and the Lotus’ album “High Priestess” at high volume.

Originally published at Egypt Urnash. You can comment here or there.

Vectober 3: Pairing. Featuring Ursula’s Biting Pear of Salamancia.

I had a lot of other stuff to do today so this one is simple and stupid. And a dumb pun on the prompt I wrote myself. But it makes me laugh.

Woulda been just under the wire for getting done on the 3rd but Illustrator crashed on me when it was like 75% done and I hadn’t saved it yet ( Read more... )

“Outlines”, I thought. “Outlines.”

What would I draw with the exact opposite of my usual Illustrator style? I didn’t know. Then I went to Morsel for breakfast and read the next story in Michael Swanwick’s collection “The Dog Said Bow-Wow”. The title story is about a couple of conmen in a Dying Earth; Surplus (a dog-man) and Darger (a guy) run a con ( Read more... )

“What will I draw for the first day of Vectober?” I asked myself. I didn’t feel like drawing my own characters. I didn’t feel like drawing some random object or scene. Or like scribbling until something presented itself.

How about… fan art? Fan art for something I’ve been watching in an intensely analytical mode? Yeah, that sounds good. I think I’ ( Read more... )

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