“Yeah, I know I’m ugly… I said to a bartender, ‘Make me a zombie.’ He said ‘God beat me to it.’” - Rodney Dangerfield
pen and ink, 3/25/08

A portion of one of the spot illustrations I’ve been working on lately. I’m still working out some technical issues, such as how big to work, what happens to the lines when you reduce, how to scan the drawings.

“I think no one has it,” said the Professor as he set fire to the scroll.
pen and ink on bristol, 03/21/08
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This illustration is from a scene in the “Horror on the Orient Express” audio game from Yog-Sothoth.com, a podcast of a “Call of Cthulhu” RPG campaign set in Europe in 1925. This scene is from episode #11, I believe.

I’ll be working in pen and ink like this for a new project, and I couldn’t be happier. I love this stuff; the works of Joseph Clement Coll, Gary Gianni, Michael Kaluta and Berni Wrightson have been an inspiration to me lately. If you feel like feedbacking me, if you’ve got the notion …

(… I second that emotion.)

Streets of “Paris”, 03/21/08

They’re supposed to be in Paris, anyway. It’s actually Boston, and that’s America’s oldest restaurant (or so it is said,) on the left. I put a “Le” in the name so you’d think it was Paris. Smrt.

Inks of Old Books, 3/19/08

In honor of my dear old Dad, a great appreciator of books both old and new, whose birthday is today, I post this panel of books.

I photographed these books at Ed’s workplace where they have a small room of ancient books of all colors and sizes. What was that really old book again, Ed?

Books

Panel from Page 4, 03/17/08

Page 4 of what? Can’t say because I haven’t thunk it all out yet. For now, pretend he’s a leprechaun. Make your St. Patrick’s day merry and bright.

Now, I sentence ye to the wearin’ of the green shoes:

Student and Violinist, ink on watercolor paper, 3/13/08

My next project has to do with old ghost stories, so I’m trying an ink style that will hopefully produce a look of spooky Noir.