Memento Mori, buddy.

I recently made a cover illustration for the Story Collider online magazine. The subject was death. Did you know that when you do a Google image search for "deadly nightshade," most of the flowers that come up are actually woody nightshade? Because I sure didn't! Fortunately, that's one lesson I walked away with after art school. Always double-check your photo reference, because someone out there is going to know the difference.

Castle on the Mountain

A concept drawing of a fantasy world. My friends and I went camping in Maine this summer at the foot of Mt. Katahdin, and this is loosely based on the view we had from our campsite. Also inspired by the work of Hiroshi Yoshida. That guy is awesome.

That castle at the top of the mountain must be huge. Almost the size of an entire city. It was built by an immortal hermit because he had nothing better to do for a couple thousand years. Then people from the foot of the mountain started moving up the mountain to be closer to this amazing castle that seemed to be springing up on its own, but their presence there drove the immortal man away. He only wanted to toil in solitude. No one lives there anymore, because it is so difficult to get water up there.

Constellation: Lepus

Hey everyone!

It's been a little while, but I promise this post will make up for all that lost time! I was working on this 12-page comic in what free time I had last month. Here's three pages of action out of the middle. I titled it "Constellation: Lepus"

You can read the full 12 pages on my new DeviantART

Lily: Character Sheet

I've been cranking out character sheets for some of my favorite original characters from several different stories I keep on my back burner. This is Lily, from a story that still has a long way to go, but I think she's a really fun character. I want to have her in my portfolio

Grinnat The Jerk

This is the villain from a comic project I'm working on. He's not particularly tough but he's a real jerk.

Science For Princesses

Oh I almost forgot!

I made this paper doll a few weeks ago as an illustration to accompany an article about gender stereotypes in the scientific community. The paper doll actually works, too. The article includes a high resolution file you can print out to cut out the shapes, and dress your own scientist! The illustration appeared in June, but I've had other things on my mind and forgot to tell you about it. Whoops!
You can read the article on the Story Collider Magazine's website. The article is called "Science For Princesses."

Concept Art: Skycastle Moebius

A bit of concept art for you. Things in space always have such a utilitarian appearance. All geometric shapes and exposed piping. Bo-o-o-o-oring. Buildings on Earth have been made with fancy details all over their facades for centuries. Why doesn't anyone ever put relief sculpture on a fuselage?

I was looking through the works of Jean Giraud, known by the pen name  "Moebius" in the sci fi world, and I was inspired to design this city in space. The residential central dome houses roughly the population of New York City, though majority of the business is done in the head. Life support is all housed in the nude at the ventral end of the station, but of course since the designers valued form over function, there are numerous bottlenecks and design flaws. It really isn't very efficient, but boy is life there lavish.