creeping in the eaves

like a rose, all thorns and leaves.

drawings on the way

believe it, or nay.

Preview, Potatoes

preview...

...potatoes

A new post, it has been a little while longer than I would have liked..

I haven't taken enough time in the past months to do any observational work... this is a step in that direction, though not quite where it should be. Skulls on loan from the collection of Mark Horst, followed by some notes from biology class.

Belated Valentines - v1.0

So there you have it...

I'm considering this a sketch, or version (1.0) because I can see, now that it is finished, the things that need to change in order to make a really strong image of this concept. I'll have to do something about the poorly considered designs in the lower third, perhaps accentuate the gore just a little bit and in the most elegant manner possible, of course. Most importantly, and I didn't see this until I had begun inking, the image here contradicts the saying "head over heels", as his heels are, in fact over his head. I will be sure the correct this in the next image by displaying his severed head* in mid-fall somewhere below his knees and, indeed, over his heels.

Also, the colors aren't really at all what I want them to be, so I'll take another shot at that as well.

*St. Valentine became a martyr upon his beheading.

Mumbling Mirrors

This is all I have for now. I forget how to draw.

Gallery Opening -

Feb. 5th marks the opening night of a gallery showing of Alpha Disastra, my illustrative alphabet series... the show will be held for the month of February at Chestnut House in the Hager Arcade Building, next to Central Market in Lancaster. The address is 25 W. King Street, Lancaster PA 17603.