...more.

I was doodling a bit and came up with an idea for a weary hero narrative...thing. The hero who is tired from his trials and travels, but who knows he has this one more task...or something lame like that. The problem I am running into is that my antagonist is lame. Just...not doing it for me. I think deciding on the setting will help(I am leaning toward an overgrown, mossy, dark, mirkwood-esque dealy), but I think I am going to go the more "force of nature" route and make the creature itself overgrown and a dangerous and fantastical element of the forest itself. i tried it as just a simple troll type idea and it is very hum drum. I used some vellum and overlayed some horns etc and it's just too...balor.

anyone?

I haven't really been doing much beyond sketching a bit here and there. Projects haven't exactly been slapping in the face so to speak. I have a few screenprints which will be in a limited pressing, but they won't be coming into fruition for a while. Disappointing I know. So, in place of anything better, here are a few selected sketches from my Moleskine.

Altair
Sam "convinced" me to buy Assassin's Creed. By "convinced" I really mean, she mentioned it, and I am a sucker for pretty games. I became a bit addicted and now have to be disappointed that I have to wait around for pt 2 and 3 since I've finished.

Starbucks Portraits

Random sketches

"The Toreador"
I was looking through one of Sam's "Through the lens" books of Ntnl Geographic photos and there was an intense Toreador. I decided to turn it into an illustrator image, this is the sketch for that.