Oneironauts

Envisioned with a fantasmagorical cathedral like backdrop, these two Oneironauts (a kind of traveller of lucid dreams) was an idea that really needs to be fully realized at some point, even though this has been in this state for years now.

Pencil, pen & ink, rapidograph.

Toth and Tothered

So Alex Toth is one of these guys I always should have paid far more attention to when I was younger, since he was such an influence on artists I was very into, such as Mike Mignola and Dave Mazzuchelli. I am making up for lost time.

There is a great use of blacks and a general economy of line. His workstands up well decades after the fact, and thankfully he is still roaming the earth, and I never until recently (just now when I looked it up in wikipedia) knew he did design work for cartoons like Spaceghost and Jonny Quest.

Moma...Mo Mo Mo Mo Mo-ho-ma...

...ok, none of you people is probably old enough to remember the Kink's song I misapropriated for the subject. Shut up.

No pic update, but I do provide a link to the SF MOMA podcasts, which is holding a Chuck Close exhibit and all manner of other neat stuffs.

Put something healthful and interesting on your iPod instead of the latest idiot noise from Yellowcard, Mariah Carey or whatever other boring dreck that passes for mass pop culture.

Harbingers of doom...

This was eventually brought into the assets of Rekonstruction, but originially languishing in one of my sketchbooks long before as a possible version of the DC heroine, Harbinger.

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I have no idea where some of this stuff comes from. Yes, he has chimp feet.

Welcome to what happens when in a deeply boring course session.

Rekonstruction 02.20.06

This is the first thing I drew once Damage Studios moved into their office space on 2nd and Townsend in SOMA. A fantastic office space run by an utterly degenerate and incompetant office management group, that was an otherwise place to work.

Rekonstruction in some ways started here.

I did not even have most of my supplies moved in or my equipment set up, but I too the art table we picked up at Ikea and set out to give it a dry run.

I'm a little teapot....

A somewhat half-baked variation of what ended up becoming this.

Portuguese Man Of War Man

I rarely delve into horror or fantasy stuff, as I really have little aptitude with it. But I had a small notebook (not sketchbook, this thing had notes from my old Arabic and Brazilian History courses) and I had been having a bit of a rough go that week and started drawing a hand and then I kind of went into an anatomical studyand then detoured into "let's give the guy an arm made of tentacles similar to an octopus or the tendrils from a Portuguese Man of War...and then came the fin/tail...and then I got bored of it and stopped.

Something more conceptualized might have made an interesting mob for the Rekonstruction game in the ocean areas.

You know when I draw upon the page...

...I draw correct.

Woo Ha.

Got you all in check.

This is a messed up iteration of this.

B4d D0od

I think this started as an attempt to doodle the instructor of the class I was in, but eventually turned into my newest villian: B4D Do0d.

His special power is always being able to have a bright overhead light source so as to make his facial expressions shadowed in a menacing fashion.

Oh Noes!

This was one of the first chickenscratch doodles I put into my newest black bound sketchbook. I probably should add like 30 seconds of ink to it to see what happens. I initially just wanted an excuse to use a graphite pencil I had also just bought at the time. I only in the last few years really started using regular pencils and thinker lead implements after years and years of strictly being into clutch pencils.

Maybe I will.