A Knight Considers

A weary Elgrid wonders why things always happen in threes. And why his hand is so gigantic.

'tis done!

Wanged on its way to the printers by memory stick this afternoon; 50 double page spreads and one glorious cover ( well glorious in that it exists at least ). I am left an empty shell with a cloak of mild depression and a rather nasty throat infection, brung on by the final push. The pages are uplifting and have a life beyond my mind's eye, but the sheer weight of pages and damned file size conspired against getting the character's eyes right. A big mistake to leave these till last...

Doves in Love

The lovey dovey couple from 'The Mallard and The Dove' by Mike Hemingway. Today's a big day - one last push to create all the vector art for this 40 page (first!) illustrated book I've been working on.

Mallard Model Sheet

A bunch of poses for a poem I'm illustrating. I should've created this before sketching out the scenes, but truth is the character design evolved iteratively as I composed the pages, and so I've reverse engineered this model sheet from the completed scenes.

Next time I'll do it properly..

lamb burgers

It's forty minutes since I got out of the shower after the icebath after the run over the Williamsburg bridge & back. I'm on dinner (lamb burgers - thanks for asking), and there's now only 39 minutes to Lost. And there's those really important emails for the new business that I was thinking about all the way back from Manhattan. But no. Not doing the emails. Not grilling the burgers. I'm starting a blog. I blame my 16 month old son, Jack, because he just started one and somewhere along the way to checking out his, I found that I could start mine. Hmm. That'll do. Will I be back? Tune in next sentence.