I drawing I started (literally) years ago that I finished last month as a little brain-changer before diving into my next big illustration project. It features Elo, the hero of Professor Odd, bearing her weapon of choice: a portable temporal field manipulator AKA the Time Gun. It’s ended up as the artwork for this year’s …
Back in February my Wonderful Mother commissioned me to paint a portrait of my brother with his cat, Boss. The reference picture she supplied had his other cat, Mook (Boss’s brother!) just out of frame… so I utilized my Creative Powers and made it a portrait of the three of them. This was my first …
After five years in this studio I finally did what I’ve always wanted to do and set up an oil painting station. My goal is to do at least one painting a month, both for practice and as a way to keep my spirits up in the coming months of cold and dark. And the …
Last month I bid farewell to my dear and beloved assistant, companion, and all-around heart-healer, Aether the cat. Aether was first discovered, along with his sister Nyx and brother Chaos, as kittens in the shed behind my parents’ house. My brother and I tamed them and adopted them. They were great cats. Aether and Chaos …
I don’t normally share interior illustrations online, but considering the amount of work that went into the ones for Lucena in the House of Madgrin, and how well they came out, and that as the publisher I possess the rights to do so, and that we are living through a global crisis, I figured this …
Rise, like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number! Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you: Ye are many—they are few Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Masque of Anarchy I wanted to do something for Pride. I wanted to do something for Black Lives Matter. So here is a dark …
To close out the year, the decade, and my Planet Horse series, here is Ceres, Queen of the Asteroid Belt. Since I added Pluto (and Charon) last year I felt it would be fitting to pay homage to another important celestial object—and a very important goddess. Like all my Planet Horses this piece was done …
