Tonight I thought of the word “Cathulhu” and I was inspired to create this image. Click on it for a larger version.

Tags: Activity Report, art

About a week ago, at the first annual Austin Stink boardgame party, I played a “getting to know you” type game . Everyone submitted a bunch of situations or things and they were drawn randomly from a hat. Each person had to sort the items from most preferable to least preferable while everyone else tried to guess what order they would put them in.

When it was my turn to sort a batch of weird possibilities, one of Nukes’ entries came up: “Being able to transform into a dinosaur.” I failed to put that as my #1 choice and it sparked a heated debate between us. Nukes said something to the effect of “OMG! Dinosaurs are totally rad!” while I laid out a carefully reasoned argument about the consequences of being a dinosaur/human hybrid freak. Well, maybe he had a good argument as well, but this is MY blog.

As a compromise, I made an image to illustrate how awesome it would be. Click on the thumbnail to see it.

Tags: art

I made this comic for all of my friends, as a gift. I started to write words under the panels, but realized I didn’t need to say anything else.

Click on the image to see the comic.

Tags: art, webcomics

I had almost forgotten about this, but there’s an online gallery of all the art I created for one particular client at http://www.terranovachurch.org/gallery/

It’s hard to believe that I generated that much content, but I guess it adds up over the years.

Tags: art

stavros had an idea for a graphic novel involving a woman with a cybernetic arm. I took one of his photos and worked up this piece as a proof of concept.

CLICK HERE for a larger version.

Tags: art

Ryan let me know that one of my logos appeared in a news story in the Montgomery Advertiser.

Tags: art

Tonight at the Tuesday Night Gamers club, I played a game called St. Petersburg where you buy various cards that either give you more money or more points and only do so during certain rounds. Stavros and I had never played, so we got trounced by Alex and Jay, longtime players. As it turns out, Jay was one of the co-designers of the game, a fact he hadn’t mentioned.

Then I got further schooled in Carcassonne, one of my favorite new games. I had been scoring the roads and cities incorrectly all this time. Jay publishes Carcassonne, so he’d know. He won that game too.

I gave him a portfolio of my artwork. Today I even mocked up a Carcassonne-esque set of tiles and put that in there. Thought it might amuse him. I’m not sure my style is a fit for Rio Grande Games, but we’ll see.

Tags: art, gaming

Sometimes, despite my best intentions, I’ll start work on an image for a client and, rather than creating a useful graphic, art appears on the screen instead.

Tags: art

The three women lived in a slanted camper with one wheel, out by the old baseball field. On certain nights bonfires rose up in right field and small animals would go missing from the neighborhood. On the night the camper burned, Bobby Monroe said he could see faces in the flames, laughing.

Tags: art