These images start in the beginning, and end roughly at present day.
Application of the Scientific Method to Family Management:Informal Observations and Conclusions
This was an extremely fun story to illustrate, a story that I had an idea for right away. Without giving he story away, it is about a mother who is also a mad scientist. There were lots images that stood out. One was this idea of the balancing the everyday housework with science. I mean, the laundry room was right next to the laboratory. So that is what I wanted to bring in, but with more focus on the mad science.
Please read it to get the full idea,but I really thought it was a clever idea. Mad Scientists can still be mothers, and even they have kids that refuse to do their chores. I highly suggest checking it out.
This was an extremely fun story to illustrate, a story that I had an idea for right away. Without giving he story away, it is about a mother who is also a mad scientist. There were lots images that stood out. One was this idea of the balancing the everyday housework with science. I mean, the laundry room was right next to the laboratory. So that is what I wanted to bring in, but with more focus on the mad science.
Please read it to get the full idea,but I really thought it was a clever idea. Mad Scientists can still be mothers, and even they have kids that refuse to do their chores. I highly suggest checking it out.
Guass's Invitation
This was an interesting story that proved really difficult to illustrate. The final version was both time consuming and difficult to get to.
If you follow me on Twitter, you may have heard me talking about how trees are hard to illustrate from a bird's eye view. And how I had something that looked more like a shag carpet than trees. Yes, that was for this illustration. At one point, the strange shape of trees looked much more like a shag carpet.
My problem with this was scale. I knew I wanted to illustrate the strange arrangement of trees that sets the whole story in motion. I was just far to close to really show how big this was. I mean, it was big enough to be seen by martians. Once I zoomed out, it was much easier to get it right.
This was an interesting story that proved really difficult to illustrate. The final version was both time consuming and difficult to get to.
If you follow me on Twitter, you may have heard me talking about how trees are hard to illustrate from a bird's eye view. And how I had something that looked more like a shag carpet than trees. Yes, that was for this illustration. At one point, the strange shape of trees looked much more like a shag carpet.
My problem with this was scale. I knew I wanted to illustrate the strange arrangement of trees that sets the whole story in motion. I was just far to close to really show how big this was. I mean, it was big enough to be seen by martians. Once I zoomed out, it was much easier to get it right.
Notes From A Recent Polar Expedition
This was not any easy one to illustrate. Well. Technically it was easy.There is little easier than drawing a couple circles, a cube, and a tetrahedron with rounded corners. It was hard because it was too easy. It was less me illustrating and more me... creating the image you would find with this story.I wanted the project to be enough, and while a sketch fits the story, it was not something I was comfortable being paid for. So this end image, is a collection of all of the little sketches I did and then scanned.
It is not easy to scan when you cannot see the placement of what you are scanning.
So several tries and much frustration later, this image was complete. In the end, I am really happy with it. I feel like it really fits the story in a way something fancy never could. To me, that's more important than it looking pretty. I want illustrations to fit the story. I'd really suggest reading it to get the full idea.
This was not any easy one to illustrate. Well. Technically it was easy.There is little easier than drawing a couple circles, a cube, and a tetrahedron with rounded corners. It was hard because it was too easy. It was less me illustrating and more me... creating the image you would find with this story.I wanted the project to be enough, and while a sketch fits the story, it was not something I was comfortable being paid for. So this end image, is a collection of all of the little sketches I did and then scanned.
It is not easy to scan when you cannot see the placement of what you are scanning.
So several tries and much frustration later, this image was complete. In the end, I am really happy with it. I feel like it really fits the story in a way something fancy never could. To me, that's more important than it looking pretty. I want illustrations to fit the story. I'd really suggest reading it to get the full idea.
The Rods of Baghdad
I don't really want to say much more about this other than it really blew me away. It is creepy and dark and the right kind of twists. Go and read.
This image eventually came together. It was hard to start, but I knew this was the image I wanted to create. I knew this was the part I wanted to portray.
I don't really want to say much more about this other than it really blew me away. It is creepy and dark and the right kind of twists. Go and read.
This image eventually came together. It was hard to start, but I knew this was the image I wanted to create. I knew this was the part I wanted to portray.
Sorry for the delay in updating, this story relased awhile ago. It was the story for halloween week. Which I loved. It made me very happy to have the freedom to go creepy. So I did. It was difficult in the details, more than anything else.
The story is quirky and fun, bizzare in all the right ways. Check it out.
Added bonus, according to the man behind the curtain for November, the most interesting search terms that brought in sight traffic - “severe face breakouts pics.”
The title of this story tells a lot about the content of the story. Not that is a problem, but it is what it says. Lists of magical beasts, and how well or not they function as military units. It's fun. Not everything is as you would expect.
The art could have been a number of different things, and I started with lots of different options. Dragon stood out, but proved to not work. I thought gollum, because it was different, but I couldn't get it right. So, in the end Wenidgo it was.
This was a fun little story. I knew from the beginning that I wanted to show the scientist and the clone in some sort of mirror image. I thought about a huge group of clones for a bit, but then I figured this worked better. I had done a face not long prior (see mummification) so I wanted to focus on another part of the face. And do something else with it.
A story that touches on alternative drinks for vampires, and how that works. A fun little product info piece.
This is cool story, describing different, essentially alien birds. There is a lot more to it than that, but for those details read the story. I'm very happy with how this one came out. It's one of my favorites.
Earth is saved from destruction, thanks to Chuck. Why did Chuck choose to spare us? Music.
I struggled with the balance between realism and layout here. I wanted it to be clear it was Earth in the background, under threat from a giant asteroid, but the scale in space is way too big. Art won out this time.
When I first read this story, I knew that the image I wanted to create was the first one.
"I strode through the long twilight shadows. My metal feet clanged against the cobbles as I dodged plumes of noxious steam rising from manhole covers and jumped puddles covered with filmy layers of oily sludge..."
This story takes lots of companies and products, and as the title says, shows us the monsters behind the scenes. There were lots of options, but in the end the fey running a natural cosmetics line was too fun of an image to pass up. Business Faerie? Yes!
A portal to candyland is less appealing than it may seem, at least in this telling. Visually, I wanted to contrast the bright colors seen through the portal with the laboratory it was made in.
A story to make the medical professionals in my life cringe - true mad science. Drain blood to the point of lack of conciousness to perform surgery. Or knock them out with a blunt object.
Neither of those images were something I really wanted to draw. Instead, the dreams the patients had seemed like a safer option.
Neither of those images were something I really wanted to draw. Instead, the dreams the patients had seemed like a safer option.
"In almost all cases, these dreams include a long tunnel with a blue light at the end. Occasionally, patients report dreams of meeting previously deceased relatives. "
This story reminds us all that maybe there is a reason there are no more unicorns in the world.
The choice of image was easy, and I will dream of living up to the story's expectation.
The choice of image was easy, and I will dream of living up to the story's expectation.
"When the tiny nub of its horn appeared on an ultrasound scan, it became the most shared digital image of the year. It was a perfectly healthy developing foal, in every way a horse except for its size and its legendary ornament."
