Lazy Sunday

Bowling for Time Travellers

I had a dream the other night about bumbling time travellers. It was highly entertaining. Mostly it was funny, but there was also this creep professor who wanted the secrets to time travel to use for his own evil ends. He chased around time travellers and cracked their skulls with a white bowling ball. Not the most logical weapon, I know, but it worked pretty well for him!

Character-Building

Been working up a storm of character designs lately, some professionally, and some for personal projects.  Here are a few.  Above is the line-up of a kind of cowboy version of the Labours of Hercules.

 A spritely punk from a personal project.

A moto-girl for a racing game proposal.

And, finally, a (semi-personal?) character design for another game proposal:  It started with the game-play modeled after Snake, and I built the story on top of it.  The furry thing's name is Dash, and he's an alien pilot who steals fuel orbs for his spaceship from these dust mites that work in the mines of his planet. The story was deemed a little too complex by the PTB, which I get, but I made the artist's mistake of falling in love with this guy, so it gave me a little sad when he got rejected.

The Darkside Zodiac 2011 Wall Calendar

Now that the holiday season is officially upon us, it is time to start thinking about buying you and yours a wall calendar for next year.

The gist of the book this calendar was based on is that most astrological guides are far too kind to their subjects.  The Darkside is all about calling out the bad behaviors of the Zodiac, in a humorous (and, might I add, BEAUTIFULLY illustrated) way.  I had a blast working on this, and ever since the publisher sent me my copies, it has tended to come out at parties where we all have a good laugh (and occasional uncomfortable silence) about how close to home some of the descriptions hit.  A gift that keeps on giving, so...

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