From the Archives: Bird Soul

Here's a graphite sketch of bird energy.  I have always been attracted to birds as symbols of freedom.  Birds rise.  I feel like there was something more trying to emerge from within this image that never manifested completely.

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From the Archives: Flower of Release

Here is a sketch done in a transitional style from an older more abstract graphic style moving towards a more representative style.  This is also an exploration of symbolism within both those styles.

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From the Archives: Night is Come (Alternate Ending)

 

Here is Night is Come as it was originally published, with the alternate ending of three added pages.  There was a bit of time between the creation of the two endings leading to a few stylistic differences.

From The Archives: Night is Come (Original Ending)

This set was created a long time ago.  It was self-published in a small ashcan comic with another story, Winter.  This was another attempt on my part to marry poetry and comics...as well as a bit of spiritual philosophy.  I've never felt like I've ever gotten it quite right, but this is the closest I feel I've ever come.  The first two images are some of my favorite things I've ever drawn.

From the Archives: Depths

This one is here obviously for the blue,  but also as representative of the depths I've traveled this past year to get to this moment, swimming through a sea of dark currents.  Another attempt here to unify Sharpie and Prismacolor Pencils.  Not sure of the exact creation date on this one, but I'm pretty sure it was after two other Sharpie / Prismacolor pieces,  Moon Cocoon and Leaden Thoughts.

Recommended Listening:
Lisa Gerrard
Paikea Legend
from Whalerider

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From the Archives: Sly Grin

My original thought with this piece was to create an image like a Green Man, but with a regular man's face.  Originally created for publication in BROS. magazine.  A magazine devoted to the beauty of men with long hair.  I don't believe it is in publication any longer.

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Interior Life From the Archives: The Well

Here is another piece from the Interior Life set.  At the time I drew this, there were several circumstances in my life that were endangering my emotional well being (no pun intended) and creative capacity.  A couple of other things inform this piece as well: 1) I have always had a fascination / fear of tornadoes and 2) rarely do line drawings of tornadoes embrace the chaos and ferocity of the event.  I tried to capture that here.  If I succeeded, I do not know.  That is decided by your eyes.

My goal with all of the Interior Life pieces was to try and capture the essences of my personal myths.  Moments, feelings, thoughts and their impact on me.  I hope that comes across , if not on the surface, then in the symbolic substructure of the pieces.

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Interior Life From The Archives: The Old Blue Man

This is another from the Interior Life set.  I immediately saw this one bathed in blue.  Actually I kind of imagined him as the comet version of Ego the Living Planet from Marvel Comics.  A big blue head melting in the rays of the sun.  I'm going to have to color this one and update later.  I may recreate it using Photoshop because I need to SEE those blue flames / clouds.  My beard may be long enough soon to use as reference as well!

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Update 012714:

Over at Zombie Bites, this piece was presented in Exhumed and reinvestigated with color in January of 2014.  Check out the Exhumed image here.

Interior Life From the Archives: Sunrise

This one is  part of a set of drawings I did where I was trying to turn parts of my interior life into very specific images.  I suppose it's all interior life art work, but these pieces were created specifically with that in mind.  Most were of a darker bent, but this this waxed very poetic.

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From the Archives: Jenna The Ranger

This set of drawings were created while I worked at 3am Games, Inc.  This character was developed as part of a Dungeons and Dragons style adventuring party.  The party was being developed to be present in any drawings in 3am Games supplements.  If there was a scene involving an adventuring party, it was to be this group.  Jenna was the Ranger of the group. 

These drawings were created to act as character studies to be sent to other artists for reference.  There was also brief mention of using the characters in a comic book setting.  The common adventure party in each book was abandoned, but the drawings were done.  I've always had a soft spot for Jenna the Ranger.  Hope you like her too.

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From the Archives: Man in the Moon

Here is an older piece.  I think I may have posted this somewhere else, but for the life of me I cannot find the other post.  I think the other is in color also, but I prefer this version.  My friend Josh and I were discussing how this looks a bit like Alan Moore.  I'm okay with that.  :-)

I've been attracted to the crescent shaped Man in the Moon for some time.  I kind of chalk it up to my attraction to mythological masculine imagery.  The moon is many times assumed to be feminine in nature, but my personal belief is that these energies are beyond gender and express themselves in many ways.  Regardless, this is the image that speaks to my soul.

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