Rare Bits

It’s that time of year again. Tax season. Today, thanks to the down pour of snow and rain, Kristin tackled our taxes. It’s never a fun experience, but she beat them in record time! Thank goodness she can handle that stuff better than me. Here’s a little sketch I did of my emotions through the [...]

It races. It races through us so completely that we cannot understand the damage. Like cast-off electrons radiating; cancerous and devastating, time permeates every cell with its poison.

Merrylander sat in the middle of the Vestibule, motionless. Around her one hundred and twenty-three Merrylanders puttered about; performing chores and duties with singular determination. A frail Merrylander [...]

Well, it’s been one of those few weeks where it’s just one thing after another. I am sick now, as well as super busy with awesome illustration stuff I can’t show you yet.
I did this little sketch to let you all how it feels to be me right now. I wish I had a little [...]

Let’s go gang, let’s jump on the evolution bus and party until we can see our individual electrons! February 12th (yesterday) was the anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth back in 1809. In short, Darwin traveled the Galapagos Islands among others aboard the Beagle for five years and observed nature. Working through his research on the [...]

He doesn’t think it has followed him. Sometimes, when the gasses in the cathode tubes flicker, the light does sometimes come perilously close to that terrible shade. But not quite, he tells himself. Not quite.
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Archibald Lark was a brute of a man. Not particularly tall, mind you, nor particularly muscular, but there was [...]

NOTE: This is a long-ish post, PLEASE read the awesome stuff below it first if you haven’t already.
This list will seem very unorthodox to some folks, and make perfect sense to others. I’ve always loved the movie and book High Fidelity, specifically the notion that albums can be sorted many different ways, not just alphabetically, [...]

For fun I am mapping trends in books and movies. We are currently ending werewolves and I’ve projected the next few hot topics. It is all cyclical so get ready for that vamp crazy of 2045! And as you can see from the watercolor below, I’m no stranger to loving these trends!
Swamp Monsters—>Aliens—>Mummies—>Zombies—>Pirates—>Wizards—>Vampires—>Werewolves—>Ghosts—>DIY Monsters—>Digidragons—>Multicorns—>Haunted Instruments—> [...]

Even though it is hump day, I have been very busy with several projects piled up at once. Seems that as an illustrator it’s either: a) “Oh my Lord I don’t have any paying work. How will I pay the bills” or b) “Oh my Lord, I have too much paying work. How will I [...]

To tell the truth, I’m a bit of a foodie. Which means to me that I eat anything, everything and it shows a bit in my subcutaneous fat. The other night I made Grilled Cheese with Butternut Squash and Caramelized Onions while my dear Nomi Kane made Bridge Club drinks for myself and Beth Hetland. [...]

One of my favorite blogs, the SF-themed io9.com, has an interesting article on writing short fiction. As a writer and an artist I found this to be a very useful jolt to my creative process.
3) Start crude, and then work on refining When I first tried writing a short story a week, I found [...]