Preview: Battle of the Ironclads

Winford Greatspeed, the captain of the space-faring steam ship CSS Merrimack.

This project is proving to be quite difficult, especially getting a realistic 3D perspective on the steamships. Damn ellipses!!

Preview: The Battle of the Ironclads

Here's a small corner of my current drawing project. I'm working on completing a piece for ZaPow's Steampunk Carnival opening next month.

This is Captain Brigham Carbide of the U.S.S. Monitor, an ironclad steamship that can navigate space. The full illustration will show two spaceships inspired by civil war era steam boats in a battle just outside of Jupiter's orbit. Both captains' portraits will be in the lower corners of the illustration, with a brief narration of the events in the middle. I'll post the opposing captain of the C.S.S. Merrimack later in the week.

Cryptozoology Coloring Book- Bigfoot Redux

Good news: I can feel my confidence with simple ink drawings increasing with every Cryptid page I make. The drawback to this is as I progress through the book, some of the earlier pages just don’t fit with the style of the newer pages. In this case, the Bigfoot (the second page I finished) just felt too cartoony.

 You can check out the older version here.

Cryptozoology Coloring Book- Jersey Devil

My first drawing of 2013. I’m excited to be back on schedule after travelling back to Chicago for the holidays. I hope to crank the rest of these out and have a finished book sometime in Spring. A lot of drawings of this creature show it with goat features, but I decided to reimagine it as a giant bat about the size of an eagle, capable of perching like a bird and walking on its hind legs. The possum in the foreground is meant to give scale to the devils.