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A and K. Digital, 2013.

Mon, 13 May 2013 04:02:34 -0700

A and K. Digital, 2013.

K and Mr. Jumps. Digital, 2013.

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:21:00 -0700

K and Mr. Jumps. Digital, 2013.

Conopoly 2a. Digital, 2013. The companion piece to Conopoly 1....

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 23:52:58 -0700

Conopoly 2a. Digital, 2013.

The companion piece to Conopoly 1. This is an alternate, stripped-down version which appeals to my personal tastes.

Conopoly 1, Pen & Ink plus digital colour, 2013. Something I...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 23:42:00 -0700

Conopoly 1, Pen & Ink plus digital colour, 2013.

Something I put together for Volt 9000’s latest album, Conopoly. You can get it here when it comes out (should be around June 4th). I’ve done work twice before for the group, and each time Cory Gorski’s given me an extremely wide creative berth, and has handled my snail-like art production pace very kindly. Good bunch of guys.

Also, the album’s fantastic. I still haven’t heard the last two tracks, but the first 4/5ths are top-notch. Had “Game of Drones” stuck in my head for about a week.

D33: Figure/materials study. Digital, 2013. Prints for sale on...

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:52:44 -0800

D33: Figure/materials study. Digital, 2013.

Prints for sale on deviantArt: http://laemeur.deviantart.com/art/D33-357559308

Tyrannosaurus Roget. Ink/digital, 2013. The sun-glassed dino was...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 08:40:00 -0800

Tyrannosaurus Roget. Ink/digital, 2013.

The sun-glassed dino was rejected by a client, but I thought he was pretty cute, so I added some punny text and made this of him.

Prints for sale on deviantArt: http://laemeur.deviantart.com/art/Tyrannosaurus-Roget-357557353

Locked Car. Ink on Paper & Digital, 2013. For those of you...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:51:17 -0800

Locked Car. Ink on Paper & Digital, 2013.

For those of you that haven’t heard, it’s illegal again in the United States to independently unlock new cellular phones from their providers. That’s the state of software copyright laws nowadays — stick some code in a device, tell the user that their use of the device constitutes consent to your licensing terms, and you can dictate what they’re allowed to do and not allowed to do with the device from then on. Brilliant!

Green Lantern vs. Wildfire. Digital, 2013. This is for Jim...

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:36:00 -0800

Green Lantern vs. Wildfire. Digital, 2013.

This is for Jim Shelley’s blog, Flashback Universe. Last year he used an old Adam Strange drawing of mine to mock-up a cover for a Strange Adventures 100-Page Super Spectacular. This month he commissioned a new piece to do the same treatment on, and this is how it turned out. A good bit of fun. I always like having legitimate reasons (aside from personal taste) to restrict my colour choices to the classic 48-colour American comics palette.

Ted Nelson in 4 bits. Digital, 2013. Not the most flattering...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:52:00 -0800

Ted Nelson in 4 bits. Digital, 2013.

Not the most flattering portrait, but I thought it came out interestingly. Go buy his book. Somebody please give him ten million dollars so he can get a working Xanadu® system/operation running before he’s too old to enjoy it. And me. Do it for me, too.

K, D1N. Graphite, 2013. Doodled a few faces today, just to get...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:32:12 -0800

K, D1N. Graphite, 2013.

Doodled a few faces today, just to get the wrist woken-up again.

This particular face is always a favourite of mine to try.

Crime and Punishment. Pen and ink, 2013. I AM SO FUNNY. Buy a...

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:29:00 -0800

Crime and Punishment. Pen and ink, 2013.

I AM SO FUNNY.

Buy a print! —> http://www.deviantart.com/print/31628638/

Aimlessly tooling around with synthesizers; a pastime in which I...

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:32:58 -0800

Aimlessly tooling around with synthesizers; a pastime in which I haven’t indulged in far too long a time. Killoran and I started a YouTube channel, and she asked that I come up with a very short dittye (archaic spelling, it’s cool) for our intro music. The intro ditty came out to a whopping three seconds in length, but I spent hours plugging modules and turning (virtual) knobs and thoroughly enjoying myself getting there. These are a few of the “getting there” textures I cooked-up in StudioFactory.

With Apologies to Gordon Bell. Digital, 2012. Been watching a...

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:34:00 -0800

With Apologies to Gordon Bell. Digital, 2012.

Been watching a nice little documentary from 1996 on early computer history, hosted by Gordon Bell. Don’t know why, but I felt compelled to draw something like his face — using the word “like” somewhat broadly.

CCE. Digital, 2012. Sometimes I just free-sketch because I feel...

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:01:30 -0800

CCE. Digital, 2012.

Sometimes I just free-sketch because I feel like I need to. And then it turns out like this and I’m reminded why I don’t enjoy sketching aimlessly.

A True Picture of a Woman Pict. Digital drawing, 2012. This...

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 01:43:00 -0800

A True Picture of a Woman Pict. Digital drawing, 2012.

This drawing is for my wife, whose extraction traces into the mist-veiled marshes of Pictland, and who thought it would be a hoot to have a picture of herself cast as a sort-of mythic warrior princess. For an example, she showed me a hand-coloured engraving by Theodor de Bry which was published in 1590 in an illustrated edition of A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, by Thomas Heriot. I thought the engraving was marvelous, and wanted straight away to do an homage to it. De Bry’s engravings were based on a number of watercolours by John White, whose vision of the ancient Picts is about 5% history, and 95% imagination — but what a fun fabrication he came up with! While my version of his “true picture” is still complete fantasy, I did do away with White’s griffon-heads and star-pasties and instead tattooed my model with a mixture of genuine Pictish symbols, iron-age Celtic ornament, and some Scythian bits and bobs.

De Bry’s engraving can be seen here: http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/debry/id/45

John White’s watercolour is here: http://i2.a-r.me/pU9

UAKARI. Digital drawing, 2012. A few years ago I was doing a lot...

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:26:54 -0800

UAKARI. Digital drawing, 2012.

A few years ago I was doing a lot of ActionScript programming and considering going into the online game business. I had no illusions about making a career of it, it was just something I thought I might like to do as a hobby. I never took it any further than programming a derivative of Asteroids (the ne plus ultra of early video games, IMO). I did, however, come up with a company name and logo when, for one reason or another, I was looking at pictures of uakari monkeys one day and thought, hey, uakari rhymes with Atari, and George Opperman’s “Fuji” logo goes right on that platyrrhine nose! Delighted as I was with the concept, I shelved it after drafting the logo, knowing that I could never use it as an actual commercial logo — it’s bad enough embedding someone else’s logo inside your own, but when that someone else happens to be one of the most litigious companies in the gaming industry, you’re going nowhere fast. I forgot about all this until yesterday when I saw my logo draft on my hard disk and felt compelled to completely redraw it. This is the re-draw; since I’d given-up on the idea of it being a logo graphic, I let myself do something much more illustrative this time around.

Okay, sorry… but... Digital drawing, 2012. Another...

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:34:00 -0800

Okay, sorry… but... Digital drawing, 2012.

Another commission for Ricardo Mo’s comic, Propeller.

Amazon. Graphite/digital, 2012 I was noodling around yesterday...

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:54:00 -0800

Amazon. Graphite/digital, 2012

I was noodling around yesterday with the intention of doing a Red Sonja sort of thing, but it started going all Greek on me, so I just went with it. I recall reading at least one legendary account that not only was the right breast removed, but that it was burned off. Tuff gals, them Amazons.

Heracles. Ink and graphite, 2012. Something that I experiment...

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 08:09:00 -0800

Heracles. Ink and graphite, 2012.

Something that I experiment with every once in a while is a fairly open ink drawing toned with graphite, like this. I was looking at some Shinkiro drawings today (let Tumblr be your guide), and he uses a similar technique on a lot of his work: clean black contour line with some beautifully contained tonal stuff. I’ve loved his work for years; the sobriety, discipline, conscientiousness and solidity… really, really great. Anyhow, looking at him made me want to open a leaf in the ol’ sketchbook and experiment a little.

Will Keith: Weapons Master. Digital drawing, 2012. I would call...

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 13:39:29 -0800

Will Keith: Weapons Master. Digital drawing, 2012.

I would call him no less than a real-life action hero for the 21st century, this Will Keith of New Jersey. Indeed, through his YouTube channel I have stolen a glimpse into the occult goings-on of the backyard samurai set, and seen in its face, in its very eyes, the innate martial energies of man and the destruction those energies wreak upon the refuse of our great societal organism — in particular it’s beverage vessels. In the immortal words of the wise GooSmurf, bottles beware.

Long live Will Keith; may his blade not chip, nor shatter.

(Prints available here.)