This Sunday once again we will be celebrating the Superb Owl, the best known annual tribute to ornithology and birdwatching. So join us as we pay tribute to this noble nocturnal predator. Ahem. But seriously, while I really haven’t been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I just did my fourth Dune event Tuesday. So here’s last month’s entry. I didn’t have any ideas for a comic this time so I did a pen version of an idea for an up date Illustration of “The Walrus[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well I missed the deadline on the Character Design Challenge again, next time I’m really going have to look up the date next time so I can start at a reasonable time rather than rush it unwittingly after the fact.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For today’s picture, we go near the beginning of Game of Thrones, before Bran wasn’t crippled and things still looked like things were all right for the Starks.
We go from the innocent times at Winterfell to the simmering intrigue of King’s Landing at the Hand’s Tournament. I’m currently in the process of coming up with designs for the cast on the fly and this is the first[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was probably the hardest scene to do so far because all of the information for the scene was actually two pages before the scene itself. Also, I because I couldn’t imagine a puppeteer manipulating a marionette with one hand I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m finally getting to actual popular scenes, from the book, in this case the first appearance of the crypts of winterfell as well as the first time Lyanna Stark is mentioned. The biggest problem with this picture is I had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another iconic scene with Ned and Catelyn in the godswood. This one I found elusive and it took me a few false tries before I got a good composition. I still think I flubbed the perspective a little bit. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The King in the north scene is the one of my favorite in both the show and the book. Regrettably, it was one of the hardest one to figure out. In the show this scene takes place in the ruins[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This illustration showing Tyrion returning to the Inn at the Crossroads, where he sees how his father “rewards” Masha Heddle, the innkeeper, for “letting” Catelyn kidnap him, went extremely well. My main problem with it was overthinking how Tyrion could[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
