Random Pop Culture Portraiture

It's been a while since I dropped in here. So...by way of apology:


Sketched while running a table at the Ottawa Small Press Book Fair yesterday. Not my best, not my worst.

Temporary Substitution

Since my Livejournal's down for what the management's calling "emergency maintenance" - I'm wondering if it's not more dissident-suppression aimed at many of the Russophones in Russia and neighbouring countries, and would be glad of additional info from all credible sources - I'm going to post from here for now.

As a reward for the loyalists who keep dropping in here, here's a rough sketch I've been fiddling with. I may replace it with something better in the days ahead.

And if Disney/Marvel asks me to take it down, I will. Seems fair enough.

Mood Piece

Something that came into mind almost fully-formed...

Local Hero: Urban Design

Official disclaimer time: I'm not an architect. Never been one. Fantasized about it on occasion, though. And when you see the design work by the likes of Anton Furst going into Gotham City for either the first Burton-directed Bat-movie or the comic books, or Tony Harris' work on Opal City in the second Starman series, you might begin to understand why I'd feel that way.

So, when Ian Gould sent me the initial scripts and background material for what's now Local Hero, you might understand another of the lures that got me on board as his artist of record.

I wanted to get right into it, complete with maps. I figured that between assorted graphic design and CAD packages in my collection, I could do a reasonably competent job of it. Not in Rick Sternbach or Eliot Brown's league, obviously, but still competent.

I wish I could recall a particular path of evolution in terms of how the place comes together, but there's no real path at all.

So for the time being I'm going to leave you with a sampling of artwork culled from my sketchbooks. Some of it's going to show up as parts of Shuster, others...for different places, I expect, as Local Hero continues beyond its first arc.

Enjoy.