Super Stario Wars 2

Lots of 80s nostalgia going on here.

Gillian Flynn Books

I finished reading Sharp Objects over the weekend. Enough said.

Picking Up The Pieces

Inspired by Star Wars: Aftermath by Chuck Wendig. How did the Jawas end up the Mandalorian armor?

A is for Aye-aye

I've decided to work on another ABCs of Under-Appreciated Animals.  I did something like this about five years ago, and had quite a lot of fun with it

Skips

From Regular Show.

Wood Duck

I saw this fella in Boise, ID a few years ago. I took a picture, but wasn't happy with the framing (a big branch was in the way). Works well for a digital painting reference though!

Great Blue Heron

A big blue that I photographed earlier today at Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge (near Olympia, WA).

Typically I don't upload my photos on here, but I quite like how this one turned out.

Wiggly Charlie

From the Grim Reaper series by Christopher Moore (A Dirty Job, and Secondhand Souls). He's one of the Squirrel People which Moore based off of of the sculptural assemblage works done by Monique Motil.

This one likes cheese. And has a specific piece of anatomy that he uses to tie his wizard robe shut.

There's really no way to properly describe the character, but he's hilarious.

Many thanks to my wife for doing the inking on this one.

Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

The Bundy Bunch reminds me of a 10 year old who spends the afternoon building a snow fort, complete with arsenal of snowballs, then sits there disappointed until dusk because nobody wants to play.

It's just like that, only way more ignorant and belligerent.

Spawned Salmon

A spawned-out coho carcass that I saw last year while working.

Mountain Goats

Mountain goat and kid. Just felt like drawing some wintery type animals.

Toxic Venom

My own version of Venom. I don't know why, I just got it in my head that I really needed to draw him this weekend.

Unfortunately I can never figure out how to make the colors look right with low light illustrations, so this turned out a bit different from how I intended. Such is life.

Bat Boy

An 80s double exposure portrait of Bat Boy from the Weekly World News. Classy.

Baby Thrawn Gets a Participation Award

What drives an evil genius to use a species' own art as a means to destroy them? Participation awards.

More Star Wars fanart.

If you don't get the reference, don't fret. It just means you had a life in high school.

Yule Cat

This year to celebrate the season, I decided to draw the Yule Cat of Icelandic folklore. The Yule Cat is a huge feline that prowls the frozen countryside during the Christmas season, looking for people who aren't wearing new clothes. If their clothes are old and shabby, the Yule Cat eats them.

Merry Christmas!

Talon Karrde - Thrawn Triology

Talon Karrde and one of his pet Vornskr from the Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn.

In preparation for The Force Awakens I've been rereading the Thrawn Trilogy to get back in the Star Wars spirit. To anyone that hasn't read them, they are super good. I do object to how some of the characters have been subsequently portrayed in comics, character guides, etc though. Specifically I really don't like the way that Talon Karrde has been drawn in the comics. It doesn't match with his description in the book at all, and he looks really scuzzy. So this is my version of the character.

Greedo's End

Felt like drawing some more Star Wars stuff.

This is a slight alteration of a short story from "Tales of Mos Eisley Cantina" in which Greedo's blasted remains are made into a liquor by Wuher - the Cantina bartender. Poor Greedo.

Ben Carson Wikipedia

"God originally placed the Statue of Liberty at Plymouth Rock where it welcomed the first people to North America. Some 'scientists' claim to have photographs of the statue under construction, but those images actually document the relocation of the Statue of Liberty to Staten Island." - Ben Carson Wikipedia

Dooneese Maharelle

"A do doo do doo do doo do."

One of my all time favorite SNL characters - Kristen Wiig as Dooneese Maharelle.

If you all don't know what I'm talking about, check it out - http://ift.tt/1kU2ONu;

Wampa

A Wampa. From Hoth.

The thing I really like about the Wampa is there isn't really a set canonical design for it. He's a very Hitchcockian monster - never really fully revealed. Sure there was that really awkwardly edited sequence from the Empire special edition, but everybody just carried on doing their own designs for it afterward.