Finally...Fiction

I posted my first short stories from my archive. I'm fairly nervous since I feel like kind of a dork.

I write mostly sfici/ fantasy type stuff with the bone of those stories being about human nature, politics, and government structure.


My aim is to finish my 75% completed book The Unbound and publish. 

Hope you like!

T-Shirts!

 Got my first t-shirt back from the printer and well...it's printed.

I had no idea that the shop I went to didn't specialize in screen prints. They have so many very high quality screen printed shirst hanging in their shop!

Sadly I had to find out after the work was in progress and this is not the first time I've used these people and they never made it clear they could only print at 70 dots per inch (dpi)

I lost a bunch of detail on the design but I know it will print fine at higher resolutions.

What a bummer. They also couldn't print to any scale so the design couldn't scale up to an XL shirt.

Man...

That's OK though there are plenty of printers around and now I know what I'm doing.
Here's how it should look.

Ronnie Ray Gun

The next shirt/character I'm working on I'm calling "Ronnie Ray Gun"

I Think I could get a series out of this character. 

Birds Nests!

Here's some better pics of a nest with the cover. They attach with a couple simple knot/loops, Chinese style.

 A hanging loop is built into the top

...and a tree shot...or rather a bush.

Need Illustration? How about sculptural models? How about both at once?

Look for Bobo and Oni on my Sculpture and Illustration pages!

Here's a two page mock up of a graphic novel. I'm redrawing a couple things for clarity and then will repaint the two pages.

This is proof that you can get a million miles out of a couple simple characters in terms of production!

For now I'll drop these on my Notebook page. I've also got a couple illustrations from the maquettes to clean up and I'll show those as well.

New Pics!

As promised there are some new sculpture pics as well as some completed Bird Nests.

Sculptural Illustration

Here's a shot of two Maquettes I made for a sculptural illustration. Same material I've been working with but with a wire frame. More shots on my sculpture page.

Here is the idea behind this type of illustration.

 You can create a scene from you models...

 ...or you can create new drawings

Bird Nests!

The first batch of bird nests are out the door and I'm really excited that they've been well received.

I worked out a design for a removable cover for cleaning that blends seamlessly into the whole.

I'll post some more pics after I set up a good photo shoot that doesn't involve myself standing there holding one like a dope.

T-Shirts!

I'm still waiting for a test print of the Bear-a-crat T-shirt. After that It's game on and I'll run off a bunch in different sizes for everyone to buy. Not sure about a price yet. That will depend on production costs of course. 

 Of Course I'm available for hire for all your t-shirt design needs, group, business, whatever. I prefer work on stuff that shows everything I can do like the Dire Badger shirt but will work for food as they say. 

Further Update:

I will soon be reshooting some of my work so you all can get a better look. I bought some more photo studio stuff so pics on this site should get a needed improvement real soon.

An illustration update I promised...

The original is on my caricatures page.

It reads darker than I had intended but the tone of the editorial is pretty dark so I think it works.
Also, I finally got the mouse design worked out and the camera angle for the inset now makes sense.

SO, the fiber sculpture factory has opened...

I think I've worked out a design for a cover that can be removed for cleaning on my practical birds nest. The cover blends seamlessly into the whole so it looks pretty good.











...a couple different sizes with varying openings. I think I like the smaller opening better.

FYI, these things set up about as hard as a volleyball. I was tossing around one with some friends so we know for sure they are durable.