Dark Energy

Been busy moving across the country. But I hope to start adding more to my blog now that I'm nearly settled. As an easy re-introduction, here's a card I designed for my upcoming God Plays Dice game -- a game where you get to manipulate the Big Bang.

Banana Spider

I've been working on multiple projects -- a sci-fi crime book, a fantasy novella, and then there's a third draft of a book waiting for me to get back to, and on and on and on. But at moment I'd like to tell you about a side, side project. I've designed another game, but before I put it out, this time I want to add more of personal artistic touch to the thing. I can't tell you much about the game yet, but there are a lot of spiders are involved, and so, when I'm able, I sit down and draw another spider.

I have three down and about 15 to go. Here's my latest:

Other spiders (and artwork) can be found here.
My self-published games are here.

deviantart contest

The very cool deviant.art site is having an art contest at the moment, and here's my submission. Though I'm in the digital realm, I'm liking keeping my brush strokes obvious. One, I like the way it looks. Two, when I think to myself, "If I spend another painstaking 15 hours on this painting I can remove all trace of brush strokes," I inevitably tell myself, "Naaaaaah."

My gallery of deviantart can be found here.

Just finished a beetle. Getting more proficient with my drawing tablet. My ultimate goal will be to make some promo-illustrations for up-coming books and stories, and to create are for new games I design and to re-skin old games I've already made. Also, there's  a secret project I have in mind, details to come.

Above, my first attempt at a portrait on my new Wacom drawing tablet. This is of Amboise Bierce, the author of the The Devil's Dictionary, of which inspired my own Writer's Devil's Dictionary, which is found in my collection Book by Author. I drew freehand in a program called Krita, a great free and open-source Photoshop-style software. It felt a bit weird to draw on a tablet and see the results on a distant screen, but I'm liking going digital.

And below, a landscape with no particular relationship to any of my writing, except, I guess, it's possible there's a nice bit of woodland depicted somewhere in one of my books. Yeah, that's the ticket.