Landed with trouble...

Pilot Prera F + Platinum Carbon ink, J. Herbin Gris Nuage + Pentel Pocket Brush, dilute walnut ink + Niji Water Brush, Sakura Gelly Roll white, Strathmore 300 bristol

This looks to be another story setting; kinda feudal or stratified-collectivist world.  The vehicles are ballistic suborbital long-range personal transports, using gravistat refractors (this is total B.S.) and aero/magnetodynamic force fields.  They fall upward, arcing back down through a special gravity field that only interacts with a specific device in the vehicle.  In effect, the special gravity field is like having the center of the planet wherever it's needed, about 200km up, to yo-yo up and down like a rock dropped down a hole through the planet.  When they come back down, they decelerate until the device is turned off.  Landing is achieved by dialing down the special gravity refractor's attunement, which can allow anything from reducing weight for ground handling, to a steady hover, to active terrain-following in horizontal movement (this is only possible with highly sophisticated and expensive craft).

Nearer The Gall than this, stone no longer grows.

The fossil laboratories hold vigil where stone sleeps.

One Year

Jean Giraud and his ever-living muse/creator persona Moebius parted ways one year ago today.  Giraud was 73 years old.  A tiny, spontaneous tribute...

Glasprites live in this rock...

...all capering and scampering amongst the pocket gardens from which they emerge.

Emerald City Comic Con!

I'll be at ECCC this weekend along with a bunch of friends at 'Artists of Sketchwich'-Booth 708!
I don't have anything super new to peddle this year, just a very small stack of my first two sketchbooks.  I'm considering not even selling them, but rather using them as special gifts for art-loving people who hang around and get all cozy at our booth.  Sketchwich folks are super chill and mostly just go to have fun.  Instead of putting together a new book, I was lazy, and now I'll have to draw and paint all during the con to amuse passersby and not to look like a useless layabout.
PS, here's a little drawing to look at.

I have the internet presence of a hibernating tuatara...

I always felt super bad for the Atreides family having to give up that amazing wooden castle on Caladan when they moved to Arrakis.  I'm borrowing a little of that here, if nobody minds.  There's also a fair bit of the old Olla Podrida craft mall in Dallas, which was a cave of wonders made out of old wooden aircraft hangars.

This is all the usual inks and such on Strathmore 400-series Toned Gray paper, plus a bit of OpenCanvas on the interiors.

Gotta keep it up, no more hiding... for a while

Here's just a little ol' page of doodley fun with water-soluble inks and little wet brushes.

Staggering back to where people are...

Mountains of stuff, sketchbooks filled, but I'm only gonna post this one little doodley page I colored for now.
TWSBI Micarta EF putting down Platinum Carbon Black ink on Strathmore Drawing 400, Opencanvas 5.5 for colors.

Oh synapsid!

Bustin' out the watercolors on a couple of synapsids, let's say palaeohatteria (with a too-wimpy tail) on top, and haptodus, except leucistic (basically half-assed albinism). Mostly just feeling out my materials and playing with skin textures, so anatomy is rather off here and there.