Defendini

I’ve been invited to join the DrawMo! 2008 group blog. A drawing a day for the month of November. Let’s kick it.

A full graphical re-design for this blog is under way, in order to make it a bit cleaner, easier on the eyes, and make it fall in line with my traditionally minimalist gray look for the site (I like the design to get out of the way of the entries as much as possible). The [...]

This is the final iteration of my Little Brother piece. I’ve re-worked the Camera-Head, and added some more detail to its blazer. In the end, as soon as I realized that I was designing a poster (for myself) as opposed to a mass market book cover (for the particular needs of the mass market), I [...]

Here’s an in-progress shot of the block for the relief print I’m working on based on Tobias S. Buckell’s most excellent new novel, Sly Mongoose. It’s changed substantially from the original sketch, mostly because I’ve decided to treat is as a comic-style splash page, and include some of the dialogue from the scene I’m depicting in the space above the figure.

Here’s a progression of that Little Brother sketch I put up a few days ago. This is what happens when I have a weekend to myself. I’ve had lots of fun putting this together, particularly including little easter eggs (hints: run the binary through a translator; check out the ‘maker’s brand’ on the arphid on [...]

New print in the works, here’s a concept sketch, playing around with the layout. It’s inspired by the first chapter of Sly Mongoose, Tobias S. Buckell’s new novel, which can be found here. The book opens with Pepper, the main character, dropping like a stone into the atmosphere of Chilo, with only a handmade heatshield and an armored spacesuit [...]