From The Archives: The Keeper

This is a character design I developed for a vampire story I was working on in the early 90's.  He was supposed to a druid type, a defender of the "world tree", and a shape changer.  At that time, I was very influenced by the Image comics style, thus the eye tattoo.  I cringe looking at this now, but I'm sure I'll cringe looking back at some of the work I'm doing now.  In the end, It's all just history.

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From the Archives: Howl

An original rough and an edited tighter sketch.  I don't remember the exact time frames on these, but they were placed in my sketchbook amongst other pieces from 1993-1995.  The early years, as it were.  No direct connection to the work of Allen Ginsberg, but I believe the sentiment is the similar.

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From the Archives: Machine Man Vs. Man-Thing

These are a set of sketches I did in preparation for a submission to Marvel Comics of Machine Man Versus  Man-Thing.  These were created during the period between Machine Man's last series, X-51, but before his appearances in Nextwave.  This short plot was an idea of Aaron Stack's return to earth after his time with the Celestials.

Machine Man returns to earth transformed into a spherical construct.  He crashes in the swampland containing the Nexus of all Realities and recognizing his home world, returns to a humanoid form.  He meets a young woman, Selina, who lives in the swamp.  Shortly after the two are attacked by the Man-Thing.  In the end, the true villain is revealed to be D'spayre disguised as the young woman and manipulating the two heroes for some dark purpose.

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From the Archives: Fist of Justice

Here is a quick pose sketch I did some time ago for a Digital Webbing Draw Off featuring the Fist of Justice.

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Wind of the Gods Integration: Withering Stare

Here we have a sketch of the glare of some super villain or perhaps the discovery that the root source of spontaneous combustion is raw indignation.

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Original Wind of the Gods Post.

From the Archives: Male Portraits

Here are a couple of male sketch portraits.  These were either me doodling or background character images.  However, the elf guy has similarities to the main character of a Sci-Fi story I'm working on.

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From the Archives: Modern Female Portrait

A quick sketch portrait.  I believe this may have been a second version of one of the characters from a Noir story I was working on with another writer.

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Wind of the Gods Integration: Those Teeth

This piece is the first of several where I will be addressing adult content.  I want to keep EXP3 open to the general public, so any adult content from Wind of the Gods will not be reposted here, but I will provide a link to the original image.  This particular image is a sketch for a vampire type monster somewhat in the style of 30 Days of Night. 

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Original Wind of the Gods Post.

Wind of the Gods Integration: Him

A character sketch from a werewolf comic I was developing.

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Original Wind of the Gods Post.

From the Archives: Tunnel Sketch

Here we have a quick layout sketch for a  moody subterranean or sewer scene.

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Wind of the Gods Integration: Oceanscape

A sketch of a tumultuous oceanscape reflecting my mood that day.

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Original Wind of the Gods Post.

From the Archives: Apprentice

Character development sketches for a young acolyte in a fantasy story.  He is an assistant to a monk who turns out to be a powerful wizard.  I believe this character and the villain wizard exist in the same world.  It's been awhile and sometimes the stories blur together.

From the Archives: Proud Villainess

This developmental sketch is an unused character portrait from the Thief-centric RPG supplement I worked on at 3am Games.

From the Archives: Wall of Vegetation

From my time at 3am Games, developmental sketches for a magickal monster, the Wall of Vegetation.  I forget exactly what its weakness was, but I know that swords and most sharp weapons were fairly useless against it.  If cut, it would just grow back thicker. 

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From the Archives: Villain Sketch

Here is a sketch for a villain from a fantasy story I was working on some time ago.  I don't have that material in front of me, but I believe we was going to an evil mage masquerading as a sheriff or a swordsman.

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UPDATE 010513:

At Zombie Bites, this piece was Exhumed and reinvestigated with color in December 2013.  Check out the Exhumed image here.