These are a few preliminary sketches of a spaceship exiting a planet’s atmosphere for the final illustration of my book Smoog and the Eye of the Trillagryyn (2005). As the final illustration in the book, it was an important one, and I wanted it to depict both a departure from one story and the beginning of a new adventure. […]

1992: Bad Attitude (I really did look like that!) (Some of you remember!)

        This is another sketch I found in one of my 1992 journals. I was seated outside the Foreman Cabin in Montana, facing the impressive Sawtooth Mountains in Glacier National Park. Shirtless and carefree, I drank a beer and smoked cigarettes while composing poems inspired by my surroundings. This was the summer that Jason and […]

      Found this in one of my many volumes of journals. 1992

     My favorite stories have good villains. For me, the villains are often the most enjoyable characters to create for a story. My villains tend to be a little over the top, cunning, powerful, and often ridiculous. Here is a character from Smoog and the Eye of the Trillagryyn (2005), named Darrington. He is the […]

     I spent a year in Germany (West Germany at the time) outside of Hamburg as an exchange student. I had no background in the language at all when I went, but after about six months I started feeling pretty comfortable with the language. Here’s a drawing I did of my bedroom in Germany, with […]