I’ll be participating in FanX in Salt Lake City this Thursday through Saturday.  Here are my panels: When Where What  With Whom Thursday 7pm 151A Art! Where to Start? How to get from doodling to sketching and from there to compositions. We all start somewhere and most of the time don’t have any direction on…

So the biggest related news this week is that I’m not posting my sketches of the day to Facebook anymore. I’ve been getting progressively more irritated with the “All Your Face Are Belong To Us” mentality there, and the final straw was when it was discovered that you couldn’t post a link to an essay…

Here are the last two convention sketches I have around (offered for sale on my Etsy page): …and the rest of the week was content from my sketchbook:

The Relic (1997) – I have not read the novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child that this movie was based on, but I’m familiar enough with Preston & Child’s work to know that they characteristically include a veneer of plausibility to even the most outlandish premises (usually by meticulous, almost numbing research details —…

As with many people, I’m looking for reasons for the proliferation of mass shootings.  Not scapegoats, mind; there is nothing to gain by blaming Trump’s rhetoric or guns or video games, since even just the shootings over this past week defy any correlation with those easy answers. (And anyone who says, “We must do something”…

Again, one sketch came from my sketchbook… …And the rest were convention sketches that I’ve thrown up for sale on my Etsy page. Feel free to mosey over there to see what’s still available.