Sketchbook Page and "The City and the Stars" Cover

 

I bought this 1957 used copy of Arthur C. Clarke's "The City and the Stars". I remember reading it in high school or college and always wanted to get hold of a copy to re-read.  The illustrator of the cover is not given credit. Anyone know who the artist is? Love these old style covers.

WIP-

I'll draw a bunch of detail tomorrow.

I have to get busy on these.

About a month to go before they are all due.

Lotta stuff to do yet.

Did these this morning. Even though I 'signed' them. There may be corrections added on a final pass.

I'll start a new thread. Getting hard to insert them where I want them

The path

Downsizers and movers,

If you owned a letraset catalog from 1989 and a book on paste-up and mechanicals from 1982 would you dump them or keep them as a bit of personal archaeology?

WIP- More EnWorld

Went quick once I started.

Starting is always the tough part.

It is colored drawing

Criterion Fantastic Planet

News about the release

Thought Tom might want it.

Marty Detritus

Sorry I've been M.I.A. so long. Did some life drawing in the class that followed mine. 1 hour pose. Hadn't done the old Ritmo-style tonal drawing in years and years...professor had an interesting practice of turning off all the room lights except for a few dim overhead cans, then blasting light on the model. Made it hard as hell to see, but an interesting way to do values.

Loved this head I did for the class...used a Tombow brushpen. Added some supermodels to make my point about comparative proportions.

I'm not a huge fa of the Tombow brushpen, but it makes such clear marks on the page it seems like the best option for showing the students how I work when drawing in front of the class.

I am keeping my head above water--just. Thankful for the gig. And the students on the whole do seem to be learning. So my conscience is clear.

Done as I watched 7 Faces of Dr Lao

Finished by the time Merlin hit the stage.

Halfway point.

The file the author Jeff Provine gave me me as a starting point.

It helps a lot to have that going on in collaboration.

If someone wants to have their stories illustrated, what do they see. You don't want to disappoint.

A bot Marty liked. I'll eventually gang post all of March of the Robots on my other blog and post the link later.

What I've been working on: Actiongram

Just officially announced this week, here is a nice little overview of this awesome application for HoloLens and the team working on it. I feel so fortunate and honored to be part of this team. Every person working on it is super-brilliant and a lot of fun to work with. The tech is already amazing and will only get better with time. Can't believe I get to work with holograms every day. It is amazing stuff and makes me feel like I'm living in the future.

Something that needs more

I'll go back into this with a bouquet from the internet. More FX. More clean up

Recent Robot- Plus a Tin Man idea

Had the idea of a robot Alien busting out of Tin Man. Something Ranjo could do about 10 times better than me.

Of course the Alien is supposed to molt first.

More EnWorld freelance

This will have a grid around the edges, arrows, role playing notes abut angle -speed.

Flying wizard-female.

Dragon in back

Pencils.
I changed it a bit after seeing it on the blog. Her folded forward leg looks so much better in the rough. I re drew it. The other one was too long and boring, We'll see how many more edits as I photoshop it.

 Color. I'll upload one without the grid bits.

 One thing that makes iteasier to do is have all the masks mad before you start.

Without the grid and type

checking png-transparency

My new work area

In my new digs, Got the bulk of the stuff in today before the rain and need to reorganize it all. Now I've got to get the drawing table and the rest of the collectible crap still at the house and I'll be all moved out.

Did this while I watched Jonah Hex

Jonah Hex was OK. Josh Brolin got you into the character. One problem it had was it tried to tell an Old Wild Wild West story instead of doing something with the strengths that it had.

Eye on Delancy

Google street view filtered and then one of my doodles overlayed onto it.

Delancy St according to the map.

Well it's moving time again

Been over a month since my Dad passed. So much has happened, All the house goods have been claimed, sold or hauled off. All my crap is the only stuff in the house now and I've been working on packing that up for a move to a new apartment about 8 miles from here. Nice place and near lots of shopping and a clean modern area. Got a lease for only 6 months as the house needs to be sold and when that's done I'll get my remaining cut of the estate and can decide if I'll return to San Diego.

This is all so numbing still. 

Tim's Vermeer

Another great movie. It's a few years old, so I'm a little late to this party, but I just watched it and loved every second. Definitely watch it if you haven't seen it.

Edit to add a lecture by Philip Steadman, author of 'Vermeer's Camera' and professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Graduate Studies. Steadman plays a pivotal role in the development of Tim Jenison's theory about Vermeer. This lecture is nice follow-on to the movie, as he explains his own discoveries about Vermeer's work and also goes over Jenison's technique in detail.

Bringing the project along

Leaving it rough.

WIP still

Logo- Hopefully I'm done

Logo design. 

I like the spatter. If they don't like it, I turn off the layer. 

My first attempt was so bad it was criminal. 

Took about 3 hours and was complete crap.

Did the one above after FIRST google searching bakery logos. Duh.

Wanna see the bad one?

Of course you do.

Maybe I had to do this bad one first.

Not really my strength anyway.

This is a Gorham-Montag talent.

I won one

At the Sunday of the Comic Fest I got away from my job at Artist Alley (doing something important, really) to go down to the dealer room. On a low shelf behind a dealer's table I saw the book pictured above in its slipcase. I asked the dealer to look at it. He slid it out of its slipcase and looked at the back cover. Its list price was $100, so he offered it to me for $50. I whined that it was Valentines Day, and I will see tomorrow whether I have money enough after dinner tonight. He said he was only at the Fest for Sunday. I bought the book. I felt buyer's remorse. Dinner was on a credit card.

 Monday of the Fest I walked to the Market at the Town and Country to eat a personal pizza and look through my book. I was flipping and reading and became curious about the publish date. I looked at the title page and saw the disclaimer that this was a limited edition of 1200 and there was a 132 on an open line. AND there was a Jeffery Jones signature. I removed the personal pizza from the vicinity. Now I have a cool book I can't look at. A similar book here.