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Dreams, Thoughts, Images, and Motion. I am a film maker, a dancer, an artist, and a writer.

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Sketchbook – Morning Commute Sketches 2016 From my sketchbook. Sketches from my morning commute during autumn of 2016. All drawn with mechanical pencil with .3 H lead and a No.2 pencil.

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Morning Commute - October 18, 2016

Took snapshots on my commute into the office this morning. All shots taken with my iPhone 5S.

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Kushana Vs Nausicaa

Finished this ages ago, but never got around to posting it.

So here it is.  My manga fanart done in the style of a Gustave Dore woodblock engraving. Click here to see the full sized high resolution version

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Gustave Dore Study - Sneak Peek!

Here’s a sneak peek detail shot of the artwork I have been hacking away at for the past few months.

It’s near completion (hopefully within a week).  So I thought I’d put up a little teaser.

It’s been an age, so here’s the low down on this piece.  I was inspired by the works and techniques of Gustave Dore.  So I decided to create a piece of fan art using the wood block engraving technique adapted…

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#FILTHYLUCRE #ASIAAFTERDARK (at Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries)

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Welcome Home Harper

Welcome Home Harper!!

So I have made excruciatingly slow progress on my Gustave Dore Study project.

I will not use it as an excuse, but I have become greatly distracted by the addition of a furry bundle of joy that has joined our family…. Harper the Corgi!

She is an 9 week-old pure breed, Welsh-Pembroke Corgi puppy with a bladder made of cast-iron.

Valerie and I picked her up from the breeder in New Jersey this past…

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Kung Fury time!!! #KUNGFURY

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My Latest Sketch

I’ve dropped the ball on updating the blog.  So I am back!  And here is a sketch I did last night!

A pencil sketch of a Non-Player Character (NPC) for the Dungeons & Dragons campaign I am running.  Her name is Kramer Vorhese, and she is a 1st level Paladin.

  I did a crummy job scanning it, so there’s some smudges. I cleaned it up a bit after the scan, but I left some of it, cuz I liked it…

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60 Books That Were Never Written But Should Have Been!

Fictional books.  Not fiction books.  As in a book of fiction.

No.

I am talking about books that only exist within fiction itself.  An imaginary book that was never written, or only existed within the confines of a story.

That’s right.  It’s not enough that I read voraciously these days, and long for certain authors to finish their books.  I obsess and dream about books that were never written.…

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Happy New Year!

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Our first Valentines as a married couple. Yay! (at Härth)

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My manga sketch of a hipster girl :)