pen and ink
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Some (Really Old) Drawings
I found a cache of old drawings, actually prints of old drawings, that I uploaded here to share. I can see how my style has evolved over the years, but my love of architecture hasn’t diminished. …
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The Third Expedition
Ray Bradbury’s ‘The Martian Chronicles‘ is one of my favorite books. Composed by taking several of his short stories and interweaving them together to create a long-view version of humanity’s contact with and subsequent colonization of Mars. Of the various stories, one of my favorites is the chapter titled ‘The Third Expedition,’ which was originally…
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Enigma VI {part 1}
The icepack cracked suddenly, reminder of the megatons of frozen nitrogen doing its inexorable slow march across Tombaugh Regio. The lander from Pluto Expedition VI stood safely on the granite-hard shelf of water ice overlooking the glaciers, its ultra-bright spotlights shining on a lone figure making its way over tumbled chunks of ice painted pink…
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Some Pen and Ink Drawings
I love pen and ink. Its my preferred style. I have recently started using Prismacolor markers for filling in spaces that I don’t feel like crosshatching. This drawing is called “California Noir” “Good Ol’ Ed” in honor of Edward Gorey: …
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Some Recent Drawings
I’ve been working on several writing projects lately…poetry, short stories, and a big essay on the lyrics of Van Dyke Parks. In the interim I have also completed some new artwork. There are not enough hours in the month to work on everything equally, as my brain jumps from one thing to another so my…
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Yet Galileo Still Moves
“I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.” -Galileo Galilei
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U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men
As always, Three Laws Safe®
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Dredgings From the Sketchbooks
Sharing some of the things I have in my sketchbooks:
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Some (Random) Drawings
I love science fiction. Love it. Alien life-forms, sentient robots, spaceships, huge Ideas with that earned capital I. The first of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation books introduced us to the planet-city Trantor. This is a pen sketch that I did imagining a panorama of part of this world: I also love computer history, so combining that…
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R-102
This is an old drawing of mine circa 2006. Its a view of a fantasy city somewhere in North America, as a young man watches the (unbuilt) British airship R-102 flying out of a rain cloud.
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Apollo Guidance Computer
This is a pen and ink illustration for my History of Computers book for the chapter on early miniaturization. One of my cats took a swipe at it so I have to do some restoration work:
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Another Place
The skies were yellow, the rain more like a mist of diluted hydrochloric acid than water. As we walked over the small hilly rise, below us was the panorama of what used to be Washington, DC. The monuments had been mined for their limestone and great pits were dug into the National Mall. Miles of…
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Empty and Endless
The entire planet was covered in an intricate network of roads, the architecture familiar and alien at the same time…but nothing outside of the wind whistling through marble arches was heard. Empty, empty and endless.
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Entering the City
“This great city of Tenochtitlán is built on the salt lake, and no matter by what road you travel there are two leagues from the main body of the city to the mainland. There are four artificial causeways leading to it, and each is as wide as two cavalry lances. The city…
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Inspace
Garcia held onto the fusion radiator assembly, looking towards the bright light of Beta Centauri. She felt at one with the cosmos, right now at this perfect moment in time. She knew-and soon the solar system of her birth would know too; humankind was not alone in the universe. The hour would come when we…
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Ziggy Stardust, etc.
I am a fan of David Bowie. Love his music, love his various looks, love his weirdness. I have a friend however, who would kill to have his babies. I created this illustration for her as a Christmas present. Its Bowie with a great mullet and the two planets he hails from, at least during…
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Stormy Seas
My most recent drawing which I am calling “Stormy Seas” for lack of a better name. It started off as something totally different…and is now something far more atmospheric than I had originally intended.
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A Fine Line
I have been an “artist” since I could pen to paper. I have dabbled in all the major mediums from oil paints to watercolor. I have found that pen and ink is my favorite. When I show my work to people the most common comment I get is “how do you not make mistakes?” I…
The Numinous Cosmos 