August 2009
32 posts
Saltwater Witch - some wicked cool magic... →
Okay, just finished painting and laying out this week’s set for Saltwater Witch. See the spread below for the art, and go to Saltwater Witch to check out the completed pages. Wow, I’m up over…
Mermaid →
I haven’t painted a traditional mermaid in a long time. I’ve penciled and painted bunches of “people from the sea,” but my Seaborn don’t have tails, in fact they make fun of the mermaid…
Anagram fun →
Via FantasyDreamer, I jumped to this cool thing that generates an anagram from your name.
http://www.deanjackson.dj/nameanagram/index.php?n
So what’s mine? I put in…
Kindle pricing and boycott hubub →
Jay Lake posted a good one on an email he received about Kindle users boycotting books over $9.99, and the resulting comment thread was enlightening and somewhat weird.
Here’s my comment:
Add some teeth to your desktop →
Sharks are wonderful. Show some shark love with desktop wallpaper. Here’s a digital painting I did a while ago formatted into various standard screen sizes. Download your size here:
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Shark Below [Flickr] →
chrishoward.author posted a photo:
Sharks are wonderful…
Ponyo is a hit →
We got a thumbs up from our resident Miyazaki expert, my son Christopher. Overall, Ponyo’s fun, crazy, funny, sweet, touching. Fantastic and creative animation, as usual from…
Underwater painting →
Painted this tonight, part of some work I’m doing for a bunch upcoming scenes in Saltwater Witch. This is Phaidra, and she’s a total ass-kicker…I mean, serious business. Still tweaking, but…
Saltwater Witch page 110 [Flickr] →
chrishoward.author posted a photo:
Here’s one for this week’s set of four pages for Saltwater Witch. the0phrastus.typepad.com/saltwaterwitch/
Saltwater Witch - murdered for teaching... →
Here the follow-up set for my post yesterday, started out with some threats, and here’s what’s happening at about the same time, but outside, at night, with Mr. Henderson the science teacher…
Saltwater Witch page 111 [Flickr] →
chrishoward.author posted a photo:
Here’s one for this week’s set of four pages for Saltwater Witch. the0phrastus.typepad.com/saltwaterwitch/
Saltwater Witch page 112 [Flickr] →
chrishoward.author posted a photo:
Here’s one for this week’s set of four pages for Saltwater Witch. the0phrastus.typepad.com/saltwaterwitch/
Saltwater Witch page 113 [Flickr] →
chrishoward.author posted a photo:
Here’s one for this week’s set of four pages for Saltwater Witch. the0phrastus.typepad.com/saltwaterwitch/
Saltwater Witch - murdered for teaching science? →
I’m in the middle of a four page painting and layout rush for Saltwater Witch. I know I’ve said it before, but I think I have finally landed on the format I’m going to use for the rest of the…
Beetle 1 [Flickr] →
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Last of my vacation... →
I’m back at work tomorrow. Spending my last day—which started the first day of WorldCon—drawing, painting and reading…and drawing and painting Kassandra reading—actually staring off into space…
Worldcon Report...a few days late →
This was the first family con for me. We all went to Montreal, drove up I-89 through Vermont and into Canada. I’ve traveled overseas a bit in the last ten years—Greece, Turkey,…
Kyle Cassidy's giving away a copy of Seaborn! →
I met Kyle at Worldcon on the Realism in SF panel, and afterward, at sort of an impromptu panelist gathering, I handed out a couple copies of Seaborn signed. Kyle’s now running a contest on to…
Saltwater Witch - This Week's Page →
Just posted another set for Saltwater Witch. A little late with this
one—mainly because I was up in Montreal at WorldCon.
Go to Saltwater Witch.
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DIY Steampunk Maps →
Are you writing, drawing, gaming steampunk? Here’s a quick and easy way to make—for personal use—a map for your stories, a world for your characters, streets for them to walk, landmarks…
IF: modify →
A quick sketch in ArtRage for Illustration Friday topic: modify. She’s about to jack in for an upgrade.
Also: just posted a new set for my Saltwater Witch graphic novel. Check it out here.
Saltwater Witch - New set for Chapter 5 →
Just posted another set for Saltwater Witch—this covers this week and most of the following. I’ll be in Montreal most of next week—at WorldCon, doing a couple panels, signing, reading. Going…
Saltwater Witch Next Set Preview →
I like the way this set of six panels of Saltwater Witch is going, and so I’m posting a preview of one—the fourth. The whole first page is…well, Kassandra getting her ass kicked and her two…
