Easily one of my most successful portraits. Hand drawn private commission in pencil. I later colored it digitally with handmade paper, gold and oil emulsion.

A model sheet. I don’t think I ever used this, but I believe I sold it a few years ago.

The cover for the digital edition of A DISTANT SOIL issue #4. Pencil and digital. This is one of my favorites.

This was originally painted in watercolor, and though Allan Harvey was kind enough to get me a scan from the original, I redid part of it digitally. I think I may have tweaked it a bit too much, but it is still an improvement over the original. This is one of my earliest paintings for the self published editions of A Distant Soil.

This was the original drawing for the first edition of the A Distant Soil graphic novel. It was originally published in color and has long been out of print. I also heavily altered the original drawing. I’m sure most readers never heard of A Distant Soil: Immigrant Song. Back in the day, graphic novels were often really short: maybe only 60 pages, so this GN only covered the first 60 pages of the A Distant Soil saga. The new edition (now entitled The Gathering) covers 240 pages. I do kinda miss seeing A Distant Soil in color, but our old publisher ditched the negatives, and frankly, the color was kind…

This is one of the earliest cover paintings for A DISTANT SOIL. Holy cow. Also, for those reading online, the complete chapter two of the digitally restored Volume I is now available on the site. Also, the book store is back in business! A DISTANT SOIL VOLUME I back in stock, as well as THE VAMPIRE DIARIES and the new Deluxe edition of OCEAN/ORBITER.

Pencil, digital, silver and handmade paper with oil emulsion.

Pencil and digital

Pencil and digital.