I had a couple new shades of green marker to try out (including Green Tea), so here y’ar.This is marker on vellum, and is more dynamic in real life.

Good evening. Here’s an inviting space: a darkened warehouse.

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The word gnome is derived from the New Latin gnomus.

It is often claimed to descend from the Greek γνώσις (gnosis), meaning knowledge.

It more likely comes from genomos (earth-dweller), in which case the omission of e is, as the OED calls it, a blunder.

Paracelsus includes gnomes in his list of elementals, as earth elementals. He describes them as two spans high, and very taciturn.

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More marker-work:

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Sometimes you begin an illustration with an idea of how it should turn out, but your hands just start making stuff up & you get something even better.

My scanner was a great help in making the sun glare in the clouds look just right.

Cloudburst Detail

Hope you like it. Hope you’ll say so even more.

Yo Ho, me hearties. Here’s a quick one for you – The Sailing Ship Columbia. I’ve copied the angle from a great twilight photograph of the ship’s rigging. I saw it on miceage.com, but I wasn’t able to  track it down today for you.

It’s sharpie & pastel on vellum. Enjoy – Or else.

Night falls on the sailing ship Columbia. Click for full size.

By the way, what are you up to these days? Yes you. The one who instead of leaving a comment sends me an email. I’m always interested in hearing what other people are working – oh! that reminds me:

My friend Blake could use some honest feedback on a new music project he’s working on. Listen to his demo track Crumbs at myspace.com/gingercube If you have a myspace account (a pox on you) friend him or leave a comment. If not, let me know what you think & I’ll pass it along. That track gets stuck in my head.

Blake might help me record some stuff of my own for your enjoyment as well. I have some MP3s from old bands I’ve been in, let me know if you want a listen.

I wish all drawings would go this fast & result in something this cute.

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It actually took longer to scan/edit the images & make this post than it did to draw him. I could tell it was flowing, and usually you wouldn’t want to interrupt that but I thought it looked okay without inking, so I scanned it while it was still pencil & marker. (“Take a picture, it’ll last longer“)

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P.S.

Re: Egghead – I made a funny.

In the book Disneyland Paris: From Sketch to Reality (by Alain Littaye, Didier Ghez), there is a small image of a great piece of concept art for Pirates of the Caribbean ride. I really like the energy in the shot, so I thought I would try see if I could capture a little myself.

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While I’m happy with the way it turned out I’m not happy with the way it scanned. I did this on vellum; with inking on the front and marker color applied to the back. This method gives it a certain luminosity which is hard to capture with the scanner. It’s this color effect that really is the point of the exercise, and in the full-size (click the above image) you can see some spots of unfortunate inking.

Hope you like it.