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Finished up the 7th illustration

for my new book. Alien ships flying over an ice planet. Ink and brush on bistol board, 11″ by 17″

More work on this 7th illustration

Finished of this 6th illustration and did some more detailing on the 5th

All for my new book, “The End Of The World”. This 6th illustration  details the scene where one of the two protagonists, retreating from a wrecked vehicle, takes a strange side step only a wooded path that is garnished by hanging corpses.

Finally

After redrawing, and then repeatedly editing this, I finished and am posting this 5th illustration for my new novel, “The End of the World”.

The End Of The World

After some tips from other artists, I sharpened up this cover for my new book “The End Of The World”.

I don’t know what I was thinking

I announced that I was posting my latest illustration with a few updates, and instead I re-posted the old one. That said, here is the new one

Slight update and I’m done with this 5th illustration for my book

Detailing the scene where a local militia, following the collapse of a central government, uses army reserve materials to install a martial law.

Fifth Illustration for my new book!

Never able to make myself happy with this illustration,  I ended up redrawing it completely. The fifth scene for my new book “The End Of The World”, this details the part in the Dupont neighborhood of Washington, DC, when, following the collapse of the central government, local militia’s seize control using Army Reserve stores. India ink and brush on Bristol board, 11″ by 17″

Finally read Starship Troopers

I enjoyed the movie by Paul Verhoven, the guy who also directed one of my favorite movies, Robocop. I had always heard the book was legendary, so I finally made it through to reading it. What a letdown. Instead of being better than the book, it was far dryer and more detailed while coincidently much less graphic. All the cool bug stuff is almost completely left out, while way too much time is spent spouting boring technicalities regarding army organization. I know the author is ex Navy. So maybe he is more accurate in some of the small details regarding military units, but it would help if he concentrated on inserting an interesting story while he was at it. Really disappointing. Especially after I liked “Old Man’s War” so much, and I learned how much the author of that book looked up to Heinlein.

Reworked this a bit. I’m picky, what do you want.

Some illustrations come out right away, some I keep reworking. This is one of those I’ve reworked several times. Fifth illustration for my new book “The End Of The World”, this details the scene where local militias, using army reserve stock, utilize violence to instill martial law.