Sketchbook Pencil Drawings: Bird Farm
A curious fantasy concept for a “bird farm.” It is a giant wooden beehive structure with grids of nesting nooks on the inside for flocks of domesticated birds. The birds fly off to feast on the insects of the surrounding inhospitable karst terrain and in return provide eggs, droppings for fertilizer and the occasional meal.
Sketchbook Pencil Drawings: Brian Froud Influenced Sketches
These sketches came out of my head the night after reading to Aubrey from Brian Froud’s illustrated “The Goblin Companion.” Brian Froud is of course the concept artist behind the movies “Labyrinth” and “The Dark Crystal.”
Sketchbook Pencil Drawings: Water-world Rigs
Here are some sketches of deep sea floating rigs in a Sci-fi water-world setting. A “water-world” being a planet dominated by, or entirely covered by ocean. The rigs, giant buoys and other structures have become encrusted with scavenged material over time resulting in small towns and cities.
Sketchbook Pencil Drawings: Battle Mechs
Some Battle Mech concept art. The multi-legged mechs are kind of interesting.
Sketchbook Pencil Drawings: Fantasy Bridges
The backdrop for this series of bridges is a fantasy setting where a race of builders have flourished in a centralized plateau, think of Tibet, at the crossroads of many civilizations. The plateau is dominated by steep ravines and valleys where most of the population lives farming ancestral cliff terraces and more recently engaging in trade. Their mortal enemy are not other nations but troops of cliff trolls, large semi-intelligent ape-like creatures who can scamper up cliff faces like spiders and who will eat anything they can get their hands on. For safety the Builders became experts at constructing fortified house bridges, as bridges provided a means of escape across the river gorges or even a place to attack from. As they civilized the land the bridges became avenues of artistic and religious expression. Their design incorporated architectural styling’s of the neighboring nations as well as their own explorations.
Sketchbook Pencil Drawings: Ground Effect Skimmers
This is a series of Sci-Fi skimmers based around the ground effect phenomena. If you have a fixed wing aircraft close to the ground the wing will have greater lift.
Artbook Pencil Sketches
These are a selection of pages taken from my sketchbook. Some drawings are studies of real-life objects or photographs, others are concept art sketches.
