Thursday, March 14, 2013

Woke up and wrote this at 3am

All points in the 11th dimension may be constantly trying to "catch up" to each other in fractal time. Like ripples overlapping, where the waves of physicality meet to make matter. Big Bangs occur and universes end, both exploding and imploding at the same time.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

'06 Sketchbook

Found a few oldies, but goodies.
A medieval exchange. Though I can't remember the Lady of the Lake ever agreeing to do Arthur's laundry.

Clocks are the most intricate and interesting machines for measuring an illusion.


If it knows its broke, for the love of humanity, don't fix it.


Bright sprites read by night lights.



A TX Ranger's companion disassembled.

Pit O' Hands


Some animals are better at coloring. Squids, chameleons, even mantis shrimp and decorator crabs.. I'm not one of them. Amazing to think though how much Sol has influenced life on earth. Not only providing to protists enough energy to fuel an infinitely diverse food web, but also a spectrum of visible light so complex that the rods and cones of the eye are evolution's greatest triumph. Color is the means by which every animal communicates (save white, wiggly cave denizens). And still only a sliver of the electromagnetic spectrum.


Friday, November 23, 2012

Blue-tounged Skink

Tiliqua.
Really resisting the urge to draw him over Tokyo. Seriously, consider the true life a lizard must lead. The only creatures who fear you are your food. Practically next to fish on the food chain and they survive. They are the most wildly distributed island animals. So if you find yourself on an deserted island with birds and small mammals, you're not far from mainland. If there's a mess of colorful lizards, figure out which ones are tastiest. You might be there a while.

Boa

The bottom jaw of the constrictor are two separate pieces. As it eats, they independently "walk" down the body of its victim. I have a reptile book from the 70's with a photo series of a man in a canoe being attacked by an anaconda. For years I wondered, "what is the photographer doing while this is going on?" Rereading it now, turns out the man was a hunter, preventing the snake from escaping. "You only get smarter by playing a snake."

Sunflower

The seed growth in the sunflower is one of the best examples of math in nature.

Moth


The "powder" the comes off a moth's wings are actually scales, so handle with care. Also worms are covered in hair. It's unlikely I'll draw one of those.