Author: dioptric

  • The New King

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    Symbolism The New King is a symbolic gestalt. It continues themes I began exploring in A Sprig of Mistletoe, The Family Tree, The Hour Glass of Saturn and a few unpublished drawings. It blends alchemical and  heraldic motifs to create a feeling of nobility. This drawing is another experiment with water color. One of the…

  • Aquatic

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    A Creature Lately I have been captivated by the peculiar. This is part of the reason for the long interim between this and my last project. Some of the things I have been working on in the meantime are too strange to publish. I wanted this drawing to convey a bublbousnous of the optical anatomy.…

  • Under the Sea

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  • The Family tree

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    A Resolution Sometimes it takes something terrible to make you realize that you are squandering your creative potential. Sometimes dark and horrific things happen, and they terrify you to the point that there is no excuse to hold back the light, because it could be snuffed out at any minute. My resolution this year is…

  • Mushroom Cloud

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    The End of the Year What better way is there to end the year than with fireworks? This pen and ink drawing was made in my canson mixed media sketchbook. The thick lines were drawn with a Jin Hao 159 and the thin lines were drawn with a Pilot Metropolitan. I was very nearly done…

  • Deer Skull

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    The Bone Yard When I was a child one of the fist activities my grandparents wanted to show me was hiking. They took me up into the mountains to explore with a cattle bell around my neck to keep track of me and my cousins, whilst scaring away the monstrous creatures lurking in the woods.…

  • Jellyfish Revisited

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    Amorphous Sometimes I spend weeks exploring the same subject. The series of German castles I drew is a good example of this. I tried to draw the same types of lines in different ways with great repetition so that by the end I felt I had some mastery over that method of drawing. Castles are…

  • Drifter

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    An excursion into color Somewhere drifting in an endless abyss there is a creature with an amorphous body and no face . It’s covered in tentacles and its generations extend across the ages. Jellyfish without the innocent context of Bikini Bottom are like Lovecraftian horrors. More like mushrooms than fish. I can remember the first…

  • October Sketchbook

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    Inspiration I have continued to draw and experiment with techniques and styles. Most recently I have been inspired by the work of Mc Bess. He is a French illustrator I have been peripherally aware of since at least 2010. Since I first saw his work I was completely enamored with how he gets such thick…

  • German Castles

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    Remnants The Castles of Germany have have been witness to some of the greatest moments in European history. They have been present for developments in science, weddings of nobles, and stood the test of time through war and peace. They have been lodges for chivalric orders that exert there influence on world affairs to this…