Squirrel! (March 2011)

Squirrel!

Isn't he great?

This distracting fellow was produced for a heraldic submission (if it’s for free, does it still count as a “commission”?). What you see here is the initial drawing, which was simplified a bit for the actual submitted image. I worked from several images of leaping squirrels which I found on flickr, including a wonderful series taken in Scandinavia – hence the tufted ears. I’m extremely pleased with how this one turned out, and I’m going to need to find something to do with it for my own purposes, additional to the original request. It’s too much of a fun imageĀ not to.

Ink on paper.

Cover for Jon Radburn CD, “Songs for Dead Singers”

Songs for Dead Singers cover

This is a project which has been back-burnered for several summers. It isn’t, strictly speaking, SCA-related, but as I know Jon through the SCA, and it’s current work, it’s going up here.

Jon spoke to me several years ago about doing some graphics work for his web presence and his then-just-an-idea album. We discussed some of the questions I like to have answered when I start a creative project, and then both promptly got busy. We’ve remained in touch on and off about this, but this past winter Jon got several of his ducks in a row and was nearing actually having an album for which he would need a cover and some web marketing, so he asked me to put it back on a front burner.