By the time I’d completed and polished up the design for the AARC X-3 Rocketplane, I had fallen in love. I wanted to add just one more illustration to tie a bow on the project: a cutaway drawing! The diagram is colour-coded by…
The AARC X-3 Experimental Rocketplane is the product of a fun little project I embarked on this summer. I wanted to take a design from inception to final polish using the collective wisdom of my social network – soliciting comments on Facebook, Instagram and Reddit…
One of my favourite science fiction short stories of all time is Junkyard by Clifford D. Simak. It tells of a team of astronauts who land on an alien planet to investigate a strange tower surrounded by discarded rocket parts and machinery. They climb the…
A very long time ago, I had an idea about a starfighter that uses a ramming attack to puncture holes in larger spacecraft, popping open and closed like a switchblade when it strikes. The idea came back to me recently when I was sketching…
In 2017, I made a resolution to create and publish a sketch on Instagram every day. The new year dawned with a yearning to be more creatively nimble: for a number of years I’ve been juggling a full-time job with a steady flow of freelance…
One of my all-time favourite science fiction properties is the kids adventure serial Tom Corbett: Space Cadet. It was like the Hardy Boys … but in space! This little gem ran on radio and early television in the 1950’s, and spawned adaptations in comics, books……
Painting Jeju Island’s enigmatic Sanbang Mountain.
Earlier this year, Vancouver director Melanie Jones brought me on-board her team to help pitch a sci-fi film project for the Telus-funded Storyhive competition. The project, called IIDENT, needed some concept art developed to help illustrate the pitch.
I was part of a fantastic Storyhive team this year, helping to pitch a sci-fi adventure by Vancouver director Melanie Jones. The project, called IIDENT, is something she’s been developing for a few years now, and she asked me to come on board to create…
A personal exercise that started life as a doodle on a piece of scrap paper, and grew into a full-on design project: