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……
This year, I resolved to do a quick sketch every day. Every morning, I commit at least twenty minutes to draw whatever comes off the top of my head. One of my favourite drawings so far: A smuggler’s ship, landed at a secret desert…
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…