BERNICE..Edgar Allen Poe

"it slipped from my hands, and fell heavily, and burst into pieces; and from it, with a rattling sound, there rolled out some instruments of dental surgery, intermingled with thirty-two small, white and ivory-looking substances that were scattered to and fro about the floor. "

 Drawn in Pen and Ink ..Gillot 303 Steel Nib..

Redcrosse and the Dragon

One of a set of drawing for Spencers" Faerie Queene"
drawn with a etching in mind but the drawing grew to large..it was only meant to be one knight and a dragon
with flawless scales..it has changed somewhat over a protracted period of time,, 

Trimasina Dashed For The City Gate

A curious hybrid aliens and horses..pencil HB..
the verticals of the guards breaks up the horizontal aspect of the drawing..
This started out as a horse head drawing for a Thirty Years War illustration ..the horse was drawn over a year ago..

Snark Hunting on Tiberian Ostrich on the Planet Tiberius

Pencil drawing from sketch book..exercise in drawing large birds after reading David Attenborough's
1961 blockbuster "Zoo Quest to Madagascar"..

Sgt. Schultz's Finest Hour

pencil drawning.. test piece for a new pencil

MR HYDE

a friend of Doctor jekyll...drew this with pencil and distorted in photoshop.. drew this after reading Nabokov
on R.L. Stevenson...

Dragon Tamer

Pencil toned in photoshop