Another small drawing for The Stranger, advertising the Sasquatch Music Festival. This is the first time I have ever drawn a sasquatch (no Y...

Time for some non-Hobbit updates, folks. Here is a small drawing I did for an article in the Seattle Stranger about suicide and the Aurora B...

Gollum's getting weirder. Some of these are good, some of these are bad. I'll let you tell me what's what. I really like that Go...

A small confession: I am much more attached to the Rankin Bass Gollum than I am to the Weta version. Don't get me wrong, Andy Serkis did...

Alright, so, here continues the series of process posts for my Hobbit pieces. I'm going to try to streamline these a bit since a lot of ...

"Suddenly a sword flashed in its own light. Bilbo saw it go right through the Great Goblin as he stood dumbfounded in the middle of his...

Those silhouettes up there are just warmups to get my hand moving properly, not serious ones. That secret stuff block isn't actually for...

A small ink drawing I did for Steven at Hey Oscar Wilde! It's Clobberin' Time! , a wonderful blog devoted to drawings of literary fi...

I couldn't resist doing some more silhouettes for the Great Goblin here. More of these are working, I think, specifically 12, 14, 15, 17...

Some silhouette exercises, numbered for your (and my) convenience. I like doing these because they're quick and helpful, letting you mak...

The facial structure of the Great Goblin is making more sense to me the further I go into the design. I'm pretty confident that I've...

Designing the Great Goblin, the chief, king, warlord, of the goblins in The Hobbit has been an interesting thought process for me. In some w...

I tried out some weirdo bird/turtle Goblins, which were pretty funny. I couldn't picture them singing, though, so that wouldn't work...

Here are some terrible Goblin drawings to make your Friday more hilarious: I took several steps back to reevaluate the Goblins, and maybe no...

Here I am now, one quarter of the way through this project. Things are coming together pretty nicely, though I'm about to pass the point...