The Naked Silo

More selections from Sketchbook #29. I like C-3PO . I've been drawing Star Wars imagery since the first movie came out in 1977 when I would have been all of five years old (turning six in October of that year). Preliminary sketches for (abandoned?) puppet show. That's right: I was going to make a William Shatner-as-Kirk hand-and-rod puppet and perform Shakespeare monologues with it. I figured performing this material would be easy, since I could sorta do a passable Shatner impression and memorization* wouldn't be an issue because I could refer to the script while being hidden from view myself. I thought I might take it around to various venues in Prince Edward County, singing for my supper, so to speak...maybe open for real performers... I hadn't (and still haven't) built a puppet of this kind, but once the idea entered my head and I started sketching, I grew more excited about the proposed project. Will it ever happen? Who knows? The night i...

Selections from Sketchbook #14, still in the late 1990s. The sketch above is an early experiment with some art nouveau motifs for the hair for the poster illustration I eventually did for Markham Youth Theatre's production of the musical  Hair . Boy, I like Star Trek uniforms: TOS, Next Gen, DS9, the movie era (but not so much TMP, though). Here's a selection of movie era uniforms first introduced in The Wrath of Khan (plus Janeway from Voyager).