Drew this about 20 years ago. I've since painted versions in watercolor, pen/ink, and scan/ran another thru some P-Shop filters.

Had never heard of Amon Tobin back then, but now I hear AT's music everytime I see this image.



This image is cropped quite a bit.
It's based on the Dowager's Hump, a bar that Combines (human and machine) frequent after hours.

I note a theme forming...

As posted earlier,
I tend to doodle while on the phone,
doing laundry,
or watching tv.

um, this wasn't one of those times.

These are rough sketches prior to STAR WARS Episode One, TPM. They are unpublished and do not depict anything from the actual film or script.



I was given several model sheets of the Darth Maul / Young(er) Obi- Wan characters. With little info on the film at that time, I envisioned these types of skirmishes.

A few years ago, I was sketching on the steps of the NYC Library near 42nd street. This was prior to the ipodemic. I began to notice that just about everyone walking by was attached to some device or object. Cell phones, bookbags, walkmans, watches, organizers, etc.

Although greatly exaggerrated in this image, we're probably not too far away from a scene like this.

...we all know those surveillance pigeons already exist...

The above image was an ink doodle that was drawn freehand on notebook paper several years ago.

These doodles are something to pass the time while on the phone or listening to music. Usually they don't even look like a figure, mostly arrows swirling all over the place or random patterns and forms. This one started to take more shape, so I worked on it even more using a digital painting application called PAINTER.



I just 'painted' on top of the inks and roughed out some forms, added some light and then tossed in some textures on the weaponry. I wanted to play with the various FX and brushes within the program to see how much faster virtual painting was to reality. The only difference I believe is in the cleanup. The other advantage is that it can easily be altered, while retaining every stage along the way as separate files.

Both images have the same basic structure, but have their own story and flavor to them.