The eBook starts like this:

"Witherferd shifted his position slightly...and all hell broke loose.

"The entire room puckered, as if God had just swallowed a lemon rind. Is was what the Gates of Heaven looked? Hell? With what he figured was his last dying thought, he whispered into the swirling chaos, 'I hope my computer is okay.'

"He never should have started praying. Bargains with gods always seemed to end like this..."

And so begins the adventure of a 16 year old nerd, Witherferd Fehlter Hardling III, a normal kid from a small town in the Midwest, USA. Witherferd gets caught up in events far outside the confining boundaries of his undimensional daily existence. Since they involve beautiful naked godesses and strange multi-dimenional beings, the illustrations were great fun to work on.



Enlargements of some of my illustrations can be viewed by clicking on the images to the left.

Although the novel is meant to be funny, the illustrations tried to be as rich and epic as possible. I worked with illustrators from Hong Kong, Brazil, Canada, Sweden and the USA. When the eBook company that was to market the novel went bust, the project stopped.

If you want to read the first few chapters, see The Power of 10 - Chapter One.

If you'd like to read about storyboarding, etc., see The Power of 10 - Contents.

The eBook starts like this:

"Brittle plastic splinters across the floor like radiation from a blackmarket electromag generator..."

This is a first person, peresnt tense political sci-fi thriller. I never actually did any illustrations for it, but I drew up the storyline and was the main author. It's based on a rock opera I half-finished. (Most of the music from th rock opera has found its way into Audiocracy's playlist).

If you want to read the first few chapters, see Dreamless - Chapter One. If you'd like to help finish either of these incomplete stories, work on them in any way, contact me. Both stories would make great reads, regardless of illustrations.

Ambrosia Software had a great game called EVO, with an open source plugin concept, Override, that enabled subcontractors to build overlays onto the game engine. The ArtsForge team came up with a cool intergalactic concept, Xianu Override, including a wholoe new story. Here are some links to the artwork:

• Xinau Override Terrains: New Worlds

• Xinau Override Shipyard: Spaceships

• Xinau Override Stellars: Planets, etc

• Xianu Override Team

Fractals are curves or geometric figure, each part of which has the same statistical character as the whole. Because they appear similar at all levels of magnification, fractals are often considered to be infinitely complex (in informal terms). Natural objects that approximate fractals to a degree include clouds, mountain ranges, lightning bolts, coastlines, and snow flakes.

Fractals are useful in modeling structures (such as eroded coastlines or clouds) in which similar patterns recur at progressively smaller scales, and in describing partly random or chaotic phenomena such as crystal growth, fluid turbulence, and galaxy formation. Or software like Bryce 3D. I have collected some of the early fractals we worked on at ArtsForge:

• The Fractal Gallery