Jack & Chuck (2017) by Paul Medioli is a series of animated comics that follow the exploits of two outcasts as they navigate the fringes of a fantasy world.

While I work out some particular programming issues, you can read the comic in its still form HERE

Working in a pen-and-ink style inspired by Miller, Steranko and Mignola, the comic’s protagonists —Jackdaw, a shamanistic bounty hunter, and Charlie, a twitchy surgeon/scientist — aim to point out the absurdity inherent in prejudice. The structure of Jack & Chuck is an experiment in what the web can do for sequential and visual narrative.

This project is an attempt to marry elements from comic, literary, and animation traditions into a format that readers can experience at their own pace.

Below are some examples of animated panels:

Red Dragons are notoriously narcissistic, intelligent, and greedy. Their spectacular feathers serve to distract, dazzle, and add mass to their already impressive figure. The high iron content in their feathers gives them not only their characteristic color, but also a bit of protection against these dragons' infamous volatility.

The Blue Dragon is a desert dweller, and very hardy. As a burrower, the majority of the Blue's feathers mineralized into plates and spines, to ease its passage through the sand and earth, as well as to conduct static electricity across its body.  These huge amounts of wattage can be directed to and stored in the capacitor-like cranial horn. The bright blue iridescence of its feathers provides a degree of light reflection and heat dissapation

The Black Dragon is a detritivore, and its face is largely devoid of feathers. Instead, a bony cranium ensures freedom from rotting debris and affords a powerful, bone-shearing ridge instead of teeth. Its territory is characteristically blasted and withered from the dragon’s use of powerful digestive acids to soften and sanitize its food as well as aggressors. When in search of prey, its wings, tail, and roving head cast an X-shaped silhouette.

Party member alongside Death-Made-Real 

A request from r/character drawing for an African themed Elf pirate captain

A friend’s dnd character. Like if Indiana Jones was a shapeshifting cat

Request from r/Characterdrawing. Uses hand crossbows and carries dozens of religious symbols

Another request from r/Characterdrawing. Pangolins never get enough press!

Another request from r/Characterdrawing, a bard who plays a bicycle wheel and his little dracolich friend

I'm not the most well-informed on Game of Thrones, but I like the idea of the Seastone Chair being part of some ancient sea-borne cult. It's designed so that upside down, it might decorate or buttress a column.

An exercise to create a book without words

Part of the same wordless book project

Titled after a quote from Glaucus in the same work, this book tabulates all the dead and wounded from Homer's Iliad. Hand bound.

For this project I carved stamps to represent weapons and body parts for tabulation. When unlisted, the weapon as assumed a spear. Pages aged with tea.

Designed to fit into a CD Case, each of these accordion folded pamphlets contains an audiograph from a vivid piece of music, and visually tracks the development of that musical phrase, culminating in the cover image. 

From left to right, the songs featured are Como Fue by Ibrahim Ferrer, The Sun (Fred Cherry Eclipse Remix) by Tame Impala, and Telephone Call from Istanbul by Tom Waits

An early motion-tracking experiment that often cheers me up

The first E demonstrates the full diversity of epiphytes, from Orchids to Bromeliads to Bryophytes.

P focuses on arboreal ferns, lichens, and mosses. Approximately a third of all ferns are epiphytes. These plants gradually generate a sort of arboreal soil in their leaf litter. Approximately a third of all ferns are epiphytes. The cutout at the bottom shows the underlying tree putting small roots into this layer, almost collecting rent from the smaller organism.

I is focused on the diversity among and supported by Bromeliads, among the most common types of epiphytes. 

The second P is aimed at flowering epiphytes, including aroid flowers but overwhelmingly orchids, whose almost dust-like seeds can sail across seas to settle on the branches of tropical and temperate forests.

H focuses on hemi-epiphytes such as climbing vines and parasitic plants, including the famous Strangler Fig.

The last three letters are to showcase the canopy ecology as a whole, including the diversity of wildlife it can support.