Seasonal card design, 2007, ink with digital color.

Here begins a holiday hiatus. Lotsa great things planned this season: We'll see the Aimee Mann Christmas Show and travel to cozy Cannon Beach. Warm wishes to you and yours. See you next year!

Darcy Dare draft promotional piece, 2004, ink with digital color and effects.

The best things produced in this prior period of Darcy development were the things I wrote, not the things I drew. Still, I'm fond of this assembled image, if only because it now signifies to me the sum of work then completed.

Wonder Woman, 2007, ink with digital color.

I submitted this design for the Wonder Woman Wardrobe War at Project Rooftop. True to form, I learned of the contest only a day or two before the deadline.

A few comments on the design: As always, I favor minimal detail. I'm fond of Diana's various white phases and white works for an ambassador of peace. In contrast, the crested headgear's a nod to Diana's martial roots. I imagine this costume in a League line-up and I think it manages to both blend (align in simplicity) and pop.

I'm excited to see the other entries! Fun!

Wonder Woman created by William Moulton Marston. Wonder Woman, the distinctive likeness thereof, and related elements are trademarks of DC Comics.

A pair of fruity commissioned pieces, 2003, mixed media.

One bit of wallpaper served as background in the two images above. In one of them the wallpaper's close to its original color range. Can you correctly guess which one that might be?

DAMNFX. Rendering of plant-eating dinosaur Dracorex, or "dragon king." National Geographic. Dec. 2007: cover.

Dino-philes must snag the December 2007 issue of National Geographic. As the cover declares, there are some funny prehistoric pals to be seen inside!