Five years’ worth of art, somehow

We’re up to 2007 now. Eric Burns-White wrote a modern myth explaining why a curse from Fiona, Queen of the Baristas caused Starbucks’ drip coffee to taste like crotch. Living less than a mile from the original Starbucks at the time, I felt inspired to illustrate her. (The drink she is holding is, in fact, a subtle reference to the name of the site, which thankfully is still up!)

The next year I attempted to launch another webcomic, which was where this site originally got its name. I got thirty pages done over the next year and a half before running out of steam. The comics are still archived on the site. I wish I’d planned it better, but there are elements of the story making their way into the novel project I’ve been slowly working on for the last few years…

During the comic’s run I also did some guest art for Erfworld, when its author was experimenting with carrying on the webcomic as an illustrated novel:

But my failure with the comic pretty much knocked me into an art slump for a few years, and in 2010-2011 most of my creative energies were spent trying to start a game company with friends (which also failed, after the contract for which we bothered incorporating the company to begin with never materialized). Here are a couple logo designs for Flying City Interactive, though:

The next art I have in my files is from 2012. I guess we can call it “fanart” too, since I was, and am, a pretty big fan of my wife.

And on the topic of art for family, here’s an illustration I did for our friend’s baby shower:

Also around this time, I built a sword out of acrylic, but I think that’s a story for a separate post…