Geeks, Fights, Leonard, & a Lover's Stroll

Here are four illustrations of completely different themes; I think. They were done over the past few weeks as I've lost most of my motivation on my thesis. Time well wasted!

Left: An homage to Geekdom. A father and son gazing at a really cool toy with a light saber.




Right: A fight between two guys. Just felt like drawing something overly dramatic. Unhappy with the scan as it is slightly blurry and the detail on the pants is lost on the guy on the left.



Below:A portrait of Elmore Leonard. One of my favorite authors who wrote: Rum Punch, Out of Sight, 3:10 to Yumma, Cuba Libre, and scores of other great books that many have been turned into movies. Kill Shot is one of my favorites although the movie looks poor.Below: Finally, a splash of color. This is a sketch I drew after seeing two people walking around on campus.

Historic Plate II & a Bone Antler Flaker with Flake

This is the last of the Historic Plate fragments that I drew for Denise. This is the one she was most excited about finding as it had a rare ribbon pattern. I'm not a historical archaeologist, so I'm probably not describing it properly, but I do know how to draw it!

The second image is a bone antler flaker found at the Dog Child site at Wannaskawin in Saskatoon. Flakers were used for breaking stone for the manufacturing of stone tools by Aboriginal peoples all across the globe. This flaker's point would have been used to pressure flake small pieces away from the stone core. This act would refine a tool's edges and give it a characteristic shape, such as a Gowen or Mummy Cave projectile point shape. The other end of the flaker had been shaved into a shovel-like shape. This portion of the artifact would likely have been used to notch the ends of the point, allowing for the tool to be lashed onto a handle or shaft.