Can’t say much about this yet, but I’m really pleased with how it’s coming along.  At this point, I would qualify this as a color sketch.

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Hi, All:

Here is the cover to “Johnny Saturn” no. 7, hot off the digital presses:

For additional fun and frivolity, here are two sketch cards I just did, each taking about 15 minutes:

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Welcome, Friends!

Since I’m starting up this new website, one to promote me as an illustrator, fantasy artist, and cartoonist, I suppose I might as well type out a few words as to why I’m doing this, and what this site’s mission statement is.

I’ve had a website promoting me as an artist since about 1996.  So, why is this site different from of the versions that preceded it?  This time, I’m only promoting those skills at which that I excel.  Sure, I can set up and manage websites; sure, I can create logos; sure, I can do this style, and that medium… but I’m not doing that here. I think it’s time for me to focus my approach and what I have to offer.  So, this site isn’t about my comic book work–you can get plenty of that on the Johnny Saturn site.  Instead, this site is about my illustration work, digital painting, and fantasy art.

What really constitutes ‘fantasy’ art?  Dragons and unicorns?  In my world, that’s certainly a small part of the equation, but I would characterize my take on fantasy as a heady mix of dark fantasy, horror, sword & sorcery, with a healthy dose of high fantasy thrown in to round things out.

This new website is functionally different from my earlier ones because it, also, doubles as a blog, not a just a set of galleries.  In my blog, I’m going to show off my works in progress, and recent sketchbook drawings, and drawings I’ve made in open studio.  These drawings and paintings will be right at home in my blog, but separate from my more structured galleries.  The galleries are my best stuff, the cream of my output, and that’s the stuff I’ve intended for the art directors and customers to browse.

I’m not as interested anymore in having a ‘formal’ website, a collection of static art intended to hang there until somebody looks at it and decides to contact me.  I see this as a much more active endeavor, one where I promote myself the way I promote my comics, where I change and rearrange the art, and where I may talk at length about anything that interests me.  So, as long as it relates to what I draw or paint, I can rattle on about zeppelins, dinosaurs, steam locomotives, etc.

What, exactly, is a ‘Graphimancer’?  My first response would be ‘me,’ I am the Graphimancer.  At its root, ‘graph’ is a mark or series of connected marks.  It could mean charts, diagrams, grids, or the like, but in this case it means drawing.  Illustration, at its base, is pictures intended to go with and amplify words.  ‘Mancer,’ on the other hand, relates to prophecy and magic.  So, the Graphimancer is one who delves into the magic of art.

I suppose that’s all pretty heady for a website mission statement, but that’s par for the course for me.  Welcome to my world.

Scott Story

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