Showing posts with label ecosystems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ecosystems. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

The Coffee Cycle





My initial idea was to draw this diagram and paint it with black coffee for a watercolor effect. Unfortunately, the coffee didn't show up well and warped the paper. So I drank the coffee. Get a poster here.





Thursday, August 18, 2011

The Diabolical Botanical Garden


If you're a fan of horror and/or horticulture, you can order an 11"x17" print of this drawing. Email me at gsnider11@gmail.com or visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/incidentalcomics for details.

Like most of my work, I can't quite pinpoint where the idea for this one came from. I remember taking a trip to Botanica, The Wichita Gardens as a kid, then drawing one of its fountains the moment I got home. But instead of sketching a regular fountain, I turned it into an fountain-shaped alien! Another possibility: my grandfather was a retired landscape architect for the National Park Service, and he had a backyard that was a forest of Ponderosa Pines. He told us that the piles of rocks scattered throughout the forest were old Indian graveyards. The idea fascinated and terrified me. I didn't quite believe him, but I was still afraid to peek out the window into the dark forest at night.