More milkweed pods, done with a sepia colored .01 Micron.I got involved with detail tonight. 

My final Inktober offering is Bob Howard and the Ghosts of Fort McKavett.One of the more famous photos of REH is of him standing in the ruins of Ft. McKavett (TX) and he writes that this pose makes him feel like a Vandal or Goth.I used my fountain pen to spookify the Goth part. HAPPY …

One of the reasons Robert E. Howard was so successful with his Conan stories is that he created a literary genre by combining an adventure story with a horror story, dropped in some magic and Fritz Leiber later named that combo “sword & sorcery”.The monsters Howard created were usually pretty nasty, none more so than …

All right! Into the home stretch for Inktober. This one was done from a previous drawing I had, but I rearranged the composition somewhat, anticipating making this a painting. This scene was originally from a photo taken by my Inktober brother, George Tachtiris My fountain pen glided nicely across the smooth bristol board. I’ll be putting …