Sketchbook work.

Sketchbook work.

Sketchbook work.

Sketchbook work.

Sketchbook work.

Sketchbook work.

The Power of the Human Will
and the Hunger to survive knows no bounds.
The story is about a nameless soul
facing it's darkest night
and fighting to return to the light of day.
That Strength lies within all of us.

At the Peak of Effort he looks on his bike as though he is fighting an imaginary enemy.
He is a pedaller of violence.
Eddie Merckx, the Cannibal.

Sketchbook work, Verithin Pencil on bond paper.

owl, watercolor on bristol board. 5"x7".

Sketchbook work, Verithin Pencil on bond paper.

Every setback has purpose,
to build character.
To push a person into greatness.

Sketchbook, Prismacolor Verithin, practice sketches copied from Figure Drawing: Design and Invention, by Michael Hampton.

Owl, watercolor on Bristol board. 5x7.

Abyssinian cat, watercolor on Bristol board.

He had left home with high hopes and now
he was right back where he had started
with nothing to show for it but a few wasted years.

-a young Septimius Severus,
a nobody provincial who would one day rule Rome as Emperor.