Interesting abandoned stuff.

Hello, internet.

Like I said last week, here's some of my photos.
Mostly abandoned places and industrial coolness.

Hello!

Yo, so E's been out of the offices since the ninth. And Mr. Tep (who is a dick) finally gave me access to the site. So...yeah.

Anyway, this is Ali W. reporting in. E gave me a whole list of post ideas and some post-its on old files that would make good post-fodder. But I'll get to those later. I've got some photos to find and get those up.

I'm at the wheel now!

Ali W. out!

Sketch book: ESS Staff.

The last two of my ESS staff inspired doodles.

Anita and Evey.

Anita is a field agent, she has a little bad luck dæmon that hangs out with her like a ferret.  I don't think she sleeps much, she takes coffee breaks like some people take smoke breaks.

Like Evey.  Evey is a research agent, but claims to have been dead for a few decades.  Given her demeanor, pallor and ability to drink tequila, I don't doubt it too much.

Sketch book: ESS Staff.

Here's the next in my ESS staff doodles...Featuring the adorkable pair required, by law, to be in any organization.  They're field agents, meaning they deal with all the nasties that Dr. Jones tells them they need to deal with.

Irik and Jane.

Irik is well versed in runes and circuitry.  Jane is a cryptographer and translator (not that she's ever around when I need either of those things).  They've been dating for a year or so and actually met at one of the ESS spring gallery events (read: movies, drinks, and an old book or two on display).
They often crash-out on the couch in the ESS waiting area/break room/filing room after a job.

Sketch book: ESS Staff.

I spend a not insignificant amount of time in the main branch of the New York public library doing work on ESS side projects.  Just like both my internship and night job it involves a lot of filing and data entry.  So I was doodling in the N. Tep offices and Mr. Tep thought my cartoons were quaint and demanded I put them up.  Demanded at sword point, which was new...

Krystal.

Krystal's one of the ESS R&D people.  On her off time she basically lives in a chunk of the ESS stacks she claimed when Dr. Jones hired her.  She does a LOT of research into Fay and the Children of Oberon.  She also has an obsession with a figure she calls "the color thief."

Since world travels are drawing me away from the offices for a few days, I should be able to keep up a buffer...

If posts stop for more than a week, leave a note on the left paw of 'Patience'.  It needs to be inscribed with the Angel's sigil of the day the last post went up.  It needs to be addressed to "N. Tep Esq." and must have the numerals 3-19-27-57 on it somewhere...

Just in case, you see.

Also: in my stead, should it be required, Ali W. of the ESS will be assisting in posts.

You guys will like her, she's unusual.

Sketch book: Monsieur.

I think he lives in the same portion of my brains as the bird-headed doctor...

Monsieur likes light-bulbs, but is curious about what happens when they're dark and cold.  Are they still light-bulbs or are they dark-bulbs?

...A dark-bulb sounds like an awesome invention.  To the labs!

Old sculptures: Headus Crabus, the common headcrab.

Who here has played Half Life or Half Life 2?

...

Really?  No one?

Well, Half Life is a shooter that centers around the physicist Gordon Freeman(he can kick your ass).  Mostly, Dr. Freeman finds himself fighting off hostile aliens, mutated humans and other sci-fi baddies.

The enemy everyone loves to hate is the head crab.

We hate them so much!

These things look kinda harmless, don't they?

"SCREEE!"

HOLY CRAP!  

They screech and jump at you, trying to couple with your head and turn you into a horrible zombie thing.

So, of course, I had to make one eventually.

Look out!  He'll eat your brains!

But no one's gonna eat your eyes...

Sketch book:

My buddy Zach wants to do a comic collaboratively about the end of the world.  So, here's Fenrir, alos one of the Dragons of the Bible.

Also:

Jörmungund, the Midgar serpent.

Sketch book: The Ringlady and the Brigand.

If you read the Dapper Cat Carnival story, you might follow me on this....

Even though it's not perfect in terms of anatomy....

Sketch book: Writing on the Wall.

Sometimes, the ideas come from a song.  This is from The Dear Hunter, Act III: The Life and Death.  Specifically the first track from the album; The Writing on the Wall.  It's the opening line from a song about the trenches in WW1.  

I think my sculpture idea is appropriate for the feel of the line...

Sketch book!

Today, the sketch post is dedicated to the stuff too insane random to have an individual post.

The pack-fish of Arizona

Well, Robare is a skunk.

Picknose, from Elfquest.

A spinal column centipede thing...I have no idea where it came from...

Some more Ignalat sketches.  

I was working from descriptions, notes and some rough (very rough) sketches from Dr. Petran.  Although the portraiture here is more or less spot on (as far as human anatomy goes).

Sketch book: bird doctor.

Somewhere along the line I thought a clockwork/alchemystic automaton with the plague mask for a head was a really keen idea.  In any drawings of it, it's usually speaking in symbols...

Sketch book: Fish balloon.

I had to alter the text post doodle because my hand writing is illegible.