Blast from the Past #364: Unfinished drawings

Here are a group of unfinished drawings, all done on similarly-sized pieces of Bristol board -- and I can't remember why I drew them. They are most likely from the late 1970's or early 1980's. There is a clue to the "why" of one of them -- in the drawing in the lower lefthand corner, there is a handwritten caption reading "The student Anselmus sees the snakes in the elder tree…" I believe this is a reference to a character in E.T.A. Hoffman's "The Golden Pot", a book I read and liked after hearing it read on the "Reading Aloud" program on NPR, which I often used to listen to as I drew.

There is something about the sizes of these things that makes me think I had a plan to use them for some project, but for the life or me, I can't recall what it might have been. (I hate that.) -- PL

Blast from the Past #273: Another "alien bar" scene (unfinished)

Much like the "Blast from the Past" #134 I posted back in Jauary of 2009, this is yet another drawing inspired by the original "Star Wars" cantina scene. I can't recall whether I drew this as a stand-alone piece or if it was intended to be part of a comic book story, but I am pretty sure it was done in the late 1970's. I can't remember why I didn't finish inking it. It's kind of interesting how I used almost the exact same perspective for the bar scene in both pieces. -- PL