From late 2021 until the summer of 2023 I was working on a collaborative art book called Visions Unveiled. The basic pitch was that a bunch of artists would come up with cool speculative fiction settings and then each draw and write characters/creatures/settings for each other. It was a really neat idea that in the end I was not able to be involed with as deeply as I would have liked. I signed onto the project at just the point when I began working full-time as an artist and optimistically thought that I would have all the time in the world to work on personal projects. In the end, I only ended up writing a very small amount of the book and had to rush some of my later drawings. However, I'm still very proud of my illustrations and since you can't buy the book anymore I wanted to show them off here:

It is my honor and pleasure to be the first to disclose to you, my esteemed colleagues, and to galactic society at large a discovery of unparalleled import and auspice: the discovery, apparently by chance but almost certainly by providence, of an inhabited star system the likes of which have been hitherto unknown. Myriad lush planetoids all arrayed in a single orbit, strung together as jewels of jade and turquoise in a noblewoman's necklace. Each jewel a world, each world a forest… as such I have taken the liberty of deeming it the Sylvania System. My crew, however, insists upon their own evocative moniker: The Vacuum Jungle.

-Dispatch from the loquacious Dr. Adelaide Khaasadhe to the Pan-Terran Xenogeographical Society

This was my world for the book. The idea has been kicking around my brain for so long.

The basic idea here was that everything on the planet was covered in arthropods (kind of like dogscape but with bugs) and there was a small tribe of humans that made their homes at the highest peaks where any bugs would freeze to death. They would only come down to hunt and were otherwise cut off from the rest of human and arthropod civilization.

The Nordfields where winter's grip is never quite relinquished and the growing season is but a short gamble.

The setting here was a planet entirely covered in endless farmland. My specific pieces were inspired bythe American midwest, specifically areas with Scandinavian influence like Minnesota and Wisconsin. I was imagining giant, crumbling stave churches in endless cornfields, domesticated hodags, and itinerant monster hunters that track thunderbirds. I'd like to come back to this idea at some point, I don't feel like I've fully explored it yet.

That corn took so long to draw for so little payoff.

These are from a world where all flora and fauna has evolved from weapons devised for a forgotten war begun in the infinitely remote past. My ideas were for an apex predator whose head is a giant directed energy weapon and a herd creature with extreme sexual dimorphism where the males act as drones that watch the herd from the sky. I don't feel like I really nailed these, especially the colors.

These were for a world covered in fungus grown over the bodies of dead alien giants. My idea was that some of this fungus was hallucinogenic and could be brewed into a tea which would give the drinker visions of what they were certain were the memories of the giants. This full-page illustration is probably my least favorite that I did for the book, but I like the little skull still-life.