Various sketches of various things by Alex Munn (back to About )

These are personal projects/unsolicited fan art, inspired by various books, stories, movies, etc.

reading a book on early oil drilling in California

Landscape practice

I just read this great book Chip Wars by Chris Miller, so I did some reasearch, trying to do a rough visual time line of early developments

Okay, here's another Chip Wars-inspired sketch, w more amateur research by me (I hope those lines/proportions are kind of accurate!)

Not fond of big spiders, and I remember these two as having been particularly creepy.

Classic

Classic

Classic

based on Stephen Crane's personal story Open Boat from 1897

David Grann's The Wager

I was reading about the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, here's what I came up with

Lovecraft's Dunwich Horror

The Call of Cthulhu

David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet

Dan Simmons' Drood

Mario Vargas Llosa's Death in the Andes

1970s donut shop

more donuts, present day

Did this a while back, looking at old vintage holiday recipes/ads (there's a game design in there somewhere!)