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

lighting practice

lighting practice

Happy Halloween!

desert with unrealistic cactus

Landscape practice

landscape practice

Landscape practice

desert with truck

Sonoran desert + jaguar (I was astounded to learn there are actual jaguars in southern Arizona!)

Landscape practice

Landscape practice

Landscape practice

In honor of NorCal tarantula season

Bierstadt fan art

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

old computers I remember using as a kid

One of my favorites

Another favorite (I remember eagerly bingeing this to completion back in 1998)

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

I still have my old D&D modules from the 80s!

Drove through Bodega Bay recently

Caught this vintage gem on TCM the other night

This movie is crazy!

Classic

Classic

Classic

Classic (hover car from the TV version)

Something not so old

more Stranger Things, battle at the food court

Thing fanart: tried to come up with a slighly different version, still does mimic/parasite but sheds host to become alien form

Finishing up season 2

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

Frankenstein

The Beast of Gevaudan

John Deere fan art

The Dunwich Horror

The Call of Cthulhu

More Cthulhu, Inspector Legrasse enters the swamp

Innsmouth

Gregor's room

Hector Tobar's The Tattooed Soldier

Recently re-read Michael Crichton's Prey (sorry, this one turned out a bit grisly)

David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet

David Mitchell's Slade House

Dan Simmons' Drood

Mario Vargas Llosa's Death in the Andes

Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens

David Grann's Lost City of Z

random garbage truck

random park

food + cars + portraits!

more food and cars: Chicago pizza

bygone Oakland favorite (I used to get the crab enchilada special on Friday nights!)

Marin favorite

fisherman's wharf classic

I was reading about the old Anchor brewery on Potrero Hill

more donuts, present day

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

more holiday food

doodling over an old sketch (question: can the bee pick up the taxi?)