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

random garbage truck

Landscape practice

Landscape practice

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.

Drove through Bodega Bay recently

This movie is crazy!

Classic

Classic

Classic (hover car from the TV version)

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

John Deere fan art

Lovecraft's Dunwich Horror

The Call of Cthulhu

Hector Tobar's The Tattooed Soldier

David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet

Dan Simmons' Drood

Mario Vargas Llosa's Death in the Andes

food + cars + portraits!

more food and cars: Chicago pizza

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

fisherman's wharf classic

everytime I go to LA

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!)

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