My exciting #AlexFARAWAYscifi #yascifi Trilogy is now an ongoing #comic Adventure too! I'm adding new pages on #comicfury. A unique #SciFiSeries that is reviewed on IG as "truly breathtaking"🚀✨️
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I'm having fun designing my own #graphicnovel of book 1 in the Alex Faraway #SciFiFantasy adventure. Check out the suspenseful intro at #comicfury 👇🏽👽 📚💙🪐 #YAscifi #ComicBook | Catch up with Alex tonight🚀
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Calling all comic book lovers! Check out my newest foray (ya, that's right - foray ;) into the comics' realm as I translate each of my books into graphic novels at #comicfury 🚀 #comics #graphicnovel 📚💙🪐
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Check out this new online bookstore [Motivated Savages] for all kinds of excellent #ebook reads! #ReadingCommunity I put my 'Alex FARAWAY' Trilogy up on their site last week and here it is in the YA section!😎💙📚
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The Anchor pub in oil. I worked on this one for ages, leaving it alone for periods and put it through quite a few changes
This oil painting shows the Anchor pub in Cambridge on Silver Street. Dated 2016 it sold probably in a Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition
#Cambridge #TheAnchor #oilpainting
Young Alex Faraway and Big Ben, the giant construction-bot venture out of his workshop and into the darkness to investigate strange lights and sounds emanating from the old, abandoned junkyard nearby. A colourful countryside sunset glows on the distant horizon.
Big Ben’s spotlights cut through the shadowy gloom of the junkyard as the two creep cautiously into the maze of scrap-iron and discarded robots. Suddenly, Ben’s lights shine on dark, elusive creatures which scuttle off into the gathering shadows. Wicked, winking eyes follow their steps, and cunning minds plot their next moves.
Rounding a sharp corner, Alex comes face-to-face with an unusual girl who has just emerged from a hidden tunnel from which glows a faint, bluish light. The girl kneels in the shelter of a large junk-pile, wearing odd leather buckskins and a turban round her head. Alex’s flashlight illuminates the strange scene before him. Suddenly, she glares at them and quickly draws a glow, sparking weapon from a sheath at her hip. “No, wait!” Alex yells!
![Suddenly, from out of the darkness, a strange robotic creature flashes down with incredible speed - a large, metallic dragonfly with glowing wings and threatening weapons at the ready! A strong gust of wind blows sand and grit in Alex’s face as the strange girl stands behind the protective Dragonfly. A full moon glows in the dark sky. [This picture isn’t finished yet]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wubh46536myetghryjsldp77/bafkreibbwarswg3rzfi5idwzom7jchfsfva22fanh4yy74ushrakvcs2ci)
Suddenly, from out of the darkness, a strange robotic creature flashes down with incredible speed - a large, metallic dragonfly with glowing wings and threatening weapons at the ready! A strong gust of wind blows sand and grit in Alex’s face as the strange girl stands behind the protective Dragonfly. A full moon glows in the dark sky. [This picture isn’t finished yet]
New scenes of my ongoing project to make a cinematic book trailer for Book 1 - ‘Alex FARAWAY (And The Last MARTIAN)’. I scan pencil drawings into #AutoDeskSketchBook where I use layers, colours & effects. Procreate is used sometimes too. #DigitalArt #BookArt #SciFiArt #BlueSkyArt #AuthorIllustrator
Easy enough to follow for the first half. but harder science and figures made the second half a bit more challenging. Still very interesting, in terms of telescope development timelines.
I'm gonna end up reading a lot I think, b/c online is depressing.
#booksky
I enjoy studying (and at least trying to comprehend) many things cosmic as well. They feed the curiosity of your mind and are great distractions from the usual news which can be a bit of a downer🙄
Happy New Year!🖐️😎
The interior of the peridioles of Nidula niveotomentosa (a birds nest fungus) have surprising green fluorescence in 365 nanometer UV light. Photographed yesterday in Mendocino County, California.
Sliced in half with a sharp razor blade.
#fungi #mycology #mushrooms #fungifriends #uvphotography
In your opinion:
What’s the difference between a cliff hanger and an open ending?
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An open ending leaves the reader wondering, while a cliff-hanger makes the reader crave for more.
I started writing Erased after years of frustration with the direction of our world.
Feeling like people were blind to the truth.
This is by far one of the best compliments from a reader so far. She understood what Erased is.
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Thanks, Anders, this is the fun part for me, fur sure.😉 I’ve learned how to scan my sketches onto iPad, then use Procreate or Auto Desk Sketchbook to finish them. It’s amazing how far things have come with drawing digital pictures! I will be making a trailer for each book of my trilogy😎👍🚀✨
As Alex Faraway and Big Ben, the construction-bot search for the strange lights in the shadowy maze of the old junkyard, dark, scuttling, cat-sized creatures stalk them through the night.
This final scene of my Book Trailer shows a swarm of black robotic Flies gathering and preparing to attack Alex and his companions. Alex FARAWAY (And The Last MARTIAN) is a richly illustrated adventure series for an escape into a unique mind-bending world of colour and excitement unlike any other.
Alex FARAWAY (And The Last MARTIAN) book cover. Two hands - one an astronaught’s, one a Martian’s - reach out to one another above Mars. A glowing green orb floats between them. A star-field glimmers in the background.
Two more scenes from the Book Trailer I’m creating with #AutoDeskSketchBook. I scan my pencil-sketches into the app, then finish them on iPad. (No A.I.). I’m enjoying this part of the process because I can imagine each scene then draw and adjust/refine the process further. #SciFiArt #DigitalPainting
While fixing one of his robots one night, Alex Faraway sees a flash of light in the abandoned junkyard nearby his isolated farmhouse.
Alex sees glowing lights in the shadowy maze of scrap-iron, not far from his workshop. One of his robots joins him as they leave the workshop.
Big Ben, a giant “construction-bot” follows Alex protectively as they step into the darkness to investigate the odd occurrence.
They come upon a strange girl hiding in the shadows. She has just emerged from a tunnel from which a faint aqua-blue light glows. Startled, she rounds on them and draws a strange, sparking device from a sheath at her hip. “No, wait!” Alex yells!
Some new scenes that I’ve drawn to add to the cinematic book trailer I’m creating for Book 1 of my series: ‘Alex FARAWAY (And The Last MARTIAN)’. I scan pencil-sketches into AutoDeskSketchBook where the rest of the shading and colours are done. #SciFi #BookArt #YAscifi 💙📚🪐 #BookTrailer #DigitalArt 🚀
Here are the first few storyboards for the Book 1 trailer I'm working on. #AlexFARAWAYscifi #SciFi #BookTrailer #sff #YouTubeChannel youtube.com/shorts/PnPHm...
A richly illustrated #SFF trilogy of #SciFiFantasy escapism novels for Young Adults and anyone who is still a kid at heart! Catch the suspense, mystery and high adventure! Catch up with Alex FARAWAY tonight! 📚💙 #ReadingCommunity #YAscifi #Readers #SciFiBooks #scifiseries
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A richly illustrated trilogy of #SciFiFantasy escapism novels for Young Adults and anyone who is still a kid at heart! Catch the suspense, mystery and high adventure! Catch up with #AlexFARAWAYscifi tonight!
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This Christmas, why not read a FRIGHT-licious story too!👽👀🎄 📚💙 #SciFiThriller #AlexFARAWAYscifi #yascifi #scifiseries #scifibooks #scififantasy #Amazonbooks
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What if the canals of Mars are really there, just hidden under the sand? And what if the Martians are there, too, just waiting to be awakened? One is here now, but only one boy knows about her, and his name is Alex Faraway. A richly illustrated #SciFiFantasy action-adventure!🚀✨️ a.co/d/0QNf73L
The cunning, wicked, robotic Flies of ‘Alex FARAWAY And The Last MARTIAN’, in a new, threatening scene for my upcoming book trailer. | #digitalart #sff #digitaldrawing 💙📚🪐 #YAscififantasy #scififantasyart | Amazon link in my Bio. | Christmas Sale of the complete Alex FARAWAY trilogy is On Now!🚀💥
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Our feature tutorial/artist for today is by the talented @miyuliart! Drawing FOLDED ARMS is an exercise in THINKING about how the forms STACK, this explains it well! #characterdesign #manga #illustration
A sci-fi scene in which a boy named Alex Faraway is working on a long-armed robot when he is startled by a flash of light in an abandoned junkyard near his workshop. Part of a scene from ‘Alex FARAWAY And The Last MARTIAN’.
A new illustration for the book trailer l’m making. I use Autodesk Sketchbook. The trailer is for book 1 of my ‘Alex Faraway’ #SciFi series. 💙📚🪐 #SciFiArt #DigitalArt #AlexFARAWAYscifi on Amazon: a.co/d/4256jH7 🚀✨
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Hey #SciFiFantasy readers, check out my YouTube channel for colourful, exciting #SciFi updates!🚀✨️🎄 📚💙
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A near-future, spoke-legged robot in a workshop, being repaired by a boy wearing goggles. Blues, greens, reds and yellows color the scene. Sunlight shines through cracks in the boards of the old workshop. Tools hang on hooks at a workbench beside the boy. The robot’s name is “Legs” because of his many stick-like legs. The boy’s name is Alex Faraway.
The cover for Alex FARAWAY And The Last MARTIAN. Two hands reach out to each other above Mars. Glowing green lights shine between them. A starfield glimmers in the background.
This is a workshop scene that I’ll use in my Cinematic Book Trailer to promote my ‘Alex Faraway’ #scifiseries. I like vibrant, cartoon-like colors that make my illustrations pop! #YAscifi #SciFiBooks #SciFiFantasy #YALit #EpicYA #SpaceFantasy #HighConcept | On Amazon: read.amazon.ca/sample/B00X6...
