A Two Week Portrait Drawing Crash Course

After doing a bunch of AI-assisted portraits of fictional characters for my creative writing endeavors, as well as having done a whole bunch of photorealistic bird sketches for my Deck of Birds, I thought I might finally be ready to...

Human-Bird Symbiosis

There are lots of famous examples of mutualism, or two species cooperating to the benefit of each, in nature. Flowers and pollinators. Cleaner wrasse and sharks. Trees and mycelium. Tarantulas that keep tiny frogs as pets. But what about humans?...

Some Speculative Evolution

If you saw my previous post, you’ll know that I’ve been working on a science fiction novel that includes some elements of speculative evolution. Spec evo, as it’s known in the trade, consists of applying the universal rules of natural...