8 of Pentacles

Too much force applied too suddenly. A very rapid rush, but quickly passed and expended.\r\n\r\nSwiftness, rapidity, courage, boldness. Theft and robbery.\r\n\r\nYOU GOT THE POWER-UP.

8 of Swords

Too much force.

8 of Wands

Investment. Seeds waiting to grow. Putting something away for a rainy day; gambling with the odds thoroughly calculated.

99 of Cups

Recursion.

99 of Swords

Fission.

99 of Pentacles

One of the things any artist doing a Tarot deck in this day and age must ask herself is "How can I update this 15th-century creation to reflect modern times?". This is my humble contribution for a much louder age: each suit has a 99th card, without the intervening 11-98.\r\n\r\nThe 99 of Pentacles - or Coins - is the Lord of Every Extend. It is in the house of Virgo. In divination, when upright, its meaning is <i>A FREE MAN!</i>. Inverted, it portends the loss of all your power-ups.

99 of Wands

Starbaby.

9. The Hermit

Retreating, searching. Time grows apart.

9 of Cups

Complete happiness, almost perfection thereof. Vanity, conceit. Goodness and generosity with a touch of foolishness.

9 of Pentacles

Immense, unstoppable force. Accurate delivery thereof. Success - but with strife. Victory - after fear.

9 of Swords

Despair, cruelty, lying, subtle dishonesty. Yet another unpleasant card from the high end of the Swords.

9 of Wands

Material gain. Compounding of interest. Power begets power.

Nobody wanted to talk about Ophelia's new modifications. Everyone knew she'd go on for hours.

a beautiful machine

Front page image for my redesigned website. Said website has only been tested on browsers I can run on my Powerbook; I hope to make it work on IE this weekend.\r\n\r\nIllustrator CS2.

A Long-Anticipated Rendezvous

I decided to participate in Reddit's "Arbitratry Day" gift exchange. The guy I was matched with said he liked "Computers, video games, books, music, t-shirts 2xl, bicycles, narwhals, bacon, midnight." Which didn't give me much to go on. But his icon was a photo of Gonzo and Animal as Dr. Gonzo and Raoul Duke, and he seemed to like some Portal merch in a previous exchange… so I hatched a cunning plan.\r\n\r\nOriginally I was gonna cast Janice as Chell, but after I did the rough of Piggy I realized that the obsessive one-way dynamic between her and Kermit pretty much matches GLaDOS and Chell.

Cover art for a double album that never was?\r\n\r\nIllustrator CS2.

a private katabasis

Giving in to that weird late-night urge to draw some of my semi-self-image characters as boys. Sosael/Atazael is a lot saner than she used to be, but she's still fundamentally crazy, and still gets off on blood and death. (Or, rather, 'he' in this particular moment.) This preference is kinda creepily perky now, though.

A Promise of Burnished Copper

Old sketch from 2010. I was originally going to use this as a testbed for playing with DrawScribe but I ended up using my tried-and-true methods.

A Sacrifice, Considered

Spelunky fan-art for a friend.

Conflicted Memento

I found these cute little lockets and decided to make an artifact from Absinthe's life - this is, I suppose, her father and mother.\r\n\r\nI have three more of these. Want one? Sixty bucks and I'll draw whatever you like to go inside as long as it's sepia-tone; you'll also get a digital copy of the art at icon sizes!

Absinthe T-shirt

T-shirt design for the comic I've been working on the past few months. Will be available (with the right URL) sometime after I launch the comic.

Ace of Cups

Water in its most secret and original form. Fertility, beauty, pleasure, happiness. Productivity.

Ace of Pentacles

Will and Fire. Force.

Ace of Swords

The root of the powers of Air. Invoked power; justice, force, strength through trouble.

Ace of Wands

The Root of the Powers of Earth.

angels think they're harpies\r\n\r\nGouache, acrylic.

Another Dissatisfied Customer

The oracle never gives you what you want.\r\n\r\nA mixture of a never-really-used remix of an old muck character of mine, reading Gorey's "L'Heure Bleue", and the residue of a day mostly spent thinking in spirals.

An Egyptian rabbit, drawn after some meditation on cliches of species/costume pairs. . Or is she just a well-costumed flapper? One or the other. Digital coloring done over three days in Illustrator 9 atop now-vanished traditional inks; no actual reference used for costume design, only my mental store of Egyptian costume cliches picked up from countless Nile valley furry drawings by many other artists.

Apogee

Probably the most joyously inappropriate winter holiday card ever.

Arial, for Ashtoreth's birthday. Uncensored version.\r\n\r\nI chose to emphasize her sinuousness and evil instead of her mammaries and genitalia, as most art of her has.\r\n\r\nArial is owned and operated by Ashtoreth, not me. *grin*