Out with the old, in with the old.

Winter solstice, 2004.

I don't like winter.

Same-day emergency birthday commission - Revar the vampire bat looking noir and dreamy.

I wish my favorite pen hadn't clogged, forcing me to work with what else was handy.

Original character created by Watts Martin, borrowed by the person who plays her on Furrymuck, for whose birthday this was made. Confused yet?

Birthday commission - Revar the vampire bat looking noir and dreamy.

Original character created by Watts Martin, borrowed by the person who plays her on Furrymuck, for whose birthday this was made. Confused yet?

Heavy use of transparency.

Ring Out

Fan art for <a href=http://www.webcomicsnation.com/mike_luce/fite/>a friend's comic</a>.

A fragment, altered to stand alone.

Illustrator 10. From a scribble that kinda scared people.

Is it Robert Smith of the Cure? Or is it Elric, also called the White Wolf, also called Kinslayer?<p>Whichever. Late-night Coca-Cola hyperness. Illustrator tones, some Photoshop texture muck.

This one proves that even back in '97, I was subject to Big Hand Disease.

It's one of Paul Defenbaugh's characters, a blue raccoon named Rosalie, and I drew her with a few touches deliberately borrowed fro his style. Pen and ink; colored pencil. He has the original.

Just your basic raccoon girl, doodled direct in Illustrator over a couple lazy hours after I noticed that Maya Lanski had favorited all my raccoon pieces on DeviantArt.

Your guess is as good as mine. A bus doodle I impulsively decided to clean up in two colors.

(The background and signature are a 50% mix of the two colors used.)

Direct in AI, no underlying pencil rough for a change.

Inspiration: Gorey's 'L'Heure Blue' and my currently tummultuous personal life.

Seven Seconds Seven Seconds Seven Seconds

Hexagons done with NodeBox.

The rains rushed in to fill the void.

It's nice to relax. It's really nice to relax.

The Siege of Syracuse (back cover)

That previous piece looked like an album cover. So I made the back.

The Australian gothbunny of Furry. Drawn rather quickly very late one night when she said what's quoted on the image, and Illustratored (is that a verb?) as that night shaded into morning.

Wolf ala Frank Miller's 'Sin City' comics. I called the file 'Sin Dog' because
'Sin Wolf' just sounds... stupid. Originally uploaded with a parodically
cutsey description, that none of the 'artists' I was parodying with it probably
understood. Darn.

The third part of 'December Flowers'; the other two are 'Chanteuse' and 'Mastermind'.

One is a few weeks old; the other five were done today while I waited for some art to be ready for me to animate in Flash. Arranged semi-unevenly on a sketchbook page for your viewing convenience. When I finished the cat in the upper left, I felt as if I'd been posessed by Megan Giles for a moment...

Just fooling around, really.

It's long past time for a new picture of me, I think.

Originally done for the 'VCL Class Photo' project (see the thread in the 'Artwork Related' section of the forum here), I liked this enough to stick a quick abstract-psycho background on it and let it stand alone.

Illustrator paths over pencil scan, as usual.

Drawing a compact pose like this for an all-black character is not an easy thing at all, especially when eschewing linework as much as possible. I tried to keep my use of desperation lines to an absolute minimum, and make them evocative in a Hirschfield-y way.

snowblind

This image turned into the title page of a brief, cryptic comic. See it <a href=http://egypt.urnash.com/Comics/snowblind/>here</a>.

So predispose everything, Quartermaster.

Idly playing with Illustrator CS3, though i didn't actually use any of the new features.

Wait until Halloween to look at this one. *grin* I'm never in touch with the seasons.

Starbow

Singularity to duality to multitudes.

But where's the third?

Raccoons aren't as cute and cuddly as some might think. Not all of them.

Texture and transparency experiments, done in off moments between work stuff.

"Big stripey tits". A phrase that came up in conversation while walking across Boston. Later that day, the rough for this happened.

Because, hey. Big stripey tits.