For the life of me, I have no idea what this thin fox-thing with the boneless arms is. I've been going through a complete lack of inspiration recently and nothing I work on seems to fashion itself well under my fingers. Sigh.

One of the cute things that the third edition of Dungeons
and Dragons has are the various templates that can be added
to creatures to change them into otherworldly beings. One
of these is the Celestial template. So here is a picture
of my Birman cat, Jara, as a Celestial.

"Chaos Conquers All"

I've been working on my Chaos Warhammer army (all
power to the Great and Glorious Slaneesh!), so I
decided to ink a chaos beastie while on camp.

The 'dies irae' in the background means 'Day of
Wrath'.

"Chesh vs the Universe"

A b-grade movie poster. There may as well be a lava lamp
in the background. Done for the May Competition at Velar.
Chesh is a thievish bounty hunter type character with a
raygun, yes!

The horror, the horror!
Chibi-Silverblue. Because I needed a logo for the new
website I'm developing.

I've finally finished my first painted piece. The
medium is gouache, on a reasonably heavy paper. The fox
is wearing a traditional Chinese theatre costume, her knife
being nothing more than a prop.
Having no experience of painting prior to this image, I am
extremely pleased with the way it has turned out. Gouache
seems to be a very forgiving medium, amenable to reworking
and shading. This is possibly one of the most enjoyable
images I have ever worked on.

The pencil doodle for this image started in my rough sketchbook while I was at the Dan O'Connell pub and then gradually proceeded to ink from there. This was done while under the influence of Scrumpy Jack, so naturally I had no idea what the siamese cat was actually doing.

Later on, one of my friennds commented that he looked like he was doing a chi-strike, so I quickly tried to pretend I'd meant it all along. I'm cunning like that.

It's Ch'marr, the caffeine powered cheetah, in a horribly awful scan. Anyway, here he is, lunging for the object of his desire. That would be the Evil Black Fluid (tm).

The little doodles I do while watching Buffy or Angel tend
to be in a different style, probably because I can't
concentrate on complex shading while I'm trying to watch
something else. But I was thinking of growth and the
unconscious and how it's occassionally represented as a
dark, frightening wood that you have to journey through to
reach a new understanding of yourself.

So this is Clarabelle and her wood of the unconscious.
She's not exactly scared, more wary, but possibly still a
little naive even now - but she has the shadows of her
dress and hair to protect her.

*crunch* <licklicklick> I *still* think this is the only appropriate way for the gothbunny to deal with most foxes ;)

The horrible thing about this is that the swaths and
swaths of delicate shading haven't shown up in the
scan at all. Nothing. Nada. Damnit, I spent hours
blending this - what happened?
This rather uglier version of Cloud Dancer is Copyright
Silverblue 2002.

Clouded leopard/bird of paradise griffon.

Colour Sample Squirrel

Colour sample ideas for the leadlight glass concept.

This is a commission piece (and so the dear creature is copyright Jurann) of a hyena in a vaguely roman bath setting. At first I was not quite sure how to represent a herm character with any kind of delicacy, then I remembered a greek statue I had seen in the Hermitage museum. It was of a teenaged herm, curled up asleep, and completely at peace and innocent. I tried to copy the expression as much as possible, and this is the result.

This is a commission piece of a nice gentle kangaroo character called Mikey, who is copyright his creator, Sloan. I'm currently having all manner of scanner heart attacks, carefully chosen to time in with my somewhat ill state right now. So this is a low-res scan until I can beat it into submission. Enjoy Mikey :)

This is Coyote, done for a friend who's going through their exams at the moment as a good luck piece. It's all pencilwork.

This native American themed coyote lady is copyright her creator Mr Heinsohn. I have a fondness for dream catchers, even though being owned by a cat means that they tend to suffer abrupt and horrible deaths. In any case, I would like to be able to make them...

I recently reread an ancient story of mine and have attempted to draw one of the evil creatures from it, a Dalgorri, which is vaguely like an undead gryphon. I'm having immense fun with these half-finished ink and pencil works. They're somehow very freeing.

It's a strange thing, catharsis. But it's something I need, and the
easiest way to achieve it is to dance. I'm not a particularly wonderful
dancer, by any means, but I enjoy it. It's like lightning in the blood.
There's nothing like throwing your head back and feeling the pain peel
out into the violence of music and noise. There's nothing like undoing
the boundaries of your own skin.

Dark Harbringer, Copyright 2005 Ceredwyn Ealanta

In the sping a young doe's thoughts lightly turn to thoughts...er, well, of
something we'd probably rather not think about. Silverblue the Gothbunny
smirking at something probably best left unsaid. An old picture.

Decolor

An artswap with Decolordomina.

Happy Halloween, from Deep Purr the Chakat!

You can still be paint. Blood can be fixed with the
right mordant. Everything will be fine.

Don't worry your pretty little head about it. Remember -
if you're not suffering, the likelihood is that you're
not doing it deeply enough.

An odd little unfinished dragonfly drawn while on a rockclimbing trip at Mount Arapiles. The plant he's crawling on is a strawflower - unfortunately he's unfinished because Araps is dusty and the paper's in bad condition.

Each Uisge

The each uisge, pronounced ek-ooshkya is a Scottish water spirit, in Ireland called the Aughisky, and is similar to the kelpie, but far more dangerous.

Eapa the winged, vaguely mammalian snake of FurryMUCK, and hopefully a decent picture of her this time. She is copyright herself.

Wikipedia saith: A Sphinx is an iconic image of a recumbent lion with a human head, invented by the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom, but a cultural import in archaic Greek mythology, where it received its name (Greek &#931;&#966;&#953;&#957;&#958;, "strangler").

Strangler! I wonder why? I suppose it might be because lions often strangle their prey by biting hard down on the throat.

Endless Forest Doe

I play the Endless Forest (http://www.taleoftales.com/TheEndlessForest/home.html) when I can, and I enjoy it a lot. The one thing that always saddens me is the fact you cannot play a doe. The stated reasons essentially boil down to 'females are boring' more than anything else. I could go on for a while, really, about how sad and disenfranchised the whole computer game industry makes me feel. But have an Endless Forest Doe instead.

I have been listening to far too much Cure and Gary Numan.
In Lacunae, Silverblue lives in an abandoned church, and
no matter how she would like to join society, cannot due
to the machinations of her pack and master Crimson. An
exile in truth.