Art of the Twisted

• Shadowcleaver. A very nice sharp thing. I'm proud of this one.
• Marr'irr'anaka. A mirror-polished sharp thing that Aris uses.
• Starlit Sword. One of the things I churned out trying to find The Perfect Sword Texture.
• Shadowsword. I wanted to do a sort-of Shadow sword, and came up with this. Of course, it's kind of screwed up because my render program stopped working.
• Yet Another Sharp Thing. Getting back into the swing of things, here's a sword and shield that I did without stealing anything from the Ray Dream objects files.
• A Runesword. Another sword I did completely independent of gimmicks. It probably has lousy balance, but it's SHINY!

• Dancing Dwagin. I did some sketching while watching my studio's pointe class. This dwagin came out particularly well, so I colored her. My first successful coloring job ever!
• My muse. All artists have muses. They're the 'monkey on your back' that Heinleien talked about. Mine is... a little different than the classical Greek idea.
• One-Man Band. I got bored after completing my math final, so I dug up my mini-sketchpad(My sketchpads are of two sizes: too big and too small.) This is the drawing I finished. Then, when school got out, I got even boreder(More bored?) and colored it. Stare in awe. I did.
• Angel, or 'More scribbles from Japanese class.' You're allowed one lens flare in Photoshop per year. This is mine for 2001.
• *sigh* I do stuff for my own stories, too, at times. However, most of the time my artistry skills are incredibly lousy. Believe me. I mean that. The fact that anything up on this page is good is a fluke; most of my human figures look like those little Italian guys running around in the first panel of that comic. However, since I was really really really really bored and didn't want to work on my chemistry project, I decided to see if I could sketch something... and ended up doing some pics of Mark, from the end of All's Fair. So here they are:
  • Two views of this Mark guy. I drew the profile shot first, then decided to do a happy smiling Mark 'cause he's supposed to be on a perpetual sugar high. See some more of my fear of drawing legs.
  • Mark in bell bottoms. Okay, so I decided I was a wuss 'cause I hate drawing legs, so I decided to draw a full-body shot of Mark. In bell bottoms. Because I hate bell bottoms.
  • Vanessa, Matt's third la... er, the smouldering temptress Illuminati gargoyle chick. Two views so you can see those lovely wings. And yes, that is a really cheap background, and I'm not sorry.
• A few more sketches from stories; this time characters from Love and War. In alphabetical order by filename 'cause I'm lazy.
  • Alex and Flynn
  • Flynn, slightly surprised. In color!
  • Terrence, working on something. Not really from either story, but I was bored, and... enh.
  • Winter, in an evening gown. I got out the colored pencils and the pens, and I can color! Whee!
  • Winter's face. I drew this to reassure myself that I can draw, and that I can draw the same face twice. I like drawing Winter - she's easy to do.
  • Winter getting fitted for that dress. A cute pic I did in a few moments of insanity.
  • An old sketch of Mark I just dug up.
• Demons and Angels. Don't ask. Just... don't ask.
• AUGH! MY HALO! OH THE HUMANITY!
• Our Friend the Devil, in a picture that actually has something to do with the above two. ... Don't ask.
• Jita-Fthosa'chrotantsas'Atollis-Semlarilu'su, or Jita'su for short, from Courage After Fire. I'm way not as good as DarkSide is, but here's my take on Zibblsnrt's Tap'annu. And here's Latal Ter-thien in sketch form, something I was working on while thinking about my Humanities 110(Greece) classwork... can you tell?
• Anubis. I was actually trying to draw something else, but what the hey.
• Tiger, a Th'varian. So, besides doing things using other people's races, I sometimes come up with my own critters. Th'varians are a race idea I was playing with a looong time ago, and have dug up occasionally and tried to make less... well, childish. Anyway, this is Tiger. The important things that you can't see in this picture are the tail and the Big Sword that she constantly carries.
• Shadow at the Firetrap. Shadow is a male Th'varian--note the lack of wings and muscles. Oooh, characterization. He's drinking N!!thren'das, which is perfectly safe to drink(note the white diamond on the container--that's a chemical safety warning, and white means okay,) but it does funny things to reality. See the flaming bar rag. The bartender is none other than Darron, from Joey Hetzel's Tonja Steele, and I didn't give him big enough muscles. Drat.
• Tanya Hydrisco, a character from my parts of the NES. Wow, I'm learning how to draw!
• This is not Demona's little sister. Honest.
• All's Fair title caption. I was planning to do more with this, but since I'm finally updating I thought I'd start here.
• Exploitation Now fanart. Pretty self-explanatory. Done while not in a right state of mind, but that describes a lot of the time.
• Feonix, a character from that sequel to Dragon Wings and Shiny Things I've denied writing for a while.
• James and Michelle, from Life Sucks, Bite Me.
• Gmm^tak. Thirdpilot for an alien exploration fleet. From another story that I'm probably not going to finish any time soon.
• King of the Underpants Gnomes. For a friend's MMORPG somewhere.
• Mark, at a campfire. Yay, more distracting picturage.
• Phoenix, dying. If you name a character 'Elysium Sundance', she has to die painfully. Again, from that promised sequel to DWST.
• Sprite, or "something I scrawled during conference when I was supposed to be discussing the Aeneid."
• Goblin guy and some neat armor. World concept I'm working with. I got tired of stupid, ugly goblins everywhere.
• Same armor, different guy. Halfling-sized humanoid guy wearing that goblin armor. Concept piece I did prior to the above picture.
• Oops! In a roleplaying game this past year, we had a halfling thief who, during a battle, decided on his own initiative to duck through the action and intercept a messenger crawling down the pit in the center of the room. He made a tremendous tumbling roll, made it through five attacking goblins, and took a flying leap - into an 80 foot deep pit. He then failed his reflex save and two or three rolls to catch a vine to stop his fall. Can't win 'em all.
• Keldar Frostbeard, and his... friend. From the same campaign. Poor kid.
• Height comparison for a world I'm playing with. Eventually I'd like to get as far as a GURPS supplement.
• Hydroponics. More stuff for that universe. I actually have the first bit of a comic-book-like story drawn. And a whole lot of doodles.
• Falling is like... Angsty little drawing I did when I was... well, depressed. And mad. Lyrics by Ani DiFranco. Nastyness by yours truly.
• Golden Age of--waitaminute. Fanart I did for the fun adventure comic Golden Age of Adventurers. Roland's orcs meet one of mine. I will probably clean this up and CG it when I get ahold of my graphics tablet again.

I got this really great and free flame fractal editing/rendering program called Apophysis and I've been making some art objects with it, occasionally in conjunction with Photoshop. I make up for not having much artistic skill by giving the resulting pictures really pretentious names.

• Butterfly Coins
• ArcLight/Smoke
• Gödel's Knot
• Sharp-Limbed Egg of the World State
• Bird Clouds
• Elysian Manifold
• Lissajous Figurine
• Quobic Zirconia

• Something in the Air Tonight. Another Fun With Photoshop piece, except this time I grew up a bit. This is a wallpaper(in that it's 1024 by 768) put together from three things - a nifty Astronomy Picture of the Day, a screenshot from the ballet Blue Suede Shoes, and a Phil Collins song on infinite repeat. Text copyright someone else.
• Stiletto, part Four. This is the image from the Fourth part of the html version of Stiletto. I had a fun time making this image, so I'm going to take advantage of the fact that this is MY web page to go off on a tangent for a while. Okay?
  Cool, then. I got the idea for this image from Susan Ching's stuff on impromanga.org, especially her work on Point Blank Assassin(Note: that's where the "Good morning, [Hy-de]" comes from.) I wrote this part of the story completely in dialogue format with the intention of doing something like this. The pic of Mulder I grabbed from one of those X-Files fansites out there somewhere, and it's from the ep Paper Hearts. Hey, I needed something with angsty Mulder images, and I got one... ahem. So, yeah, one pic, used the monochrome filter in Corel Photo-Paint, exported to photoshop, add lots of text effects, and place on black background. Voila. I really think it's the text effects that make it, though. Oh, yeah. I'm a writer, not an artist. Yeah. Go words.