Iegies, my troll girl, standing under a bridge. Yes! Revel with me in my creativity! Revel!

Yes, the bridge looks pretty skimpy, but there is a reason for that. Two actaully. First, I'm not fully sure I could convincingly draw a real bridge from that angle. Second, I can rationalize having a rickety rope bridge there. Defense. You might notice the brige is running into a battlement-type protrusion. Yes, this valley has been sealed off, to keep those unrully trolls in place. Where the valley walls were not steep enough, stone walls were built. Access to valley is though gates in the wall, which open int rope bridges connecting to stair towers. Nice civilized trolls (like Iegies here. Notice the tag she keeps on her scarf) are allowed to pass through, while more unrully trolls can be kept in place by barricing the stair tower, barring the gate, or simply by cutting the rope bridge and letting them fall to thier well deserved demise.

I got on a coloring kick last week, and finished off four complete drawings. This is the first of the batch. Done in ink, then colored with Prismacolor pencils. The character in the piece was done with much care and detail, with everything being smoothed out with my oh-so-precious colorless blender. The background was done much rougher. Fewer color blends, less detail, etc. Just put down some lead to give a basic feel for the background. Used basically the same technique for all four works. This particualr drawing came out very crisp, but also very light. Barely any color at all on the valley walls. Unexpected, but not disapointing in the least.

Okay. I know I posted this before. I must have accidentally deleted it when cleaning out some undesirables from my gallery...

A bit of fanart for an online friend, Bucky. This is Mo, a character of hers. She's a furry, badger-eque alien that Vegeta meets when he get depressed and goes off-world. I drew her because, well, Bucky's a good author, and it had been a long time since I had drawn any furs. The furniture is a bit sketchy, but overall I think she turned out rather well.
Additional Credits: Bucky.
Referenced Source: Humpty Dumpty--a DBZ fanfic posted on fanfiction.net

Work-in-progress comic I'm working on. Obviously, it still needs to be inked, colored, and lettered.

Okay, basic idea behind the comic; Pietro and Wanda Maximoff (Quicksilver and the Scarlett Witch of X-Men: Evolution) go to a local anime con dressed as InuYasha and Sango, respectively. The subtle joke there is that the character are voiced by the same voice actor as the character they are dressing up as. I know there's no diolog in the comic, but right now I really don't want to write it all out here. The jist of things should be obvious...

The comic is half-inspired by a real-life con experience of an online friend of mine. She dressed as Sango, and pannels 2:1 and 2:2 actually happened to her. A random stranger dressed as Miroku ran up and proposed to her. It got a good laugh from everyone around, I hear. The rest, of course, is purely from my own head....
Referenced Source: X-Men: Evolution/InuYasha

A pic of a typical fantasy babe standing in a tailor's shop, looking forlorn. I guess there's a story behind it, but I haven't really decided what. And even if I did, all I could do was talk about soem names and events that don't mean anything to you. So: typical fantasy babe mask in hand, looking forlorn, and thinking about saying something meaningful.

I'll admit right up front, I don't like the color. I wanted to give the girl a yellowish tint to her skin, but she turned out looking Simpsons-bright-yellow. I tried to alter it in photoshop, but this was the best I could. And it washed the vividness out of the rest of the background. Regardless, I like how the girl's pose came out, and I'm still proud of the shelf full of boots behind her.

I can still recall the first sequence of events that led me to the internet art scene. Way back in '97 or so, my family computer first got on-line. For lack of anything else to look up, I searched for sites on the Redwall books. That search led to finding a fanart gallery, with notable work by one Julian Ho. Following a link with his stuff took me to the classic Yerf.com. Though I never posted there, I was a regular brouser, and soon became enamored with the art of Tracy Butler.

Butler's art was....well, amazing. Like most artists, she had a story in her head that she wanted to illustrate, and had a well devoloped cast who littered her gallery. The characters were all various woodland furs, dressed in very accurate (well, at the very least very detailed) feudal garb--with strong celtic influences. I blame her gallery for the feudal-kick I've been on ever since. And I mean that in the nicest, most flattering way...

Back in the day, I had my own little copy-cat cast, but that has long since fallen by the wayside. Still, her influence is still around, and I can still draw furry if I try, so it was time for a tribute.

From left to right; Dustin, Kegan, and Tess. Kegan was the hero of Tracy's story, Dustin the smartass companion, and Tess some bandit that they picked up along the way. ...I really liked the way Dustin and Kegan came out. Tess, not so much. I still have problems with cat faces, and should have spent more time touching up her costume. And if I could do this over, I'd work on the expressions so they were a bit more consistent. Ah well.

*raises glass* To the artists we admired when we were young....
Referenced Source: Dustin, Kegan, and Tess are all copyright Tracy Butler

*bites tongue to avoid humming Tom Petty songs*

Colored version of an earlier pic. A pair of gunslingers, from the old west. Originally sketchout out after watching Tomestone, Hang 'Em High, Young Guns and the Mummy (not a western, but had lots of guns) over the course of a week. The guy on the right was sort of inspired by Clint Eastwood's character in Hang 'Em High, with a little bit of Pietro Maximoff thown into the mix. The guy beside him is a--*bites tonge again. Note to self, don't use the terminology from those movies. It is no longer PC* The dark hiared guy was inspired by Chavo from Young Guns, with the overcoat that a couple characters wore in Tomestone.