Some examples of illustration and graphic design work.
These are finished images of my own characters that I've created over the last few years.
These are pictures I've produced of other artists' and writers' characters and also of other peoples' personas and online characters used in MUCKs. I've included most of the finished drawings of Tarmle for completeness.
Some of these were trades but I've proved so slow to produce that I won't generally accept trades these days. Mostly I'll draw someone's character because I like the look or description and just because they're nice folks.
The eponymous heroine of Mystry is a troubled young woman living in a vast futuristic city of advanced technology, intolerant religious dogma and underground bohemian movement.
I finished the first six-page episode of Mystry in Spring/Summer 2000. At the time, I had planned to submit it to some of the anthropomorphic publications (not expecting much beyond some useful feedback), but I wanted to be certain first that I would be able to complete the story to a reasonable deadline, just in case. As it turns out that was probably a wise decision. So far it's taken me two years per episode.
I started this sculpture in the summer of 1995. I'd done a lot of research into sculpting methods and decided that the only way to test them was to dive in and do something extravagant.
The only preparation I'd done was some top, side and forward elevations on a few sheets of A4. I could have spent weeks detailing the designs, but I decided the only way understand what was required and to keep up the enthusiasm for what would undoubtedly be a long term project would be to get on with it.
This is the first major sculpture I worked on. By "major" I mean the first that I designed and executed to a plan. It's also my first anthropomorphic (that is, humna/animal) sculpture whereas my previous minor pieces had been of purely animal or abstract forms. The design is loosely based on a creature I described in a short story I wrote the previous year. I may get around to reproducing the story here for you thought at the moment I'm reworking it to submit to another clutch of small-press magazines.