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These are original color illustrations, some featuring characters from my own projects, and some featuring other people's characters.


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Nausicaä & Teto (Nausicaä)
Image Size: 86 KB, 566 x 656 pixels
Media: Adobe Photoshop 7
Date: 5/25/10

I ran across an old sketch of Nausicaä and felt compelled to update and color it.


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Sea Furies (Outsider)
Image Size: 154 KB, 677 x 1006 pixels
Media: Adobe Photoshop 7
Date: 4/8/10

A replacement illustration for the "to be continued" page for Outsider.
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Titans Poster (Time of the Titans)
Image Size: 290 KB, 800 x 1156 pixels
Media: Adobe Photoshop 7
Date: 2/16/10

Poster illustration commissioned by Brandon Fortino for his forthcoming Time of the Titans novel project.
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Kadesh Mothership (Homeworld)
Image Size: 90 KB, 1024 x 768 pixels
Media: Adobe Photoshop 7
Date: 4/12/07

Some friends were drawing personifications of spacecraft. This is meant to be a personification of the Kadesh mothership from Homeworld
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Legend of Tempest (Outsider)
Image Size: 354 KB, 706 x 1400 pixels
Media: Adobe Photoshop 7
Date: 7/2/06

Texture asset for a scene in Outsider. An archaic Loroi hero depicted in a style meant to look like mosaic or tapestry. 
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Happy Holidays 2005 (Outsider)
Image Size: 151 KB, 626 x 737 pixels
Media: Adobe Photoshop 7
Date: 12/29/05

Annual holiday pinup for Outsider
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Demonseed (website illustration)
Image Size: 73 KB, 478 x 731 pixels
Media: Micron Pigma pens, Adobe Photoshop 5
Date: 9/16/02

Commissioned illustration for Elysia Jane's Demon-seed.org website . And yes, that's a horny sperm in the girl's lap. It's the site mascot, a "demon seed," get it?
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Unfriendly Act (Outsider)
Image Size: 124 KB, 605 x 905 pixels
Media: Micron Pens, Photoshop 6, Lightwave 6.5
Date: 5/30/02  

This piece is for the cover for Chapter 1 of Outsider, but this version is without the title text. 
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Luriah (Rei Divinae II)
Image Size: 89 KB, 539 x 770 pixels
Media: Photoshop 6
Date: 3/02/02

This is my take on Maëva's purple-haired vampire knight, Luriah.

Warning: only a little left to the imagination.
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Phoenix (Strings of Fate)
Image Size: 118 KB, 679 x 822 pixels
Media: pen, Photoshop 5, Painter 5.5
Date: 6/22/01

This is a character from Jen "Tochi" Wang's webcomic Strings of Fate. This is really just a reinterpretation of a piece Tochi did. Several people have pointed out how much she came out looking like an Ah! My Goddess! character; it's funny that it didn't occur to me while I was doing it.
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Painted Desert
Image Size: 126 KB, 631 x 1107 pixels
Media: Micron pens, Photoshop 5, Painter 5.5
Date: 8/13/01 

The figure is inspired by the old black and white Pat Benatar Tropico poster that hangs in my studio, with some 80's color and a touch of Patrick Nagel tossed in for good measure. Something not quite right with the face.
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Mucha Angel (Christmas card)
Image Size: 170 KB, 621 x 809 pixels
Media: Micron Pigma pens, Adobe Photoshop 5
Date: 12/04/00

2000's Christmas card. The goal here was something inspired by Art Nouveau poster boy Alphonse Mucha. Personally, I'm proud of the hands (which I had to redraw about seven times).
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See You Space Cowboy... (Cowboy Bebop)
Image Size: 113 KB, 707 x 574 pixels
Media: Micron Pigma pens, Adobe Photoshop 5
Date: 11/14/00  

The background was originally done in Painter (she's supposed to be reclining on the couch in the Bebop's main lounge), but it looked terrible and I was out of time, so I blurred the heck out of it and covered it up with lots of pretentious text.
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On what basis then do I believe in myself? (Ghost in the Shell)
Image Size: 52 KB, 528 x 699 pixels
Media: pencil, Adobe Photoshop 5
Date: 11/22/00

A recolor of an older Motoko Kusanagi pic I did in June of 1998.
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Tomoé Sunrise (Heike no Hidén)
Image Size: 125 KB, 550 x 731 pixels
Media: Pencil, Adobe Photoshop 5, Bryce 4
Date: 5/00 (original 11/99)

The foreground coloring was the first time I worked with the airbrush tool in Photoshop, and the background is a Bryce experiment. There is a tutorial on how I created this image located here.
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Bad Alice! (American McGee's Alice)
Image Size: 116 KB, 554 x 733 pixels
Media: Micron Pigma pens, Adobe Photoshop 5
Date: 7/30/00 

A fanart for the computer game American McGee's Alice. This piece was actually used in a Gamestop/Funcoland ad in the November 2000 issue of PCGamer, without my permission.
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Sith Witch (Star Wars
Image Size: 136 KB, 549 x 722 pixels
Media: Micron Pigma pens, Adobe Photoshop 5
Date: 5/00 

This is my take on the design of a "Sith Witch" in the Art of Star Wars Episode I book by Iain McCaig. Doing this piece taught me that lightsabers are actually white, with a colored glow.
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huh? (CD cover)
Image Size: 100 KB, 640 x 640 pixels
Media: Micron Pigma pens, Adobe Photoshop 5
Date: 5/00 

This is my CD cover design for The huh? Album, an independent rap & hip-hop compilation from local Santa Cruz label Bottom of the Ninth Entertainment. The belt-line of her jeans looks a bit odd, because of a late request by the client to button her jeans (click here to see the early version, in all its unbuttoned glory). The background sucks, however. This was at the point where I was still terrified of backgrounds.
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Rocky on Route 66 Rocky on Route 66 (Tales from the Desk of the Vice Admiral)
Image Size: 205 KB, 690 x 979 pixels
Media: Pen and Ink, Watercolor
Date: 7/97

I think this may be the last piece I ever used a crow-quill pen on. What a pain in the butt. I recently retouched the face in Photoshop.
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Lady Aedin Lady Aedin (Harg the Pirate)
Image Size: 73 KB, 637 x 808 pixels
Media: Pencil, Photocopy, Watercolor
Date: 1996

This was my way of doing a quick color piece before I discovered scanners and Photoshop: watercolors on a photocopy on heavy stock. I used to spend a lot of time at Kinko's before I got a scanner.

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