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

   

Valkyrie Cloud (Outsider)
Media: Adobe Photoshop CC
Date: 10/31/21

Valkyrie Cloud returns from Valhalla to transport worthy souls... or not.

Halloween Tempo (Outsider)
Media: Adobe Photoshop CC
Date: 10/30/20

Tempo is a Warhammer Witch Hunter. For Halloween. No, really.

 

  I SEE YOU (Outsider)
Media: Adobe Photoshop CC
Date: 5/17/21

Our heroes' plan to hide from the Umiak in Leido's debris belt is... unsuccessful.

 

Toridas Lights (Outsider)
Media: Adobe Photoshop CC
Date: 4/13/20

A young Fireblade watches the lights on a midsummer even from the cliffs overlooking the Loroi capital.

 

  Beryl Reads Tempest (Outsider)
Media: Adobe Photoshop CC
Date: 4/23/20

Beryl finds a quiet but not-so-well-lighted place to read Shakespeare.

 

Tales of Taben (Outsider)
Media: Adobe Photoshop CC
Date: 11/26/19

Talon and Spiral recount memories of their childhood education and coming of age ceremony on the ocean planet Taben.

 

  The Needs of the Few (Outsider)
Media: Adobe Photoshop CC
Date: 9/17/18

Talon pilots Highland-7 through a sticky situation.

 

Archimandrite Zikzak 210-A (Stars in Shadow)
Media: Adobe Photoshop CC 2015
Date: 11/10/17

The faction leader for the Tinkers, the new playable faction for the first DLC for Stars in Shadow.

 

Box Art (Stars in Shadow)
Media: Adobe Photoshop CC 2015
Date: 8/15/16

Unused box art for Stars in Shadow. The decision not to release a retail box version of the game was made about a week after I completed this.

 

Commander Walker (Stars in Shadow)
Media: Adobe Photoshop 9
Date: 1/25/15

Character and environment for the Humans, who in this setting are mostly thieves and pirates.
 
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Iskat the Wit (Stars in Shadow)
Media: Adobe Photoshop 9
Date: 10/29/14

Character and environment for the sinister slave-taking reptilian/amphibian Gremak.
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Infinity Core (Time of the Titans)
Media: Adobe Photoshop 9
Date: 6/6/14

This is another illustration for Brandon Fortino's Time of the Titans project. The characters tour the large Titan vessel's singularity-powered energy generation center.
 
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May (Guilty Gear Xrd)
Media: Adobe Photoshop 9
Date: 7/7/14

Commissioned pinup of May from the fighting game Guilty Gear Xrd.
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Phidi Adjutant (Stars in Shadow)
Media: Adobe Photoshop CC
Date: 10/15/1
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The adjutant character for the aquatic, trade-focused Phidi Combine.

 

  Highland Boarding (Outsider)
Media: Adobe Photoshop CC
Date: 2/16/13

Alex and company board the shuttle Highland-7.

 

Ashdar Diplomacy (Stars in Shadow)
Media: Adobe Photoshop 7
Date: 6/2/13

An illustration for the Stars in Shadow game. The diplomacy screen, in which the Ashdar praetor Yunki receives an Orthin ambassador.
 
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Isis
Media: Pencil and Adobe Photoshop 7
Date: 9/1/12

WARNING: nudity

Colored version of an older sketch of Isis, an Egyptian goddess of fertility. She was the mother of Horus, the patroness of nature and magic, and she also fought crime and solved mysteries.
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On What Basis Then Do I Believe In Myself? (Ghost in the Shell)
Media: Adobe Photoshop 7
Date: 8/22/12

A quick rehash of a really old Motoko Kusanagi fanart from ages long past, redrawn but using the same color scheme.
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Sakura (Hyper Police)
Media: Adobe Photoshop 7
Date: 7/23/12

Commissioned pinup of Sakura, the silver-haired kitsune (fox-spirit) from the anime Hyper Police. After watching some of the anime, it seemed to me that her fox-tails were usually drawn so that they might look like part of her hair, so I tried to include that element.
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Saber in Titan Hangar (Time of the Titans)
Media: Adobe Photoshop 7
Date: 6/7/12

Another illustration commission for Brandon Fortino's Time of the Titans story.
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Multipass (The Fifth Element)
Media: Adobe Photoshop 7
Date: 12/24/11

A quick illustration of Leeloo from The Fifth Element.
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Separated at Birth?
Media: Adobe Photoshop 7
Date: 5/24/12

Were Malificent of Sleeping Beauty and Berg Katse of Gatchaman (a.k.a. Zoltar of Battle of the Planets) separated at birth? You be the judge.
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Tirisfal Glades (World of Warcraft)
Media: Adobe Photoshop 7
Date: 12/9/11

A low level rogue in the Forsaken starting zone of World of Warcraft casts her hearthstone spell.
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Eye of the Storm (Outsider)
Media: Adobe Photoshop 7
Date: 7/31/11

Cover for Chapter 2 of Outsider, without the title text. Alex contemplates the nature of Loroi food.
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Ni Ketut Putri
Media: Adobe Photoshop 7
Date: 2/18/11

I saw a TV a commercial for a Balinese cultural exhibition that showed a still from what turned out to be a Balinese shadow-puppetry show, with dark silhouetted figures backlit on a screen. It inspired me to produce this.
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Hunters (World of Warcraft)
Media: Adobe Photoshop 7
Date: 2/13/11

More characters from World of Warcraft, though these belong to someone else. Two newbie hunters snuggling in Westfall.
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Rozenn (World of Warcraft)
Media: Adobe Photoshop 7
Date: 1/14/11

A relatively quick color sketch of Rozenn, my warlock character from the online RPG World of Warcraft
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Enyo in Flight (AOI)
Media: Adobe Photoshop 7
Date: 1/4/11

Enyo is an explorer who travels from one world to another (abstracted as islands in a vast sea). Enyo's buglike companion Golyr doubles as a flight pack. For more sketches of Enyo check the Design page.
 

 

Nausicaä & Teto (Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind)
Media: Adobe Photoshop 7
Date: 5/25/10

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

Sea Furies (Outsider)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Media: Adobe Photoshop 7
Date: 12/29/05

Annual holiday pinup for Outsider
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Demonseed (website illustration)
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)
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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Phoenix (Strings of Fate)
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.
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Painted Desert
Media: Micron pens, Photoshop 5, Painter 5.5
Date: 8/13/01 

The figure was 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.
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Mucha Angel (Christmas card)
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)
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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Tomoé Sunrise (Heike no Hidén)
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)
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
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. 
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