D A T A L O G

Many of my characters, though not all, have been with me since before I hit my teen years. A couple days ago, one of my friends gave me a picture she had drawn of the character that became Wren - who at the time was called "Q" - and it reminded me of all the little things that seemed so important to her character design at one point or another, but that slowly changed as her character evolved. Of course, that made me want to document these changes somehow, so I drew a picture at work last night. (As always, standard "I am not an artist" disclaimer applies.)

Thus, I give you the evolution of Wren.


( And then I colored it, because I'm a dork. )

I did a sketch of Zsuzsa the other night at work. I'm actually pretty proud of this one - I'm not much of an artist, so this is damned good, for me. I did use a photo of a model I found online as a reference for the position of her torso and arm.

Okay, so here, below the cut, are a couple photos of a sketch I made of Hideo at work the other night. They're basically the same as the original ones (also made at work, ironically, but that was around three years ago, in the coffee stand), with the exception of the fact that Hideo's hair is now shorter, and the original design had slightly different proportions because I thought I was going to be working with a 1/4 scale Blue Fairy Little Fairy body, not the 1/3 scale Dreamingdoll body I ended up using (which I like a LOT better, mind you).

Please excuse the semi-horrible focus (I are sleepy, and I do not have access to a scanner at this time), the bad lighting (Dim!Bedroom!Lights!With!Flash!), and the fact that I draw like a drunken schoolmarm on a rollercoaster. You can, in fact, blame this post on euphorias_child. It's all her fault. ^_~

( Pictures under here. )

And now, I am going to bed, Father's Day gift in hand for tomorrow, if not exactly wrapped yet. Yeah, gift wrapping, like drawing, is not one of my skills.

So, ages and ages ago (like, back in December of 2006) I commissioned Ecthelian of DeviantArt (aka Kuma Wind, which is the name I met her under at Y-con) to do a possible cover for The Machiavelli Protocol. She finally finished it yesterday, and here is the result. The file I have is 300dpi, so it's HUGE, but the one on DA is smaller.

There are a few things about it that aren't perfect (whoa, Jian apparently wears his combat cargos like a valley girl wears skinny jeans! ...duuuude...), but I'm still thrilled. And while I doubt I'll be using it as a book cover (despite how it was intended) because I have other plans in that area, it's still pretty cool. Maybe this could be the cover for a 'limited private printing' or something. Hmm.

Isn't Wren's bicep and shoulder freakin' hot?