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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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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. Drawn and colored entirely in Photoshop.
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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. Drawn and colored entirely in Photoshop.
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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. Drawn and colored entirely in Photoshop.
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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 website illustration for Elysia Jane's Demon-seed.org. 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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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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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  

One of the highlights of Bandai's stylish Cowboy Bebop is, of course, bad-girl sexpot Faye Valentine. 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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Painted Desert
Image Size: 126 KB, 631 x 1107 pixels
Media: Micron pens, Photoshop 5, Painter 5.5
Date: 8/13/01 

Started as a homage to the music of Pat Benatar, this came out a sort of tribute to 80's style in general. The figure is inspired by an old black and white Tropico poster that hangs in my studio, with a touch of Patrick Nagel tossed in for good measure. 
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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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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. A somewhat different take on Lewis Carroll's famous writings, American's version has an older, knife-wielding, gothic Alice returning to a decaying and sinister Wonderland to mete out her final vengeance against the Red Queen. 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 a design of a "Sith Witch" in the Art of Star Wars Episode I book by Iain McCaig. It was interesting to learn that lightsabers are actually white, with a colored glow.
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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. Although this is the version of Motoko from the manga, I tried to give her the impression of the more contemplative movie version.
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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 instruction was for the character to look "confused," but she mainly just looks pouty. The belt-line of her jeans also 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.
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Death in the Home

Death in the Home (Sandman)
Image Size: 147 KB, 638 x 877 pixels
Media: Pen and Ink, Watercolor
Date: 12/97

Those of us who've read DC's Sandman and Books of Magic know that Death is a punky British girl. This was a Christmas gift for my pal Barbana, Empress of the Cosmos, who has the original. 
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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.

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