Coyotek!

Naruto/Warriors crossover, SERIOUSLY
Team 7 (with Warriors-verse appropriate names; you'll figure them out)
~1900 words
for cypher, who is an enabler

Foxpaw bounces around the clearing ahead of the other three, his tail held high and his bright golden fur puffed out in all directions. "Foxpaw, Foxpaw!" he squeals, entirely too pleased with his new name now that he's graduated from being a kit to a proper Apprentice.

( Warriors of the Leaf )

Finished color image of Naruto in Kyuubi form.



I have determined already that Sai is a delicious and wonderful program, and I love it dearly. I started on a sketch for a side project, too, with the linework done exclusively in it and.. oh man. Oh man. It's even more delicious. <3

Have a demon-fox vessel:

( Full size image. )

WIP sketch for the day. I don't have time to finish this one tonight, and I really don't want to do a rush job. Hopefully I can finish it tomorrow after work.

Another of my favorite characters thus far from A Song of Ice & Fire, ( Sandor Clegane, aka the Hound. [1 image] )

Clearly I have a thing for disfiguring burns.

(Possible trigger warning: severe facial scarring.)

The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Series: Seiken Densetsu II (Secret of Mana)
Characters: Geshtar, Thanatos
Rating: PG
Length: 3000

Notes: For the no_true_pair challenge community, with a prompt of: I’ll become what I despise/Living someone else’s lies.

( The first time Geshtar saw the sorcerer, he had been but a Captain of the Guard - young but tried, his loyalty to the throne and his people unwavering. )

Seriously need to start posting here more often..

Start of a sketch that I largely did today while on the ferry. I usually run errands across the river, which means I have downtime on the ride to & fro. Normally I just bring my laptop & aircard. Today, I also brought my sketchbook.

I recently got into Supernatural. Have a fanart for it. Technically, the image is a fairly large spoiler for episode 5.04 (The End), however it's one of those "only a huge spoiler if you know what it is and by then you have already seen it" types of things. Basically, I wanted to draw hellhounds.

( 1 image, v. rough sketch. )

Going to try and work on it a bit more over the next few days if I don't get too busy with other holiday prep.

I have been neglecting the art/writing journal! Much of this is re-posted content from the artslam challenge, which I have regretfully abandoned due to outside commitments. There will be additional re-posted content related to Aarde in the near future, but most of the rest will be brand new to those who have followed Art Slam.

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Aarde is the original story that I am working on amid two other fan-based writing projects. I previously referred to it as 'Elements'; it might gain a new name at some point in the future. Aarde itself is the world in which the story takes place. The story will be in the form of both writing and imagery.

When telling a story, be it in text or in imagery, one of the first things I have to feel comfortable with is the environment. If I don't feel like I have a full grasp of the environment, then it's very difficult for me to make something of any real quality. It's flat and forced.

I am designing Aarde from the bottom up. Yes, Aarde is a planet.. and a planet is certainly an environment. But a planet can be located within an environment of its own. A star system!

So first I started with a star...

Machen is the star for this system. It's slightly younger and smaller than our sun. It looks largely the same. The only noticeable difference due to both star type and atmospheric conditions is that its yellow light stage is lengthened both in the morning and evening, and there is a greater red shift in light at sunrise and sunset.

There are 9 planets that are considered part of the Machen star system. Aarde is the second planet from Machen - and one of two potentially habitable planets in the system.



( On to the planets! [13 + bonus comparison image] )

( References used: )

For all of this, I fully welcome any form of concrit - especially from those who are more scientifically minded (or researched) than me. While my story has a number of fantasy-based elements, my goal is to make the world - and universe - as believable and grounded in real science as possible.

This story began as a silly conversation with cypher that has since made me consider it more and more seriously with each passing day. I have always wanted to try a re-telling of the original FF7 story from the perspective of the Turks - or at least one of them - but never quite found the right starting device.

And then along came this.

HPI is a serious take at re-telling the entirety of the original game's story.. in a gender-swapped universe. Names are changed, and ALL characters are gender-swapped. There are exactly two names that I am considering retaining for the purposes of the fic, and both have a damn good reason why. As for the rest? I hope that it will ultimately become apparent as to just who personifies which character, but I don't mind stating up front if people prefer that.

Although the premise is silly, the fic itself is NOT crack and will NOT BE crack. I plan to update this chapter by chapter. While I do not have a final estimate of length, I am aiming for around 15-20 chapters or so of comparable or greater length than this prologue. I'm also aiming for a realistic completion by fall.

Right now, I don't have a beta reader - though I'd really love a volunteer, especially one familiar with the original game! (BC & CC knowledge is awesome but not necessary.) I am also not opposed to concrit. This is my first huge writing project, so please bear with me and be gentle. ^^

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Hollow Point Impact - Prologue
Series: Final Fantasy VII AU
Characters: ShinRa & Turk-centric
Rating to date: PG-13/L
Chapter length: 4021
Total length: 4021

The life of a Turk is to live fast and die hard - but the rule of the Turk is to stand with your own before anything and everything else.

( --more explosions in the upper level of Sector One last night, once again believed to be the work of domestic terrorist group, Avalanche. This is the fifth time this year that sites around Midgar have been targeted-- )

You know that a world concept is a roaring success if - within 24 hours of its inception - someone other than you is able to make a fully fleshed out and interesting character concept out of it. This one's for you, neogeen.



Meet Moony. She's here for a shark. You should be, too.

Linework of Sabriel for vampirelematt, his FF11 character. Colors soon.



I promised ponderosa a couple months back that I'd do a sketch of Red XIII. I ended up inking him. And then neogeen did all of the colors! (And they turned out so great! <3 daffodils) Original linework.

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...and Justina again, now finished. Pen + ArtRage + minimal Photoshop. I actually did the linework last night in just over one hour, which is insanely fast for me. And the colors? About three more, with a couple of brief breaks and conversations in between start and finish.

I actually did a ustream broadcast of the coloring phase. It seemed to go well enough. I'm going to try it again soon while keeping an eye on my bandwidth usage.. If it's something that's feasible for me to do semi-regularly, I might just start doing it more.

I really want to give her a hug. She looks so soft and floofy. Somehow, I don't think that she would fully appreciate that.

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