Kitengele's a white-naped and very cowardly weasel I play on TLK MUCK. . . but he's got a sweet personality under it all, if you can find it past all those stuttered consanants. ^^
kiten.gif - 1998-07-02
Kuthixo som:Sigidi was the second of the cockatrice necromancers I created; he acts as sort of a dark opposite to the extremely girly Thula. This was originally done so someone else could draw him in a Spellshocked spinoff (Guild of Monsters), but I think that's been put on hold. Incidentally, posing wings when you treat them like *real limbs* instead of stuck-on things is a pain.
kuthisheet.jpg - 2002-10-31
Took me a while to remember that I had this picture scanned and colored. I think I'm actually getting the hang of drawing expression on the general cockatrice face. This one is Kuthixo bin'Sigidi, apparently eminently amused by something I was too damn lazy to draw.
kuthixo.gif - 1999-11-02
Hiranmayi (Hindi, "Golden Girl"), my first attempt at drawing a monkey. You don't see a lot of monkeys, despite the fact that a lot of them are so much prettier than the animals you do see entirely too, too much *koffkofffoxesandskunkskoffkoff*. This one's a Hanuman Langur, the sacred monkey of India. I like how she looks but really wish the background didn't suck so much.
langur.gif - 1999-05-09
This started as a quick little conceptual drawing, but I liked it enough to refine it. A chaos-altered aquatic predator, the constrictor leach feeds on land and water animals by catching them in its coils and injecting toxin and digestive enzymes.
leach.gif - 1999-11-08
My personal furry, a marsupial lion, just kicking back.
lionrest.gif - 1998-06-28
Ack, looks like Lombard's tail got cut off. Still, this Gleaner mystic is a favorite of mine. He's one of Castro's only friends. . .
lombard.gif - 1998-12-09
It has nothing to do with Halloween but it's too horribly cute to pass up. I give you the camel-sized litoptern _Macrauchenia patachonica_, drawn sometime this spring after watching too much 'Walking With Prehistoric Beasts' again. God, if anything I've drawn looks like it waltzed off a Disney set, this is probably it.
macrau.jpg - 2002-10-31
Practice at drawing the iguanodontian body build (which I'm starting to get good at, methinks), and also to try designing a possible new character. Maiasaura peeblesorum looks startled; she hears something. Perhaps a predator.
maiasaur.jpg - 2000-04-27
The marsupial lion (named Lion; aren't I original?) with a striped hyena mask. Kinamkela, to be more precise.
mask.gif - 1998-07-02
Quick sketch/ink done for a friend. The mazeworm is a large, subterranean scavenger that dwells under the surface of Delyria (the SpellShocked world setting), and is known for swallowing explorers whole to spit them out elsewhere at random. Drawn using the Cambrian onychophoran _Aysheaia pedunculata_ as a primary base, with the shields of it's Chinese cousin _Microdictyon sinicum_ thrown in. I'm mostly proud of the soft, hydrostatic-skeletal look of the animal - like a titanic caterpillar.
mazeworm.jpg - 2001-06-07
Twin Chinese Gummi bears, MeiXiong and Beishung. Believe it or not, that's supposed to be Qin armor Beishung (the blue Gummi) is wearing. . . I should have left the ribbons off the shoulderpieces.
meixiong.gif - 1998-06-28
I tripped over some old drawings of this fellow recently, and decided to give him a nice ink job and a bit of color. It's a cute little single-celled jackrabbit named Mentor. God, I must have been bored in Biology to come up with that.
mentor.gif - 1999-12-07
More background practice, to be colored when I get more time. Microceratops gobensis peers at a modern-day meerkat, which it isn't much larger than. How'd a bunny-size Mongolian dinosaur get in the Kalahari, anyway?
microcer.gif - 2000-04-27
This needed a reuploading, due to a bug I never got around to fixing. Mina seems to have found that the way to a dragon's heart is through tummy rubs. She's also found out that they purr, or at least Seth and Smudge do. Mina and Smudge belong to their respective players.
minadrag.gif - 1999-10-10
She doesn't roar, doesn't growl, doesn't snarl. She has no wings to rear up and clap, and she doesn't breathe fire, either. But it doesn't take a genius to tell when Mkiluwa is ticked. Unfortunately, *this* particular genius forgot to draw her ruff-web-cheek things in. Nnnh.
mkiluwa.gif - 1999-07-28
Mkiluwa, the bongoform deep forest neodragon, this time paired up with a 'classic' dragon for comparison. She doesn't seem thrilled by his interest. This was done last summer before I'd dropped the habit of using pointy toes as shorthand for claws; more's the pity, 'cos it's otherwise quite detailed. I like the classic's hybrid bat/pterosaur wings.
mkiluwa2.jpg - 2000-09-09
More dragon biogeekage. Where Seth's species is basic, primitive dragon stock, Mkiluwa's represents a high degree of specialization. She represents an attempt to create a dragon that could exist under real-world conditions (which is why she can't fly, has no fire, and isn't the size of a flipping building).
mkinew.jpg - 2001-09-08
A confusion of chaos-altered animals, and an attempt to regain a very old ability to crowd a single sheet of paper with characters and creatures. Clockwise from the right the species are blind walker, chaos bear, orbitcorn or false unicorn, land leach, psiren, and granther.
mnagerie.gif - 1999-11-04
Take one part dicynodont, one part sailbacked pelycosaur, and one part muskrat; mix well. The end result is the mudgrubber, a beaver-sized and turkey-brained swamp herbivore that uses its tusks and beak to dig for corms and tubers or to defend itself. To be replaced with the color version when I actually figure out how to color a background, so bear with me here.
mudgrub.jpg - 2001-06-13
Nassor bin'Kamau. Captain of the Guard in what was once the city of Nyazane, before the original inhabitants abandoned it and the Woodkin moved in. A two-and-a-half-foot-tall Cony (rabbit), with a stern but surprisingly calm attitude about him.
nassor.gif - 1999-11-01
A rabbit/chambered nautilus Combinate (hybrid humanoid, made up of two animals) named Nautilus. I used to draw her a lot, and always in an attack position; figured I'd draw her being more vulnerable. What can I say? Tentacles are fun to draw.
nautilus.gif - 1998-07-13
'So ugly that it's cute' is a strategy that works, if chihuahuas and newborn babies are any indication. I don't think 'so ugly that it's sexy' works quite as well. A naked mole rat (_Heterocephalus glaber_) - which, even to my eyes, is probably the ugliest living thing on the planet - relaxes at the beach. Thank Mr. Ruggles for (obliquely) providing the idea.
nkmolbch.jpg - 2001-02-08
Someone showed me a couple of NPCs they're making for a MUSH I play on, and I couldn't resist a crack once I saw the descriptions. Garrick (huge, rather stupid horse/cape buffalo fighter in plate mail and army fatigues) and Shria (psychotic troodon monk in a Chinese jacket) belong to Ian's player. Hopefully she doesn't mind me giving Shria a pair of ox-ear swords, but she was too short for anything else I could think of. . .
npc.jpg - 2001-06-04
The idea of the octopus as a guardian animal isn't exactly new, but it isn't used very often anymore. I can't imagine why. Between the animal's look of wisdom, their beauty and grace, and the fact that they can latch down with their suckers and be utterly immobile when they want to be, it seemed the perfect creature for an art watermark. If I can't use it without being obnoxious, well. . . at least I've got a new personal design.
octguard.gif - 1999-11-30
Decided I needed an avatar - or, as I prefer to think of it, a visual shorthand for myself. An honest one. So no cute nickname for this one, no tall slender body build or happy-peppy expression. Just my hat, my medical-alert necklace, the long distinctive hair and my usual facial expression. Apparently, the animals I make people think of most are porcupines and anything with multiple sucker-studded arms. . .
octopine.jpg - 2002-01-20
I normally don't follow trends because I'm too slow, but this one I couldn't resist: Jhen holds up a startled-looking realistic octopine while a horribly chibified version of her fishes off the rock. I really need to learn how to draw decent waves and seascapes.
octoreal.jpg - 2003-03-07
Spring has sprung! I'm not particularly good at gardening, but I like it anyway (although the plants involved may have another opinion).
octospring.jpg - 2004-04-22
Ozy, Millie, and Danh (my own character, a brush-tailed porcupine of the Vietnamese persuasion), goofing around on someone's floor and drawing with crayons.
om_danh.jpg - 2003-07-08
You see a lot of vulpines and felines on Yerf, but not too many of the porcine persuasion. So here's a pair of Eurasian Orcs - male and female warriors, the male being the big grey boar on the left - to fill the gap. For those that this makes sense to, yep; the male is indeed The Orc.
orcs.gif - 1998-08-14