The Demon Lords cards

For August Rye, there's a huge backstory and world behind the "demons" that inhabit the story. The Demon Lords are not actually particularly in leagues with one another, but a select number of highly powerful and influential creatures and characters in the demon realm. In the story's present day canon, there are currently eleven lords, with several old relevant ones either deceased, defeated, or missing.


Since I picked up some small 2.5x3.5" bristol cards, I've been drawing these demon lords (and some other characters) onto individual cards. I plan on coloring them eventually, but I want to get them all drawn and inked first. The twelve I have in progress so far are nowhere near close to the actual number of characters, but maybe a little over halfway.

In order: Helvizar, Sangri, Ymara, Cheshiredame, Lilith, Galeo Cavier, The Songstress, The Reaper, Snuggles, Billy Bay, August Rye, and Ravenfang.

I'll post more when these are finished and when I have the rest drawn as well. August Rye's been on my mind lately again, which is good. I'm getting inspired to get back to work on the story, just in time for the summer. :)

Recent Commissions

Due to my extremely poor advertising skills, I usually don't get a lot of commissions. However, there was an awfully strange weekend earlier this month where I was bombarded with about four different requests at once, on top of a commissioned larger work that I was making for my aunt, and had been slacking a bit on. Very unprofessional, but there was no rush.

This is the commissioned picture in question... albeit it's an unfinished scan of it. The finished picture still only has red bits colored in, as she requested. I think the red cape had more of an impact on the first attempt I did at this piece - but I did not care for the picture (plus I realized I had misread the cape requirements!)

I also got three Furcadia portrait commissions from two different people. Zuko came back for a couple more portraits, while an old friend commissioned a portrait as well. I'm extremely proud of how these came out. I do wish the portrait of Ewickly could have had a bit more details in the clothing design, though.

I also got a quick and dirty digital lineart commission. I feel... okay about it. Rather wish I had put more effort into it (or started over), but the commissioner loved it anyway. It's always a sad dissonance, when you feel like you didn't put your all into a paid work, but the person who paid for it sees absolutely nothing wrong. It makes for a rather awkward exchange, especially when you have to send them more final copies because you were fixing your mistakes.

30 characters - Regine the High Valkyrie

Thought I'd post this here, as I thought she turned out pretty great.

She's made to fit in the August Rye universe, hence all the runes. The Valkyries in this universe are more along the lines of humanesque women training them to defend themselves from demons. They practically gave birth to the Protectors faction, which is a loosely-linked group of independent demon hunters all over the globe who are more interested in defending themselves from rather than attacking demons, like the D.O.

We're a way the universe expresses itself.

A little spin on the quote by Carl Sagan in Cosmos, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

A project about a writing we made on "creativity," the idea was to condense the message and fit it on a large slab of cardboard. Most people spray-painted, I covered the cardboard in paper and used colored pencils and India ink. It was tedious, but the results were worth it, and nobody's banner really looked like mine. Whether or not that's a good thing... well, that's up to the viewer, I guess.


I took the pictures on top of my bed... yeah, classy!

If you find it hard to read, it says "We are human. We are a way the universe expresses itself."

Some sketches from my pocket sketchbook

So, to start off, here's a few tiny things that I've been doodling in a little 3x4" sketchbook that I carry around in my pocket... everywhere. I've actually had to start a new one!  They're pretty cheap, though, so I don't mind.

Haltenti, the Wizard in Pink... or pink and yellow marker-pens, at least.

Cheshiredame, posing for a poster?

This was an arc 2 cover image idea that didn't turn out too well.

An apple or two I drew from scratch with my new colored pencils.

I had a brief flirtation with using ball-point pen. Then I lost the pen I was using...