Welcome to my Visual Storytelling Journey
This is my welcome to you, and to this next chapter of my artistic life. Here, I want to share the stories that have shaped my journey from those first stippled ink drawings – inspired by the condors gracing the pages of 1970s National Geographic – to the digital worlds I craft today.
What you’ll find here is more than tutorials or technique breakdowns – though there will be plenty of tricks and discoveries to share. This is about visual storytelling from virtual worlds, where artifacts become part of the narrative, where each image carries forward a story that extends beyond its frame.
New Levels, New Monsters
Hello Warrior, Another rough boss fight? I don’t know how YOU slay your inner demons… but I have several different methods depending on what kind of demon is coming at me. Tried and true: #1 NAME IT. Otherwise you’re fighting in the dark against the unknowns. (We don’t use enounce much anymore…) You get quicker…
Nickel and Dimed
The book was loaned to me for a bit. Required reading for Gender Studies or some such…a former friend tried really hard to convert me, “you like theater, come see these monologues with me.” I found it really unsettling. Babs pops into town disguised, pretending, faking >>> with $5000 “to get set up.” Gets a…
As I was saying,
I have been doing my annual report card, as I do every year when my birthday approaches, charting growth and changes from where I was this time last year to where I am this year. November 2024, still in recoupment from getting my ass handed to me by Not one… but TWO hurricanes. Right after……
Finding the Fun
Before we take another dive into my backstory I want to say, I had the fun-est week! I have been doing my annual report card, as I do every year when my birthday approaches, charting growth and changes from where I was this time last year to where I am this year. Last year, waiting…
Tightrope Walker
Woke up from this dream: Looking at the ants and bugs that people and traffic were from this height. Adjusting to the winds shift between buildings, so different from canyons smoothed from millennia of constant embracing of earth and sky. Steel, glass, concrete forcing airflow at harsh angles pushing sudden, catching the pole and tossing…
Premiere of The Weather Station
Hello, It’s the Final Challenge! Please enjoy your visit to The Weather Station Made for #dam-challenge “Amusement” Size: 36 X 30 7.75 MB Special thanks for the assets by: milfric, Vaako, DallasRT, Heronimo, Kitrik, DangerWeasel, Centimar DeVarion, SAC, Normandial, Damit((Michel), KIRAROTASU, Bearsoft, Taitao, Cetuhh, TheTTRPGBrewster, swedish.cook, Ladriel, ZhabZhab, [DE] SunWatcher, Owen Thunderguns, nitemare, tinman4700, greywind12…
Winds of Change
The guys upstairs decided to change things around? They take everything you think you know about what you’re doing and just reshuffle the deck? Whether you agreed to mulligan or not. [o.o] The term “mulligan” actually comes from golf, not card games, which makes its pairing with “reshuffle the deck” kind of an interesting…
Monodrame Triangle
Thank you, for letting me know that you are “the bigger person.” Hey robot… is there a bigger word for oxymoron? Something that explains this flex projection? [o.o] I appreciate you calling that out – you’re right that there’s something ironic about claiming to be “the bigger person” in a way that’s… well, not particularly…
You are Proving Yourself Right.
Yep… let that brew a bit. You ARE ALL the bad things. Those hamster-wheels gridlocked!!? Traffic jam of why you can’ts and what’s going to happen when you try. Challenge: Cite Your Source. Oh is that your manipulators voice, their words?? And you are STILL using their words? Their rulers to measure…? Their Red Pen…
Never Assume
I know I have told you about my GrandMother and her cookie tins a couple of times now. She is one of the Graces in my life. The people who led me toward God. Huge influence because I got to live at her house every summer break. Just noticed it was sold recently. Her house…
Random Fun Some More
Now this feels good! Another Brick In The Wall! Not a Wonderwall… A Wall of Work. An Album?! A Gallery. [o.o] Trivia Time: PLEISTOCENE TRIVIA COLUMBIAN MAMMOTH SABER-TOOTHED CAT ANCIENT BISON ^-.-^ I do believe it is getting better and better every day! When I got off the plane Oct 30, 2018… I could barely…
It’s that time of the year!
As the year is closing out, I start my annual review, whether I want to or not. Guess that’s where the big red pen article came from. Hello subconscious! Do you get that this NEXT report card affects Christmas presents? That is some deep programming. It always struck me as so messed up about American…
Back to the Cookie Tin!
There’s this phrase the mermaids keep using, “lack mindset.” I think I know what it means, but words don’t mean words as much as they used to, could be double speak or oxymorons. So, I asked my robot… Is this like the myth of scarcity? [o.o] Lack mindset (or scarcity mindset) is a psychological framework where…
You and your big ol Red Pen.
There is something absurd about how and when you think you need to pull that Pen out…! You put the P E & N in pedantic. Like that Granger girl Insufferable Know-it-all, Good thing she grew out of it and got Useful, Helpful! Heck I’d say Essential even. One might say a role-model. But here…
Flying Buttresses Falling Towers
What a rabbit-hole I have fallen into!! I want to first all extend huge gratitude to Madame Bossette for that year of French. It’s making Gothic so much easier to navigate. There was a point where one of the master mason (architects) was anonymous. Master of Beauvais (Anonymous, fl. 1225-1272) Hold up… how ? It’s…
Mother may I?
We (as a culture) are not Allowed to speak about the toxic feminine. This teaches us to be vulnerable to predation, particularly From women who hide in an encompassing generalized Halo-effect. Coasting on someone else’s credibility, “Believe All” and what not. I believe in Due Process and an impartial jury. Evidence based incriminations, not just…
Premiere of The Cascade Cottage
Hello, Please enjoy your visit to The Cascade Cottage. Made for #dam-challenge “Cottage” Inspired by Bearsoft’s Bears Size: 30 X 30 6 MB Special thanks for the assets by: Stalk42, DallasRT, Centimar DeVarion, Danger Weasel, SAC, Random Ladybird, [DE] SunWatcher, and Bearsoft Joey’s Involuntary Journeys Now Joey was a grizzly, through and through—Born where…
After A Fashion
I think you have the problem backwards. Trying to figure out why you only get so far and then… Something Happens And … you don’t know.. You just shelf the idea… the project.. the hobbie, because whatever happened was enough TO REMIND YOU Of a state you had to assume when you were in physical…
“See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.”
This is the wise monkey proverb, symbolizing the principle of avoiding evil in thoughts, words, and actions. The three monkeys are: The philosophy aligns with teachings on self-restraint and ethical behavior. They are a visual representation of a moral code. In Buddhist philosophy, they reflect the idea of maintaining purity in thought, word, and deed…
Heart is also GRIT
Recap: What Gaming Taught Me About Building a Self A conversation about virtual worlds as laboratories for real growth I started by sharing what I learned from Perfect World International – the PvP mechanics, safe zones, the name color system that made consequences visible, and how PKers faced real penalties for their choices. But then…
Algorithms Reveal the Stream of Consciousness
I’ve been swimming in the streams of “recovering from abuse” circles for over a decade. Listening to these (mp3) Voices in my head, while tilling, clearing hedge rows, commuting>>>takes longer on a tricycle. There was no space left for the inner critics that sound like toxic family or poison playmates. That is Former Life. Your…
Premier of the Eyrie Palisade Palace
I’ve got deep in a map again. I just posted my submission for the bi-weekly DAM Challenge. The theme this time was “Castle.” This is the 3rd version. The first one had the cannon’s too close to the water. I got to hear a fantastic recounting of a documentary, explaining how cannons work and the…
The Level of Ridiculousness is Still Astonishing.
I’m told I need to speak about my last break-up publicly. >> Because “only one person has the microphone and he is doing everything he can to paint (me) as a villain.” Of course, it’s in the playbook. It’s the only game bullies know. Blameshift, catastrophize, black and white thinking, absolutes, distortions, etc… All the…
Not Dimming My Bright No More
Gonna let Robot Start Today: [o.o] Shadow work is the practice of acknowledging and integrating the hidden parts of yourself—traits, emotions, and desires you’ve repressed because they felt unacceptable. The shadow is that collection of disowned parts. It operates unconsciously and influences your behavior in ways you don’t realize. In toxic family systems, the shadow…
I’m A Little Teapot!
Short and stout. So many metaphors with Tea…! Shall I spill some? Little peck… little cheap cheap? This is an example of the level or overstep/egotism/arrogance of my toxic sisters (side note: I used to call my sisters twisted, but turns out that name is already taken.) As pre-teens the eldest tox-sis discovered Astrology. Scales.…
Little Houdini
I got a scrap-book as a gift after my first baby was born. It had these prompts and blank lines for the answers. “Parents felt ____ when they found out she was pregnant.” I suppose later these stories get shown/told to the child so they KNOW how Parents felt happy/excited/fulfilled/etc. What I have been told:…
Random Fun Of The Week
I have had the Best Fun since I decided to Participate with the Dungeon Alchemist community at the beginning of the year 2025. New years goals and all. I have been attending every stream I can and catching up on the years I missed. What the community manager Mac doesn’t know is that his Youtube…
Pandora’s Box
These are partial renders from a few years ago when I was learning about lighting and effects. Made in DAZ3d https://www.daz3d.com/ Music is made in Suno https://suno.com/ Thank you for watching this Traveler Chimiru Experiment My first ‘Shorts’ entirely by accident. Please enjoy!
Puzzled?
About the art: Made after tox-sister’s DARVO-TLDR, 2024. I have been slowly growing my DAZ3d inventory. Purchasing the face poses opened up so much! Being able to put emotion on the faces of these models, dials and toggles…slowly pulling the sneer, the contempt into place. In my court-ordered (family) therapy 2009-2015, I was given these…
Traveler Chimiru 