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.
Recent Posts
- Is There Something Different About Me?
- Too Many Red Herrings And I’m Not Taking The Bait.
- It’s Kind Of Like A Litmus Test…
- “Home again, home again, jiggity-jig”
- AFK BRB
- The Snowshine Shrine Review
- Very Important work going on in the Laboratory.
- Premiere of The Snowshine Shrine
- Its Like MAGIC!
- THE PREHISTORIC GUIDE TO MODERN ASSETS
Premiere of Sunken Town Depot
Please enjoy your visit to Sunken Town Depot Made for #dam-challenge “Railway” Inspired by Obojima’s Sunken Town Map. Special thanks for the assets by: Arcadia, greywind12,ab, Heronimo, Centimar DeVarion, SAC, Vaako, Game Over Nine Thousand, Danger Weasel, DallasRT, Random Ladybird, [DE] SunWatcher, mfletchrd, and chimchimcharu. Much appreciation for the amazing team at Dungeon Alchemist! “Hard…
What actually happens?
When you get to the point where all the chores are done. Check. Everything is caught up on. Check. Bills paid up. Check. And you finally get that chance to Just Relax… or Just Focus on YOUR stuff. Yk… that novel in rough draft last chapters unfinished. The dream of Your Trilogy. Your Gallery Exhibit.…
Pandora Sphinx
Deep in my map again. Looked up and realized it was Tuesday at some point. This has been a fantastic challenge for me. “Railway.” Recent tutorial from fellow cartographer during their Twitch Stream, and the tear down the Kobolds did on their recent acquisition of the mobile prison. I think I did well making train…
Changing the Lock
Got another chat I’d like to share. I will try to trim it down a bit, as we go. Currently 48 pages… let’s see what we end up with. Still at Self Concept and Cite Your Sources. It takes a bit to find good sources. Might want some tools for identifying that and distinguishing from…
Papillon Patchwork Park Review.
On the set up scene, shoot video,and make music side Fantastic fun and success (i’d say…) On the other “people can open the map side”, epic fail! Different this time. My friends let me know. I removed half the assets; all those beautiful adirondack chairs. The indoor fancy flower chairs, good portion of the fey…
I’ve Been Promoted.
I am an Admiral now. No longer Captain-Save-A-Hoe. Yep. Sed it out-loud. Aloud is Allowed. The train of thought and the original Quest-ion. “Oh Charlene. She has to rescue everyone.” the taunt from my peer specialist. Surreal moment, having that mirror held up to me. The first week of working with him for the following…
You Can Be This Or You Can Be That
Had the lyrics wrong. “You can get with this or you can get with that” Black Sheep. Not my fault, pretty sure it was used in commercials of some sort. This one was playing in my head, ‘cept with different words. You can be the hero, or you can be the villain. You can be…
It’s Not One Way Or Another.
There are 1000 ways. Some work better. And the weirdness is that few recognize when they are on a route that is failing. Already, paid-in too much… yk? Invested and invested and invested in the wrong direction and refuse to see that they are going the wrong way…. To slip into my disillusionment with…
Butterflies
A Bounty of Butterflies for all my cartographer friends to collect and enjoy! I was on the fence a while about including the bees, as the theme and feature of this garden was the butterflies and landscaping. Float like a butterfly, thus sting like a bee could be the sequel. Surprisingly hard to find battle…
Premiere of Papillon Patchwork Park
Please enjoy your visit to Papillon Patchwork Park “Where Daydreams Drift on Wings” Made for #dam-challenge “Garden” Special thanks for the assets by: Centimar DeVarion, Random Ladybird, Ice_xox, Arcadia, DallasRT, dallasrt, The TTRPGBrewster, Bearsoft, CLETECK, BlueMayje, Metaphor, Yomgeon, DangerWeasel, SAC, [DE} SunWatcher, Colt Seavers, Normandial, Sesu, Vaako, EvilDeer, milfrice, Gently Applied Heat, greywind12,ab, MrGhostDiogo,…
Light and Shadow Review
“Mac reviewed my map at 2:14 in the video.” With Link. https://www.youtube.com/live/EgpV7S1TjwM?si=VtIWpVQuuInDH1yR&t=8046 to make it easier to find. Look I respect your time, and get that you have your own world and struggles. So, not asking a lot, few minutes every other week or so… 2:14 – 2:19 = roughly 5 minutes. A couple more…
Bad Parenting Class
There was not a divorce class for the adults when I was the shared custody kid. I took 2 parenting classes, or whatever those are called. First divorce, (marriage 8-5-91 / divorce 11-6-95) no kids thus no class required. Second Divorce (marriage 7-31-96 / divorce 7-30-03) had a cub, so there’s a class. (Lol my…
Expedition Log: The Fae Botanical Research Institute
In Which Traveler Chimiru Hunts Seven Crimson Predators The invitation arrived on parchment that smelled faintly of roses and rain. Random Ladybird, cartographer extraordinaire, had opened another of her gardens to exploration. This time: the Fae Botanical Research Institute. “Seven rare beetles,” the note read. “Hidden somewhere on the institute’s grounds. Good hunting.” Chimiru adjusted…
How far would you go?
Another question from a reader! “Leave …(people in the cave) behind, even if there are those among them who are the ones controlling, no, dictating our everyday lives? How far would you go?” ^-.-^ Even if they are trying to force you to stay, drag you back in…XD How far… No fear of heights. Personally,…
Premiere of Wolf Ridge Road
Please enjoy your visit to Wolf Ridge Road Made for #dam-challenge “Light and Shadow” Inspired by: Wolf with Animation by Damit((Michel) Special thanks for the assets by: LordRev,Bearsoft, DallasRT, and chimchimcharu. Much appreciation for the amazing team at Dungeon Alchemist!
Anecdote and Antidote
I’m going to admit, I got there again. Where I was just an NPC in someone else’s Story. Yk? Like I’m only here to re-fill drinks at a nonverbal ice rattle (command), and ofc clean-up-crew when the party is over. I kid you not. It had been so long since I had talked about ME,…
Level UP! (again!)
Didn’t see this mile marker coming. That last Note, (in a bottle) made 100 posts! I might be a blogger… Look at that! 212 days since I launched. Not bad for a Newbie. I probably have 100 more in the rough draft. Some ideas are harder to present, because you have to have a few…
A Note in a Bottle
Penny, the River, and the Psychology of the Exploited Wound [o.o] When someone is asked which childhood character they relate to most, ^-.-^ ME. I was asked and it lead me to making a whole bunch of art. Why you gotta make it all vague and generalizing? [o.o] … the easy answers come quickly —…
Overgrown Review
Head in the weeds until I figure there is not much more I can add. I wait until I post my map, before I start exploring the other entries. The community manager does a great review of each of the entries on the streams; simultaneous casting on TikTok, Twitch, YouTube and Steam, etc. He is…
Premiere of The Tall Grass
Hello, Please enjoy your visit to The Tall Grass Made for #dam-challenge “Overgrown” Inspired by: Don Tiki’s song “The Natives are Restless” Size: 30 X 62 23.9 MB Special thanks for the assets by: greywind12,ab for the most beautiful Phorusrhacidae! Also Much thanks to: Clandor, smashbear76,Mangelwurzel,Yomgeon, DallasRT,dallasrt, and SAC, for bringing the…
Give a mouse a cookie…
Or Answer a Senpai’s Question….. Now there is more!! Reader: I simply find it very hard to judge other people. ^-.-^ Is hard the right word? Lets try “shameful, guilt ridden, as though I am seeing myself as superior, full of one’s self.” Repulsion or revulsion. Uncomfortable at minimum. I remember Those People….…
A Question from a Reader!
Where is the line, for example between being sensitive, polite and manipulative? I’m concerned you’re pointing at “sensitivity training” maybe similar to “diversity training” here. On that >> I do have a strong opinion most people are not ready to hear. I’ve been to those training sessions. Didn’t like it. I’m more of a Humanist.…
Recovery Story Part 1
It’s in the final stages of recovery programs, when the coaches start talking about sharing your recovery story. Your sharing might be the words someone else needs to hear. To start their healing process. To stop un-healed issues from interfering and disrupting life. In 2018 when invited to train to be a child advocate for…
Damatoria Slam Review
Challenges help us grow. I am so grateful the DAM Challenges continues! I’m asked how much time it takes to build the maps, and I don’t know. I don’t keep track. I kind of hang out in the game as much as I can, until it feels done. It’s order of operation [this must be…
Premiere of Damatoria Slam
Hello, Please enjoy your visit to Damatoria Slam Made for #dam-challenge “Prison” Inspired by: Chronicles of Riddick Crematoria Slam Size: 40 X 40 19.0 MB Special thanks for the assets by: Heronimo, Bockimon (sci-fi collection) SAC, Tinman4700, DallasRT, TheTTRPGBrewster, DangerWeasel, soundphantom, smashbear76, jagarr, Vaako, Arcadia, greywind12,ab, Normandial, Kitrik and the amazing team…
I gotta post…
Don’t want my haters thinking they won or scared me away…. or I died or something…. Lol smdh. I’ve just been doing so many other things that I haven’t been giving typing time. Not inspired to type everyday. It’s part of how I have to flow… Too many days hunkered is hard for back, neck,…
Anatomy of a Non-apology
^-.-^ You really must stop calling these things manifestos… upgraded rule sets… personal standards… opinion piece… home/office policy…any of these would be better than to package my ideas as “manifesto.” I’m not getting around the blatant neo-socialist jargon. I earnestly disagree with the re-distribution of resources. I believe in self sufficiency and Not dependency.…
“We are the children of children and we live as we are shown.”
[o.o] Joe has arrived on Waponi Woo and is learning the customs of the islanders who intend to sacrifice him to the volcano. He’s baffled, frightened, and quietly judging the situation the way a modern outsider would: this is irrational, this is cruel, this makes no sense. The Chief responds calmly, without defensiveness or menace.…
Traveler Chimiru 