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.
Premiere of The Founder’s Foundry & Forge
Please enjoy your visit to The Founder’s Foundry & Forge. Made for #dam-challenge “Forge” Size: 40 X 40 19.0 MB Special thanks for the assets by: SAC, DangerWeasel, Centimar DeVarion, Elenitsa, Stalk42, Vaako, swedish.cook,Varkas.amdir, Ice_xox, DallasRT, dallasrt, Random Ladybird, and chimchimcharu.
I Took Notes!
Most of them made it all the way here >>> to the time I promised I would give myself. To get my head right, because I knew (Brace yourself grammar police…) I knew they done messed me up. Indecision, excessive worry, depression, unclear thinking…yk Symptoms Then I go out into the real world and I…
I was not a good student.
Notorious teacher bite-r by first grade. Not a joke. I was feral. I was “held back” in 2nd grade for truancy. (The second go around I figured out that the “teachers edition” had all the correct answers. My issued student edition had them too by the first week.) I got into fights. NOT I started…
Reviewing Alembic
It’s official. One full calendar year of “Participate.” AS a yearling… and no longer a newbie, nor rookie, I kind of feel like I earned the jersey, (or at least the cap, come on now…!?) I had such great feedback from my fellow cartographers today! It’s obvious I am a big fan of the folks…
Premiere of The Adamant Alembic
Please enjoy your visit to The Adamant Alembic Made for #dam-challenge “Before and After” Size: 40 X 20 20.9 MB Special thanks for the assets by: Metaphor, Random Ladybird, SAC, Normandial, Centimar CeVarion, DangerWeasel, DallasRT, Arcadia, jagarr, ColbaltlGuess, Heronimo, Spyke, milfrice, Ice_xox, Greywind12.ab, soundphantom, Tree House Goblin, [DE] SunWatcher, Clandor, Yomgeon, GreenBriar, MACx3D, CLETECK, lic.edwin.bueno,…
New Year… New goals!
Last year’s goal was “Participate.” This year… let me think about it a bit. I want to conquer my fear of Blender. I am in great company for learning the ends and outs. I want to conquer my fear of >>> attempting to Be a Writer, already got traction 😉 I am stunned that I…
Purdy and Pink
When I first found out about Meshy.ai in early February, I tried a few times and got disappointing results. I asked my cub and she strolls up, examines the interface and starts cranking out little demons and MLPs like a natural. Purdy is one of her first little demon girls. I made Pink, from her…
Premiere of Purdy and Pink’s Playhouse
Please enjoy your visit to Purdy and Pink’s Playhouse Made for #dam-challenge “Tis the Season” Size: 22 X 22 31.2 MB Bonus
Tale of Two Senpais
In the Perfect World, blademasters and wizards (humans) start in the same town taking parallel questlines. So exhub3 and I entered there. Otherwise we would have to quest in our own regions grinding to lvl level 30 before mixing with the other races (barbarians and venomancer (beastfolk) and archers and clerics (elves.) Since I realized…
Intro to Invisible Rules
The art: Delineating Point One of the last “communications” I was putting together (2024) when elder-tox-sis TLDR’d. She doesn’t understand how or why I MIGHT feel disowned, or Cut-Off. My skin crawls recalling her wobbling clueless upper octave of feigned pain, when f2f or on the phone. It’s part of the Gassssslighting. It’s theater… acting.…
Side Quest!
I want to put this little Public Announcement Out: Please be kind to the Ladybirds when they cuddle together in your quiet corners to sleep through the freezing season. This is the first good article I found on accommodating the little guest: This is a story I laid out and Robot made all the words…
Current Build
Datura is a Gloom Stalker. From what I heard I should play her like a stealth archer, but so far she absolutely sucks at archery. Doing pretty well with the sling shot, except the opponents want to close the distance and chew on her. Occupational hazard for all gnomes >> mistaken as squeaky toys I…
Did I Tell You Thank You?
Hello my friends and heroes, Thank you for all the work you have been doing to hold on to your True Self. In this circus of costumes, grease painted clown faces, masks and performances. It was really nice to be near your authenticity. Guarded, but REAL. A real human just living out a humble human…
Butterfly Affect
^-.-^ The inconsistency of self AS PROJECTED, not as experienced. The me inside is the same me, just getting bigger, older, learning more in life… The me I must be when others (toxic family) are present is limited and punished if deviated from their projections and scripts. “On best behavior” aka not taking up…
Fighting your inner demons?
Hello Demon Slayers, Realizing they are not YOURS? Those aren’t YOUR demons. Those are echoes of ghosts. Part of your Life Before: you started healing. The work here is this: Document the damage. Get forensic about it. No fog, no “well, all families have problems.” What happened was specific. It was wrong. Maybe it was…
Take It Easy
You’ve been flying through the storm too long, Wings are heavy, you can barely hold on. Come on down, come on in, Let the water take you in. You’re safe now. You’ve found sanctuary. Take it easy, take your time, There’s no mountain you have to climb. Let the gentle current flow, Healing happens soft…
Premiere of Take-It-Easy Estuary
Please enjoy your visit to Take It Easy Estuary Made for #dam-challenge “Healing” Size: 50 X 40 8.49 MB Special thanks for the assets by: DallasRT, dallasrt, Centimar DeVarion, SAC, [DE} SunWatcher, and chimchimcharu.
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…
Traveler Chimiru 