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I went over my drawing of my OC Khanyisile with a Sharpie twin-tip marker as an experiment in varying line weight/thickness.

Queen Khanyisile is the beautiful young matriarch of an African-flavored civilization called Izwelabantu (that's Zulu for "nation of the people"). Considered a god-like descendent of the Sun itself, Khanyisile functions as both a spiritual and political leader for her people, but in practice she must heed her advisory council's wishes. Her younger half-brother Xolani, whose politics are much more conservative than her own, serves as her highest-ranking adviser.

Abantu Temple Pylon

Double-towered pylons such as this serve as facades fronting the temples and palaces of Izwelabantu. As they do with all of their architecture, the Abantu construct these using mud or other earthy materials, sticking in wooden beams for support, and then coat them with white plaster. Pylons vary in size with the significance of the gods houses within their respective temples; small pylons adjoin the temples of rural villages' local deities whereas gods of national importance receive towering pylons such as displayed here.

I designed this pylon as a merging of ancient Egyptian/Nubian and various sub-Saharan African architectural traditions. The beams of wood sticking out of the towers have a Western Sahelian inspiration.

Colored version of Queen Khanyisile. I've re-outlined and started re-writing her story, and whereas she was originally a love interest for the hero, she's now the protagonist herself.


Nordic/Celtic warrior portrait

^All cool.

I think, though, that some one should draw this:

"Monstrous barrel-shaped fossil of wholly unknown nature; probably vegetable unless overgrown specimen of unknown marine radiata. Tissue evidently preserved by mineral salts. Tough as leather, but astonishing flexibility retained in places. Marks of broken-off parts at ends and around sides. Six feet end to end, three and five-tenths feet central diameter, tapering to one foot at each end. Like a barrel with five bulging ridges in place of staves. Lateral breakages, as of thinnish stalks, are at equator in middle of these ridges. In furrows between ridges are curious growths - combs or wings that fold up and spread out like fans. All greatly damaged but one, which gives almost seven-foot wing spread. Arrangement reminds one of certain monsters of primal myth, especially fabled Elder Things in Necronomicon.

"Their wings seem to be membranous, stretched on frame work of glandular tubing. Apparent minute orifices in frame tubing at wing tips."

Alright?

Last thing i made:

Not art, perhaps, but certainly an interesting example of world building. Here is the basic foundation of a world map for a forum game I was working on briefly, on a different site. Never got beyond the basic land formations. Abandoned it in the end, but the very fact that it looks somewhat good up close despite having been made from scratch using nothing but pieces of a map of Australia makes it worth keeping.

^ I liked it!

There is this thing in dev art called dArt Muro . . . seen it enough times so I tried it today. This is the piece I actually made after fiddling around with it. I actually kinda like it =) its called Open Sky.


[img][800:373]http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/215/7/8/open_sky_by_tempertempest-d59qi19.png[/img]

Oh, well. Can't say I like to draw or that I draw regularly, but I drew Flandre Scarlet from the Touhou Project video game series. It's hideous, inaccurate, and proportions are wrong, but I wanted to share it with you since it's one of my virtual lovers :



In case you're wondering, the signature is one of my other pseudonyms I use, on http://www.fanfiction.net/ most notably.

Napoleon looks better as a cat.

[img][600:1000]http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/216/7/3/napoleon_cat_by_thinkerofthoughts-d59t6tn.png[/img]

^Maybe you should put," I Demand a CHEESEBURGER!" on it. Might make someone laugh.

Beat Goes On-- another dA Muro piece.

[img][800:373]http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/216/2/5/beat_goes_on_by_tempertempest-d59twgh.jpg[/img]