Back at it, again

I have my two battle-edited chapters, and it’s back to work for me.  I guess I got a sort of Christmas vacation, ha-ha.

Recently, I dug up my old material and looked to see if there was anything I could post up without dying of embarrassment.  …I don’t think so.  Even the original draft of TRoL that I wrote over two years ago is now mortifying—not the style so much as the actual plot points of the story.  *sigh*

What I can share, however, is this old picture of Evynn Rider-of-Stars astride a unicorn.

Now, unicorns are no longer a part of PaD, but it’s still a good picture.  It was a drawing that I scanned and then painted over with Paint Shop Pro 7.  The setting is the Stessian Highlands in Cineach, with the Caraic Ciar (the Dark Mountains—nothing ominous about them) in the background.  I made a lot of use of the different patterns in PSP 7: there are seven different textures in the picture.  Three different gradients are used, as well.  (And you can still see traces of the original pen sketch here and there.)

Evynn is not actually so strawberry blondish, but oh well; this was also done when his hair was shoulder-length (‘tis chin-length now).  One more note, and this is funny: in the original painting, Evynn’s shirt was a parchment sort of color.  However, since we don’t see his face or hands, my mom pointed out that it looked like he wasn’t wearing a shirt.  Oops!  So I painted his shirt over with a nice green color.  Much better!

(Sorry that the copyright was so bold, but I understandably don’t want people stealing my hard work.)