The Silver Arrow Times

2011-05-25T21:08:00.002-07:00

The Scrawler in Descent by *freakdearts on deviant ART

just a sketch of Wren from my sketchbook that I was keeping over the semester... I really like the way the ink came out and it was just a ballpoint... think of what I could do with my crow quills

The Scrawler, Wren Melbourne, and "Lalaland" are (c) to me

2011-05-25T21:04:00.000-07:00

Zane's expressions by *freakdearts on deviant ART

well this is about three months worth of effort from my moleskin compiled into one file for your enjoyment...

I kind of figured that Zane should be a sort of childish but aloof and gloomy character since he's been locked up in "The Room" for so long so he'll have these sort of spells of melancholy followed by outbursts of random happyness... don't ask me how I'm going to translate this into a comic where he's only got a few lines but it's important to have all your homework done before you do something as ambitious as I'm planning... I just want to get it right the first time so I don't have to go into redux

any way Zane and "The Room" (c) to me and the meme is (c) to Nancy Lorenz, bless her soul...

The Seventh Friend

2011-04-19T06:47:00.005-07:00

the Seventh Friend by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

The Sixth Friend

2011-04-19T06:47:00.001-07:00

The Sixth Friend by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

The Fifth Friend

2011-04-19T06:43:00.002-07:00

The Fifth Friend by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

Just some Japanese thoughts...

2011-04-19T06:42:00.000-07:00

I would like to go to Japan but, you know what, I can't.

And I don't actually need to and I don't want to either for two reasons... for one because I don't think I could stand another flight with my ears still in their loopy condition and two because I don't want to get even more sick than I already am... what with all the radioactivity and the fact I just got out of the hospital after a personal disaster myself I don't think I'm ready to visit a disaster site if you know what I mean...

it's just something I'll have to accept...

But, you know what, I don't have to go either... for one thing I have faith in the Japanese people; that they'll be able to take care of their second nuclear disaster in a most dignified manner and also that they'll do it in a manner that the international will be able to respect... it is a strong country, one that's been getting along fine for the past fifteen odd centuries it's been around... which is something that anyone who's ever read about it would understand... but also after my own disaster I understand that I can't do it all on my own... the recovery is mine, but it's only mine to do... also I'm never alone as long as there's family around to feed and clothe me I'll be alright...

And there will always be Anime...That will never die....

evar

-The Revig

JAPAN

2011-03-14T12:17:00.000-07:00

My hopes and prayers go out

The Fourth Friend

2011-03-14T10:57:00.002-07:00

The Fourth Friend by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

The Third Friend

2011-02-23T22:33:00.002-07:00

The Third Friend by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

noooo

2011-02-23T22:32:00.002-07:00

I swear I'm not closing up on you all it's just it's of course been very hard to keep writing while writing for school as well, if you catch my drift. I really wish that I could update more frequently but when you're also doing home work til two o'clock in the morning it's quite hard to follow through with something that may be fun... and I have been working enough that it's put me out of commission for three whole days and still coughing... I'm not sure if it's a good thing for me to already be pushing my body to a limit already ... it's only been six weeks since term started... anyway, it's not like I don't have art... my typography teacher has a bet with us of sorts that he won't get one extra credit sketch book journal from any of his students this year... I probably won't need to submit it as design isn't really a hard thing for me although this is of a typographic nature, but the required minimum of 5 minutes a day of actual drawing it is a good motivation to get me actually sketching again... and we're coming up with some lovely designs for Lalaland... I might actually post somethings from there but then again that would mean taking time away from homework to scan and upload them so it may not happen at all, just like me actually finishing posting these character sheets won't either...

The Second Friend

2011-01-30T17:40:00.001-07:00

The Second Friend by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

The First Friend

2011-01-21T01:05:00.002-07:00

The First Friend by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

ARRRRGHH

2011-01-14T19:11:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I swear technology has sentience... a spiteful sentience...

I had just bought an external hard drive to save my overstuffed internal one on my ailing PC, when the graphics card killed itself... in my presence. I had just started it up and sat down when my screen was splayed across with something like this:

Of course I was kind of expecting something like this, my computer had been flagging all of last semester and this close to the next one it was practically asking for it... but just the week before? really? well luckily it was 3 years ago that my machine was built so an upgrade will put in hardware that is discounted by now so it should only be about a week until its back up and working, still, that's annoying... and creepy... gads! first bouncers and now this; term can't start any sooner!

2011-01-08T00:47:00.001-07:00

Friendship-Hatred by ~freakdearts on deviant ART
My first piece for the new year is a piece that, oddly enough, was inspired by an NPR news story [link] at the beginning of last semester... It was last of a series on All Things Considered aired in early August about life in the Gaza strip, no doubt sparked by the Israeli peace talks that started during that time... for some reason it resonated deeply with me and when I heard it I couldn't help but start immediately sketching what came to mind...

As an artist I'm fascinated by the connections that can develop between two people, naturally these are usually romantic in nature but I still feel that a lot can be communicated about the nature of said relationship by facial expression, gesture, and body language... subtle things really but there... but with this piece I wanted to focus more on a relationship of a friendship nature than the romantic sort without being as sentimental as in my other pieces especially a relationship as complicated as the one reported... as such I really wanted to emphasize the links in such a way that would be respectful to the source material and not overly cliche... color plays a very symbolic role in this piece in tandem with typography and imagery; I really wanted to make things clear but in a subtle way that wasn't too sentimental... since this is my first piece of potentially political artwork I've done I wanted it to focus on the people involved more than anything else.

As for the symbolism within the piece I highly recommend you listen to the story [link] since it makes more sense when you do...

As a note of trivia that particular color of orange gold was lifted from this particular movie:[link] which I also highly recommend.

TL;DR listen to this story [link] to get it...

All the necessary excuses

2011-01-02T20:23:00.002-07:00

There is nothing more embarrassing in my opinion than violating that unspoken internet contract that states that once you start posting something you must continue to do so indefinitely (if I were speaking as an advertising exec I might say that such a contract is more often than not less unspoken than actually written and signed at least if anyone wants to make any money off the webs).well, I've obviously been in violation of it for the past *looks over* oh, year at least on this blog anyway on deviant art I have been rather active more... But I have good excuses for that which we'll get back later... Now, Of course there is that part of my self that says:" wtf You're an artist not a blogger why would anyone want to read your tl;dr crap they're just into the next visual stimuli which you aren't even getting payed to create...in fact, its none of their business what you do with yourself why are you letting yourself be dictated by what your non-existent audience's expectations? In fact, why are you even writing this?" (and that may also possibly explain why I'm even trying to continue on with this line of logic). Well to you, little annoying voice I say: that's a very good question... The answer to which both of us have the potential to find an answer to on this great new adventure were going on right now or will be beginning very soon because we're restarting our online sphere of non-influence (which would usually present itself to the tune of "I'm alive!!!" or some other noise of renaissance.)
Little voice: You just ignored my question completely.
Me: It waS a stupid question.
Little voice: and kept on with your grandiose bull***t to do something unsustainable and potentially stupid because you're desperate for attention
Me: Yes, but I'm not desperate for attention, it's a resolution, besides people might actually want to know what I'm doing and what I think.
Little voice: Yeah, like like they want to have a hole in the head...
Me:yeathatwasntreallyfunnyanyway*ahem
Anyway! Excuses! Well for one school... As I already said in my previous post which started this hiatus, my first semester of college was quite full. Well not really, I only took four classes three of which were art/design related and the other was engl comp1 but that's not important...

What's important is that because of some incredible fluke in the testing process the english class was part of the honors program and took a lot of brain and emotional power to crank out exposition pieces that were laking in imagination although not semicolons... Luckily the professor was interesting enough to pay attention to and invest effort in meeting his expectations so somehow I was able to scrap together an...A? (Must have been the same improbability blip that got me into the class in the first place) but needless to say I was not going to expend the brain energy that I did not have after finishing a term paper fifteen minutes before the deadline on a recap of what I had just jammed into my brain, diced, minced, scrambled, pickled, reassembled, disassembled reassembled again and finally hoicked back up onto the nearest keyboard,dressed up and shipped off for my prof to shred and grade.

As far as the visual arts were concerned the drawing pieces were either too large to photograph or too weird and unfinished(not to mention vague) to fathom submission and while my instructor was certainly excited about them I wasn't. Most were too close to the english pieces in feeling and I was not that inspired by the subjects which usually were the same grimey and frustratingly familiar array of objects in the class room ... I never like reprocessing reality there's just not that much margin for error, the reality in my head is far easier to draw. None the less, the drawing class was great because not only were we working on a larger scale than I was used to we were also able to experiment with different media and approaches. And of course there were the nude model sessions which are essential for any serious artist no matter how awkward they may be *snigger at least we had professional and moderately well looking ones... *hem and despite the difficulties of actually reproducing it I was able to learn how to actually see what I was looking at and trying to draw. I think I try and do a mash up with the best of the larger ones and individual postings of the better smaller ones...once I get them back from my teacher.

As far as the digital art classes I took were concerned they were merely introductory courses which, while I did learn some new tricks,were mostly tedium that reviewed well troden pathes in PS and introduced me somewhat flounderingly to Illustrator, PS's cousin. The photoshop class dealt with using photos which I was ill prepared for since all I had for that was my cel's camera and I knew nothing about illustrator so I was a complete noob and nothing ever did look right. Luckily I had my handy dandy graphire tablet to save me and greatly enhance my output. I don't think I'dve passed without it since I suck at photomanipulation and was a beginner at the illustrator program, not to mention the teachers were kind of duds imo. Needless to say the work done has no place outside the classroom even though it was what my creative efforts had been fed into all that time(it was usually too late once I got back home to do much more than dishes and cram a bit more writing in before crashing).

Now I'm not going to say that this next semester won't be as stressful as the last, certainly not as in fact I'm going to take math as well, but I'm also not going to say that I'm going to cut off all contact indefinitely again... I'll try to update as often as possible even if what I have to say isn't the most interesting or the art the best I could do...in that area you may just have to settle for moleskin pieces and the random doodled fanart... But at least I'll be posting something... I may even do a few digital pieces so I don't get too rusty and I certainly will release the designs for my latest comic project which I may or may not do... I mean after all why would I go through all the trouble of saving up to buy a super awesome cool tablet if I were just going to use it as a mouse pad?

So yeah, if you skipped all of that then all it means is that I'm back and hopefully-though not too likely- it'll stay that way.

-Freakdearts

strange dreams...

2010-01-27T00:43:00.001-07:00

this morning when I hit the snooze button on my alarm I dreamt most vividly that I had 12 messages on deviant art... twelve! how can I remember that? and they were all either replies or comments... I remember one was slightly inflammatory and had something to do with the lines I used for my shading?... I think da has had too much of an impact on me to the point that I'm on it in my sleep... somehow that doesn't seem right... it was so vivid *shivers*

slight side point: tomorrow I start ballroom dancing lessons no, not waltz or foxtrot you twit! but salsa meringue or samba! a friend of my mother's is an instructor at a dance therapy workshop downtown and I was press-ganged into it, not that I'm resentful oh no I can't wait to get out of here and learn some moves or whether I've been doing it wrong all along... which I have most likely... I love to dance especially Latin I guess there's just something in the beats...having lived three years in mexico you'd think I'd pick something up by osmosis wouldn't you... but umm... well lets just say it's best if I don't get up if they play... it is still something I need to puzzle out for sure like a piece of tamarindo to get out of its shell

adios muchachos!

-the Revig

HAITI

2010-01-14T17:17:00.001-07:00

There's not much I can do, but what I can do is to pray... I will pray every day for those affected by this disaster... I will pray for the lost that they won't give up... I will pray for the aide workers that they will not falter... I will pray for those living that they will continue to... and I will pray for all the people for better days...I will pray for Haiti, for prayer is not the least I can do, but the most I can do...

When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I will not forsake them (Isa.41:17).

HAPPY FREAKIN' NEW YEAR!!!

2010-01-01T00:01:00.001-07:00

May the new year bravely bring to us what it will
And may we bravely bring to the new year what we will...

With Blue Violets in Her Hair

2009-12-14T12:39:00.000-07:00

With Blue Violets in Her Hair by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

a birthday Giftart for my younger sister... something not too flashy but elvish and elegant to go with her room... as usual I had been promising to finish this for about three of her birthdays with the progress being as follows

15th: head and shoulders, some hair, and a bunch of lines to find the rest of the picture.

16th: filled out the body and endlessly fiddled with the anatomy and dress which I still don't think I got right and gave her some sort of an environment at this point consisting of the mountains and forest... I think the wall was what stopped me here

17th: fixed her hands to look human and finished the background. added the pillars and ledge with a bit more of an idea of what I was doing. colored the blue parts and sky which was fun cause I got to use pastels although you can't really tell cause of the scanner...

so glad I waited so long...

This Was Halloween

2009-12-14T12:38:00.000-07:00

This was Halloween by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

I am the boy with the bleeding eyes
look into them once and I'll scream for your life!

Well it WAS meant for Halloween but the internet fritzed out and did not come back on til two days after the wretched day so this feels a bit out of place... just the leavings from spending practically the whole month working at a haunted house painting faces... I guess you could say it's a sort of halloweentown me... and perhaps he has something to do with boogie since he does have suits on his sleeve thing... I like how he looks like he's about to say "well what have we here?"

anyway sketched in mech pencil then colored with cheap colored pencils... oh and a bit of pen on his fingers

TOO MUCH BLACK!!! (don't know how many times I sharpened that pencil)

Zane--Red

2009-12-14T12:36:00.003-07:00

Zane-Red by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

some more zane nonsense... I just like this because of the blocks of black with the red... it's just so simple

if you even so much as utter the syllable; I will KILL YOU!

Zane--Further Development

2009-12-14T12:36:00.001-07:00

Zane-further development by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

The developmental sketch that led to the total redesign of Zane from some scruffy street urchin to something with a bit more attitude.

What really prompted this was an attempt to render his hair in a sort of naruto style where it was just the general shapes in a solid color without any strands showing except at the edges... I tried it out with his original haircut but it wasn't working so great... so I spiked things up a bit while keeping the main aspects and got this... something much more dynamic and bad ass.

I love grapes...

Zane--Portait

2009-12-14T12:34:00.000-07:00

Zane Portrait by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

a portrait of Zane in his new design since the, old one was rather too complicated... I don't really know why I bothered to draw him on such a large scale but since I am going to be doing a comic with his likeness eventually I needed to firm up his facial features more than just an aged sketch so I conducted this study... but I will give you the sketch that changed it... much more coherent than the original... and bad ass

I think somethings off here just can't figure it out... I was never too good at large scale work...

By Candles Light--Illo

2009-12-14T12:28:00.001-07:00

By Candle's Light--Illo by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

For one by one the fire is spread
Like a river streaming of flame
And a joy to my heart this sight sends
For my small light became night’s bane

--

An illustration for the first stanza of my poem By Candles Light [link] and a therapy peice while watching nauro... which took far longer than necessary since I suck at under lighting faces and making them look human... the mouth was the hardest part of it besides the lettering... I didn't really want it to look too finished as that would probably make it look as forced as the poem... but I just couldn't leave the face alone... meh

and MONOGRAM YAY!!!
loving the collar...

SCHOOOOLS OUT FOREVAH!!!

2009-12-03T21:18:00.004-07:00

or at least for as long as I can tell...

yes that is right congratulate me for I have just finished entirely my highschool acedemic work which as far as I can tell means I HAVE GRADUATED!!! Yeah, I'm wearing my spanky pants! can you tell? that means this is a real special occasion cause I only save those for extra special occasions... *hem* don't worry they're just underwear, but besides that I also needed an excuse to restart the blog and this seems like as good as any since I am now a man!! now I'll go forth and conquer with the power of youth! NVRM that's still not right... pardon I've watched a bit too much of naruto for my own good....

no seriously I have so much time now I'm not too sure what to do with it... and there seems like theres always too much to get done in it... I never realized how stressful it would be not having to do any scholarly activity there's more time for what others need you to do than what you kinda want to do... sigh... still I am quite exuberant and I doubt that it will be dampened in a good while... I'm FREEE!!! I've always wanted to say that...

please standby for a megart upload... and maybe a bit of p-p-p-poetry... ogsh it's good to be back!

It's also beginning to look a lot like christmasss...

New Lives

2009-09-16T10:05:00.008-07:00

well as much as I would love to blame my indefinite as of late silence on severe digital trauma(i.e. broken mashed fingers) I must be honest and say that lately I have been very boring and lazy and not very prone to be very internet social... but there are some beginings (and ending depending on how you look on it) that I must report upon so I have hauled up the old compose page just for such...

first is that my brother has been married now for about a week... to a lovely russian girl by the name of michelle... may they find greater love and happiness as they walk their new road together... here is some pictorial evidence of the fact..I have no idea why seeing my brother in a suit is so hilarious... :D Congrats guys!
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Second: Melody has had her baby... may your life be full of joy and light as you care for another :D congrats love and sorry I haven't been in touch for a while... I'm waiting for some pictures, eh?;)

and thirdly... I'll be off to the fdtp this sunday for some much needed training in what it means to be a disciple, and an adult...hopefully I won't get myself into too much trouble or anyone else for that matter... :D This also means that I will be offline for twenty days as too much internet use is not encouraged, but you can follow the precedings on facebook here: [link] I'm bound to get in there someplace so be on the look out for this face:

woah yes that's right I also got a hair cut!(tx liela)

looking forward to the changes

-The Revig

two things I learned from jetskiing for 6 hours on monday

2009-08-26T09:45:00.004-07:00

One: unless you want to get thrown off trying to stay on, lean into your turns...

and Two: unless you want to turn into a lobster put on a pound and a half of sunscreen!

My feet are still swelling from going from white to beet two days afterward...

district 9 is an awesome movie very complex with a great focus on the main character's character above all else...(I was rather impressed by his freindly exterior but harder underlying personality, slightly creepy too)special effects of course were very well done especially for the way it was shot... wish they could of done something a bit better with the ending though...kind of inconclusive... the whole thing raises interesting questions not really about racism but about how everything changes when something alien is introduced... especially something that is a burden and even potentially dangerous... it gives a whole new aspect to it as a good movie should...

It's the dog days of august....

2009-08-20T17:05:00.002-07:00

And I haven't even gotten in a pool this year... that has to be a bad sign...

Un-Lock

2009-08-19T09:57:00.001-07:00

unlocked by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

it's about time! been sitting on this for almost a month now. It's just the first page of my fourth peice in the XN... I don't really like the second so I'm not gonna post it

This was super rushed I only had like a week to finish it all because of the wacom contest... and yet I still obsessed over the colors...

stupid comic sans...

contests... contests...

2009-08-12T23:04:00.004-07:00

you all know I do need money for the FDTP and since it worked so well LAST time... I entered another DA contest with a large some of money for a prize... along with a WACOM 4 tablet... at least that was the first one... yes I have no idea why I did it but I didn't win this one either (of course) not even semi finalist but I do like the entry immensely... some of my finest romantic work imo...

The Idea was to create a poster for the film "paper heart" which answered the question: what does love mean to me...

And Love by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay, love isn't love til you give it away...

this was so much fun to do I think I actually learned something from it... that my art just needs a bit more definition...because it just looks so much better with a big ass art neauvou outline!

oh, and I used[link] from

EDIT: changed the words to hopefully read clearer...

oh and umm yes the second contest I entered was one celebrating the sites ninth birthday... as I write this, the winners have not been decided so I'm not saying anything about that yet... But I will say that it was a challenge because we were given a template of random overlapping lines and shapes which was to be colored in with a paint bucket tool... in an infinite number of combinations... I played around with it filling stuff in with black at random till I came up with their mascot Fella...[link] and the little speach beneath it...but I think it might be interesting to note that I did find a crouching ninja as well, but that was not to be... anyway, wish me luck!

PARTY LIKE A ROCKSTA- by ~freakdearts on deviant ART
Going with a more PARTAY theme with this one...

and HEEERE'S FELLA by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

Happy Birthday DA!!!

As much as I may try to hide it I am a deviant... despite how begrudgingly I admit that I am a member of that site I cannot deny that I have gained a great deal from it's vast and sometimes embarrassing bulk... I've learned practically everything I know about digital art from the tutorials there and much of the inspiration and influence of my style has come from it too... I don't think I would be the artist I am today with out it... and so what better way to spend her 9th birthday than by showing my love and loyalty with an adapted portrait of their illustrious mascot FELLA?!!

kind of gives a new dimension to the term of cel shading

cheers mates!

(LOOOPY FIST!!!)

-The Revig

what is up?

2009-07-26T12:34:00.008-07:00

The opposite of down?

sorry for the lack of updates... I seem to have gotten lost on the path of life...

well, it seems like I've finally gone out and found myself another anime to watch... Naruto, BELIEVE IT!!!

although it was a little difficult to get into at first I have to say that I'm really seeing why it's so popular... it's totally hilarious and awesome and thoroughly enthralling... what I really like about it is that it's so focused on character... you can really see the way that each character grows and progresses throughout, it's not just about the action although that's incredibly cool, but it's about the problems and challenges that each person faces and how they overcome them...you are there with them sharing their experiences and emotions, it gets you involved...and the comedy is just so foolish it's priceless... like seriously I laughed myself to tears this one episode,but I think that it's mostly based on the relationships between different characters and how they interact and react, plus the characters themselves are pretty humorous too...

the only problem that I think I have with it is the pacing... it takes forever to finish a story line... like seriously a single fight could take three whole episodes... that's an hour! I can quite literally watch it and work on something in the next window, because it's usually a monologue or flashback or just changing viewpoints... but I guess that's what makes it so easy to watch and so addicting it always keeps you guessing... like seriously there will be this huge important long sequence and poof! jutsu smoke and then end of the episode and you're just like... WHA...

sigh looks like I've also found another game to sap my time with... this one an nifty little rpg, one which I discovered while I was in mexico at the fresh age of 12... and I just found out that it's one of the earliest ones made by square enix(or squaresoft back then) no wonder I was so drawn to it. I Wonder how long it will last this time...

I think I'm coming down with an aircon cold... but I will try to post my recent artistic capers tomorrow at least...

cheers!

-The Revig

The Glitch playlist system tutorial

2009-07-24T11:11:00.003-07:00

It has come to my attention that the playlist system on The Glitch is sorely lacking in the area of explanation... I've managed to figure it out... after much deliberation and frustration, so as to save you all the trouble I will post this short and hopefully simple tutorial on it...

It's actually quite simple... once you find the song you want click the + symbol in the corner up there(you may notice that "add 2 mystation" will flash next to "rate this song") then click on "my stations" and in the pop up window, type in the name of your new station in the type box under the middle panel then click "new" to create your new station. Select that and click on your song in the left panel and click "add to playlist"; from there it's pretty self explanatory... your new station will show up on the station list with the defaults to be used for whatever you wish!

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-The Revig

________________
music leave me breatheless and bare...

LuLu-Revamped

2009-07-16T20:30:00.001-07:00

Lulu--Revamped by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

Lulu from FFx-2 in real clothes(finally)

this is an illustration-fanart for my girlfriends fan fic "Love in Pain" I know you're used to seeing her in her traditional costume but... since the story is in a modern highschool setting(don't look at ME) I was requested to redo the costumes though still paying homage to the originals... after all would you go to school in something like that?

I don't think the pants work too well with the rest of the outfit now that I look at it... maybe leggings would have been a better choice...

lulu (c) square enix...and tetsuya nomura

Baralai-revamped

2009-07-16T20:28:00.002-07:00

Baralai--Revamped by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

Baralai from FFx-2 in real clothes

his style was requested to be "ghetto"(fail) with stoner eyes which I don't think I did too well... of course by the time I that I finally got around to finishing this the paper that was under them was pretty mucked up...finding the refs for him was hard enough... onion head!

many thanks to this:[link] by ~Baralai-Lovers

Baralai(c) to sqaure enix... and tetsuya nomura

On the team

2009-07-16T20:25:00.001-07:00

On The Team by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

my third piece in the XN! finally I can post it...

In sports I don't really think that any one position is more important than the other all are just as needed...after all, where would a striker be without his midfield? (myself, I'm more of a support player) I really wanted to show that everyone on the team is a winner regardless of whether or not they shot the last goal

I could of done a different sport since soccer wasn't exactly specified, I even seriously considered american foot ball, but I chose this one because its international, team intense, and also one of my favorites to play... not to mention it's not every day that you get to draw a bicycle kick... (even if it is slightly incorrect) the action shots were rather a challenge to keep coherent as well...

the trophy is the final one they went with... not exactly my favorite but it's clearer... although it's a trophy, isn't it all supposed to be symbolic? or at least impressionistic

I rather liked working in greyscale... don't have to worry about color and you can focus more on shade and light... although it does look a little boring... sigh

drawn on half a sketchbook page then inked and shaded in photoshop

Elements--Air

2009-07-01T16:50:00.001-07:00

finally it is finished! I'm sorry for letting it take so long...

Elementals--Air by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

finally this series is up... it's taken me through many different stages of my art and I've learned alot through it, light and shade shape and line... but I think this one is my favorite... of course I am an air sign so I ended with it so it would be the best... I'm really happy with the way it came out and the ease that it was accomplished with.

there were certain things that I wanted to keep consistent throughout this series... one was the size and portion of the faces, another including the hands of each element in the picture so as to give it a certain interest, another was their eyes, I used the same basic technique on them throughout, and their facepaint... the guys on their cheeks and the girls on their eyes... oh and the borders with their little graphics...I did these so as to make them all similar and connected despite the progression of my skills of my skills... so that they would at least look related... still I might redo this eventually... especially the fire one i cringe when I see it still

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Water:[link]

Earth:[link]

Fire:[link]

-The Revig

memage

2009-06-30T20:35:00.004-07:00

its time for... FAMILY FUN!!! (dududududadadadaadududaduuuuh!)

no really I want to know more about whoever it is that reads my blog... I know you do... all those hits down at my clustrmap aren't me checking to see if I have any hits... so yeah:

this is a little something from deviant art that I got from mikou if you want to know what it means by watch it means that you basically follow someone... as in you get updates whenever they post new art... sometimes it's rather annoying really...

"YOU WATCH ME. I want to know 28 things about you. I don't care if we've never talked, never really clicked, or if we already know everything about each other. Let me know with whom I'm friends with!"

1. Your Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favourite Film:
5. Favourite Song or Album:
6. Favourite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. boxers or briefs?:
10. What's your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favourite memory of us?
14. What is your favourite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarkey) - what are they?
17. Can we get together and make a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I'm a good person?
21. What was your best/favourite subject at school?
22. Describe your accent:
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Trousers or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together?
28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?
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you don't really have to do this if you seriously don't want to... but I'm just slightly curious...

Have fun !

-The Revig

tryptich

2009-06-23T12:28:00.000-07:00

triptych by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

portraits of my characters that I drew in the front of my little sketch book as a sort of conversation piece and opener... I wanted to get a sort of engraving look with the two toned backround... but I think I failed with the high contrast highlights... ah well...they're pretty...

chap on the left's name is Hale starherder. Half elf from my book which is indefinitely on hold... research purposes... what's he's holding in his hands and staring at (if you can tell) is a very special crystal the properties and purpose of which I will not discuss here... the little creature on the statuary is a physige a cat sized gryphon thing... although mostly cat...

chap in the middle's name is Magelyke... but just mage for short... he's a half dragon experiment gone somewhat wrong in the head...ptsd in the end... but lets just say that he's amnesic and already hates himself... I use him as a sort of channel for all my negative energies... for those times when I'm feeling particularly down or emotional...

And the fellow on the right there is Zane simply... he's the main soloist in my music comic 'The Room' that is in the works... hopefully not pipeworks... he was the first I did in this series for no apparent reason... he's a bit of an escape artist if that gives any hints...

I really like the little monogram graphic that I cooked up... it's my initials: Ben Revig... or at least my pen name's

Waiting Bear for Mikka

2009-06-23T12:19:00.002-07:00

Waiting Bear-- For Mikka by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

white sails are born on the wind...

my little fantasy bear for Mikka...[link] journey on warrior teddy...

Done with cheap colored pencils to see if I could actually do something with them... the paper is just in my sketch book, rather curled now... oh and I used a bit of detailz facepaint for the foam and highlights... probably won't stay that way...

why can't I do anything simple?

Miscellaneous Art Dump

2009-06-16T12:53:00.004-07:00

before we start this exposition there's something important that needs to be said...

my niece Gabrielle is back! AAUGGHH!!!

well it's actually not that bad... I've only got her for the morning until three and then joy has her for the rest of the day... still she does have a nice tendency to get in one's hair! don't EXPECT pictures even if I say I'll post them if I can... :D

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First we start with a portrait of my dad

Gandalf with Glasses--My Dad by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

this is a bit of an informal tribute/gift that I did for his sixtieth birthday last month... it was difficult because I knew that he would be a bit nervous about sitting for me and so I had to steal little snapshot sketches throughout the day and composite them into something like this...

I chose to portray him as a sort of Gandalf, because he is a great lover of the books and because my first introduction to them (beyond the movies) was when he would read them to us before we went to bed... I remember that I would almost always fall asleep to his low droning voice and so it was only appropriate that I did something like this... also I kind of liek to think of him in that way and I'm sure he sort of does to...

no his beard is not that long in fact he doesn't have much of a beard at all and I know that gandalf doesn't wear glasses but my dad wouldn't be my dad without them and neither would gandalf be himself with out his beard, so I think that justifies my splicing! beyond the fact that it is his sixtieth birthday!

still don't think I got the hat right... my mother said that he could work as either a pirate or santa claus... but I'm tired of fiddling with it and I need to give it to him...

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unlocked--xn teaser by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

a teaser panel from my fourth piece of work for the xn this one consists of two pages, but I think I'll only post one cause I'm not too sure I like the other one...

this one was a pain... so many paths and details, I went too far on the chest... it wasn't easy to color in the time I had after the lineart was done... which was like a week... but I managed...

I especially like the little crystal up in the right corner and the ring in the left, though...

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Elementals--Air--WIP by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

quite a likable fellow really...

well I figured I should break the suspense on the development of this one... I have not been able to work on it in a while due to various other constraints on my time and attention but such as it is here is a preview of it... I may take it up again with the break but my bear needs completion before the twentieth... colored pencils are nice...

it's still quite messy and irregular but were getting there...

what I like about this type of shading is that you don't have to worry about gradients you can just block it in and that's final! no more mucking about with the eye dropper tool and opacity... maybe I should do my comics like this...

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Nathalie called me on saturday for my birthday... we couldn't really talk for long cause I had to head out to do a spiderman party, but it was nice to know I am loved... I really have to write that woman there is much we have to talk about...

I hate chemistry! and here I was thinking I was done with math!!!

-The Revig

Annual Musings.... no. 18 to be precise

2009-06-10T21:57:00.005-07:00

It is with slight reluctance and regret that I stand on the threshold of my adulthood(in other words I'm turning eighteen, and I'm not so sure if it's such a great career move)

regret not really because my years of sentient adolescence were bad, but that they weren't... better. Doubtless I have learned everything I must from them and I do not begrudge that, but they most certainly could of been I am sure. Certainly more eventful and less tedious and with a bit more adventure in them (perhaps concerning a parallel world) than that of simply getting daily out of bed. But being the time stamping being I am I can not do anything about it nor change the fact that they were just normal years... well lived though they may have seemed at the time...

Reluctance one could say because I don't really think that it's a good idea to go about thrusting myself upon society at large, nor does prying myself from the cushioned stupor of adolescence look very gratifying either. But life as we all (should) know doesn't care about what I think(nor any one else for that matter) and I'm sure eventually I will be able to accept the fact that it plods along like a great clockwork elephant. and I will be dragged through the last second of the tenth of june(or have been by the time you're reading this) and will most exasperatingly be eighteen

sad... but true...

Still there is a sort of thrill to be found sitting on the precipice dangling my toes(or having dropt off of it) the future and all it's dim possiblilties stretching out before me like a sheet of endless paper... Lord knows That I am good with paper...
Still I rather like sitting here with the future, almost expectant, not quite because that would only spoil the small peace to be found in it( or lost really depending on when you're reading this)

so much blank space... So much Silence to break... The future is so nice bright and clean... what will we do with it?

So, I'll slit my gills and face full stream
Lest I be found to dance with the jellyfish queen...

-The Revig

Because you shouldn't fence at night...

2009-06-04T22:14:00.003-07:00

or you're gonna hurt the gymnasts

Anyway enjoy my mindless video spamming... but I stumbled apon this jewel and I couldn't help but post it for its... ultimate cringe factor!

And really why do they play football inside? I've always wondered...

enjoy!

(spin around ninjas...)

-The Revig

paintballed

2009-05-24T18:30:00.004-07:00

the brief:

I got shot a total of 7 times although four of them were in a single game and hit two people for all my trouble... although I think that all the times I kept someone under cover could be counted as assists... not too bad a beating this time: only two major welts the size of quarters as compared to last time's four... I think that I might have done better if I had been a bit bolder and daring... pretty much the way I survive is a considerable amount of talent at keeping my head down... of course this limits my offensive abilities and lets the other person shoot his own terms so to speak... I think that next time I won't so worried about saving my own neck and in sted be worried about cutting the other guy's, or something to that effect...

I like to anime run!

-the Revig

choices final

2009-05-20T06:57:00.002-07:00

heheh I crammed in like hell last night to submit it perfectly in time...

choices by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

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we each hold a nature of good and a nature of evil within ourselves... they each influence our way of thinking, of seeing, of acting... we may hear them both but the only thing that matters is which we listen to... for it holds our doom...

I used this more symmetrical format in order to stress the fact that we are each a free moral agent and that each side-so to speak-is striving to get our attention in order to influence our lives and choices, not because one is better than the other necessarily... the sword and circle above symbolizes doom as in fate (not necessarily death) and eternity as it is usually the smallest choices that have the farthest reaching repercussions which we cannot change...
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I hated this piece while painting it...I just couldn't see it forming right, and seriously wished that I had chosen something less complex... I was quite stressed about it...but then I stopped worrying and started trusting god... about the picture, about the whole contest... I prayed and then it just clicked... and why not? after all he was the one who gave me the inspiration in the first place... so isn't it only right that he finish what he started? sometime during the auras it happened and I had the peace that the image was coming together and it would all work out fine... and it did... I don't really care too much if I win or not(okay, well maybe a little bit) but what was important to me beyond the act of creation... was the way that heaven came through for me when I needed it, and that is something that I will never forget... and may be worth more than any prize...

XN teaser

2009-05-18T13:39:00.001-07:00

allow me to whet your appetite with this

The Final Goal by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

this is a teaser for my third piece in the XN mag... the theme of the page is teamwork... and this final triumphant shot is to show that everyone on the team is a winner regardless of whether or not they shot the last goal because hey where would a striker be without his midfield?

this won't be the final one, since it too cluttered and not "clear" (it's a trophy obviously what more or less should there be?) but I liked it with all the flowey lines on it... there's always something that i need to change when I work with these people...

the contest piece!

2009-05-13T16:28:00.002-07:00

My apologies with my recent lack of updates I have been... detained by other diversions. Maybe this time I can follow through and actually post something of merit, but for the time being please accept these fruits of my absence

choices--pencils by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

choices--inks by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

we each hold a nature of good and a nature of evil within ourselves... they each influence our way of thinking, of seeing, of acting... we may hear them both but the only thing that matters is which we listen to... for it holds our doom...

I used this more symmetrical format in order to stress the fact that we are each a free moral agent and that each side-so to speak-is striving to get our attention in order to influence our lives and choices, not because one is better than the other necessarily... the sword above symbolizes doom as in fate (not necessarily death) as it is usually the smallest choices that have the farthest reaching repercussions...

only one week left! perhaps I'll just have to forgo the promised newsflash... or perhaps not

HOOOOLd that thooought...

-The Revig

the other me...

2009-04-21T21:19:00.004-07:00

well... I did say that I would post pictures no?

Yes, well Lord knows I haven't been keeping my face so studiously lately...

*blue steel* XD

And of course I couldn't pass up the opportunity to mutilate my features further :D the F is for Freakdearts btw...

I don't really regret it now that I realize it it is much more comfortable and dynamic... also so much more efficient... still I can't help feeling slightly sentimental [link]...

By Candle's Light

2009-04-20T11:03:00.005-07:00

And you all thought that all I was good for were a few lines of emo rhyme...

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By Candle's Light

This sea of darkness presses

All about my candle dear

Light and warm in its essence

And its death my deepest fear

How can I make it always burn?

What is that on the edge of night?

It is a fellow traveler

But her taper is not dimly bright

Now I see what must be done

She has no light to go by

Candle outstretched, closer she comes

Wick to wick the flame unites

She blinks and smiles at me

And we give a Japanese nod

For already she can see

The next one to pass it on

The darkness about cringes

At this flickering dawn

It tries to press the fringes

But we still hurry along

Another light joins our twane

Leaping almost between them

Such joy on a lightened face

Who’s eyes before were so darkened

Now black fingers draw inward

The light meaning to drown

But they are pulled back, burned

As we reach a darkling crowd

Rushing to meet the first mark

To touch the long flameless wicks

A cheer rises from the dark

As my gaze is transfixed

For one by one the fire is spread

Like a river streaming of flame

And a joy to my heart this sight sends

For my small light became night’s bane

And as if in answer to this

Threat of light made blinding bright

The shadow writhes wraithlike hiss

As rising draco shrikes dreadful night.

But strong is the light to resist

An army, with swords of flame

Burning away the inky mists

A luminous will to darkness maim

From the fielded burning stars

Forth comes a swirl of power

A pulsing spiral, spreading bars

Forms a nimbus rising tower

The greasy dark spreads to cover

Nearly winking out the points

As the luminous mass hovers

And forms a ball, a focused point

But when shadow seems to triumph

To gloat in victory perceived

The light suspended erupts

And expands floods blindingly

The void fills with the violent rays

Bursting spreading forming anew

Forms dire, fierce, angelic, fey

They rend the darkness, breaking through

It screams, a thousand wailing keens

Of greed-filled hopes betrayed,

And there is no trace to keep

Luminous flights drive it away

And there revealed to us bearers,

Of the flickering birth stars,

Lies the land we did wander

But with no darkness that mars

A new life has been given to us

The people about me do laugh and sing

And my soul is flood with happiness

They walk in the grass sit ‘neath trees they can now see

And I plant in the earth the thing that was

The start and source of all this

And there upon the hilltop

Where we fought the dark

Stand the candles that we held

Somehow they hardened and meld

And together flowed to form a blazing torch

A reminder to the new world

And a light against the dark

and lest we forget

the meaning meant

a candle alone can hold the dark at bay

but it's light must spread to break the day

-The Revig

ASDF

2009-04-14T20:22:00.003-07:00

asdf... yeah that's pretty much what's been going on in my head lately... and my fingers...for some reason I've been taking typing for school. I've pretty much ascertained that I suck... no really I know you can't tell but my wpm is like 25... and that's counting symbol keys... of course I've been at it for only a week but still... I'm fine with lower case it's the capitols number and symbols that are getting to me... I mean it is incredible frustrating to type # instead of +... savy? sigh I guess I shouldn't expect too much of myself starting out...

I think I might post an epic of sorts that I had for a school assignment... I just need to go over it for one final time... but to whet your appitite it constitutes of a vision of sorts I had while listening to "anthem" by shuns cheap music :D with candles and swirly stuff :D... what? if you listen to it you'll understand it just has that "whooosh with me" feeling to it... still it made me cry really when I first saw it, it was so beautiful...sigh ;D no really, I like saw it like a movie on my eyelids... very vivid... it would make a great animation if I was an animator...

comics are coming along... I got the sports one back for finalization, and just barely finished the meditation sketch before the deadline... sigh and I was so hoping to get something more 'epic'...

oh, and I've decided to enter the "Bring Your Vision to Life" contest hosted by wacom on deviantart! yeah, yeah I know I probably haven't got much of a shot at that intous 4 tablet considering the talent that that site chock full... but I can dream right? I mean I've got at least three chances of getting one... and if I don't get nothing then at least I created a great image no? it's great theme... good against evil... lord know I've got something to say about it...something not too subtle ;)

wish me luck

-The Revig...

IM ON A BOAT!

2009-04-06T10:16:00.003-07:00

heh, it's been a while since I resorted to putting up a video post...

this is just brilliant... it would be quite rapturous without being a parody but then again, it makes even more surreal all the same... I especially like t-pains... tasteful backups :D

oh and forgive the erm... language

I'm on a boat!!!

-The Revig

p.s. pray for my wrist... it's being a pain...

Blind Faith

2009-04-01T07:41:00.003-07:00

Blind Faith by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

this is the second piece I have done for the XN magazine... this to demonstrate my "comic" technique... I must say I'm rather fond of it... this being the first time in a very long time that I have, well... drawn Jesus I think I did the subject justice....

in the mag there are keys they are stepping on, but I think I like it better this way... it has a slightly more er, subtle effect to it...

I'm also working on more "comic" pieces... keep an eye out for them cause I just sent one in for sketch review and the next I still have to hear from the lord about... but I can tell you that one has the theme of teamwork, and the other has the theme of meditation... pray that I'll be inspired:D

-The Revig

Elements--Air

2009-03-27T21:33:00.001-07:00

Elementals--Air--lineart by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

line art to the fourth and final elemental: air

that's smoke, or rather an interpretation of air, flowing through his overly large hands (I had to show it some how, no?)

EDIT: erm... colored this here: [link] and then raped it here:[link] I suppose that's what a creative-commons license is supposed to be for, right?.. thanks snakey ;D

-The Revig

unlimited access

2009-03-27T21:12:00.003-07:00

unlimited access by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

Yes yes yes... you've all seen it I'm sure... but did you get it? That's perhaps the most important thing...I think I just want to clarify here that the basic concept the lord gave me is of the girl using the key to open the door and start the ship to blast off...the ship is supposed to be a cargo ship as in "supply"... just in case any of you were wondering...

incidently this is the first pic I've done with a completely digital lineart... I'm rather happy with it... though her suit needs more blue...It is also my first piece of sci-fi so I think we started out alright, no?
at the very lest it's 'flashy'

:D

-The Revig

I Believe In Hell--redux

2009-03-27T21:10:00.002-07:00

I completely forgot about this...

I Believe In Hell--redux by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

I Believe in Hell [link]
by G.M.P.Mizrany

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It's the way each day always drains the best in me,
Knowing this is all my destiny.
It's the way each thing I do turns to a bad bet,
Knowing there's more & this is all I get.
It's the way I live for my coffee & they never can make it right,
The way I hear myself crying at night, that

refrain:
I believe in hell. There's one scare I'm sure on.
Don't ask how I can tell, I live there, you moron.
So I believe in hell, & all it's fiends.
At least it means,
Just like the Bible tells, God let'ere be,
There'd better be,
A heaven somewhere as well!

I believe in hell we'll go on living in our private padded cell,
I bet the coffee sucks down there as well.
I believe hell's made of darkness & love's the only key.
Will there be a light that shines for me?
I believe I can't be good enough to ever make it off my knees,
Oh, God forgive me please!

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look familiar?... I was always meaning to redo this one for some time and so I took the chance when it came up to revamp it in my current style...

it was interesting going back and seeing how I had done things and trying to bring back up the feelings and emotions while making this in order to put them back in... of course the music helped but it just went to show me how much my attitudes and perspectives on art- and not just my skills bending it- have changed since I first finished this piece...

I felt very limited by the line art and it was kind of hard to feel out the forms with it, the colors too were difficult to place (just how does one go about painting black without actually using black), but I kept the background as that is my favorite texture work I've ever wrought... *shivers*

no she does not come from hell... nor does she favor it... she is simply not ignorant of it...

textures and stock(door):

wings are from somewhere I can't find...

Compare:[link]

-The Revig

David getting married

2009-03-22T21:49:00.009-07:00

I KNOW, RIGHT? My brother... David... married?

I must admit though as unexpected as that news was I wasn't expecting half as much as my response to it... it made me, well... happy... blissfully happy, and proud of you David... it seems that finally one of us Borst Boys is going to be tying the knot at long last...But did you ever stop to think of what it would mean for me!? I mean come on look at what I have to live up to! finished highschool overseas misionary, FD disciple, Home Moniter and now loving husband!... how am I supposed to do all that when the first is hard enough for me at the moment...I can just hear mom comparing me to you...*pant pant* but despite all that, seriously... I congratulate you bro and hope the best for you and yours... even if I may or may not have the slightest intention of turning out anything like you :D

oh ummm.... and at your honey moon... act "surprised" :D

-The Revig

P.S. do you like my new banner? the old one was well, getting old...so I switched it out for a sketch I did from my elementals...

Lalaland--Teaser#4

2009-03-12T17:21:00.002-07:00

just a little something from that infernal short story...

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"I guess the best way to explain is to start at the beginning; then you might see what I am and what it is I must do. Let me tell you a story:

"There once was a boy who loved to draw. He loved it so much that he drew himself a world on paper; surrounding himself with it. This world came to life to him within the pages of his sketch book. Many things he placed within it; there was light then and it filled all the drawings in channeled brilliancy, and there was shade too, but no darkness... no, that doesn’t come until later. and then he drew a door, a door that would change his world forever.

"No one knows how it happened but this door opened and he entered his world. The first to greet him were two emissary of light: an elven Lord and Lady. They were the first he had drawn in the book. They told him that they had been sent to guide him in his reign and to show him how to use rightly this gift that he had been given. And so under their tutelage and wisdom he ruled his world with a benevolent hand. Each of his creations had their own existence and spoke and thought and felt just like me and you. Our boy tried his best and though he may have made a few mistakes the ‘people’ loved and respected him because it was through him that they had been brought into existence. Times were good then… too good

"Then one fateful day an emissary of darkness was found and brought before the Boy. The ambassador stood before him in all its menace black and hateful and it made him an offer. The darkness would give him great power and might in return for the book that had formed this world. Naturally the boy refused and had the emissary destroyed. But by then it was too late. For the darkness had cast a spell over him. He was obsessed with it from his first taste and he ceased to heed the counsel of the light. The seeds had been planted and he locked himself in his chambers unable to rid himself of the image of the emissary’s dark form. It haunted him,” at this point he hesitated, something bothered him like he hadn’t made his piece, then he went on.

“That night the darkness came. It was strong and terrible and it tried to take the book by force, but the boy resisted it. It tried to take his life but at the moment before it could the lady of light appeared and sacrificing herself, saved the boy by weakening the darkness greatly. But again it grew. The lord stood and fought it giving the boy time to run. But when he too fell the darkness pursued the boy taking hold of everything that he had held dear and turning it against him. But no matter how much it took it could never find him.

“The land was changed. Where once had been peaceful vales and streams now were only ashes and mud for in its passing the darkness took all life from these and twisted them. And the book? The book was lost… the boy accidently dropped it in a pool in his haste, but though the darkness drained it, it was never found… until now.

“For you see Fay, I am ‘WM,’ or rather Wren Melbourne, and that is my sketchbook, and this terrible thing is happening to my world...”
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dum da dum da! I still do intend to finish this...

-The Revig

nothing of any grave importance

2009-03-12T17:08:00.003-07:00

I'm sick and tired of playing in the dirt... no really for the last two days I've been shoveling out asparagus beds and planting them for my mother... they each had to be a foot deep and foot wide there's three of them that run twelve feet each...on the second day it started to rain and be very cold...and with our dirt it means it gets rather clumpy and sticks to your shoes and hands like a second pair of boots... then, I also had to pile up the dirt and lay the asparagus roots over the mounds that have to be exactly a foot apart and cover them entirely back up again... I used my hands cause the shovel didn't fit in the trenches... I know this isn't really that much but try doing it in the clammy cold and mud and then talk to me... I actually have no idea why I'm ranting about my gardening in such detail... I really do love green growing things... I just don't like having to dig the holes to plant them :D so yeah I'm pretty hateful of my shovel now...

been working on essays for my school... need to finish ten so I can get credit... it's good practice I guess... I'm pretty stuck with this one I need to do on Nathaniel Hawthorne... ausome writer, just really boring life... although it may be interesting to note that when he was sixteen, while away at boarding school, he sent his family seven issues of a hand written newspaper containing news poems and essays entitled the spectator such a thing could be comparable to a blog no?

oh, and in other, minor news... I CUT MY HAIR!!! AGHH!!! will post pics as soon as they are taken... if I can get the time...

sing a dirge for my hair brush for I've thrown it away
singing out of the rain

-The Revig

Lalaland--Teaser#3

2009-02-23T00:28:00.000-07:00

The White Raven--lalaland by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

The Vagabond Scrawler's weapon of choice...

I kinda modeled it off a revolver but with no dependence on bullets because it gains it's energy from his stones[link] and discharges it in orbs... or something like that

I like the little bird symbol...

done in my little four by six sketchbook...

Lalaland--Teaser#2

2009-02-23T00:26:00.000-07:00

Fey Linn-- Lalaland by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

The Messenger

The book she holds is a sketch book that created a world and took her to it...

yah yah yah... she's got her hands in bandages because she fell and cut them... not too badly but it makes her feel better... like a bandaid

she's a little headstrong and rebellious at times but she tries to be a good girl... even when she's out exploring other people's worlds

done in my little four by six sketch book, mostly just to visualize the character for writing...

Lalaland--Teaser #1

2009-02-23T00:23:00.002-07:00

Vagabond Scrawler--Lalaland by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

"if your eyes are fine then why do you cover them"

"Because... it hurts too much to open them..."

They call him The Vagabond Scrawler, but his real name is Wren Melbourne... one of the main characters in that short story that I plan to finish...someday

anyway those things hanging off his coat are large clear stones... they alight when he fires his weapon: the White Raven [link]

his hair is supposed to be curly, but like he's got egg run through it in dreads and such

I like the corner graphics

done in my little four by six sketch book, mostly just to visualize the character for writing...

2009-02-23T00:08:00.003-07:00

My Boat is so Little by ~freakdearts on deviant ART

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My Boat is So Little

My boat is so little, the ocean so wide

and sometimes the winds loudly roar
but God and His angels are close by my side
they'll steer my boat safely to shore

though winds blow so fiercely i won't fear the storm
for angels are holding my hand
with their arms around me I'm safe and warm
on the way to God's heavenly land

If I close my eyes and then go right to sleep
I'll make the night go quickly by
in the morning when I will open my eyes
the daylight will shine with a smile

so snuggled securely in my little boat
I'll sail through the night in my dreams
my guardian angels will bless me with peace
and make the sea sparkle and gleam

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"I sail by the full moon on an ocean of sleep, to what I know not but I will embrace it joyfully"
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song is 'My boat is so little' from siesta street... quote is from my "book"...( I know theres no moon but you get the picture)

:DI went through all the trouble of painting this because I have many memories of this song, and loved it... it was one of those that always put me to sleep... when I listen to it now I get all nostalgic and pretty much this same image flashes through my head... so yeah, you could say I couldn't help myself

and look, I didn't do this for anyone! yay!

I hate rigging... but the lighting was fun, so were the star clouds... a little too bright maybe, but who cares...it looks pretty!

I was kind of going for a look like hold me in your heart where it's all soft, blurry and dreamy to go along with the song... I also kind of wanted it to have an elvish slight, sort of like the effect in LOTR...I think I might of overdone it a bit and made it too busy but then again this is mainly just something to do between commissions to keep me sane...

-The Revig

P.S. how do you like the new shiny embed?

Art-ness

2009-02-01T13:21:00.007-07:00

while putting up my gallery on DA I've noticed several trends...

first is that a majority of my work has been for other people... mostly as birthday gifts
I feel this shows that, either my allowance is too small, or I find it hard to make an excuse to do things for myself since it requires a large amount of time to produce my peices and if there is no outside motivation I will generally lose interest...

second is that over a third of my work has been inspired or otherwise done for music...
I feel this shows that, music inspires me, perhaps more than anything(at least the lyrics do)... and I find it hard to make the division between the two art forms:D

third is that most of my figures, whether standing or reclining, face to the left and are aligned on the right...
I feel this is because has something to do with my hand preference as it's much easier to draw something closer to your drawing hand than something that is away from it, and I'm usually too lazy to break the habit...

these aren't necessarily bad patterns just things that I've noticed... I could go on happily with these not even noticing it but one of the best ways to grow is to break out of previous ruts and try something new... so that's what I think I'll do... I hope this year to be able to break a few of these trends at least once, just to see what happens... I hope you'll like the results as much as I might...

I also think I need to draw Jesus more...

I hope you all had a great time on single's awareness day, even though I know I can't call it that... :D <3

I think I'll have soup today...

-The Revig

the long lost poems

2009-01-26T14:06:00.003-07:00

:D I almost forgot I was a poet:

Ice

For the Light
Do I ever reach
rising and falling
arms above the Dark
As is this dream

The Water is ice
Dark and deep
How lovely it seems
to just sink

But, no matter
The Warmth in my limbs,
Inviting sleep of frost,
That water is bitter
and forever bears thirst.
though I wish to drown,
Drinking fully.

But still that light,
hanging above the dark,
in a line,
is warmth against the dark
and a cure
to that which I carry
inside.

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Do not Leave Me

Do not leave me too fast
to my wing plucked fate.
Don't turn so soon from me
do not hide from me your face

For I have learned the value of a minute
And have seen hours fly.
I have seen how a day can last a lifetime
and life pass in a twinkling eye.

Don't leave me so soon
to my flightless fate.
Don't burn your memories
though I have, it's too late...

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Filtered

There would be things
A multitude that I'd say
to tell you of
But there must be a filter
colandlike tangles,
behind my eyes maybe,
That stops the flow of words
holding my fingers taunt
and causing my voice to skip, stop
There must be a critic,
selfish, vile, critter in my head
who would take the best
leaving the rest
for his own singular enjoyment

That must be the reason
why I stand in front of you
with something to say(good thing too)
but without any sound at all

I have returned!!

2009-01-25T11:57:00.003-07:00

to deviantart...

go take a gander over to my gallery if you have time...[link] there might be something you've missed...

cheers

-The Revig

2009-01-20T11:43:00.003-07:00

Just a hint: Don't screw it up...kid :D

-The Revig

(so much for my editorial panache)

WS Approoved!

2009-01-19T18:03:00.004-07:00

rejoice with us, for you are looking at a ws approved artist!

in the mean time while I'm waiting for publishing I will give you this impromptu portrait of my neice that I made a gift to her grandmother

Lindsay
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good grief I miss that lovely little bugger!

-The Revig

HAPPY FRICKEN' NEW YEAR!!!

2009-01-03T18:35:00.001-07:00

from the freak of the arts

Just thought I might say that

oh and who's auld lang sine?

Merry Christmas

2008-12-21T11:33:00.005-07:00

merry christmas to all and to all a good year

Whether your christmas is fancy with spandagles and bangles or simple with less bangle than spandangle don't forget the reason for the season... and may god's love be your best gift.

Christmas time has come again
with presents, lights and snow
so bright and new
I can do with out so many gifts,Jesus
Cause I've got you.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

-The Revig

A Thought on Eternity

2008-12-11T13:14:00.006-07:00

James 4:14 whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away.

John 3:16b whosoever believeth on Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Forgive me for waxing philosophical but when I saw these two passages paired something more than their singular meanings became apparent to me. If, as john says, we have everlasting life through Jesus, and yet this life is even a vapour according to James then how do we live it? how should we live it?

-The Revig

Picture You

2008-12-09T17:00:00.010-07:00

picture you
picture me
in a lost state of mind
traveling through a stream
of a cause undefined
I look around and see
he's waiting for me
I gotta go
can't let the pain show
we are two different worlds
and different plans
peace I feel
I understand

you smiled so broad
when my hope was so dim
now I smile deep within
you let me see heaven in a living hell
now I know all is well...

picture you
picture me

A Birthday present for melody

-The Revig

P.S. sorry for not posting much art this month either. unfortunately all my current work is confidential. otherwise this would be overflowing :D

The Tree

2008-12-09T16:43:00.003-07:00

From Mama Online:

The tree by *firesign24-7 on deviant ART

You were once a small tree that was on its way to growing strong and tall, but then a storm came. The winds blew upon your little tree and shook its branches. The rains beat down your precious, much-adored leaves; you watched as they fell to the ground or were blown away by the strong winds.

After the storm had passed, you were barely strong enough to stand up. The remaining leaves were small and few; you felt ugly and weak. You had lost so much of what was dear to you and what you considered important.

“Ah, the sun has returned,” you said. “Now I’ll grow strong again and will reach high into the sky!” But you can’t lift your branches, you can’t stand tall again. You try, and you’re sure that you’ll be able to do it, but your branches are just too heavy. You don’t know what to do. “All is lost!” you cry to yourself.

Suddenly you feel strong hands upon your weak little frame, and a sturdy plank from an older tree is placed beside you. You’re fastened to it. You don’t understand what’s happening. You feel the aches and pains of being tied to this piece of wood and of being straightened again.

The Gardener tells you that it’s for your good. But you so wanted to prove that you could do it on your own. You feel that this help will prove that you are a weak tree that He’ll have to eventually prune way back, or possibly uproot altogether.

But soon you begin to grow stronger; new leaves start growing and your little branches are thickening. The Gardener comes to you and says, “I knew you could do it, little apple tree. I have great things planned for you! You will feed and nourish many. I knew there was hope. I knew that the storm wouldn’t knock you down.” He gently removes the plank that held you in place.

You feel wobbly at first, but when you feel the wind press against you, it doesn’t bend you over or break you. You’ve been made strong through the help of the plank. Your trunk is now sturdy, your leaves are more secure, and you even see little budding flowers—the beginning of the fruit that is soon to come!

So even if the winds of life bend you and batter you, remember that I can come and help you to stand tall. My Word, and the help of those who have gone before you, will give you the strength to stand strong again. There is hope for you, My little tree, for you are destined to stand strong and tall, reaching high into the sky!

-The Revig

happy T-Day!!!

2008-11-17T13:32:00.002-07:00

where did the year go?! only yesterday it was march and now were all the way in december, that's wrong...

but ummm yeah... Thank you Jesus

On that note, I hope you all didn't stuff yourselves too much... there's still christmas dinner to think about! heh... sorry for the lack of updates here, I've been too busy with... real life and other things...

Thank you Jesus that the septic field to our house was finally finished two weeks ago... kudos to my older brother Tim for operating the bobcat... that was a monster of a job that took us all summer and then some to complete.... WOOT!!! I have never felt so useful or tired in all my life :D chucking rocks out of dirt will do that for you... and now instead of the grand canyon we have a mohave dessert... but we also have a toilette

and we also have a colored living room and kitchen... yeah that was a family project there too... my sister Jonie from kentucky helped some with that... She and I cut while Tim mostly rolled... it's a nice slate blue with a "cream" yellow on one end of the living room and then in the kitchen right as you walk in is green... I mean really GREEN that it says HI!!! it was fun though... we also did a neat little blending number (with the blue and cream) that came out alright...

Well, the relatives are leaving and now it's back to real life... I need to get back on top of my word time and school... not to mention my art...

but that's life and we all thank the Lord for it

-The Revig

Some Metanoya Videos

2008-11-14T17:03:00.006-07:00

Found these:

I'm a bit biased about these guys: METANOYA IS THE BEST BAND EVER!!! hahhaha ... so of course I like it, but...

While the beginning is wonderfully done and brian is great and all why did they have to go and ruin it with the... clown in the cape? like, seriously, what's with the coffee? I'm trying to figure out the whole back story while watching it but at the same time enjoy it, which really breaks the ambience... God bless brian. I know he tried and the rest of it is great, some real quality footage, but the bald guy... just doesn't do it with me... I like the fact that he's trying to give it some depth and he did well with what he had to work with, but the "story" is a little distracting

But hey, cheers! I'm just jazzed about getting something new from them!

We liked this one better, though what is up with the "fake obama" and the O they're making with their hands I'll never know?...

Good stuff!

-The Revig

Well...

2008-11-04T21:17:00.000-07:00

Barack Obama won...

Reinventing Myself

2008-10-30T10:30:00.007-07:00

Well I figure it's time I gave you some pictorial evidence of my existance...

these will probably be the last pics of my hair, sadly...

and some photoshop fun! (that nose is rather missleading

it seems like my sketches will be coming back to me from ws in a day or two... can't wait, I'm getting itchy fingers :D

writer's block is the bomb no?

-The Revig

2008-10-21T15:07:00.007-07:00

I can't take my eyes off of you

I can't take my eyes off of you

I can't take my eyes off of you

I can't take my eyes off of you

I can't take my eyes off of you

I can't take my eyes off of you...

Jesus

"Press Release"

2008-10-01T19:24:00.007-07:00

I think it's time to tell you what's been happening with me and try to explain something that might be important

Recently I have accepted a freelance 'job' as a concept artist for "brave visions"a production company run by Troy Leblanc, a former (favorable) member... what we're working on is a tabletop rpg with family principles and features... such as the keys, angels, spiritual weapons etc(strait out of the letters he says)... all for the gp... basically what your getting is a veiw of the spiritual warfare as it really is(or at least I think it is I've had no time to actually play it yet) and at the same time well be giving them what truly matters... of course there's money involved... I won't run the numbers but grossly conservative figures are a bit obscenely large... which scares me a little...I've been working with them for about a month now and have completed a few drawings for the game... mostly generic character sort of things for player's conceptualization (I think I just made that up)... I'm not sure when we'll be producing in actuality but we should be able to see it roughly by next year... very roughly...

I think I just made things all the more complicated by going and applying to feild contribute art for ws... because it just seems that that is what the Lords been preparing me for all along. I use prophecy to some extent in my art(I need to do it more but still I do ask 'is this right lord?' etc, etc) I know that contributing isn't about doing it my way and that I'm doing this for the family not just myself, so I might have to do things that are not my cup of tea(like comic art :D) and I hope I'm open to shepherding in regards to my art... or even to let someone else fix it (a little)... I know I probably need to grow a lot in these areas, but for some reason ws just feels... right... and what's really weird is the day that they wrote back I finished a comic strip for my mom for a 12fs class... which is what they are looking for, comics that is, and that one only took me a day to finish...PTL anyway, I've already sent in my second assignment sketch and it is currently passing review (we can only hope)... and I can hardly wait till they can get back to me so I can start coloring... I want to get my money's worth out of my tablet pen I had to replace.

for both I've made the comitment not to put pencil to paper until I've heard from the lord specifically for what it is I'm doing.... this is so i can be sure I'm getting it right to start with

so far I've been able to juggle both ws and bravevisions well enough... of course putting my work for the family above the other... but it hasn't really been easy... on our current schedule I've maybe got two hours after dinner and dishes to work on both sometimes shorter for divine duties... but that's not the half of it... I need to be in the right place spiritually in order to receive the right things, and with this game the Lord is expecting more of me in order to be there... and stay...which of course means getting all my spiritual needs met which isn't too easy... (perhaps things will change in the winter months) and also stand my ground in the spirit... and the battles aren't getting any lighter... in fact they're intensifying, mainly because I'm actually starting to do something with my art, but also partly because working this close to the world isn't free from it's hazards... TANSTAAFL... But I am determined to keep the perspective that first and formost I am a disciple and the Lord's instrument before I am a fantasy artist...

Pray for me... that I keep the faith... :D

In other news... school might be equally as 'stressful' as the aforementioned... I've been working on a short story (lala land) and I probably will be posting it somewhere for you to read... it's kind of hard to write a story that gets your attention and pleases you yet at the same time keep it short... I keep finding myself wanting to add in more to get it a little more well rounded than neccisary and then having to check myself and pull myself back from my further day dreaming in order not to bore me readers to death... the thing is I've got a very rough outline of where the story goes only I'm still making up as I go along how it gets there... this is difficult and taking too long and I am impatient... but lotr wasn't witten in a day... though I am longer overdue than that :D

These are the last weeks I will have my locks... I will take a picture before the deed is done so you may all know what we're losing :D

sometimes I fear I am peddling vacuum

-The Revig

The Life

2008-09-29T22:00:00.011-07:00

and a lack of it...

Yesterday, I fell into our septic tank hole and hit my tailbone on a rock... luckily I was still able to sit down and use the jack hammer to finish the trench to the leaching feilds... it was fun though(falling) I've always wondered what it would be like... now I know

the only problem is I apparently also hit my hand and now it's a bit stiff in the pinky and aches slightly when moved... it's got a white dot on it too... don't remember getting that...

I also moved my computer somewhere slightly permanent... it was getting annoying to have a desktop on my bunkbed... now I can relax and actually get some work done....

This immensly helps with my school as now I can comfortably work on my essays without getting a back ache... though how that will work with the internet connnection I'm not sure...

I'll try and give you an update on some rumblings... try...

And I'm not Dead!

opera is not for this...

-The Revig

beatles lalala

2008-09-22T20:37:00.005-07:00

where are we?

I dunno it looks like the foot hills

the foot hills of what?

the foot hills of the headlands...

oh and:

-The Revig

once upon a time...

2008-09-02T15:41:00.010-07:00

I used to do art... didn't I? And I used to post it up here, didn't I?

Guardian
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Giftart for: (guess who, if I'm that good)

So this is what I've been working on all this time. it's supposed to be for a birthday which was in febuary... yeah I'm pretty slow... I'm going to let you figure out who it is though, to see if I got it right.

This one was a real challenge as I had to work with two light sources, rock, and fabric which have always been difficult for me... I like his wings... and her hair and the way that they balance each other out... I could say more but I think I let you come up with your own reading...

scanning this was a nightmare... I got it looking all nice with the right contrast on my moniter and then I put it on the internet one and find out it looks well... crappy is mild and generic, but all washed out and very bad contrast would be exact... so I make at least three more copies playing with levels in photoshop none of which looked right so I finally mussed with it in office picture manager on the internet pc to get it semi decent looking... hopefully the above is similar enough to the original...

she also wants this as a digital...

Under The Rain
30.

another one from the 'virus' period... this on a more hopeful theme... obviously done on some of my better days back then... I think I'd like to dedicate this to melody because it was really her that helped me to stay alive and got me to laugh through the rain... and also cause she just finished her ps last month... wink* thanks to you I will always smile sooner now...

this is what guardian kinda looked like before I fiddled with it on this computer-the rain was supposed to be grayer and the drops not so dark... but I didn't want to mess with it anymore and you get the point none the less...

heh... yes it's the same outfit from I believe in hell... a sort of salute, but more defined and better rendered... and those flowers are all wild flowers from around the fiesta property... I sketched them myself... when I was there...

I need a new monitor...

-The Revig

P.S. it's only jesus...

I'm a Monkey's Uncle!

2008-08-27T18:51:00.004-07:00

or in other words... Iz has a nephew

yours joyfully

The Revig

P.S. I am sorry for not having posted some art lately I've been very busy and haven't really had time to scan it in... not to mention schools starting....

WEOW ONE HUNDREDTH AND ONE POST!!!!

2008-08-27T12:00:00.006-07:00

That's weird... who knew I'd get this far with this... let's back track to the first post

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Saturday, March 11, 2006

Blog start...

okay okay

I did it... I finally started my own blog...

for the longest time I had been against one of these. I thought: "what's the point, really, what would I or in fact anyone else have to say? I mean I don't even have enough time to post anything on it...I'm constantly getting into punishments and the most time I can spare/get from my parents on the computer would be at the most just fifteen minutes. So what's the whole point? " but then when I thought about it some more and I looked at some other ones by my friends I figured:"well, maybe if I tried it and see how it would be like. I might actually like it. I mean I can talk about literally anything, ANYTHING so why not."

and so I started this: The Silver Arrow Times

here is where I will post whatever's on my mind(providing it's appropriate), my art, news photos, poems(yeah those to) and any local news, and anything else that I feel like... or in other words, whatever...
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wow... look how few dots there are... so thought out... so badly segmented... how did I ever get a chance to say anything

how far we've come, you and me reader, with this.... it's really been a great journey and I hope that together we have changed... we each have our courses and yours continues on in its path meeting mine here roughly every week with something new... each of us brings something new with us and our thoughts and feelings are different, everytime we see the front page... probably your annoyed that I've not posted anything new, or curious as to what those links on the side hold, or perhaps overjoyed by the latest post and can't wait to get the time to read it... by giving you a little slice of myself and sharing my visions I hope that I have in some way been able to change you as well, get you to look at things in a different light, update you with some of the Lord's workings in my life, or even made you scratch your head and wonder just what the hack am I saying?.. but above all I hope that I've had at least some effect on you and that I'm not just 'singing to an audience that's just not there, couldn't care less'...

of course you've seen my art change too... you've been able to follow me from my humble chicken scratches to my channeled masterpieces... and I hope as well that you will see the true master behind them and that I am just a, pencil, pen, brush, or stylus in his hands... unwieldy maybe, stubborn yes, frustrating at times... but still his, and proud of it...

Thank you, reader, for taking the time to well, read these sorry ramblings... and your welcome as well...

-The Revig

Forrest Love!!!

2008-08-18T21:06:00.000-07:00

Brilliant!

-The Revig

Other footprints in the sand

2008-08-10T18:36:00.007-07:00

Imagine you and Jesus are walking down the road together. For much of the way, the Lord's footprints go along steadily, consistently, with Him rarely varying His stride or direction. But your footprints are a disorganized stream of zigzags, starts, stops, turnarounds, circles, departures, and returns.

Then gradually your footprints come more in line with the Lord's. Eventually they parallel His consistently. You and Jesus are walking as true friends.

This goes on for many miles, but then you notice another change. Suddenly the second set of footprints is back, but the pattern is even worse than at the beginning! Zigzags all over the place, stops, starts, deep gouges in the sand, a hodgepodge of messy prints! You are surprised and puzzled. . Your dream ends.

Now you pray: "Lord, I understand the first scene with zigzags. I was a new Christian. I was just learning. But You walked on through the storm and helped me learn to walk with You."

Very good. You have understood everything so far.

"So, Lord, was there a regression or something? The footprints separated, and this time it was worse than at first."

There is a pause as the Lord answers with a smile in His voice, You didn't know? That was when we danced.

—Author unknown
Reflections 136

Dance...

-The Revig

mellondriantic

2008-08-04T13:57:00.004-07:00

that word, I don't know...

There's nothing like doing nothing...just basically chillin'...spent free night at feista in joy's stead... slept on the pull out couch in the loft...not really too comfortable, but I've slept with worse... the instrumentalist are down there now making sweet harmonies... a while before though we were watching avatar... I like it but I'm not sure if I really like it... you follow me, I mean it's great and all but I don't know if it'll be too much of a distraction/addiction... I'll keep you posted on that one... I might go out now and sketch something or I might just join the music making... but I guess what's the most important is that I'm not just sitten at home just doing nothing and all depressed like... though I'm not doing much now but writing this... I'm still not mad at myself for not getting any thing 'done'... still I am happy with this weekend and hope to see many more... as I find the warm fuzzy feeling of fellowship quite satisfying...

I'll keep you posted

-The Revig

P.S. All we are is dust in the wind...

The Elements--Water

2008-07-22T19:13:00.009-07:00

my, my, my aren't we a busy boy...

Elements--Water

well here we are... I rather enjoyed creating this one even though it was a little cramped to go back to cel... it helped me appreciate my painting more...this isn't really the colors I had originally intended I actually had the pink part of the flower a deep red like the coral was before I applied the blue color layer to unify everything... and a completely different vision for her clothes, but then me and joy had a tremendous row about it... which may or may not of caused me to trim my hair and ultimately decide to cut it final... but that's for later...

I am as busy as a woodchuck chucking norris... so much so that I busted my freeday at the library instead of at home typing this... though when I got back I used the remainder to read one of the best works I have for a good while... "The City of Ember"... they live underground, theres only electric lights, everything's either breaking or running out, and it all runs on a monstrous generator... what's not to like? I tell you it had steampunk running all the way through it... only minus the steam... you could feel the rust in it... genius... and this is all coming from a juvenile... I'm hoping I can pull something like that with mine... though young adult is what I might like to say... I just hope they don' ruin it with the movie...

oh and I saw flo... she's doing well... we talked and remembered as usual... good grief I miss that berry so...

hope the FMF doesn't die on us... it seems to be having an acute case of nobody posting because they want someone else to... sigh...

I hate balloons!!!

-The Revig

where am I?

2008-07-21T15:22:00.006-07:00

nowhere and everywhere my friend, nowhere and everywhere...

Well I suppose it's time for me to give some account of myself and my earthly doings... (and you thought I didn't have a life!) and I probably should tell you that we've moved... yes actually we've been here for a month now last week... I would of told you but I've been moving boards, clearing brush, digging ditches, waqking weeds, mowing lawns, breaking down unnecessary structures,digging holes to make fences, pulling out rocks and filling their places back in, raking leaves... and everything it takes to reclaim a three acre property thats been abandoned (mostly) for six years... or more... I'm not quite sure...still, we've whipped it into shape, it's a pitty we didn't take before and after pictures as then you could see the transformation of this place... It's surprising how the Lords helped us get so far... I hardly recognize the place from wence it was before... Don't worry we're only fifteen minutes away from our former lodging so it's not like we've upped and gone off to Timbuktu(no matter how much it feels like it)... either way we love it out here(not to mention all the lack of idleness) and are eagerly awaiting what the Lord has in store for us and this property during the offensive...whatever that may be...

June was also a significant month, as my other niece, lindsay, came to stay with us for reasons I do not wish to state here... nobody wants to gossip after all... she is a bit difficult, but not as bad as gabrielle, though she does have her faults with food... at least she can be left by herself, no?still it's nice to have a kid around again... someone to tell stories to, to watch all those old kids movies you love but are too "grown up" to watch with, someone to tell a bit of your knowledge to, to go on walks with, to think of new and interesting things to do... to teach, watch out for and protect... to love... Despite all the difficulties, the time it takes, and the annoying little things... in the end I've found that those are the things caretakers miss the most...

haha! oh yes...

Happy Birthday Nathalie!!!

And you thought I had forgotten...(I think?) I actually did call you, but you were not to be reached>_>... still I hope your not mad at me... I do have a reason for waiting two whole weeks! I did you a picture!!! only I've seem to have misplaced my flash drive... nonetheless, as soon as it can be conjured I shall send it to you and post it up here... and now that I'm free from my digital duties I shall start work on your other requests :D.... in the mean time I want to leave this allegory of us for you to contemplate

Know that I feel this way every day

Cant Wake Up (lyrics by Nicola)

Without you
My mornings seem so grey
Dark and bleak like my face
When for so long Im laying without you here

Without you
I'm lonely like an empty room
Like an empty heart
Just waiting for you to come back again

(Chorus)
So how can I wake up?
When your not lying next to me
How can I get up?
When theres nothing real to see

Without you
I'[m falling in love with your absence
Just thinking of you
Wondering is this just a dream?

But how could I make up something so pretty?

(Chorus)
And How can I wake up?
When your not lying next to me?
How can I get up?
When theres nothing real to see?
LIKE LOVE

I love you dearly and pray for you... May you pass from strength to strength in this new chapter of your life... and may we find our places, together or apart...

WRITE!!!

oh, and another minor note about birthdays: I'M GOING TO CUT MY HAIR FOR JOY'S!!!

your's fatally

-The Revig

Lala land

2008-07-11T16:02:00.002-07:00

Not really so much a story as a thesis for the start of one... I've got a foggy outline for one though with it

---

Lala land

Is it possible that whatever we imagine; whatever we create is in itself a single sentient soul living in some timeless reality that we ourselves have created, have fashioned the very building block of through our imagination? would each of these creations have a life, voice, purpose,-even a destiny- of it's own in this plane of existence.

in a sense every person governs his own world. he, the creator, created it and so he can control it by what he, unwittingly, thrusts into it to fend for itself. how does the creation feel, though? would it resent the creator? hate him? or accept his plight and strive to find a place where it truly belongs,somewhere to call home, or at the very least some existence that it can truly say belongs to it.

these "worlds" would carry on with their inhabitants in their own courses as if a completely different reality. of course these realities will have rules, laws even, that govern them as there always are, but these rules could be bent, even broken.

if someone stumbled into your world What would they see? What would you?

---

The Revig

This months poetry

2008-06-30T16:23:00.003-07:00

aha! I did make it write under the line for the poems I did this month... I think that will be my goal two a month... just so I have sum form of motivation!

Breathing, singing, dreaming

I lie in this bed
in this room.
breathing lightly
for the pleasure of it.
each one easy, slow,
relishing the relief it brings.
a flower sweet,
welling up inside
growing from the air
at the bottom of my lungs.
its scent is a song
and the words I sing
to you, with whats left
of my bleary heart.
and the sounds do flow
through the clean air,
and we breathe them;
as we sing them.
as we lie in this bed
in this room.

Poet-Painter

He reads pictures,
He reads words,
In the Best
of eachothers works

Inspiration
comes from the same place.
but, what one gives words
the other one paints.

Blind painter.
Mute poet.
the works of your hands
is the music of your ailment

Paint me a poem with your paints.
Write me a picture in your rhymes.
For aren't these all the same
in the worlds they ply?

I've got a difficult task a head... but I have to do it... I must do it!

-The Revig

Take It!!!

2008-06-25T19:27:00.002-07:00

more cat pictures

Take It ALLLLL!!!

My hands hurt...

-The Revig

Excuses...

2008-06-16T20:38:00.002-07:00

excuses...

The Gift

It's not Christmas...

I know I know but I just couldn't resist the chance to win a hundred dollars in the activated christmas cover contest... and the chance to try my hand at doing a cg completely from scratch... no sketch besides a mockup on the pc... I actually like the way it came out even though its a bit crude and ruff... I only started working on it in earnest three days or so before the deadline... and even then I don't know whether or not they accepted it as I didn't get the confirmation letter...I didn't win...(how much you want to bet its going to someone like Daniel skye) of course I also wanted to do this piece because it shows something about what I feel about christmas... if it is a time to give gifts then why not give the greatest gift of all to the person who's birthday it is, and the one who its all about... that's really all he wants...

Prophet

O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth,
and wallow thyself in ashes:
make thee mourning, as for an only son,
most bitter lamentation:
for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us
Jeremiah 6:26

I've been meaning to finish this one for some time it was one of the first ones I did in my old sketch book... and it sat in there for the longest time til I finally got around to inking it and coloring it... the skin was a hateful thing I couldn't get the facial bones to sit right... I still don't think they have...

the Lord said of this:

"And it shall be as a sign and a warning both for you and for others. It will stand for your comittment to the truth to fortell my words. It will remind you of who you are And, it will stand as a warning to the world, of the wickedness therein."

Through the Fire

" you will come through this time, and though the fires rage around you they will only feed the blaze in your heart for me"

This is a piece that has a very personal meaning... I started it when I was going through a very trying time last year... if you frequent the archives then you may know it as time I like to call 'the Virus' and from which some very emo poetry and pictures have come from which run through here from july last year which was when this began... I will not expound much on it... you can read the torture it was for your self if you can... but this piece signifies my freedom from it and the looking forward to other, things other battles... and I know the fire is burning brighter than before...

anyway I hate the fact that this one took soo long... it is only a testament to how slow I work... I really need to fix that... anyway partly this took so long because of the background... when I started with the state I had before I had no idea how to go about painting the fire... a wall of flames is not an easy task...but an Inspiration struck me I'm not sure when but it was another one of those random things that pop into my head at any given moment when least welcome or expected... anyway I have this texture of tree bark (courtesy of my source texturematic on DA)that struck me as looking particularly inferno in its qnarledness. so I took that and laid it over the base and set it to overlay or hard light or something like that and it just clicked... I painted over that using the shapes lines and colors from it to paint that conflagration... for the little border pieces I even took a segment from right above the smoke on the left and traced it in black and shoved it in there... so there you have it after three months of waiting it has finally been finished... once again all textures used, modified or otherwise are all from texturematic and I think I can still use them with no strings attached unless he's changed his terms...

oh and I got a new sketch book, its a nifty little thing 4x6 perfect for the kinda stuff I do...

have fun all and be good the pumpkin king is out and about!!!

-The Revig

17 years...

2008-06-11T07:56:00.002-07:00

Here I am, your canvas, Lord. Paint.
Here I am, your brush, Lord. Paint.

heh... it's todays...

-The Revig

2008-05-26T16:43:00.000-07:00

IN FLANDERS FIELDS

In Flanders fields the poppies grow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
--by John McCrae

coming back into my own

2008-05-20T21:16:00.003-07:00

we'll start this off with a poem I formed in my head while working and wrote from what I had... I think it will be a series of short pieces on random topics... sketches really... these aren't the final states of these as they're rather rough with minimum of editing... still I likes them...

On May

Ah, happy May!
April has been pushing up daisies
and already you are afeild.
Your wings unfolden gossamer,
tinged with nature's hue.
Zephyr,
Foreshadowed by summers scorch

don't you hate it when you get that pain when you stand up abruptly? well this was borne from one of those...

On a Headrush

Stand up sharp!
Blood rushing to head
calls for headaches.
walls thin,
burst at the seams
then shatter to
so many pieces.
awkward, nerved apology
I gather them up
and quickly leave

have fun...

-The Revig

Wordstock...

2008-05-15T09:58:00.001-07:00

sniff...sigh... I've gotten a sore throat at about the same time I would had it happened... I think that means something....

missing it with you

-The Revig

so... uhh, come here often?

2008-05-05T14:24:00.004-07:00

well hey what do you know I've actually got something to write about here...

we shall soon be moving... and I can say it now with some certainty... since our property has been sold...and the new owners mean business why, just yesterday the tore out the bathroom in the master bedroom(sniff... my house!)... we've got a deadline too, june fifteenth, and lots of work to do...

which brings me to another point... because of all this work it has been requested of me to cut back on my artworking all together... I'm not sure why... I think it has something to do with the fact that I've been pretty spacious lately and certain persons feel it would help me to come back down to earth... I've accepted it... reluctantly... though not without the terms being altered to allow me to work on it on my freeday so you won't be getting any art out of me this month...at least nothing new... except for some stuff I'm finishing up now which includes the fire piece aforementioned... and my contest entry, which miraculously I finished just in time... at least I think it was on may first so that might be a problem... haven't gotten that confirmation yet...

I've picked up reading the 'Hunchback of Notre Dame' and I must say it is far darker than one might expect from the kids movie, but Victor Hugo's writing more than makes up for it... with him you are there, from the cour des miracles to the heights of the dame... from the pillory to the palace of justice he takes you on a journey of words and the pictures he paints place you there... it truly is a living breathing book, and his truly is writecraft at it highest... and he was only warming up... and for some strange reason I've been moved to scribble some words in my own...I've taken the strange idea in my head to revise my own work somewhat... let's hope I can do myself and the story the justice I feel it must have...

Listen, they're beautiful...
so many colors of sound
so many changing moods
but you know,
they do not ring all by themselves...

they don't?

no you silly boy...

la lala

la lala

lalala lala laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

-The Revig

B.O.D. needs your help!!!

2008-04-23T07:21:00.004-07:00

if you need the album to live then you definitely should!

[link]

-The Revig

Art Posties

2008-04-14T13:14:00.003-07:00

Hello again... I suppose it's that time of the month again, art update...

lately I've had two different pictures that I've been working on for my sisters... I think they were supposed to be for their birthdays but it's been so long I don't think I can know for sure... either way they're still in the works but I think I'll set the deadline for the finish of them to the next update so you should get them by then...

also I'll be entering the christmas activated cover contest... I'll have a hand putting a heart under the tree with To: Jesus, written on the tag... not very original I know but I'm under pressure here... please pray that it goes well and I get it right in time....

but I didn't come here to make you wait more did I?

The mystery! The MYSTERY!!! Begin Immediately!!!

Elements--Water

we'll start this set off with my lovely little neglected water elemental...third in the series... which I finally got around to finishing... the lineart that is... who knows when it'll be really finished... though it is just a cel piece, easier to do than my current technique...I am actually quite proud of her jewelry and hair pieces which are actually a take off of a mucha necklace featuring fuchsias. Now, I figured they were exotic enough that they'd look like a sea flower even though obviously they aren't aquatic, but shh.. They'll look cool all purple and red, which will be the palette predominate here... I like the coral...

NP Header

Sam asked me to do this for his blog... I don't know whether it'll work for him or not but I like it... to me, it sorta personifies his music... on top of all the distortion and metal its still sam fulle... pink, bright, poking through in some clear random way...I think I should of put some light texture on the other one but a well... this is cool enough...

p.s. it's supposed to have a white border there... also all textures used are from the texturematic who I am linking to even though he doesn't require it because I'm nice and I use them ALOT anyway...

Key Boy

yeah I think that's what we'll call this little bugger... we sketched him in the living room of my brother andy's house during our January visit i think it was... this will be my little character for the xn hopefully if ever ai get into that... I also hope this will be a basis for finding a fast cg process for this, as the one I've got now is pretty laborious... or maybe it's just the fact that I'm trying to paint fire as a major component of the bg... ah well... i didn't refine the lineart too much because I'm thinking of using a new technique of painting over the lines... hopefully it won't be too disorienting... but that's why I got a bit lazy with it

and yes I know the hair is on the wrong side in the back shot of him... butthat's because I'll be using that part instead of the frontal shot... why well you see the front one was to get an Idea of what i was drawing and then the back shot is what I'll be actually using... yep, that's right! in the finished picture I'm hoping to get the three main demons... Pan, Bacchus, and Lethargy in their typical effigies staring down at him and him there with this magnificently huge sword like... "uhhuh, right..." a sort of David and goliath thing... or rather 'boss battle' I'd like to say :D either way I don't know when I'll actually do it but it's still a cool idea, I'd say :D and I think I'll call it that too...

Zane concept

And I shall leave you with this concept sketch of Zane with a different shirt which I liked very much... if you can read the scribbling good for you... that's not actually the way he holds the poniards as I've decided... his style calls for holding the right one normally and the left one with the blade turned under.... or something like that...

anyways, lets close this up with this, a little footnote of a letter I read:

Letter,letter on the wall
Who's the fastest of them all
-The racing Revolutionary
Who wants to be a missionary!

susho is delicioso

-The Revig

Ride of Your Life

2008-04-09T14:32:00.001-07:00

(Jesus:) You ask where the physical ends and the spiritual begins, and I answer that the physical ends where the physical can no longer go, and from there you soar on the wings of the spirit to places where only the spirit can take you.

My creative self

2008-04-07T20:36:00.002-07:00

I haven't written anything in a while... still abit rusty I'm afraid but I think thistribute to my fleeting inspiration...of sorts... should do

My creative self

I felt your knock,
at my door.
Voiced by the wind
through the floorboards

In the rain it came
frozen falls
over the pallid sea
repeated oft

'Erie" I called it,'
back to sleep
but the fire in my room
to hot to breathe

My feet touch the floor
embrace ice
dust gathered scatters
clean felt nice

Up two halls, down stair
chance given
to go back to bed, but
mad, knock driven

grasp handled ornate
opend slow
to myself standing out side
hand up to snow

The skin around your eyes
dark, as bruised
your hands stained with ink
work on something new?

"Come in," I would say
"Care for fruit?"
then wonder why you'd
take of your shoes.

We sit at the table, alone
Strewn with leaves
of clean pressed paper, we
begin to write these

I should have some art for you soon, freshly scanned...

omahahahahaha!!!

-The Revig.