I can decide that they have a square face and red hair and so forth, but unless I draw them, I don't know what they look like, the various bits and pieces just don't add up to a picture inside my head. I know some writers who go through papers and magazines to find pictures of people that look like their characters. When you are a science fiction and fantasy author, that isn't always going to work very well. I have no scanner, so in order to include the pencil sketches, I had to photograph the pictures, and then clean them up as best I could.

I drew this picture of Bazomi so that I could show people what a gisgir looked like, (that thingy on her legs). I actually also made my own gisgir, thinking I could photograph that, but the fabric was too limp to poof properly; The ladies at the Coral Palace would scoff.

This is the same character again in 3D. I haven't quite finished working on the 3D version. I having been trying hard to create a digital gisgir for her... much more of a challenge than it was to make them for real... but then I've been sewing for a lot more years than I've been modeling. This shows the basic shape that I have created, but it still needs a few alterations, and then it must be rigged so that it moves with the figure underneath.

This is another of the gods from Racciman's World, only as this is from Dark Moon Light, it isn't the character it looks like. So to avoid confusion, I think I will refrain from labeling it.

This one comes from out of one of my physical sketchbooks. Simple Dreams was a short that came to me in the middle of the night during my last year of high school. I got up and went down to the office and typed it all up immediately. Sometimes when the words flow like that, the result is really good, and sometime it's drek. Sometime hopefully I will get Simple Dreams up in the juvenalia, and someone will let me know which category it falls into.

The first book in Song of Asolde was conceived in 1990, this sketch of two of the main characters dates from then. In the book's current incarnation, Tomah is described as being taller than Asond, and the wolf's head on Asond's tunic isn't there.

Velvet Lies is a mystery novella set in the same setting (although several generations later) and is Cantata in Coral and Ivory. This is a sketch I made of one of the main characters, Cinasor.