Welcome to my Visual Storytelling Journey
This is my welcome to you, and to this next chapter of my artistic life. Here, I want to share the stories that have shaped my journey from those first stippled ink drawings – inspired by the condors gracing the pages of 1970s National Geographic – to the digital worlds I craft today.
What you’ll find here is more than tutorials or technique breakdowns – though there will be plenty of tricks and discoveries to share. This is about visual storytelling from virtual worlds, where artifacts become part of the narrative, where each image carries forward a story that extends beyond its frame.
Premiere of Damatoria Slam
Hello, Please enjoy your visit to Damatoria Slam Made for #dam-challenge “Prison” Inspired by: Chronicles of Riddick Crematoria Slam Size: 40 X 40 19.0 MB Special thanks for the assets by: Heronimo, Bockimon (sci-fi collection) SAC, Tinman4700, DallasRT, TheTTRPGBrewster, DangerWeasel, soundphantom, smashbear76, jagarr, Vaako, Arcadia, greywind12,ab, Normandial, Kitrik and the amazing team…
I gotta post…
Don’t want my haters thinking they won or scared me away…. or I died or something…. Lol smdh. I’ve just been doing so many other things that I haven’t been giving typing time. Not inspired to type everyday. It’s part of how I have to flow… Too many days hunkered is hard for back, neck,…
Anatomy of a Non-apology
^-.-^ You really must stop calling these things manifestos… upgraded rule sets… personal standards… opinion piece… home/office policy…any of these would be better than to package my ideas as “manifesto.” I’m not getting around the blatant neo-socialist jargon. I earnestly disagree with the re-distribution of resources. I believe in self sufficiency and Not dependency.…
“We are the children of children and we live as we are shown.”
[o.o] Joe has arrived on Waponi Woo and is learning the customs of the islanders who intend to sacrifice him to the volcano. He’s baffled, frightened, and quietly judging the situation the way a modern outsider would: this is irrational, this is cruel, this makes no sense. The Chief responds calmly, without defensiveness or menace.…
Team Healthy
Yep… You’re going to need a bigger boat. More of what I have been “feeding” on… Dr. Carter and Team Healthy. https://www.youtube.com/@SurvivingNarcissism Many professionals started video series during the forced lock down. Fresh air on the airwaves. >>>To me. The Feed, …what you are taking in, everyday just like meals? Mental health meals. [Hint: How…
Chop Shop Review
As I was building this, I kept slipping into these mechanic spaces in my memories. Not just the garage spaces I got to see from waiting rooms, but the ones my Dad would take me to visit. He taught Diesel Mechanics at the Vo-Tech, >>> a necessary skill as carnivals are run on diesel generators. …
Premiere of The Chop Shop
Please enjoy your visit to The Chop Shop. Made for #dam-challenge “Shop” Special thanks for the assets by: Centimar DeVarion, SAC, varkas.amdir, Geronimo, Watchtower, greywind12ab, smashbear76, DallasRT, ianacek, CLEYECK, [DE] SunWatcher, mfletchrd, and chimchimcharu. Lyrics: Chop Shop [VERSE 1] You take the high shelves— I’ll take the low. You look for food, I’ll look for…
It’s not just me.
It’s my feed. https://www.youtube.com/@CrappyChildhoodFairy I admire Anna Runkle. She has been a bit of a fairy godmother to me. My childhood was crappy. Pretty much robbed of having one. So much adult stuff to carry. To hear it from another human is more than validating it re-connects us to our humanity. This message above has…
“Been Keeping Secrets”
Woke up with this accusation in my head, “Keeping secrets from you?” Absurd. Impossible. I am a wide-open book. Reality check… yep working on a book! >>> about my childhood, things I learned and how I adapted. A big part of my external hard drive is dedicated to the work. Might say… my life IS…
Discourse: Threat Landscape, Stand-Down Failure, and Constructed Safety
Co-dependency is about >> not seeing, speaking, hearing, doing anything about a destructive force… people pleasing, and sycophancy… . also ill scratch your back if you scratch mine or I overlook your flaws/sins/crimes if you overlook mine … Bargaining. As though payout is beneficial both ways… This is part of why I know Co-dependency is…
Founder’s Foundry & Forge Review
The cartographers were very generous with feedback on this challenge. It feels good! Much appreciation for my unusual architectural approach. This might be my year for being Bull-headed! Unleashing the inner-minotaur! A small township of minotaurs, with the foundry, forge, mill and bakery, needs a few more SHOPS and farms and I may have my…
Premiere of The Founder’s Foundry & Forge
Please enjoy your visit to The Founder’s Foundry & Forge. Made for #dam-challenge “Forge” Size: 40 X 40 19.0 MB Special thanks for the assets by: SAC, DangerWeasel, Centimar DeVarion, Elenitsa, Stalk42, Vaako, swedish.cook,Varkas.amdir, Ice_xox, DallasRT, dallasrt, Random Ladybird, and chimchimcharu.
I Took Notes!
Most of them made it all the way here >>> to the time I promised I would give myself. To get my head right, because I knew (Brace yourself grammar police…) I knew they done messed me up. Indecision, excessive worry, depression, unclear thinking…yk Symptoms Then I go out into the real world and I…
I was not a good student.
Notorious teacher bite-r by first grade. Not a joke. I was feral. I was “held back” in 2nd grade for truancy. (The second go around I figured out that the “teachers edition” had all the correct answers. My issued student edition had them too by the first week.) I got into fights. NOT I started…
Reviewing Alembic
It’s official. One full calendar year of “Participate.” AS a yearling… and no longer a newbie, nor rookie, I kind of feel like I earned the jersey, (or at least the cap, come on now…!?) I had such great feedback from my fellow cartographers today! It’s obvious I am a big fan of the folks…
Premiere of The Adamant Alembic
Please enjoy your visit to The Adamant Alembic Made for #dam-challenge “Before and After” Size: 40 X 20 20.9 MB Special thanks for the assets by: Metaphor, Random Ladybird, SAC, Normandial, Centimar CeVarion, DangerWeasel, DallasRT, Arcadia, jagarr, ColbaltlGuess, Heronimo, Spyke, milfrice, Ice_xox, Greywind12.ab, soundphantom, Tree House Goblin, [DE] SunWatcher, Clandor, Yomgeon, GreenBriar, MACx3D, CLETECK, lic.edwin.bueno,…
New Year… New goals!
Last year’s goal was “Participate.” This year… let me think about it a bit. I want to conquer my fear of Blender. I am in great company for learning the ends and outs. I want to conquer my fear of >>> attempting to Be a Writer, already got traction 😉 I am stunned that I…
Purdy and Pink
When I first found out about Meshy.ai in early February, I tried a few times and got disappointing results. I asked my cub and she strolls up, examines the interface and starts cranking out little demons and MLPs like a natural. Purdy is one of her first little demon girls. I made Pink, from her…
Premiere of Purdy and Pink’s Playhouse
Please enjoy your visit to Purdy and Pink’s Playhouse Made for #dam-challenge “Tis the Season” Size: 22 X 22 31.2 MB Bonus
Tale of Two Senpais
In the Perfect World, blademasters and wizards (humans) start in the same town taking parallel questlines. So exhub3 and I entered there. Otherwise we would have to quest in our own regions grinding to lvl level 30 before mixing with the other races (barbarians and venomancer (beastfolk) and archers and clerics (elves.) Since I realized…
Intro to Invisible Rules
The art: Delineating Point One of the last “communications” I was putting together (2024) when elder-tox-sis TLDR’d. She doesn’t understand how or why I MIGHT feel disowned, or Cut-Off. My skin crawls recalling her wobbling clueless upper octave of feigned pain, when f2f or on the phone. It’s part of the Gassssslighting. It’s theater… acting.…
Side Quest!
I want to put this little Public Announcement Out: Please be kind to the Ladybirds when they cuddle together in your quiet corners to sleep through the freezing season. This is the first good article I found on accommodating the little guest: This is a story I laid out and Robot made all the words…
Current Build
Datura is a Gloom Stalker. From what I heard I should play her like a stealth archer, but so far she absolutely sucks at archery. Doing pretty well with the sling shot, except the opponents want to close the distance and chew on her. Occupational hazard for all gnomes >> mistaken as squeaky toys I…
Did I Tell You Thank You?
Hello my friends and heroes, Thank you for all the work you have been doing to hold on to your True Self. In this circus of costumes, grease painted clown faces, masks and performances. It was really nice to be near your authenticity. Guarded, but REAL. A real human just living out a humble human…
Butterfly Affect
^-.-^ The inconsistency of self AS PROJECTED, not as experienced. The me inside is the same me, just getting bigger, older, learning more in life… The me I must be when others (toxic family) are present is limited and punished if deviated from their projections and scripts. “On best behavior” aka not taking up…
Fighting your inner demons?
Hello Demon Slayers, Realizing they are not YOURS? Those aren’t YOUR demons. Those are echoes of ghosts. Part of your Life Before: you started healing. The work here is this: Document the damage. Get forensic about it. No fog, no “well, all families have problems.” What happened was specific. It was wrong. Maybe it was…
Take It Easy
You’ve been flying through the storm too long, Wings are heavy, you can barely hold on. Come on down, come on in, Let the water take you in. You’re safe now. You’ve found sanctuary. Take it easy, take your time, There’s no mountain you have to climb. Let the gentle current flow, Healing happens soft…
Premiere of Take-It-Easy Estuary
Please enjoy your visit to Take It Easy Estuary Made for #dam-challenge “Healing” Size: 50 X 40 8.49 MB Special thanks for the assets by: DallasRT, dallasrt, Centimar DeVarion, SAC, [DE} SunWatcher, and chimchimcharu.
New Levels, New Monsters
Hello Warrior, Another rough boss fight? I don’t know how YOU slay your inner demons… but I have several different methods depending on what kind of demon is coming at me. Tried and true: #1 NAME IT. Otherwise you’re fighting in the dark against the unknowns. (We don’t use enounce much anymore…) You get quicker…
Nickel and Dimed
The book was loaned to me for a bit. Required reading for Gender Studies or some such…a former friend tried really hard to convert me, “you like theater, come see these monologues with me.” I found it really unsettling. Babs pops into town disguised, pretending, faking >>> with $5000 “to get set up.” Gets a…
Traveler Chimiru 