I decided to go ahead and post some of my writing here. While I've posted 3 separate entries, they're actually all one story--the early life of Lithuin Ril'Mahr (pictured above), who was a role-playing character I played for a couple of years, until it finished recently. I have more, older, writing, much of it also character histories for defunct role-playing games, posted at Elfwood in my Wyvern's Library gallery. There are also a couple of started-but-unfinished novelizations. I've had a decent amount of clamor over the past few years for me to complete at least one of them, but that may never happen. If it does, it'll almost certainly be rewritten considerably before forward progress is made.

I've also posted something new to my Scraps. It isn't really new, since I last worked on it nearly 2 years ago now. But it seems unlikely now that I'll be getting back to it in the near future, so since I personally rather like it, at least so far, I figured I'd put it up. It isn't the only unfinished sketch I've got in scraps, so I thought why not.

I've also put in a poll (to the right when you click). I know I don't get massive tons of traffic or anything, but I was contemplating some of the things in my scraps. I suspect most people don't even bother looking there, and I'm actually kind of proud of some of the stuff I've got there. But I'm not sure if any of it belongs in my main gallery or not. Most of them have been done for months now, as far as the pencil work goes, but because I've been so slow about getting "Tattoos and Silk" finished, I haven't gone back to any of the other sketches I was planning to turn into paintings yet. So I was thinking maybe a few of those scraps might get more love if I made them a bit more visible.

I've tried to restart with "Tattoos..." a couple of times in the last few days, but I'm really struggling with the right skin tone. I'm still torn between a relatively normal, though fairly pale, human skin color, and something more demonic, like white or pale bluish flesh. I'm afraid to choose and get too far along, only to find I don't like it when I've put in hours of work. I need to get over it and just get moving. I've wasted more time agonizing over it than it would take to have done it both ways from scratch and compare them. Ah well.