Royce's Random Thoughts

Been in a foul mood for most of last weekend and this week. Fortunately I have friends who can jolly me out of it.

ForEx: The video below is courtesy of my artist friend Peta Hewitt, showing how well you can color something with just three marker pens. Three very similar marker pens.

Oh, and she just tossed off that picture of the elf to have something to work with.

Website: La Artistino

Spring is here and my writing muse is getting into gear one again. Hurrah. Shadow of the Red Vixen is coming along, but I've been contemplating modifying the plot a bit to take advantage of a possible spin off.

For those of you who didn't know already, Captive of the Red Vixen started off as an AU fanfic inspired by chaypeta's Terinu webcomic. In the original story Melanie was actually Melika Softpaw's AU counterpart, who never met Terinu and ended up becoming a space pirate. Since CotRV was nearly independent from the Terinu universe anyway, it was easy to modify into an original story.

A previously written story called "Spin Recovery" concerned Rufus Brushtail's AU counterpart, who instead of being a honorable, happy-go-lucky star pilot, ended up being a drunken, drug addicted wreck. Now even though he's based off of Rufus, their personalities are almost completely different. It'll take some work (mostly deleting the sub-plot with his knowledge of the secret of the Ferin and Commander Blake's vendetta against him) but I think I can also sell it as an original.

Firs though, I have to find a plausible way to introduce him into SotRV. I have some ideas, which will be helpful, since it'll further distance his origins from Rufus. have to see how the story plays out, and make sure introducing him doesn't interfere with hte main plot of Salli and Ali's developing relationship.

Here's an image of Nan Rey Clawstroke, my OC from The Summer Intern, courtesy of chaypeta, a young college vixen who has opportunity to intern under the First Free Ferin. It turns out to be a bit more exciting than she intended.

I have an official fusona! Yays!

Anyway, this is me, as drawn by the lovely Wazaga from DA, in return for a story that I really ought to be finishing now, based on my concept for the the Wazagan race.

The shirt he's wearing is for the Ferin Rescue Society, dedicated to saving the genetically uplifted ancestors of the little guy wanting to play frisbee down there. It's FRS for short in English, written out to "Majma'a Inquath Al-Farin" in Arabic below.

Wazagans are copyright me, pre ferin and ferin are copyright chaypeta

And for those who know me in RL, I specified I had long hair. I paid for it, I can indulge in a little fantasy...