RavenTower

The Penultimate Lord
Continuing my rough sketches in the Archon universe, this is a villain I call the Penultimate Lord. In developing the concept for his appearance I inadvertently came close to another villain from one of the big league companies. I'll let you guess which one. The Penultimate Lord is infused with entropic energy and has no story similarities so I think it's probably fine. I might further delineate the differences in some more sketches. He's meant to be an entropic being in futuristic powered armor.

I don't want to let anything go just yet regarding the origins of this fellow, but lets just say he's obviously got some connections with the end of everything. Which reminds me - I haven't yet drawn even a lick of Entropy.

It seems like ages since I've sketched out anything more than doodles on actual paper. I got a couple sizes of Moleskines for my birthday a few months back and have been putting them to use in the last few weeks. The subject is Archons, which you may have seen here before.

Pixel City is a really cool screensaver. Check it out below.

This took some doing in Open Canvas. First I've colored in a little while, but it was fun. I went back to experimenting with painting. I like the chaos of painting without pen lines.
Pistoleer

I couldn't tell if my eyes were open.

An impenetrable black surrounded me in the tunnel, hiding every detail, giving unseen flesh to my fears. There was no smell. No sound. As if the world had stopped and I was sealed away in my own private hell. Unlike blind people in stories, my other senses didn't experience a sudden awakening.

Continuing my Castlevania inspired work, I played around with sketching in the newest Open Canvas. I love the new brushes and pens! Anyways, here's the initial sketch.

Zylphia, wampire killer

This is Zylphia the vampire killer. Two pistols, a whip and a bad attitude. Colors to follow some day.

After playing around with Paint.NET a bit more, I've realized I don't really like it that much. Here's the line art I came up with in Paint. The figure is a hunchback riding a razor bird (mostly inspired by Castlevania).

Hunchback, black and white

After trying a bit of color I went out and downloaded the latest Open Canvas. Here's the same hunchback with some paint and color to dress him up.

This morning I decided to plug my tablet into my new PC and doodle.

I'm running Vista (mainly for DX10) and using a Wacom Bamboo. I've been setting up a lot of Linux flavors at work and loving my mactop so it's put me in an open source frame of mind. My photoshop and open canvas are all sitting on my old laptop, so I decided to give GIMP another whirl. Seemed kinda cool, but it was totally jacked with the wacom. Anyways...I settled on Paint.NET and started doodling.

Here's what I ended up with...

Abigor James

Google App Engine

I've been experimenting with the Google AppEngine over the last few days. So far, all python aside, it's pretty sweet.

I went out and made a little blog as a sample app.

My favorite feature so far is the deployment script. It supports versioning, rollbacks, etc. - all with a click/click of your mouse.

A couple of years ago I started working on a casual game in AS2 called Five Phases. The concept was based around the five phases of Chinese mythology and their associated elements and attributes. Essentially you combine five colored stones to release their energy.

Recently I started converting / refactoring Five into a Flex AS3 project. The resulting alpha release is below. I haven't bundled any instructions in yet, so I'm posting a brief rundown below the game.

Play Five Phases