Witchwater

Thought I’d disappeared, did you? Well....I did. But I’m back!  With pictures! As you may or may not know, I am part of a D&D group.  One of my friend's characters is able to summon a Shadow Steed.  It's supposed to have all the color sucked out of it -- it's essentially a horse made only of shadow.  I paint minis, so he asked me to pick up a figurine for his Shadow Steed.  Although it's supposed to be all ...

So I've finally decided to free myself - at least in part! - from the timesink that is World of Warcraft. Oh, I'm still on there at night, but only after I've spent a good part of the night writing or drawing or painting. Move my actual passions and crafts forward, move WoW back. And it's working well so far. I try to take an hour's walk in the evenings for exercise, during which time I brainstorm for a story that is slowly building in my head, and then I go home and either continue reading ...

For Christmas, I gave my mother two minatures: Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax from Micro Art Studios; they had JUST come out with a line of Discworld minis, and those are her two favorite characters.  Perfect Christmas Gift. Unfortunately, the amount of time I had to assemble, sculpt, and paint was short.  I did what I could in the time that I could, and I feel they came out all right.  Mom loved them, and that’s what important.   (At least that’s what I’m ...

Whew.  Been some time.
I am pleased to say, though, that I have finally finished my Carnivean!  He’s actually been done for about a week now, but I haven’t had much time to stick him in my light cube and photograph him. My photography skills are still lacking, I fear.  But the photo quality is improved all the same!  Yay light cube!
So with this ultra-cool light cube, there are two colored backgrounds; one is white, the other blue.  I was ...

A’right!  Time for the next in the series of Carnivean: The Adventure! So, my friend wants the Carnivean to be colored, essentially, the way you see him on the box.  So that makes his skin white, white, WHITE.  Not Pale Elf Flesh. WHITE.  I even read up on how Privateer Press paints their Carniveans: They use pure white for the skin and then shade with an ice blue.  Now, I’ve painted an albino before, but this would be quite different.  First, there was ...

Okay!  Blog entry # 2! As a side note -- you *should* be able to click on the “...” on my First Babble and read the Expanded Entry.  There are pictures!
Strangely, I can’t expand my First Babble on a PC, but it works just fine on a Mac.  Odd indeed.
So yeah!  If ever my post ends with a “...”, try to expand the post, either by clicking on it (where a link to the post SHOULD be), or clicking on the post’s name to the left. ...

....So I hate to start something on a downer note, but WUTTAFUH????  I mean, I know it said "Safari Support is experimental at this stage, so don't even bother sending in bug reports", but YOIKS!  It's craziness! Plus it totally erased everything I'd written before.  FORTUNATELY, there's copy and paste. So, let's try this again. Hi.  I'm Chael!  I've started this blog to post up my first attempt at a Work In Progress; if it works well (and once I'm able ...