Rose Red and Snow White

Once upon a time there lived a widow with her two daughters.

One daughter was named Snow White and the other was Rose Red.

One night, in the coldest part of winter, there was a knock on the family's door. It was a bear. "Let me in. It is cold out and your home looks warm," the bear said.

The widow and her daughters let the bear come in and lay by the fire. Night after night, the bear returned.

Finally spring came and the bear stopped coming every night. He said he had treasure to protect since the than had softened the ground.

The widow and her daughters said a sad farewell to the bear. Now that the weather was warmer, Rose Red and Snow White spent hours roaming the countryside.

One day, Snow White and Rose Red found a small man with a long beard. His beard was stuck beneath a tree which he had just chopped down. "My beard! My beard!" he called out. "Someone help me!" "Here, this should do the trick," Snow White said. She pulled a pair of scissors out of her day basket and snipped the end of the man's beard, freeing (him) from the tree.

"Oh, my beard! My beard!" the small man cried. "You evil girls, look what you have done to my beautiful beard!" He scooped up a bag full of jingling and jangling treasure and ran off.

The second time the girls met the small, mean man, they found him caught in his own fishing line. After failing to untangle the hook from his beard, Snow White once again got out her scissors and snipped the beard.

"Oh, my beard! My beard!" the small man cried. "You evil girls, look what you have done to my beautiful beard!" He scooped up a bag full of jingling and jangling treasure and ran off.

The third time the girls met the small, mean man, he was being carried off by an eagle. Snow White and Rose Red each grabbed one of the man's legs and pulled him the the eagle's talons.

The man's coat was ripped and torn from the eagle. "You evil girls, look what you have done to my beautiful coat!" He scooped up a bag full of jingling and jangling treasure and ran off.

The fourth time the girls met the little man, his boot was stuck in the rocks of a steep hill. The girls tugged and pulled and finally freed the man from the rocks by pulling his foot out of his boot.

Just then, the bear from the winter ran down the hill and hit the small man in the head with his paw.

The small man fell down dead and, free of the small man's curse, the bear turned in a prince.

The prince invited Snow White, Rose Red, and their mother to live with him at his castle. They lived together happily ever after.

Rapunzel

I've been drawing cartoons for the small children at work. And they've been taking them home, and I haven't thought to take any photos of the drawings before they're vanished into the ether of small-child-dom. Here's one done in the same style, but using marker instead of crayon. I did it during breakfast! It was lots of fun.

At the end, the prince isn't dead, just blind and being cried on by Rapunzel. Rapunzel's tears cure his blindness and they live happily ever after. I was lazy and didn't draw a seventh "happily ever after" panel.

More landscape paintings for my painting class, more recent

So my professor said that some of my pictures weren't recent enough, and that I need about 5 more paintings that were finished after 1920. So I'm putting them here? Yes.

Ursula Vernon: Tribal Wombat, 2003

Paul Hotvedt: Gardening, 2010

Georgia O'Keeffe: Untitled (Red and Yellow Cliffs), 1940

Nikki Smith: Untitled, 2008

Don Dixon: Star Colony, 1988

Landscape paintings from the past 150 yrs, for my painting class

Alfred Sisley: Bridge at Hampton Court; 1874

P. S. Kroyer: Summer day on Skagens Beach; 1884

John Singer Sargent: The Rialto, Venice; 1911

John Singer Sargent: Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose; 1886

Georges Seurat: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884

Edvard Munch: Yellow Trunk, 1912

Pablo Picasso: Landscape with dead tree, 1919

Andrew Wyeth: Christina's World, 1948

Rene Magritte: Popular Panorama, 1926

Banksy: 2009

Richard Estes: Paris Street

Painting Class, Fall Semester

Also, I got a new piercing! It's the bottom one on the rim of my ear... like. The cartilage part.

But here's some sketches from my sketch book.

Card that is more my art and less stolen pictures

Doubly knocked off cards

So I like Magic, and I like Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones being the first book and the title of the TV show). I tried out the GoT card game, and it just wasn't doing it for me. So, I decided to try my hand at making my own cards.

It turned out to be surprisingly complicated. This was probably caused by my dissatisfaction with the free online card generators I found (all two of them - maybe I just didn't look hard enough?). I ended up creating what is essentially my own free card generator, though it's local to my computer and not free online. C helped by doing some nifty javascript and helped me out with the bits of css and html that confused me. I did some of the graphics myself, but mostly I just stole pictures using google image search. I figure this is for personal use anyway, right? The whole IDEA is expanding on someone else's intellectual property anyway (George R R Martin's, I suppose). So what's a few more stolen items? ;)

For an idea of the results, check out these hott pics!

 

So. About those symbols - definitely not standard mtg colors, right? (I'm hoping it's obvious, at least). The idea is that there's attributes associated with each color, and really the name of the "color" is the type of attribute. In order from the "Basic Card" they are: physical Force (red), Wealth (orange), Honor (green), political Power (blue), Magic (purple). The capitalized letters are the letters I use as my shorthand for each symbol. For the "tap" symbol I used "T" as my shorthand, and for a number, the numerical symbol is my shorthand. A card ends up looking like this in the code before it's generated:

{

title : 'Arya Stark', cost : "2FF", image : "aryastark.jpg", type : "Character", subType : "Stark", 

abilities : getCostString('1HT') + ": place an execution counter on target creature or character." + "
" + getCostString('1FT') + ": kill all creatures and characters with execution counters on them.",

flavor : "\"Fear cuts deeper than swords.\" Braavosi Water Dance Mantra",

stats : [2,3],
}

I think it's nice and easy to edit.

If anyone has thoughts on cards they'd like to see, go ahead and let me know! I'm thinking the game format would be basically EDH/Commander except I won't have 100 card singleton decks. So more like a 40 card draft deck, at least for starters.

All of the "Character" type cards are basically the same thing as a "Legendary Creature". So far I haven't made any other type of card, but they're probably going to be something like "Title: Baratheon Bannerman, Type: Creature, Sub-type: Baratheon" and "Title: Crowned Stag, Type: Creature, Sub-Type: Baratheon".

Thoughts? Leave them in the comments!

More Pictures!

Most recently (for fun, for me):

And a couple of examples of things for Chris's game: