Here's a small sample of what I've drawn. I can't scan most of it in because I like to use an 18x24 inch pad, and my scanner simply isn't big enough to accomodate that; some other pieces are small enough to scan, but were done as gifts. The ones I have here were mostly done in an 8x12 inch sketchbook; the blurring and distortion around the edges of some of them is a result of me not wanting to tear the pages out. Apologies in advance for the bad titles.

I don't imagine this will be much of a problem (I get like 3 unique visits a year and one of them is an indexing spider), but please don't reproduce these elsewhere without asking first. Using it for your desktop wallpaper - good. Using it for your website background image - not good. Using it for your website background image after having e-mailed me and gotten my permission to use it - good. E-mailing me and offering half a million dollars for the signed original and actually paying me - very, very, very good.

Geometrica (113kb) - Pen and ink. This one was shrunk considerably, hence the pixellisation. I actually did this in a legal-size notepad in college, while waiting in the classroom for my Spanish professor to arrive, and I did it with a plain old liquid ink pen. The rules have since faded, much to my liking, though they were very very useful for lining a few things up. I've been told that this one looks like a city on fire if you turn it on its side with the more "regular" part on the bottom (in other words, rotate it 90 degrees left).

Beginning (62kb) - Pen and ink. Again, the image was shrunk; I don't normally use pens that small. Usually it's a Micron 03 (.35mm), with a Micron 05 (.45mm) for inking big sections and a Micron 01 (.25mm) for little itty-bitty lines. This is one of the first ones I did like this (others were gifts or haven't been scanned in yet). Big shape in the middle (gifts used the first letter of the person's first name), a few smaller shapes here and there, lines and curves (I love curves) everywhere else. The central bit was taken from my window, which I painted with watercolours one day out of boredom (It's actually very fun to do this - just get a set of cheap watercolour paints and some big brushes, and paint away! It'll appear more pastel than you want it to; mixing a bit of the opposite colour to what you want should make it a bit darker. Don't add too much, it'll turn grey.), and started existence as the colour yellow. Apparently there are eyes all over the place in this one.

Saba (45kb) - Pencil. I forget which kind of pencil I used for this, but I generally favour hard over soft, and regularly use a 4H pencil (the pencils you probably use in schoolwork and on standardised tests are 2B). They make for a nice scritch-scritch noise, too. Anyway, I did this when Saba (my lovely Siamese) was sleeping on the front porch swing, so I thought to myself, "I'm going to draw her", and so I did. I think this one is actual size. Look closely enough and you might see a half-awake Siamese and a porch swing. You might also notice that I don't do so well with realism; all of my pencil sketches of real things (mostly cats, now that I think about it) are quite stylised.

It Comes (119kb) - Oil pastels. Pentel oil pastels, actually. I thinks this one is actual size, too. I was just playing around when I started on this one, trying out different things. Then that red fireball-looking thing in the middle popped out of nowhere, and there you go. I think the text could have been done better, but oil pastels are hard to write with.

Novae (105kb) - Coloured pencil. I forget which kind I used, I have about a million of them now, held together with rubber bands in the tackle box I use to store my stuff. Perhaps you have noticed that I like bold, curvy shapes. You would be right. Again, I was just playing around when I started this; I hadn't really used coloured pencil before. Surprisingly, this one seems to have gained something in scanning; the shading (especially the dark violet) looks much better than on the original. The red part, however, really turned out bad in the digital copy; it's actually red, red-orange, and orange. Also, I have no idea what the orientation on this one is supposed to be. I have it on my wall and the red part is in the lower-right. Also, the piece was a little crooked in the scanner, so that's what the black wedge is in the upper-right.

Le Fou (211kb) - Ink and oil pastel. The very top (like half an inch or so) of this is cut off; the very bottom is, too. And then there's the blurring on the left-hand side. Bad scanning job. The "speak" is obviously a cut-out. I used some typewriter-like font, printed out the word speak (grand waste of a piece of printer paper, there), and rubber cemented it on (so it's going nowhere). The ink is a sort of window around the oil pastel, where about the only things that I know I put in there were a burnt-out sun and some kind of nasty-looking firey thing down at the bottom. One thing I absolutely hate about this piece is that red and green squiggle on the right-hand side, and the ugly fold that's right on top of it. Also, I think that's a drop of coffee towards the bottom-right.