New Directions - A Set of Ruminations

There's a lot of things that I've been self-assessing. My friend Peter would consider these brain reformats - although I would like experiences to enrich me, not the other way around.

I think defragging would be a better term.

Interestingly enough, I'm in a place in time where I could feel easily overwhelmed and overwrought. I must admit I've come to that place many a time in this day and age. However, I feel that these experiences hone me to be a much better individual that I was supposed to become.

I don't know for a fact what I will become. I only know that a lot of distractions that we allow ourselves to feel and issues that we allow to overwhelm us can really deter us. I'm not here to say problems and issues are merely stupid and nonimportant - that would be dismissive to declare.

However, I've noticed that perspective is definitely something that is important. It is really easy to get caught up in day-by-day. Even when you've willed yourself to be calm and calculating, even the perspective can really throw you off. Yet, if we are focused on what everyone else is focused on in a harried hamster wheel - we are no happier for it. In fact, there's been plenty of people that feel to make snarky exceptions when things are posted that seem to resonate deeply.

We seem to want to find nirvana, but are always fighting in many different ways and in may conflicting ways to get there. For example, we all desire lasting relationships - but we push away people that we care about in callous ways. We like to assume. A LOT. We don't understand the simple fact we don't need to go all out in one viewpoint and be absolutist - we gotta see in the big picture of finding the mechanisms in our lives and to see the individual ability of ourselves and whatever path is set out for us to do. All we need to do is state our piece and go forward. We usually can get what we want if we ask.

In today's world, I find interesting is that if you have a lot of interests and still want to pursue them all with equal fervor - it means you're unfocused and uncaring about your career. It seems like in the world of self-help books, positive affirmations, and "unlocking potential" - we seem to degenerate into ripping the another down, arguing with that person because they don't fit in our little box, to not letting things "be" with the other person. We're all entitled to our opinions and conclusions, but so are we to our own solutions.

I'll be throwing up content here and there on Patreon to see where I go.

http://www.patreon.com/HoraToraStudios

Dodge it.

How will you fall down on your knees?

Confrontation with Death

Sometimes, Death is a hard bugger to talk to...

Blind Ones

Another concept I've thrown up and quite happy with the result!

Druid Concept

I'm working on a few game concepts and I must say it's coming along great. The trips for figure drawing have definitely paid off.

I can't get into it, but I've been commissioned to do a concept for a game.

I'm quite pleased with the improvement.

Nick for Both Seasons

Here's one of my characters, Nick for two seasons.

Casual Apple with a Top Hat

OH HAPPY DAY!!!!

Richard's the Thing RPG game has been finally completed! I am quite pleased to see it come to fruition.

Please, feel free to download it, play with it, and leave feedback!

Downloads can be got from the blog posts on: (Both posts are identical)

http://www.moddb.com/games/the-thing-2

http://macwantsthewhat.com/

So do something constructive this Turkey Day and play a game. You know you want to....

Busy BEE! Annie Mochizuki

 

Annie Mochizuki, age 19

Main and alternate palette. 

Originator: Rashumel Oxley

Concept art: Christie Shinn

 

I didn't like the first concept, so I decided to make it a bit better and tightened it up.

Nick and Shin

Originator and Concept: Christie Shinn

Evelyn at Project Arc

Here's the femme fatale, Evelyn.

She does resemble an actress that you may be aware of...

I thought I hit IT again with her face and such.

Nick and Shin - New Additions to Project Arc

Project Arc* has kindly let me introduce two of my own characters into their fighting game.

They are both half sisters. Nick (left) is the daughter of a police officer and of an intellectual family. She is now a demon slaying avatar and it's questionable if what she sees is reality or it is a result of internal turmoil and demons. She wields the Sword of Ruth that is the Truth-Seeker. Shin (right) is half-Japanese and from the same mother. She works now as an Interpol agent (but in the deepest crevasses of secrecy that Nick used to be in).

It's not known if the sisters do care about each other or are trying to kill each other. There's an uneasy truce about them. Both are proficient in hand-to-hand combat and gunplay. Nick is more proficient in swordplay but she's not too bad with other weapons. Shin prefers a small daggerlet.

Still working out the kinks in the story, but I'm quite happy with the development so far.

*They are going through a major update.

Endings to the THING RPG

Here's more teasers on different endings to Richard's game.

However, I'm not going to tell you which ones. :D

The THING game goes LIVE on 11/28/13!

Hello! I've been working on the Thing game for my friend Richard on the encounter backgrounds and some of the ending images.

I also found out I'm an NPC in the game. I'm apparently really badass.


If you have trouble viewing it, here is the link.

It's free to play.

Here is his ModDB.

Here is his blog. 

Katherine from Project Arc

This character was thought up by Anthony Bonilla, and I drew and colored it.

Project Arc is here.

Skyscraper

I Am A Fish!

Fred Moutran has designed a game.

He has asked me to do graphics on the game to revamp it.

It's nice to see my drawings come to life.

You will need Chrome to do it. But you are this cute little fishie shooting big, mean sharks. You have to avoid pointy little things. It's rather fun!

Thanks very much, Fred. :)
 

Puddle of Ink

Depression is to me a puddle of ink.

It washes away in a heavy flood of who you are, what you are, and what you can be.

You need to repaint yourself again and again in these times where you build enough ink to sustain past the flood waters of your life and to stay whole until the very end of what you were given.

Gallery Girls: Circus Pin-Up

It seems that I've determined that whenever I sketch, it's to memorize lines on a face and body. I'm not really composing a "piece". However, when I do "improv" sketches based on that memory, they turn out fabulous.

Circus Studies

Circus Improv

Thanks to Prix and Jennifer who have made this possible!

Background!!!

Well, I've been doing some backgrounds more for my lovely friend Richard.

He just loves the Thing 2 and well, I love helping people and making art and it worked out.

He's also a very lovely person to work with, so please give him more love.

Here's some more backgrounds. Check out his stuff.: :)

Antarctic Airstrip

Ancient UFO

Destroyed Weapons Testing Base

Destroyed/Abandoned Wooden Floor Area

Bat

His name is Bat and it's for a friend's game.

His subsequent contact information and happy graphical things are at: https://www.facebook.com/adhkamiz

Please give this guy some love - he really wants to make a good game. Hopefully had you enjoyed my concept of the character he gave me to flesh out.

If it didn't make sense - for Pete's sake it's 1:15am. My brain is too overclocked and it shut down to cool off...