Roxxy vs Rabbit

 

Strange Shades still flits across my consciousness now and then. Here's Roxxy battling a rabbit-person from another world-fragment.

Haley and Skye

 

Back to fan art! This is Haley and Skye from the web comic StarCrash!! with Jeff by fellow person-on-the-internet Joi Massat! It's a silly fun series with a very distinct art style that I'm not even going to try to replicate. Nonetheless, I tried to stick with a more toony style with this piece, and didn't add shading to keep more in line with the comic.

Working in DAZ

In recent years, I have doodled around with 3D art, cobbling together assets in poser programs. The most recent program I have been working in is DAZ 3D. It is an incredibly frustrating program to use, from the sheer cost of all the assets to amount of time it takes to both properly put together and render an image to how hard it cranks your computer to do it's job, but for the most part, you can't argue with the results.

I had intended this to be my blog to show off my hand drawn work, but its been quite a while since I last picked up the pen, and making 3D scenes is an art unto itself, so I'll consider this to count!

I'll also admit up front, most of my 3D work is in the service of my adult content, which I won't be posting here. But in the times I make something Safe For Work, I may as well show it off here, too!

A scythe-wielding kitsune battles an alien warrior.

In a timeline that never was, two goddesses roleplay becomes an apocalyptic reality.

A young monk battles a fire-winged skeleton.

Strange Shades World Map?

 

I drew these a while ago, but realized I never posted them.

All this time later, I still have zero clue what Strange Shades actually is, storywise. No real sense of setting, or characters, or narrative, just the art gimmick and a couple of designs.

I do know that the series is supposed to take place in a universe without color, and for some reason, there are humans in it, and while they have always been able to see color, it just didn't exist there, until the Colors of Power arrived and imbued random people with fabulous superhuman abilities. What exactly this other universe is like, I can't say.

In an effort to just throw ideas at the wall, I doodled these maps, thinking about the setting actually being another Pocket Dimension idea, maybe a solar system sized reality with a single sun, and the scattered remnants of megastructures and planetoids hovering throughout. These maps indicate that Strange Shades may actually take place on the fragments of a shattered Niven Ring (see the Ringworld  series by Larry Niven for the defining example). This could explain a number of things about the setting... or just be a completely random factoid that doesn't mean anything. Who can say?

That said, I've always loved fantasy maps and alternate cosmologies and megastructure designs, seeing the different configurations worlds can take. If I ever actually manage to do Strange Shades, I probably will set it here, if for no other reason than it would just be pretty interesting.

Sexy Umbrella Youkai

 

"It's raining out! Let me get wet for you instead, MC-kun! Tee-hee!"

Wasp Huh?

 

Roxxy in Rain