.: blog! :.

Current counts:

Pages written in Graphic Novel "Fallen Angel": 59
Pages written in Novel "Of Peasants and Kings": 117
Images posted to Renderosity galleries: 119

1 July
Added image "Callandor" to the 3dArt gallery, and submitted to Renderosity. "The Finer Things" did not make the June DAZ 3D gallery, we'll see if it made it for July.

12 June
Added image "The Old and The New" to the gallery and to Renderosity's Bryce gallery.

10 June
Added image "Tarnaa 2008 (draft)" to the gallery and submitted the final version to ArtZone, DAZ3D and Renderosity.

09 June
Had a great evening working on the novel, added 6 pages.

02 June
Posted image "The Finer Things" and sumbitted it to the DAZ 3D Gallery. I'll post it to Renderosity after we see if it won anything.

27 May
Did some serious work on "Of Peasants and Kings" this week.

14 May
Posted image "White Queen" and submitted it to Renderosity.

10 April
Boy, I haven't done anything here in a while. Sorry, I've been incredibly busy. Added "Overmatched" to the gallery.

7 March
Added "Tyric and Aeva" to the gallery and the Novel Characters page.

6 March
Added the HDRI version of "The Gales of November" to the gallery. Also uploaded it to Renderosity.

4 March
Found a wonderful wooden sailing ship freebie on Renderosity and just had to turn it into a render. See "The Gales of November," added today to the gallery.

3 March
Did some extensive work on the novel's backstory and glossary.

20 February
I had done a bunch of renders lately that bombed on me, but I was successful with "The Streets of Tol Mar", added today to the gallery.

16 February
Added two more pages to "Fallen Angel", up to 58 now. 64 should be the end.

12 February
Added image "Arrival at the Cottage" to the gallery and did a little cleanup work.

7 February
Wow, haven't updated this in a while, sorry. I've added several pages to Issue #1 of "Fallen Angel" and it's now nearly complete.

8 January
Added myself as a member of DeviantArt, where I posted several images under the ID whirlwindunited.

27 December
Added two images, "Quality Time" in the main gallery and "Pale Rider" in the Graphic Novel Wallpaper gallery. Hope you like them.

20 December
Fleshed out the 3D art galleries a little more, we're up to 6 pages now. I also created a gallery on DeviantArt for some of the more adult-themed pinup images I've created. It's pretty cool, if you wish you can order prints and I get a small share of the profits.

14 December
Going to be adding a PayPal account shortly to accept donations to help cover the expenses of the site.

5 December
Sorry that I hadn't blogged in a while, been ridiculously busy. I am pleased to mention, however, that I added 4 pages to the graphic novel this week. Some of the images were really sharp, but had to be reduced to fit on the page, so I'll post some here over the next few days.

21 November
Added "So This Is Daylight" to the gallery (and to Renderosity).

14 November
Finished a nice (if creepy) solo piece, "Eternal Guardian," which can be found here and on Renderosity. Also started a series of calendar background screens, with, naturally, January2008, found in the Freebies section under Wallpapers.

12 November
Had a great couple of days with some excellent content for Fallen Angel. We're now up to 45 pages and I can see where this issue will end-- around page 64.

7 November
Had a revelation regarding OP&K, and how I want to frame the fantasy story inside a sci-fi shell--kind of like Dan Simmons did with "Illium." Starting work on that now.

5 November
Completed pages 38-40 of Fallen Angel, almost done with 41.

1 November
Started redesigning the website today. The new look absolutely rocks.

22 October
Wow, it's been a while since I've updated this. Sorry, all. The last few days have been good, I've completed pages 33-36 and started 37. I'll post a few new images to the gallery in the next couple of days.

20 September
Completed page 32 and added the basics for page 33. Unfortunately, the current render for page 33 is looking like it'll take 24 hours to finish. Also opted to replace the cover art with a better image.

14 September
Added page 31, a tense moment when our heroine is nearly captured. Man, this is fun to create, just interminably slow... each image takes around an hour to pose and 3 hours to render, and I usually have 2 to 4 images per page. You can do the math.

10 September
Haven't blogged much lately, sorry about that. I redid a number of pages on the story, expanding it out and making it more coherent.

16 August
The book is now on 29 pages, although I still have a few scattered images to finish. I also created the base image for the character of Police Chief Jeffrey O'Malley, which is this week's Image of the Week (See above.)

10 August
I've updated the book repeatedly over the last week or two, but haven't updated the blog. Sorry. The backstory keeps expanding, but we've now got almost all the plotlines in place-- Suzi's past, her job(s), her relationships with her roommate, her teacher, and her former mentor and guardian, and lots more I can't divulge.

Also working on pricing schemes for the book and methods of distribution. I want to distribute electronically rather than an actual print run.

20 July
Really happy with the output over the last week, I added four full pages that are chock-full of images (although some of them are recycled ones.) The backstory is nearly done.

11 July
Completed a page yesterday and another today, including some major revisions of the content on some previously existing pages. This brings the book to 10 completed pages.The storyline makes more sense now, and the extra page of backstory gives it more depth. Re-doing images wastes time, but I want it to be believable.

5 July
Added a page to the site with previous versions of the front cover of Fallen Angel.

3 July
Added most of another page. Decided to use the 3D character "Aiko" as the basis for the Suzi-as-a-teen shots, which meant I spent a day downloading files and setting up the content in DAZ Studio.

30 June
Added two more pages, we're up to 7.

23 June
A great day, I started using ComicBookCreator to assemble the first five pages of text and images. It's really starting to take shape.

20 June
Added a couple more images to the collection for the story today

18 June
Spent a lot of time on updating this website.

14 June
Added four more images today, although they were all variations on the same theme. Felt productive, though.