My friends and I prepared costumes for Ohayocon 2004. We chose Naruto (not yet on US Airwaves) as our show, but we didn’t want to be the 100th person dressed as any given popular character, so we created our own gang of ninja based on the show’s costume design themes. A lot of military surplus and fishnet, some sandblasting, and a little metalworking later, we had some awesome and unique costumes for a very geeky weekend.

These pencil drawings fairly accurately depict the six of us in our costumes.

My Introduction to Linguistics class had lectures that were conducive to drawing. This character was part of a cross cultural pantheon in Byck’s continuity. I called her Lilith, and she usually had something of a goth look to her wardrobe. Her demonic features varied each time I drew her.

At one of the few clearly planned points in Byck’s story, he becomes the host to an alien symbiote in the belly of a long dead world. More dramatic crosshatching here. I totally bungled the torso anatomy, but I really liked how the legs and feet turned out, so it wasn’t a total failure.

I saw a lot of attractive young ladies when I visited the University of Miami (yes, in Florida). A lot. The thing was, they seemed to all look pretty much alike. This may have been because I didn’t know anybody. Maybe Miami occupies a much narrower chunk of economic spectrum than OSU, leading to less variation in clothing and hair fashion and similar body types? I drew this while waiting for my host to get out of class, and I swear it seemed like half the girls who walked past me looked like this.

Drawn and inked in my sketchbook on University of Miami’s campus. Colored once I got back to Columbus, OH.

This is my character from a Shadowrun campaign. She’s based on a character in Byck’s continuity. I drew this particular version while waiting for my plain to Miami, FL. I photoshopped her at the University of Miami Library two days later. The dramatic crosshatching is an experiment with my Micron pens.