How an 18th Century pug named macaroon helped me gain insight into my new character:
Marie Antoinette and Roronoa Zoro: An Insight into My Creative Process
In today’s video post, I’m discussing some aspects of my work on Knights of the Ruby Hatpin. I’m focusing on how I begin my world building for a new project in conversation with my favorite painters and animators.If you want to join the conversation, stay tuned for next week’s extra in-depth look at my finished …
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Updates From Cosmic Con 2024 (with embedded video)
Happy to reassure all of you, my intrepid followers, that I was able to defend my Artist Alley table successfully in the perilous waters of the Tangram Center at Cosmic Con 2024. Not a single shapeshifting bunny was lost in the storm of comic con excitement. To those of you who joined me in my …
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Updates From Cosmic Con 2024
Happy to reassure all of you, my intrepid followers, that I was able to defend my Artist Alley table successfully in the perilous waters of the Tangram Center at Cosmic Con 2024. Not a single shapeshifting bunny was lost in the storm of comic con excitement. To those of you who joined me in my …
The Wedding Dress Cipher
This beautiful, elegant wedding gown is not just a fashionable outfit, but a desperate cry for help. To communicate longer messages in a manner invisible to their male foes, the Knights of the Ruby Hatpin have created a secret Lace Language. The Valenciennes Division of the Order has created a rich vocabulary woven into the …
Secrets of a Wooden Monk
Today I’m unveiling the secret of the mysterious item glimpsed in last week’s post. (Check it out HERE). You’ve probably guessed it must be a rather important item if a dying soldier is using his final breath to hand it over to a new guardian in the midst of a battlefield. At first sight, it …
Knights of the Ruby Hatpin
I’m finally ready to reveal more secrets about the gender-bending new character I introduced in last week’s blog post, He is a Woman, but She is Also a Man. This character is part of a dream project I’ve been developing for a while and am finally ready to share with the world!Swapping genders, identities and …
He is a Woman, but She is Also a Man
I’m in the early stages of a new project (whose details remain classified for the moment). This is my first take on my new main character, who has a double identity that depends on the circumstances and environment of their operations. Their elaborate rescue missions involve international travels incognito, skills with rapier and dagger, as …
Escape of an Ichtyander
This young, cheeky “Ichtyander”, part of an experimental amphibious submarine fighting unit, has managed to evade his Nazi handlers. He thinks of himself as a master of disguise. He found some oversize boots to conceal the fins that have taken the place of his feet, and a pair of polio braces to support his tentacle-legs. …
Operation Ichtyander
Meet my newest character!He's a product of a top secret Nazi Project code named “OPERATION ICHTYANDER”. The goal was to create an underwater army by enhancing human bodies with the organs and DNA of deep sea creatures. The Ichtyanders escaped from their lab at the end of WWII. My story is set ten years later …
