Valles' birthday was Monday. This is somewhat belated.
It's a pretty crappy colouring job, but I got lazy. There's also a ton of bleed in the colour and a few stray lines. I'm pretty happy with the base lineart, though, so I might go back and recolour this later.
This is Sachie Hanagawa - whom you all should know by now. If you don't, then, uh, I got nothin'.

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Valles, I have an even larger version of this image if you want to print it - the actual size I drew at. Let me know when you're back home so I can mail it.
-- Acyl

"Sometimes one, sometimes five; the white shadow that moves unseen..."


Ken the Eagle


Joe the Condor


Jun the Swan


Jinpei the Swallow

Ryu the Horned Owl


Just some fun I had designing costumes. What do you think? ^_^

Spoilers 

I've tried to keep liking this story.  I really have.  But with Chapter 30, it's about time I threw in the towel.  I was ok with Zuko being Captain SuperGreat! and getting all kinds of Marty Stu power ups, I could tolerate Katara being a five star biatch to everyone but Aang, and I could live with but dislike the apologism for the Fire Nation that was written into the background.  Now?  Now Katara is so axe crazy she's genocidal, and due to the magic plot power that was given to Water and Fire benders, everyone around her becomes genocidal too!  I just had to throw up my hands.  Despite it being very well written, it's descended into the kind of character assassination that I haven't seen since the Fiance Wars back in the old days of the internet.  Vathara, you had me, then you lost me.
---
Jon
"And that must have caused my dad's brain to break in half, replaced by a purely mechanical engine of revenge!"

So, Sofaspud actually got this commission as a gift for me...some time ago. I just completely forgot to post about it here. Picture by Dave Reynolds, who does, among other things, the webcomic Shadowgirls.
This is Battery Acid, my main villain, an Elec/Will Brute.

 
Or view it on DeviantArt
(Thanks, Sofa! =)
-- Acyl

Gamer.Blorge: http://gamer.blorge.com/2010/04/16/game ... your-soul/]Gamestation may own your soul

Luckily, they're giving all the souls back. All 7500 of them. (The 12% of people who actually read the T&Cs and opted out of giving away their souls are getting £5 gift certificates instead.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

An interesting article about the apparent exaggeration of what constitutes the sexual abuse of children, driven by a mix of obsessed crusaders and an industry that's grown up around "treating" alleged victims.  Doesn't minimize the enormity of actual abuse, but it does raise questions about what actually constitutes abuse, and how many people have actually been abused.  Worth reading even if you don't agree with the writer's conclusions.

Quote:And here is where the excesses of the crusade against child abuse
become not just over-zealous and silly, but irresponsible, even
abusive. Most of us didn’t have to grow under the shadow of imminent,
omnipresent paedophilia - the dirty man at the pool was little more
than a creepy amusement to be avoided. Today, he and others of his ilk
are being used to bulk up statistics on serious child sexual abuse, our
children now convinced there is no escape, that their doom is awaiting
them in the shadows of their own homes. It’s despicable. No child
should have to be frightened of that.

From a "cyber-nightclub".
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Chapter 4 is about two-thirds done and I've been making good progress lately.  Chapter 5 will feature the showdown we've all been waiting for.  But in the mean time, here's this little tidbit.

Or the first week of it, at least: viewing the Tall Ships at this year's http://towaterfrontfest.com/]Toronto Waterfront Festival

Anyone else here a Tall Ships fan, and in the general area June 30 - July 4?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

A Government Accountability Office report on the actual costs of IP piracy -- undertaken because of the big intellectual property enforcement law Bush signed back in 2008 -- has gathered up all the data and subjected it to first real independent scrutiny and analysis, and has determined that just about every claim about the costs of piracy made by the big rightsholders and their organizations is grossly over-inflated, and in some cases outright fraudulent.  Article here.
As the article's author notes, it's a delightful irony that the law that big media and the BSA bought into existence to help keep their pockets lined has, as pretty much its first major action, dealt a death blow to their claims to billions of dollars of lost revenue.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.