With Blue Violets in Her Hair

With Blue Violets in Her Hair by ~freakdearts on deviantART

a birthday Giftart for my younger sister... something not too flashy but elvish and elegant to go with her room... as usual I had been promising to finish this for about three of her birthdays with the progress being as follows

15th: head and shoulders, some hair, and a bunch of lines to find the rest of the picture.

16th: filled out the body and endlessly fiddled with the anatomy and dress which I still don't think I got right and gave her some sort of an environment at this point consisting of the mountains and forest... I think the wall was what stopped me here

17th: fixed her hands to look human and finished the background. added the pillars and ledge with a bit more of an idea of what I was doing. colored the blue parts and sky which was fun cause I got to use pastels although you can't really tell cause of the scanner...


so glad I waited so long...

This Was Halloween

This was Halloween by ~freakdearts on deviantART

I am the boy with the bleeding eyes
look into them once and I'll scream for your life!



Well it WAS meant for Halloween but the internet fritzed out and did not come back on til two days after the wretched day so this feels a bit out of place... just the leavings from spending practically the whole month working at a haunted house painting faces... I guess you could say it's a sort of halloweentown me... and perhaps he has something to do with boogie since he does have suits on his sleeve thing... I like how he looks like he's about to say "well what have we here?"

anyway sketched in mech pencil then colored with cheap colored pencils... oh and a bit of pen on his fingers

TOO MUCH BLACK!!! (don't know how many times I sharpened that pencil)

Zane--Red

Zane-Red by ~freakdearts on deviantART

some more zane nonsense... I just like this because of the blocks of black with the red... it's just so simple

if you even so much as utter the syllable; I will KILL YOU!

Zane--Further Development

Zane-further development by ~freakdearts on deviantART

The developmental sketch that led to the total redesign of Zane from some scruffy street urchin to something with a bit more attitude.

What really prompted this was an attempt to render his hair in a sort of naruto style where it was just the general shapes in a solid color without any strands showing except at the edges... I tried it out with his original haircut but it wasn't working so great... so I spiked things up a bit while keeping the main aspects and got this... something much more dynamic and bad ass.

I love grapes...

Zane--Portait

Zane Portrait by ~freakdearts on deviantART

a portrait of Zane in his new design since the, old one was rather too complicated... I don't really know why I bothered to draw him on such a large scale but since I am going to be doing a comic with his likeness eventually I needed to firm up his facial features more than just an aged sketch so I conducted this study... but I will give you the sketch that changed it... much more coherent than the original... and bad ass

I think somethings off here just can't figure it out... I was never too good at large scale work...

By Candles Light--Illo

By Candle's Light--Illo by ~freakdearts on deviantART

For one by one the fire is spread
Like a river streaming of flame
And a joy to my heart this sight sends
For my small light became night’s bane

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An illustration for the first stanza of my poem By Candles Light [link] and a therapy peice while watching nauro... which took far longer than necessary since I suck at under lighting faces and making them look human... the mouth was the hardest part of it besides the lettering... I didn't really want it to look too finished as that would probably make it look as forced as the poem... but I just couldn't leave the face alone... meh


and MONOGRAM YAY!!!
loving the collar...

SCHOOOOLS OUT FOREVAH!!!

or at least for as long as I can tell...

yes that is right congratulate me for I have just finished entirely my highschool acedemic work which as far as I can tell means I HAVE GRADUATED!!! Yeah, I'm wearing my spanky pants! can you tell? that means this is a real special occasion cause I only save those for extra special occasions... *hem* don't worry they're just underwear, but besides that I also needed an excuse to restart the blog and this seems like as good as any since I am now a man!! now I'll go forth and conquer with the power of youth! NVRM that's still not right... pardon I've watched a bit too much of naruto for my own good....

no seriously I have so much time now I'm not too sure what to do with it... and there seems like theres always too much to get done in it... I never realized how stressful it would be not having to do any scholarly activity there's more time for what others need you to do than what you kinda want to do... sigh... still I am quite exuberant and I doubt that it will be dampened in a good while... I'm FREEE!!! I've always wanted to say that...

please standby for a megart upload... and maybe a bit of p-p-p-poetry... ogsh it's good to be back!

It's also beginning to look a lot like christmasss...

New Lives

well as much as I would love to blame my indefinite as of late silence on severe digital trauma(i.e. broken mashed fingers) I must be honest and say that lately I have been very boring and lazy and not very prone to be very internet social... but there are some beginings (and ending depending on how you look on it) that I must report upon so I have hauled up the old compose page just for such...

first is that my brother has been married now for about a week... to a lovely russian girl by the name of michelle... may they find greater love and happiness as they walk their new road together... here is some pictorial evidence of the fact..I have no idea why seeing my brother in a suit is so hilarious... :D Congrats guys!
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Second: Melody has had her baby... may your life be full of joy and light as you care for another :D congrats love and sorry I haven't been in touch for a while... I'm waiting for some pictures, eh?;)


and thirdly... I'll be off to the fdtp this sunday for some much needed training in what it means to be a disciple, and an adult...hopefully I won't get myself into too much trouble or anyone else for that matter... :D This also means that I will be offline for twenty days as too much internet use is not encouraged, but you can follow the precedings on facebook here: [link] I'm bound to get in there someplace so be on the look out for this face:


woah yes that's right I also got a hair cut!(tx liela)


looking forward to the changes

-The Revig

two things I learned from jetskiing for 6 hours on monday

One: unless you want to get thrown off trying to stay on, lean into your turns...

and Two: unless you want to turn into a lobster put on a pound and a half of sunscreen!

My feet are still swelling from going from white to beet two days afterward...

district 9 is an awesome movie very complex with a great focus on the main character's character above all else...(I was rather impressed by his freindly exterior but harder underlying personality, slightly creepy too)special effects of course were very well done especially for the way it was shot... wish they could of done something a bit better with the ending though...kind of inconclusive... the whole thing raises interesting questions not really about racism but about how everything changes when something alien is introduced... especially something that is a burden and even potentially dangerous... it gives a whole new aspect to it as a good movie should...  

It's the dog days of august....

And I haven't even gotten in a pool this year... that has to be a bad sign...

Un-Lock

unlocked by ~freakdearts on deviantART

it's about time! been sitting on this for almost a month now. It's just the first page of my fourth peice in the XN... I don't really like the second so I'm not gonna post it

This was super rushed I only had like a week to finish it all because of the wacom contest... and yet I still obsessed over the colors...

stupid comic sans...

contests... contests...

you all know I do need money for the FDTP and since it worked so well LAST time... I entered another DA contest with a large some of money for a prize... along with a WACOM 4 tablet... at least that was the first one... yes I have no idea why I did it but I didn't win this one either (of course) not even semi finalist but I do like the entry immensely... some of my finest romantic work imo...

The Idea was to create a poster for the film "paper heart" which answered the question: what does love mean to me...


And Love by ~freakdearts on deviantART

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay, love isn't love til you give it away...

this was so much fun to do I think I actually learned something from it... that my art just needs a bit more definition...because it just looks so much better with a big ass art neauvou outline!

oh, and I used[link] from

EDIT: changed the words to hopefully read clearer...


oh and umm yes the second contest I entered was one celebrating the sites ninth birthday... as I write this, the winners have not been decided so I'm not saying anything about that yet... But I will say that it was a challenge because we were given a template of random overlapping lines and shapes which was to be colored in with a paint bucket tool... in an infinite number of combinations... I played around with it filling stuff in with black at random till I came up with their mascot Fella...[link] and the little speach beneath it...but I think it might be interesting to note that I did find a crouching ninja as well, but that was not to be... anyway, wish me luck!



PARTY LIKE A ROCKSTA- by ~freakdearts on deviantART
Going with a more PARTAY theme with this one...


and HEEERE'S FELLA by ~freakdearts on deviantART


Happy Birthday DA!!!

As much as I may try to hide it I am a deviant... despite how begrudgingly I admit that I am a member of that site I cannot deny that I have gained a great deal from it's vast and sometimes embarrassing bulk... I've learned practically everything I know about digital art from the tutorials there and much of the inspiration and influence of my style has come from it too... I don't think I would be the artist I am today with out it... and so what better way to spend her 9th birthday than by showing my love and loyalty with an adapted portrait of their illustrious mascot FELLA?!!

kind of gives a new dimension to the term of cel shading

cheers mates!

(LOOOPY FIST!!!)

-The Revig

what is up?

The opposite of down?

sorry for the lack of updates... I seem to have gotten lost on the path of life...

well, it seems like I've finally gone out and found myself another anime to watch... Naruto, BELIEVE IT!!!

although it was a little difficult to get into at first I have to say that I'm really seeing why it's so popular... it's totally hilarious and awesome and thoroughly enthralling... what I really like about it is that it's so focused on character... you can really see the way that each character grows and progresses throughout, it's not just about the action although that's incredibly cool, but it's about the problems and challenges that each person faces and how they overcome them...you are there with them sharing their experiences and emotions, it gets you involved...and the comedy is just so foolish it's priceless... like seriously I laughed myself to tears this one episode,but I think that it's mostly based on the relationships between different characters and how they interact and react, plus the characters themselves are pretty humorous too...

the only problem that I think I have with it is the pacing... it takes forever to finish a story line... like seriously a single fight could take three whole episodes... that's an hour! I can quite literally watch it and work on something in the next window, because it's usually a monologue or flashback or just changing viewpoints... but I guess that's what makes it so easy to watch and so addicting it always keeps you guessing... like seriously there will be this huge important long sequence and poof! jutsu smoke and then end of the episode and you're just like... WHA...

sigh looks like I've also found another game to sap my time with... this one an nifty little rpg, one which I discovered while I was in mexico at the fresh age of 12... and I just found out that it's one of the earliest ones made by square enix(or squaresoft back then) no wonder I was so drawn to it. I Wonder how long it will last this time...

I think I'm coming down with an aircon cold... but I will try to post my recent artistic capers tomorrow at least...

cheers!


-The Revig

The Glitch playlist system tutorial

It has come to my attention that the playlist system on The Glitch is sorely lacking in the area of explanation... I've managed to figure it out... after much deliberation and frustration, so as to save you all the trouble I will post this short and hopefully simple tutorial on it...


It's actually quite simple... once you find the song you want click the + symbol in the corner up there(you may notice that "add 2 mystation" will flash next to "rate this song") then click on "my stations" and in the pop up window, type in the name of your new station in the type box under the middle panel then click "new" to create your new station. Select that and click on your song in the left panel and click "add to playlist"; from there it's pretty self explanatory... your new station will show up on the station list with the defaults to be used for whatever you wish!

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-The Revig

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music leave me breatheless and bare...

LuLu-Revamped

Lulu--Revamped by ~freakdearts on deviantART

Lulu from FFx-2 in real clothes(finally)

this is an illustration-fanart for my girlfriends fan fic "Love in Pain" I know you're used to seeing her in her traditional costume but... since the story is in a modern highschool setting(don't look at ME) I was requested to redo the costumes though still paying homage to the originals... after all would you go to school in something like that?

I don't think the pants work too well with the rest of the outfit now that I look at it... maybe leggings would have been a better choice...

lulu (c) square enix...and tetsuya nomura

Baralai-revamped

Baralai--Revamped by ~freakdearts on deviantART

Baralai from FFx-2 in real clothes

his style was requested to be "ghetto"(fail) with stoner eyes which I don't think I did too well... of course by the time I that I finally got around to finishing this the paper that was under them was pretty mucked up...finding the refs for him was hard enough... onion head!

many thanks to this:[link] by ~Baralai-Lovers

Baralai(c) to sqaure enix... and tetsuya nomura

On the team

On The Team by ~freakdearts on deviantART

my third piece in the XN! finally I can post it...

In sports I don't really think that any one position is more important than the other all are just as needed...after all, where would a striker be without his midfield? (myself, I'm more of a support player) I really wanted to show that everyone on the team is a winner regardless of whether or not they shot the last goal

I could of done a different sport since soccer wasn't exactly specified, I even seriously considered american foot ball, but I chose this one because its international, team intense, and also one of my favorites to play... not to mention it's not every day that you get to draw a bicycle kick... (even if it is slightly incorrect) the action shots were rather a challenge to keep coherent as well...

the trophy is the final one they went with... not exactly my favorite but it's clearer... although it's a trophy, isn't it all supposed to be symbolic? or at least impressionistic

I rather liked working in greyscale... don't have to worry about color and you can focus more on shade and light... although it does look a little boring... sigh

drawn on half a sketchbook page then inked and shaded in photoshop

Elements--Air

finally it is finished! I'm sorry for letting it take so long...


Elementals--Air by ~freakdearts on deviantART

finally this series is up... it's taken me through many different stages of my art and I've learned alot through it, light and shade shape and line... but I think this one is my favorite... of course I am an air sign so I ended with it so it would be the best... I'm really happy with the way it came out and the ease that it was accomplished with.

there were certain things that I wanted to keep consistent throughout this series... one was the size and portion of the faces, another including the hands of each element in the picture so as to give it a certain interest, another was their eyes, I used the same basic technique on them throughout, and their facepaint... the guys on their cheeks and the girls on their eyes... oh and the borders with their little graphics...I did these so as to make them all similar and connected despite the progression of my skills of my skills... so that they would at least look related... still I might redo this eventually... especially the fire one i cringe when I see it still

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Water:[link]

Earth:[link]

Fire:[link]



-The Revig

memage

its time for... FAMILY FUN!!! (dududududadadadaadududaduuuuh!)

no really I want to know more about whoever it is that reads my blog... I know you do... all those hits down at my clustrmap aren't me checking to see if I have any hits... so yeah:

this is a little something from deviant art that I got from mikou if you want to know what it means by watch it means that you basically follow someone... as in you get updates whenever they post new art... sometimes it's rather annoying really...

"YOU WATCH ME. I want to know 28 things about you. I don't care if we've never talked, never really clicked, or if we already know everything about each other. Let me know with whom I'm friends with!"

1. Your Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favourite Film:
5. Favourite Song or Album:
6. Favourite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. boxers or briefs?:
10. What's your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favourite memory of us?
14. What is your favourite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarkey) - what are they?
17. Can we get together and make a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I'm a good person?
21. What was your best/favourite subject at school?
22. Describe your accent:
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Trousers or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together?
28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?
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you don't really have to do this if you seriously don't want to... but I'm just slightly curious...

Have fun !

-The Revig

tryptich

triptych by ~freakdearts on deviantART

portraits of my characters that I drew in the front of my little sketch book as a sort of conversation piece and opener... I wanted to get a sort of engraving look with the two toned backround... but I think I failed with the high contrast highlights... ah well...they're pretty...

chap on the left's name is Hale starherder. Half elf from my book which is indefinitely on hold... research purposes... what's he's holding in his hands and staring at (if you can tell) is a very special crystal the properties and purpose of which I will not discuss here... the little creature on the statuary is a physige a cat sized gryphon thing... although mostly cat...

chap in the middle's name is Magelyke... but just mage for short... he's a half dragon experiment gone somewhat wrong in the head...ptsd in the end... but lets just say that he's amnesic and already hates himself... I use him as a sort of channel for all my negative energies... for those times when I'm feeling particularly down or emotional...

And the fellow on the right there is Zane simply... he's the main soloist in my music comic 'The Room' that is in the works... hopefully not pipeworks... he was the first I did in this series for no apparent reason... he's a bit of an escape artist if that gives any hints...

I really like the little monogram graphic that I cooked up... it's my initials: Ben Revig... or at least my pen name's

Waiting Bear for Mikka

Waiting Bear-- For Mikka by ~freakdearts on deviantART

white sails are born on the wind...

my little fantasy bear for Mikka...[link] journey on warrior teddy...

Done with cheap colored pencils to see if I could actually do something with them... the paper is just in my sketch book, rather curled now... oh and I used a bit of detailz facepaint for the foam and highlights... probably won't stay that way...



why can't I do anything simple?

Miscellaneous Art Dump

before we start this exposition there's something important that needs to be said...

my niece Gabrielle is back! AAUGGHH!!!

well it's actually not that bad... I've only got her for the morning until three and then joy has her for the rest of the day... still she does have a nice tendency to get in one's hair! don't EXPECT pictures even if I say I'll post them if I can... :D

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First we start with a portrait of my dad

Gandalf with Glasses--My Dad by ~freakdearts on deviantART

this is a bit of an informal tribute/gift that I did for his sixtieth birthday last month... it was difficult because I knew that he would be a bit nervous about sitting for me and so I had to steal little snapshot sketches throughout the day and composite them into something like this...

I chose to portray him as a sort of Gandalf, because he is a great lover of the books and because my first introduction to them (beyond the movies) was when he would read them to us before we went to bed... I remember that I would almost always fall asleep to his low droning voice and so it was only appropriate that I did something like this... also I kind of liek to think of him in that way and I'm sure he sort of does to...

no his beard is not that long in fact he doesn't have much of a beard at all and I know that gandalf doesn't wear glasses but my dad wouldn't be my dad without them and neither would gandalf be himself with out his beard, so I think that justifies my splicing! beyond the fact that it is his sixtieth birthday!

still don't think I got the hat right... my mother said that he could work as either a pirate or santa claus... but I'm tired of fiddling with it and I need to give it to him...

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unlocked--xn teaser by ~freakdearts on deviantART

a teaser panel from my fourth piece of work for the xn this one consists of two pages, but I think I'll only post one cause I'm not too sure I like the other one...

this one was a pain... so many paths and details, I went too far on the chest... it wasn't easy to color in the time I had after the lineart was done... which was like a week... but I managed...

I especially like the little crystal up in the right corner and the ring in the left, though...

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Elementals--Air--WIP by ~freakdearts on deviantART

quite a likable fellow really...

well I figured I should break the suspense on the development of this one... I have not been able to work on it in a while due to various other constraints on my time and attention but such as it is here is a preview of it... I may take it up again with the break but my bear needs completion before the twentieth... colored pencils are nice...

it's still quite messy and irregular but were getting there...

what I like about this type of shading is that you don't have to worry about gradients you can just block it in and that's final! no more mucking about with the eye dropper tool and opacity... maybe I should do my comics like this...

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Nathalie called me on saturday for my birthday... we couldn't really talk for long cause I had to head out to do a spiderman party, but it was nice to know I am loved... I really have to write that woman there is much we have to talk about...


I hate chemistry! and here I was thinking I was done with math!!!


-The Revig

Annual Musings.... no. 18 to be precise

It is with slight reluctance and regret that I stand on the threshold of my adulthood(in other words I'm turning eighteen, and I'm not so sure if it's such a great career move)

regret not really because my years of sentient adolescence were bad, but that they weren't... better. Doubtless I have learned everything I must from them and I do not begrudge that, but they most certainly could of been I am sure. Certainly more eventful and less tedious and with a bit more adventure in them (perhaps concerning a parallel world) than that of simply getting daily out of bed. But being the time stamping being I am I can not do anything about it nor change the fact that they were just normal years... well lived though they may have seemed at the time...

Reluctance one could say because I don't really think that it's a good idea to go about thrusting myself upon society at large, nor does prying myself from the cushioned stupor of adolescence look very gratifying either. But life as we all (should) know doesn't care about what I think(nor any one else for that matter) and I'm sure eventually I will be able to accept the fact that it plods along like a great clockwork elephant. and I will be dragged through the last second of the tenth of june(or have been by the time you're reading this) and will most exasperatingly be eighteen

sad... but true...

Still there is a sort of thrill to be found sitting on the precipice dangling my toes(or having dropt off of it) the future and all it's dim possiblilties stretching out before me like a sheet of endless paper... Lord knows That I am good with paper...
Still I rather like sitting here with the future, almost expectant, not quite because that would only spoil the small peace to be found in it( or lost really depending on when you're reading this)

so much blank space... So much Silence to break... The future is so nice bright and clean... what will we do with it?

So, I'll slit my gills and face full stream
Lest I be found to dance with the jellyfish queen...

-The Revig

Because you shouldn't fence at night...

or you're gonna hurt the gymnasts




Anyway enjoy my mindless video spamming... but I stumbled apon this jewel and I couldn't help but post it for its... ultimate cringe factor!

And really why do they play football inside? I've always wondered...

enjoy!

(spin around ninjas...)

-The Revig

paintballed

the brief:

I got shot a total of 7 times although four of them were in a single game and hit two people for all my trouble... although I think that all the times I kept someone under cover could be counted as assists... not too bad a beating this time: only two major welts the size of quarters as compared to last time's four... I think that I might have done better if I had been a bit bolder and daring... pretty much the way I survive is a considerable amount of talent at keeping my head down... of course this limits my offensive abilities and lets the other person shoot his own terms so to speak... I think that next time I won't so worried about saving my own neck and in sted be worried about cutting the other guy's, or something to that effect...

I like to anime run!

-the Revig

choices final

heheh I crammed in like hell last night to submit it perfectly in time...


choices by ~freakdearts on deviantART

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we each hold a nature of good and a nature of evil within ourselves... they each influence our way of thinking, of seeing, of acting... we may hear them both but the only thing that matters is which we listen to... for it holds our doom...

I used this more symmetrical format in order to stress the fact that we are each a free moral agent and that each side-so to speak-is striving to get our attention in order to influence our lives and choices, not because one is better than the other necessarily... the sword and circle above symbolizes doom as in fate (not necessarily death) and eternity as it is usually the smallest choices that have the farthest reaching repercussions which we cannot change...
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I hated this piece while painting it...I just couldn't see it forming right, and seriously wished that I had chosen something less complex... I was quite stressed about it...but then I stopped worrying and started trusting god... about the picture, about the whole contest... I prayed and then it just clicked... and why not? after all he was the one who gave me the inspiration in the first place... so isn't it only right that he finish what he started? sometime during the auras it happened and I had the peace that the image was coming together and it would all work out fine... and it did... I don't really care too much if I win or not(okay, well maybe a little bit) but what was important to me beyond the act of creation... was the way that heaven came through for me when I needed it, and that is something that I will never forget... and may be worth more than any prize...

XN teaser

allow me to whet your appetite with this


The Final Goal by ~freakdearts on deviantART

this is a teaser for my third piece in the XN mag... the theme of the page is teamwork... and this final triumphant shot is to show that everyone on the team is a winner regardless of whether or not they shot the last goal because hey where would a striker be without his midfield?

this won't be the final one, since it too cluttered and not "clear" (it's a trophy obviously what more or less should there be?) but I liked it with all the flowey lines on it... there's always something that i need to change when I work with these people...

the contest piece!

My apologies with my recent lack of updates I have been... detained by other diversions. Maybe this time I can follow through and actually post something of merit, but for the time being please accept these fruits of my absence


choices--pencils by ~freakdearts on deviantART


choices--inks by ~freakdearts on deviantART

we each hold a nature of good and a nature of evil within ourselves... they each influence our way of thinking, of seeing, of acting... we may hear them both but the only thing that matters is which we listen to... for it holds our doom...

I used this more symmetrical format in order to stress the fact that we are each a free moral agent and that each side-so to speak-is striving to get our attention in order to influence our lives and choices, not because one is better than the other necessarily... the sword above symbolizes doom as in fate (not necessarily death) as it is usually the smallest choices that have the farthest reaching repercussions...

only one week left! perhaps I'll just have to forgo the promised newsflash... or perhaps not

HOOOOLd that thooought...


-The Revig

the other me...

well... I did say that I would post pictures no?


Yes, well Lord knows I haven't been keeping my face so studiously lately...


*blue steel* XD




And of course I couldn't pass up the opportunity to mutilate my features further :D the F is for Freakdearts btw...

I don't really regret it now that I realize it it is much more comfortable and dynamic... also so much more efficient... still I can't help feeling slightly sentimental [link]...

By Candle's Light

And you all thought that all I was good for were a few lines of emo rhyme...

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By Candle's Light

This sea of darkness presses

All about my candle dear

Light and warm in its essence

And its death my deepest fear

How can I make it always burn?

What is that on the edge of night?

It is a fellow traveler

But her taper is not dimly bright

Now I see what must be done

She has no light to go by

Candle outstretched, closer she comes

Wick to wick the flame unites

She blinks and smiles at me

And we give a Japanese nod

For already she can see

The next one to pass it on

The darkness about cringes

At this flickering dawn

It tries to press the fringes

But we still hurry along

Another light joins our twane

Leaping almost between them

Such joy on a lightened face

Who’s eyes before were so darkened

Now black fingers draw inward

The light meaning to drown

But they are pulled back, burned

As we reach a darkling crowd

Rushing to meet the first mark

To touch the long flameless wicks

A cheer rises from the dark

As my gaze is transfixed

For one by one the fire is spread

Like a river streaming of flame

And a joy to my heart this sight sends

For my small light became night’s bane

And as if in answer to this

Threat of light made blinding bright

The shadow writhes wraithlike hiss

As rising draco shrikes dreadful night.

But strong is the light to resist

An army, with swords of flame

Burning away the inky mists

A luminous will to darkness maim

From the fielded burning stars

Forth comes a swirl of power

A pulsing spiral, spreading bars

Forms a nimbus rising tower

The greasy dark spreads to cover

Nearly winking out the points

As the luminous mass hovers

And forms a ball, a focused point

But when shadow seems to triumph

To gloat in victory perceived

The light suspended erupts

And expands floods blindingly

The void fills with the violent rays

Bursting spreading forming anew

Forms dire, fierce, angelic, fey

They rend the darkness, breaking through

It screams, a thousand wailing keens

Of greed-filled hopes betrayed,

And there is no trace to keep

Luminous flights drive it away

And there revealed to us bearers,

Of the flickering birth stars,

Lies the land we did wander

But with no darkness that mars

A new life has been given to us

The people about me do laugh and sing

And my soul is flood with happiness

They walk in the grass sit ‘neath trees they can now see

And I plant in the earth the thing that was

The start and source of all this

And there upon the hilltop

Where we fought the dark

Stand the candles that we held

Somehow they hardened and meld

And together flowed to form a blazing torch

A reminder to the new world

And a light against the dark

and lest we forget

the meaning meant

a candle alone can hold the dark at bay

but it's light must spread to break the day

-The Revig

ASDF

asdf... yeah that's pretty much what's been going on in my head lately... and my fingers...for some reason I've been taking typing for school. I've pretty much ascertained that I suck... no really I know you can't tell but my wpm is like 25... and that's counting symbol keys... of course I've been at it for only a week but still... I'm fine with lower case it's the capitols number and symbols that are getting to me... I mean it is incredible frustrating to type # instead of +... savy? sigh I guess I shouldn't expect too much of myself starting out...

I think I might post an epic of sorts that I had for a school assignment... I just need to go over it for one final time... but to whet your appitite it constitutes of a vision of sorts I had while listening to "anthem" by shuns cheap music :D with candles and swirly stuff :D... what? if you listen to it you'll understand it just has that "whooosh with me" feeling to it... still it made me cry really when I first saw it, it was so beautiful...sigh ;D no really, I like saw it like a movie on my eyelids... very vivid... it would make a great animation if I was an animator...

comics are coming along... I got the sports one back for finalization, and just barely finished the meditation sketch before the deadline... sigh and I was so hoping to get something more 'epic'...

oh, and I've decided to enter the "Bring Your Vision to Life" contest hosted by wacom on deviantart! yeah, yeah I know I probably haven't got much of a shot at that intous 4 tablet considering the talent that that site chock full... but I can dream right? I mean I've got at least three chances of getting one... and if I don't get nothing then at least I created a great image no? it's great theme... good against evil... lord know I've got something to say about it...something not too subtle ;)

wish me luck

-The Revig...

IM ON A BOAT!

heh, it's been a while since I resorted to putting up a video post...



this is just brilliant... it would be quite rapturous without being a parody but then again, it makes even more surreal all the same... I especially like t-pains... tasteful backups :D

oh and forgive the erm... language

I'm on a boat!!!

-The Revig

p.s. pray for my wrist... it's being a pain...

Blind Faith

Blind Faith by ~freakdearts on deviantART

this is the second piece I have done for the XN magazine... this to demonstrate my "comic" technique... I must say I'm rather fond of it... this being the first time in a very long time that I have, well... drawn Jesus I think I did the subject justice....

in the mag there are keys they are stepping on, but I think I like it better this way... it has a slightly more er, subtle effect to it...

I'm also working on more "comic" pieces... keep an eye out for them cause I just sent one in for sketch review and the next I still have to hear from the lord about... but I can tell you that one has the theme of teamwork, and the other has the theme of meditation... pray that I'll be inspired:D

-The Revig

Elements--Air

Elementals--Air--lineart by ~freakdearts on deviantART

line art to the fourth and final elemental: air


that's smoke, or rather an interpretation of air, flowing through his overly large hands (I had to show it some how, no?)

EDIT: erm... colored this here: [link] and then raped it here:[link] I suppose that's what a creative-commons license is supposed to be for, right?.. thanks snakey ;D

-The Revig

unlimited access

unlimited access by ~freakdearts on deviantART

Yes yes yes... you've all seen it I'm sure... but did you get it? That's perhaps the most important thing...I think I just want to clarify here that the basic concept the lord gave me is of the girl using the key to open the door and start the ship to blast off...the ship is supposed to be a cargo ship as in "supply"... just in case any of you were wondering...

incidently this is the first pic I've done with a completely digital lineart... I'm rather happy with it... though her suit needs more blue...It is also my first piece of sci-fi so I think we started out alright, no?
at the very lest it's 'flashy'

:D

-The Revig

I Believe In Hell--redux

I completely forgot about this...


I Believe In Hell--redux by ~freakdearts on deviantART

I Believe in Hell [link]
by G.M.P.Mizrany

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It's the way each day always drains the best in me,
Knowing this is all my destiny.
It's the way each thing I do turns to a bad bet,
Knowing there's more & this is all I get.
It's the way I live for my coffee & they never can make it right,
The way I hear myself crying at night, that

refrain:
I believe in hell. There's one scare I'm sure on.
Don't ask how I can tell, I live there, you moron.
So I believe in hell, & all it's fiends.
At least it means,
Just like the Bible tells, God let'ere be,
There'd better be,
A heaven somewhere as well!

I believe in hell we'll go on living in our private padded cell,
I bet the coffee sucks down there as well.
I believe hell's made of darkness & love's the only key.
Will there be a light that shines for me?
I believe I can't be good enough to ever make it off my knees,
Oh, God forgive me please!

---

look familiar?... I was always meaning to redo this one for some time and so I took the chance when it came up to revamp it in my current style...

it was interesting going back and seeing how I had done things and trying to bring back up the feelings and emotions while making this in order to put them back in... of course the music helped but it just went to show me how much my attitudes and perspectives on art- and not just my skills bending it- have changed since I first finished this piece...

I felt very limited by the line art and it was kind of hard to feel out the forms with it, the colors too were difficult to place (just how does one go about painting black without actually using black), but I kept the background as that is my favorite texture work I've ever wrought... *shivers*

no she does not come from hell... nor does she favor it... she is simply not ignorant of it...

textures and stock(door):

wings are from somewhere I can't find...

Compare:[link]

-The Revig

David getting married

I KNOW, RIGHT? My brother... David... married?

I must admit though as unexpected as that news was I wasn't expecting half as much as my response to it... it made me, well... happy... blissfully happy, and proud of you David... it seems that finally one of us Borst Boys is going to be tying the knot at long last...But did you ever stop to think of what it would mean for me!? I mean come on look at what I have to live up to! finished highschool overseas misionary, FD disciple, Home Moniter and now loving husband!... how am I supposed to do all that when the first is hard enough for me at the moment...I can just hear mom comparing me to you...*pant pant* but despite all that, seriously... I congratulate you bro and hope the best for you and yours... even if I may or may not have the slightest intention of turning out anything like you :D

oh ummm.... and at your honey moon... act "surprised" :D

-The Revig

P.S. do you like my new banner? the old one was well, getting old...so I switched it out for a sketch I did from my elementals...

Lalaland--Teaser#4

just a little something from that infernal short story...

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"I guess the best way to explain is to start at the beginning; then you might see what I am and what it is I must do. Let me tell you a story:

"There once was a boy who loved to draw. He loved it so much that he drew himself a world on paper; surrounding himself with it. This world came to life to him within the pages of his sketch book. Many things he placed within it; there was light then and it filled all the drawings in channeled brilliancy, and there was shade too, but no darkness... no, that doesn’t come until later. and then he drew a door, a door that would change his world forever.

"No one knows how it happened but this door opened and he entered his world. The first to greet him were two emissary of light: an elven Lord and Lady. They were the first he had drawn in the book. They told him that they had been sent to guide him in his reign and to show him how to use rightly this gift that he had been given. And so under their tutelage and wisdom he ruled his world with a benevolent hand. Each of his creations had their own existence and spoke and thought and felt just like me and you. Our boy tried his best and though he may have made a few mistakes the ‘people’ loved and respected him because it was through him that they had been brought into existence. Times were good then… too good

"Then one fateful day an emissary of darkness was found and brought before the Boy. The ambassador stood before him in all its menace black and hateful and it made him an offer. The darkness would give him great power and might in return for the book that had formed this world. Naturally the boy refused and had the emissary destroyed. But by then it was too late. For the darkness had cast a spell over him. He was obsessed with it from his first taste and he ceased to heed the counsel of the light. The seeds had been planted and he locked himself in his chambers unable to rid himself of the image of the emissary’s dark form. It haunted him,” at this point he hesitated, something bothered him like he hadn’t made his piece, then he went on.

“That night the darkness came. It was strong and terrible and it tried to take the book by force, but the boy resisted it. It tried to take his life but at the moment before it could the lady of light appeared and sacrificing herself, saved the boy by weakening the darkness greatly. But again it grew. The lord stood and fought it giving the boy time to run. But when he too fell the darkness pursued the boy taking hold of everything that he had held dear and turning it against him. But no matter how much it took it could never find him.

“The land was changed. Where once had been peaceful vales and streams now were only ashes and mud for in its passing the darkness took all life from these and twisted them. And the book? The book was lost… the boy accidently dropped it in a pool in his haste, but though the darkness drained it, it was never found… until now.

“For you see Fay, I am ‘WM,’ or rather Wren Melbourne, and that is my sketchbook, and this terrible thing is happening to my world...”
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dum da dum da! I still do intend to finish this...

-The Revig

nothing of any grave importance

I'm sick and tired of playing in the dirt... no really for the last two days I've been shoveling out asparagus beds and planting them for my mother... they each had to be a foot deep and foot wide there's three of them that run twelve feet each...on the second day it started to rain and be very cold...and with our dirt it means it gets rather clumpy and sticks to your shoes and hands like a second pair of boots... then, I also had to pile up the dirt and lay the asparagus roots over the mounds that have to be exactly a foot apart and cover them entirely back up again... I used my hands cause the shovel didn't fit in the trenches... I know this isn't really that much but try doing it in the clammy cold and mud and then talk to me... I actually have no idea why I'm ranting about my gardening in such detail... I really do love green growing things... I just don't like having to dig the holes to plant them :D so yeah I'm pretty hateful of my shovel now...

been working on essays for my school... need to finish ten so I can get credit... it's good practice I guess... I'm pretty stuck with this one I need to do on Nathaniel Hawthorne... ausome writer, just really boring life... although it may be interesting to note that when he was sixteen, while away at boarding school, he sent his family seven issues of a hand written newspaper containing news poems and essays entitled the spectator such a thing could be comparable to a blog no?

oh, and in other, minor news... I CUT MY HAIR!!! AGHH!!! will post pics as soon as they are taken... if I can get the time...

sing a dirge for my hair brush for I've thrown it away
singing out of the rain

-The Revig