Happy Birthday/Merry Christmas, Nathalie

and many happy returns of the days

may I present to you a peice that has been many months in the making (MANY. I started this for your birthday... in july) and the poem that originally inspired it (and nothing screams "BLUE!!!" quite like it)

The Bird and The Fish

You, a bird, fly high and free;
A fish, I see things differently.
Your world below a speck becomes;
My world and I embrace as one

Perhaps we'll not see eye to eye,
Since fishies swim and birdies fly.
Emotions, to you, brief gusts of wind,
To me, warm currents without end.

Much as I sore wish for wings
To revel in your airy flings,
A fish with fins I'm apt to stay
And with the other fishes play.

Yet friends perhaps still we can be;
You dive, I leap…momentarily.
And kiss the space that's left between
As you and I see worlds unseen.

Till when, some day up in the sky
In the legendary "by and by"
With wings and fins all placed aside
We'll meld as one by Jesus' side.
--Kiana Flame

Loving you!

-the Revig

MERRY BIRTHDAY, JESUS!!!

IT'S ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!

umm oh wow this is akward so umm... lets see... why haven't I done this sooner well lets get around to that hopefully I will be breif you can never tell with me...( my ws post is still in storage) okay so sorry for the extra week in delay I can't really say it was my fault... you see we have a large freezer here which for some reason got left ajar all night long and so seeing as we weren't having the lovely cold weather we're having now, it all thawed out... and who do you think took the blame? yup that's right yours truly, seeing as I was the only one at home the day before which was monday(and incidently free day... which I spent watching gabrielle...my neice... but more on that later) so yeah... for such I was suspended from all computer usage even school for the following week... and put on call to my mother's wishes... but as far as I can tell that's not the only reason...apparently my faithfulness wasn't doing so well so this apparent slip off on my part was the catalist, the crisis point, the climax, or what have you of this detrimental trend so I had it coming you could say... either way it wasn't so bad... the Lord showed me that the lessons I am learning will probably far more important to me than any I could learn in any text...

So that's one reason why you've had to wait so long... there are more but suffice to say they all stem from pure old laziness to do so over which the Lord has shown me I need to get the victory over... though it also stand to reason that my inability to sit down and type anything sensible of my own derision... a sort of correspondence block/slash brain freeze... may have had a hand in it... please don't give up on me, though as I am trying to change my ways and break out of it...

In other news I can hardly wait for my sister to come and take her daughter back!!! it'll be one of my best christmas presents yet :D

yep she's a pistol!

despite the obvious set back school's been coming along nicely... though still having trouble juggling it and my neice... sigh... two months to complete tenth! Lord give me the grace and focus for it...please pray that I'll be able to get it done in time...

Well I guess the public has decided for me... I shall not cut my hair... yet!... come now you can't really expect me to keep it like this forever, not to mention if it's required to become one or the Lord asks it of me I must be flexible... I do have obligations you know... besides I'm over due for a trim...

Birdefish is coming along nicely! trying to finish the sea though that's not the least of my troubles... there's still the sky and the water... I don't know what it is but I've been obsessed with water... I've already gotten five pictures with it central which I've had to stretch to get it right in at least some area... I guess it fascinates me in a way... I always liked swimming and after all I am the "Water Phantom" :D...

holiday commishes are stacking up if that wasn't enough to add to it all...

chaio(?)

-The Revig

sorry!

for leaving you here with garrits work... but I really haven't had anytime to get on the computer and write any thing sensible or of my own derision... the reason mainly being I've been to busy to...

and it is with the most deepest regret that I shall have to inform you that i have been forbidden from computer use for the next week... sorry to make you wait another week for content but there you have it... details and reasons why cannot be posted here as there is no time to type them now... but when it does allow you shall have them though I do have something written out I just need to type it up... savy?

My most sincerest apologies. I love and thank you all, though don't desert me yet!


-The Revig

society's misfits by `garrit - Even when the blood is at our feet we keep on walking. This shot is everything wrong with society, when we care more about the road ahead then our fellow man slumped to the side. This feature is a call to all to help your fellow man should they be in need, because walking right by won't make you feel any better. (Featured by ^Obsidian-Fox)

Note: I found this pic while browsing deviantart... something I do now sparingly and not as heavily as before... the lord told me to keep it down to a visit a week... but either way the photographers comments say more than I ever could... full veiw of course, (because it's considered polite in that society)... their might be a poem written for this... who knows...


-The Revig

nude

a while back Sam (of when carrots wear jackets, of nude productions. indeed, The Sam Fuller) asked me to do a logo thingy or something for him... I think it has to do his website... anyway he asked for a nude holding a mixer wearing headphones... so thats what he got...





I don't really like the text... might change it at sams request :D if I can find one that he likes...


and the figures in bird and fish are painted now all I need is the background...



-The Revig

P.S. the headphones are on backwards... :D

Mirror

I cannot touch again
what was once
so near
All I feel when I reach
is a mirror of my fear

Did I erect this defamy?
it's reflection is mine indeed
but changed it seems
an image of the nothing
I am become to be

A wraith faithless, finite
Fading
already it is blowing away
and all that remains
is the light of your face
as in my quavering hand
a hammer you place...

The Room part one

last year I had an epiphany of sorts that I'm sure was brought on by my listening insistenly to a certain musical group whom we shall label for the time being The(the-e) Metanoya. Around this time back then as I was listening to this particular song I was struck with a sudden inspiration. I would do a comic to "The Room." a sort of music video only in a comic form, it would of course be only a few pages long and inked and obviously I would have to take some considerable artistic liberty, but I think it would be a worthwhile endevour since everyone's been bugging me to try something like it.


Now, one may ask "How would you accomplish such a feat? isn't a music video about the music? how can you convey something like that in a medium that is essentially silent?" to which I would, of course, reply"We use our imagination!"(I'm sure I left it around here somewhere...) I would simply use only the lyrics instead of any real dialogue so as not to prevent any mix up of characterization since I suck at dialogue (is a fact). What I am trying to acheive here is something where the images would coincide with the sounds and what you might be feeling listening to this song. Of course this would mean that I'd have to match the rythm and flow to that of the song which isn't something I've got alot of experience in... but lord willing with his help I'll be able to get the hang of it... eventually....


"The Room" is a classic storytelling song from which I'm sure countless skits and such have been done from, not to mention it has all the elements to make it work... dialogue, a somewhat hazy plot, and with the help of The Metanoya, atmosphere. all of which are what make a good comic strip of any length... which gives me much more to work with than most other songs... basically it's alot more literal than them. Sooo mix in a bit of creativity, prayer, inspiration and a lot of hard work and hey! presto! you have a comic stripp! or something around those lines...



-The Revig

P.S. sorry for the silence I've just gotten off a punishment :D

Belly button

There's a time to be silly, and theres a time to be serious. A time to open up your heart and show how you feel... artisticly!   Because we all have something to share



amuse yourselves while I replot my revenge on procrastination...

some more...

and here's some more for your contemplation...

Virus--Quicksand

This peice is kind of an illustration of what I'm going through now... I would really rather not talk about it much as it disturbs me greatly still... I suppose that the best way I could describe it is as a virus thats turning me into something that I don't want to become but I can't escape it no matter what... either way it's not quite finished... Ill add some text... and I'm thinking of changing the eyepiece to something more.. engaging... and giving him some sort of fire arm... a tommy gun maybe... also his arm needs help...

Drifting

A shipwreck

Demiseless,

I float admist the debree.

Given up

Dwimmersome,

Wandering Nightmarishly

Never Drown'd

Don't know how?

Let me sink, merciless sea

err yeah I just saw pirates of the carribean what can you expect?.. still he needs a barrel or plank of wood or something and a few ripples to make it look like he's really floating...

I might at these to the challenge list... we'll see...

oh, oh and, new scanner PTL!!! this one actually workslike it should!

it's late got to wake up early tomorrow and clear out some holes... good night!

Birthdaze

yes I'm back and will have tales to tell...

but first...


birthday gifts for two very special young ladies who shall always have me stalking them


to start off I will present you with a peice that I am working for nathalie even though I am horribly late

The Bird and The Fish (Lineart) and the WIP




as you can see it is an incredibly complicated image so even though I have made considerable progress on it it is still far from being finished, not to mention since I just got a spiffy new computer :D with vista on it, it will be a while before I can get the good ol' ps up and running again to finish it off.(which makes you wonder y I installed it in the first place)

and yet another birthday peice this one's for my pseudo-muse teeny

Flightless Angel

ha! see something that is not inspired by something you created :p. happy birthday luv may your troves of jelly beans, pirate strawberries, and a few random whales thrown in never run dry!!!

(arr)

it's only jesus

-The Revig

updates

heh sorry about the lack of posts lately...

as I've already stated I've been extremely busy not to mention I can't seem to find the time to post...

but that's not what I'm here for

I'm here to tell you all that I will be leaving either today or tommorrow on a trip to my sisters wedding in atlanta... I should be gone for the next couple of weeks, but hopefully she'll have a computer with internet there so I'll keep you posted. hopefully I won't get too drunk... but then again you never know this is after all my first wedding :D

toodaloo!


-The Revig.

I just realized something...

I haven't gotten any prophecy time in for a whole week... and I feel like shit...

Excuse me as I go and spend some time at the master's feet...




-The Revig

poetry

yes yes some more poetic ramblings of mine... getting a bit more into shape wiith rhyme... warming up to it again and all... though no doupt some free verse wouldn't hurt either...

The Tree

Branches tire,
drifting off to sleep.
Dreams for hire
prance 'bout my feet.

Each, a fairy flame
in it's repose.
Each has a name
that the others chose.

Glimmer bright,
restings on root.
sparkled bedight
out in night, loose.

Away they float,
off to find a bed;
to set their notes
round some child's head.

As they leave
-closing darkness behind-
I rest my leaves
seeking sleep inside.

-

La-la-laling

Good day to you
O, sun of a pink tennis ball
throw the petroleum jelly against the wall

String gees on a shower cap
drip your puple hearts
I can be more faucety than that

Keep your bleach
I have my own
and more than you'll know to reach

Look for me amongst the stuck fireflies
I will join them who knows
But I'll have a toothbrush they'll buy


Blast that pen!
What was I smoking again?

-

Drifting

A shipwreck
Demiseless,
I float admist the debree.

Given up
Dwimmersome,
Wandering Nightmarishly

Never Drown'd
Don't know how?
Let me sink, merciless sea.

Kathy!!! (again)

and no I'm not obsessed... she just asked for a portrait to see if I could get her face right... the piece looks much better in real life... again the same old scanner story :D

love you Kathy. you're beautiful!

-The Revig

Breathe Again

Without you I suffocate

save me from my asphyxiation

I want to breathe again...



-The Revig

Randomites!!!

cause I could of always been the same
but you stepped into my house
made it clean again
cause I could of always been the same
but you took me back
made me pure again...


heh yeah I like poa... especially this song... probably because it expresses what I've been going through myself lately...


the black and white photo's are by ambie bambie from whose blog I got this video from... which is done by joe...


sigh...


-The Revig

Oh, look a bird...

Heh, sorry world if I haven't been posting so much...

I've been super busy lately, working mostly.... school too... I have hardly anytime to get on the computer and post something...

it's weird but I'm literally an errand boy here... my mom keeps on asking me to do things right and left... and I have to do them right away just drop what I'm doing and work on it... but the funny thing is I don't mind it so much. It helps me with my humility and willingness... not to mention it's good exercise and keeps me busy, an idle mind being the devil's playground after all... or something like that... hey! I'd rather be a doorman in the house of the lord than dwell in the tents of wickedness...

-The Revig

Gypsy

here's a sketch I did from a photo of kathie during the gypsy night at wordstock for her birthday.




and as usual the scanner hates me...



heres the original



it doesn't do her justice...

Dye Daily

It's finally finished... *collapses*






Die Daily




umm... okay this obviously needs some explaining... for some strange reason it was inspired by the phrase"I killed my pride"from some random song... pride in this case sygnified by the statue of himself having come alive. so in a sense he's killing himself. therefore I made the posessed statue stabbing him but him stabbing the statue(don't ask me how it's done, but yeah that's the general idea) to illustrate that by "killing" (I hope) the statue he's killing a part of himself... or something around those lines....




gah, the texture! I painstakingly put it together on the statue, piece by peice, layer by layer... which my computer loved me for and showed it's apreciation by taking ten minutes to save the file... sigh I really should give the credit for it where it is due... but notifying the person of the usage of his texture is a leetle bit difficult since I don't have a DA account anymore and that's where I got it from...http://texturemattic.deviantart.com/ since I have to post a link to it... (his rules :D) yes I know I haven't been very good at keeping them but I will try for now on. I can't really give you the exact link to the texture since he's cleaned out his gallery... O really should stop using these if I plan to illustrate the xn... copyrighting could be a pain if I'm not careful... which is why fighter's song only uses brushes...something that I am incredibly proud of since all my work uses other peoples textures to a great extent... sigh



now that I look at this there are soo many things that I see wrong with it, but I couldn't abide looking at it any longer! come to think of it I started it in febuary when the weather was still docile and worked on it throughout... definatly the thing that made it take so long was the texturing of the statue as while almost halfway finishing it my computer decided to be turned off by a power cut performed by my dad while working on the house so I lost all my work on that and had to start all over again... which was alright I guess because by that time I had a process down and was able to streamline it a bit because usually the reason why texturizing something takes me so long is because I have no idea what I am doing and it's a process of trial and error using different textures and blending modes to see what looks best...(pant pant) all this to say... I HATE TEXTURIZING!!!


ohh lookie a signature!


incedently this peice is also for that challenge thingy:43. Dying, if you want to know... MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!


-The Revig