Chaos Theory's Miscellaneous Artwork
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Hi, all. This is mostly fantasy and science-fiction (but not GAME)-based pictures, with a few that are just pictures and don't really fit in any category. Here you will find pictures of characters from Star Trek, Discworld, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a couple of anime shows, and a few characters from my own stories. Feel free to look around but, as with all original content at this page, do not use anything here without my permission.
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"Soaring Spirit".
This lovely young Amazon warrior-woman soaring on a pegasus with her sword held proudly and defiantly in the air, is one of my very best older pictures, I think. I think having a giant moon/very close-by planet behind her really adds something to it, too.
Angharad of Llyr
You won't get who this is supposed to be if you haven't read any of the Prydain books by Lloyd Alexander, but here's my version of what Eilonwy's mother probably looked like, as a young woman. The stormy ocean and the sea-colours on her clothes symbolise the family of Llyr's ties to the sea. The tiny crescent-moon-shaped pendant around her neck is important; her daughter inherits it later and it turns out to have an important role in the series.
Angua Von Uberwald
One of my favourite Discworld characters, this lovely blonde lady City Guard (aka: cop) is a smart, sassy, tough vegetarian who normally tries her best to see that justice is done but occasionally.....she.....well...let's just say she....has a rather large secret! In the interests of not giving out spoilers I won't say. She's an awesome character so I drew her. There. That oughta be enough information for anyone.
Generic Anime Chick.
This is my first attempt at drawing "anime style", and I was TRYING to exagerrate it as much as possible, so if it looks silly, it's _supposed_ to. Still, it at least moderately stinks, and I've found nowadays that I do much better when I just draw characters from anime shows and video games in my _own_ style.
Dr. Bashir, I Presume?
Dr. Julian Bashir from Deep Space Nine, one of my favourite Star Trek characters. This black and white sketch is an oldie but a goodie, as it resembles him (or at least, resembles how he looked back during Season One of the show) rather well, if I do say so myself.
"Bevan Morwydd"
This isn't anybody in particular, it's just a young dorky druid character I made up for Discworld. I guess I was thinking about using him in the GURPS game (as a role-playing character). "Morwydd" is short for the Welsh word for mulberry tree--"morwydden"--and without the "en" on the end, probably doesn't mean much. ;) I just wanted something nature-y and Celtic in general...Bevan is an Irish name that I just liked and picked out of thin air.
"Bloduedd"
Okay, okay, so I'm STILL on the Welsh kick, bear with me here. The Prydain books had a very big influence on me, ya know. ;) Anyway, the lady above is named Bloduedd, which means "flowers" in Welsh; she's not a normal, real human woman at all, but was created out of flowers by two hero/gods in one of the stories of the Mabinogion (the famous collection of old Welsh tales--including a bit of the King Arthur stuff). Ya see, without going into details, this one dude was told that he would never, ever marry any woman of the race of man, so these two guys, who I believe were like his uncle and cousin or something, made him a woman out of flowers and breathed life into her (Pygmalion, anyone?). Hence all the flowers in her hair and especially all the ones on her dress--I'm trying to symbolise that she's sort of _forming_ out of the flower-petals right in front of us. Bloduedd starts off as a sympathetic character--something really AWFUL happens to her at the beginning of the story--but by the end, she's plotting and going to GREAT lengths to kill her husband! Like all fairy creatures in these old tales, she is fickle and changeable as the wind.
"Random Victorian Lady".
Again, another random picture. I don't know who this is supposed to be, if anybody. It's just a lady from the Victorian era or thereabouts, in England, wearing old-fashionedy clothes in the evening, standing by a streetlamp, and looking pissed off. Yeah, I don't know what's her problem, either. Anyway, there was an entire period where I drew people in different historical costumes all the time, to both improve my knowledge of drawing in general and my knowledge of history; so expect to see quite a few more pictures of people in old-fashioned dress on this site in the future.
Centauri Wedding.
This isn't anybody in particular, it's just a generic nice young Centauri couple (my favourite alien race from Babylon 5) getting married. Awwww.... There was mention on the show about how their wedding ceremonies had something to do with "passing under the swords and boughs" and that got my imagination....I didn't manage to actually DRAW that, but I put in a branch or two so give the whole thing a vaguely pagan/nature/outdoor-wedding feel. Well, at least I tried.
"Che, the Winged Centaur Foal"--NEW! (April 7, 2002).
The first winged centaur foal to be born of two _other_ winged centaurs in the land of Xanth, and supposed founder of his race, and he's also destined to do Something Really Big to all the kingdom, according to the Simurgh. Whoo! Far too much pressure to put on one little kid you ask me. I think it's time to go off and romp in the fields, if you don't mind. Seeya!
"Random Chinese Dude"--NEW! (April 7, 2002)
Basically what it sounds like. Another one of my "old-fashioned people" series.
"Random Chinese Lady"--NEW! (April 7, 2002)
Actually, I'm thinking this might be a _Japanese_ outfit, now. I didn't know any better at the time. Anyway, it's a very _pretty_ picture, whatever it is...
Cid Highwind--NEW! (April 7, 2002)
Ah, one of the Obligatory Cids that ALL Final Fantasy games must have! Heh. This one, however, Cid Highwind, probably has the most personality out of any of them. He's a burned out, lonely, gruff, foul-mouthed pilot who chains smokes and drinks all the time..._tea_, that is...and who is very bitter towards the Shinra corporation for gypping him out of his only chance to travel into space. His dream is to see the stars from among them and he will do almost anything to see that dream realised; but he's bitter and doesn't think it's bloody likely anymore. Definitely a sympathetic, interesting character.
Conina the Barbarian!
Or technically, "Conina the Barbarian Hairdresser". Another favourite character from Discworld, this is a really tough and HILARIOUSLY funny--in a deadly way--character from the fifth book in the series. She never showed up again as far as I know but she's still one of my faves. She's completely deadly with any random object that happens to get into her hands (combs...paper napkins...ribbons) and can drink twelve stout men under the table, but all this whirling dervish of death REALLY wants to be is a hairdresser.
No, really.
And she's good at it, too. Notice how nice her hair is...? Hee.
Cretan Dude--NEW! (April 7, 2002).
This dude is a warrior from the isle of Crete, from roundabouts Ancient Greek times; possibly a little _before_ the Greeks really took off. Yeah, I know he looks a little deformed, but oh well...I did draw this a long time ago.
Cretan Woman--NEW! (April 7, 2002).
Same culture, but this time a lady. The dresses that ladies wore in that culture were...uh..._interesting_...which is why I put her hair in front of her chest. Ahem. Cool outfit otherwise, though.
Jadzia Dax.
Another favourite Star Trek character, this is Jadzia Dax, Science Officer, of Deep Space Nine. This is also a black and white pencil sketch from several years ago that's still pretty good.
The Fool
Another Discworld character, this is "The Fool" from Wyrd Sisters, and I can't tell you his real name or what he ends up being later 'cos that's a bit of a spoiler. Here he is, leaning against the mantle of the castle kitchen's enourmous cooking fireplace, all alone, at night, and feeling thoroughly miserable. This was one of my more difficult pictures to draw.
Ford Prefect, Man About the Galaxy.
Ah, my favourite Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy character and one of my favourite characters EVER! Ford Prefect, roving field-reporter for the Guide, random playboy, total Betelgeusian weirdo, fashion victim and absolute SMART-arse! A truly wonderful, entertaining, _fun_ character. This picture is based partially off his description in the original book, and partially off of his appearance in the 1981 TV miniseries version (the clothes).
Hung-Hung Noon!
Oh, nobody HERE is gonna get that joke...but I don't care! Here we have Rincewind the failed "wizzard" and Twoflower, the Agatean tourist (and his homicidally psychotic travel accessory, The Luggage) encountering some huge, terrible, unspoken Thing from the Dungeon Dimensions. I think I got them pretty well in-character, pose and expression wise. "Hung-Hung Noon" is a Discworldian play off the movie title "Shanghai Noon"...see, if you know the two main characters from that movie and IF you know Rincewind and Twoflower, you'd see the personality, background, and relationship similarities between the two sets of characters. This picture is based off of the events of the first two Discworld novels, in general, but not any SPECIFIC scene.
Horatio Hornblower
Based off of the TV-movie versions of the famous old Hornblower books that have been showing on A&E;, here is my rendition of the main character. He's drawn to look like the actor who plays him, as much as I could get it (his name is Ioann Gruffudd (pronounced: "YO-ahn GRIFF-ith")) and it's not perfect in terms of resemblance, but it's still one of my better pictures as a picture. As I understand it from the original books, the "real" Hornblower wasn't meant to be anywhere near as pretty/handsome, but, hey, Ioann does a damn good acting job so we'll let that pass.
Imp y Celyn
This is Imp y Celyn (imp ee KELL-in), the main character of Soul Music, one of my favourite Discworld novels and, indeed, perhaps one of my favourite books EVER. His very beginning scene has him sitting under a tree, crying, in the rain, with his harp clutched in his hands; it sounded like a nice emotional/dramatic moment so I tried to draw it. The scribbly style ADDS to the effect, I think, but I don't know what's up with those weird lines at the edge of the paper...must've had something to do with the scanner.
Music With Rocks In!
Here's Imp again, as a ROCK star! (Yes, this actually happens later in the book.) Or, well, Music With Rocks In, as it's called on the Disc. I SAID he was one of my favourite characters. Anyway, I just had to draw him both ways. This picture is more based off of the cartoon version of this book (that's where the coloured lines of "energy" coming out of the guitar came from, for example) than the book itself, so that's why it looks like not quite the same person. But it is. More or less.
Major Kira Nerys
Yes, another Deep Space Nine character. Here we have the hard-nosed, don't-take-nothin'-from-nobody Bajoran first officer, Major Kira. An old pencil sketch from several years ago, as are the other DS9 pictures, but still, fairly good resemblance.
General Lavaeolus
Yet ANOTHER pesky Discworld character, man, they keep breeding like flies around here, don't they? (The series is, incidentally, currently TWENTY-SIX books and counting and each book is full of colourful characters; no wonder I keep drawing characters from it! There's just so much material to work with!) Anyway, this sad, miserable seeming dude whose armour doesn't even fit is the cowardly yet brilliant General Lavaeolous of the Discs's Tsortean Wars of ancient history, whose tactics and deeds DIDN'T go down in history because they weren't deadly and stupid enough. (Yeah, you heard that right.) He's also the ancestor of Rincewind...imagine him with a beard. See the resemblance?
Lilac the Pixie.
This is a picture that REALLY doesn't go anywhere but into a "Miscellaneous" section. I got bored. I drew a cute little fairy for the heck of it. Here she is. 'Nuff said.
Magrat Greets the Octarine Sunrise.
Yes, it's ANOTHER annoying Discworld character. Here we have Magrat, my personal favourite out of the witch characters, doing her New Age Hippie Earth-Mother routine and "greeting the dawn" in some kind of "ancient and beautiful pagan ritual" or some such thing. Notice the "occult jewelry" all over the place and the loose net vest, and the hippie-style broomstick skirt, and the headband...This is Magrat all over. Sappy, romantic, nature-loving, believes in elves and unicorns and the Healing Power of the Moon and all that...but...back her into a corner far enough and she'll fight like a rabid mongoose. Good ol' Magrat!
"Whole Grain Wheat and Lentils Too, in the Cauldron Seethe and Stew".
Another picture of Magrat, this one's more based off of the cartoon version of Wyrd Sisters (the first book in the series she appears in. There are cartoon versions of only two of the books--Wyrd Sisters and Soul Music.) Still, strangely, this "simpler" "cartoony" picture took just as much work, if not MORE, than the "real" style picture above it! The fancy dress alone took a LOT of time. Anyway, here she is cooking up a potion, only instead of the traditional eye of newt and toe of frog type thing, Magrat goes against tradition by substituting vegetable protein substitutes, because she is a vegetarian and firmly against cruelty to animals. The title of the link is a line from the book, where they are doing a parody version of the witches' potion scene from the play "MacBeth".
Mort and Ysabell
Yes, yet more Discworld characters. Well I TOLD you the series is 26 books long...Anyway, here we have the young Duke and Duchess of Sto Helit, Mortimer and Ysabell. Mort's black clothes, omega clasp on his cloak and especially you may have noticed the scythe--come from the fact that he is Death's apprentice. Yes. He's the substitute Death, if Death decides he wants to go down to the mortal world for a nice curry and a game or two of pool. Don't ask. Discworld is just....TOO hard to explain here.
Mousse, Master of Hidden Weapons
Here is my favourite character from the anime series "Ranma 1/2" and possibly one of my favourite characters EVER! First of all, yes, before you ask, "Mousse" IS his real name. There's a gag on the show with characters occasionally having very silly-sounding names, for example the woman Mousse is madly in love with is named "Shampoo". :P How to describe Mousse in a nutshell? Well, he's blind as a bat without his glasses but you can't see his face with them on, which is why I had him take them off; he's sweet, loyal and loving on the one hand, viciously murderous on the other, part good guy, part bad guy, graceful but clumsy, brilliant but stupid, can hide everything AND the kitchen sink under his robes somehow, is great with just about any weapon you can name--as long as he can SEE you--and often goes around without his glasses on, glomping random objects and people and yelling that he loves them. Which often causes him to get beat up. Mousse is a very complex, colourful and wacky character, and I'm glad I got the chance to "meet" him.
"In the Not-Too-Distant Future..."--NEW! (April 7, 2002).
Mystery Science Theater 3000! This picture was copied off of a photograph in the TV Guide; and _yes_ I know Mike looks deformed but I think I did a fairly good job on the robots, especially Crow. In the corner, the "ghostly image" of Joel is looking down on the proceedings--he wasn't DEAD of course, but he was the guy who started the show (and I, er, _liked_ him better than Mike? eep?) so I wanted to sort of symbolise that his influence was still there, or something. Anyway...
Random 1700's Dude.
Actually, not random, this is based off of a painting of a very famous guy from back then, a nobleman and composer from France who helped out the American revolutionaries with his own money, for example. I can't remember his name, but it was a cool painting so I tried my best to copy it, resulting in one of THE most detailed pictures I've ever drawn.
Ponder Stibbons
From Discworld again (everybody ducks and hides), this is my favourite wizard character. Ponder Stibbons, the brilliant but clueless young head of the High Energy Magic building. He's a COMPUTER-nerd wizard, essentially. Well, the stuff he works on and is good at is closer to technology than magic, at any rate. He's got the classic computer-nerd personality, too--obsessive, stays up all night working on obscure things, eats junk food at random hours of the very early morning....hey, what do you MEAN, "sounds like me"? ;)
But he's very smart and in fact is the only member of the Unseen University faculty to have his head screwed on straight!
And no, for those of you who are seeing a resemblance and I KNOW you're out there, once and for all: He is _NOT_ HARRY POTTER!! :P Not _my_ fault--or Terry Pratchett's--that both characters happen to be young, British, male wizards with brown hair and nerdy old-fashioned glasses...(Ponder's first appearances in the series were well BEFORE the first Harry Potter books came out, just so you know. Also, Ponder is an adult in his twenties; Harry is a child/teenager.)
"Ranma 1/2: Yin and Yang Was Never So Much Fun!"
Here we have Ranma Saotome, the star and title character of my favourite show Ranma 1/2...BOTH of him! Yes, that girl in the picture is not his sister or something, it's _him_, as a girl. The show's concept is very hard to explain quickly and I won't try here, but I will say that it's magic that changes him from one gender to the other; he's not a cross-dresser. :P
Ranma-Chan Has Had Enough
Here we have a black and white sketch of female-Ranma, dripping wet and looking extremely PISSED OFF. I have no idea why, again. I do think this is one of my better drawings, though, even if I did do it on the back of a piece of scratch paper and it shows.
Rydia Erdrick Landale.
Here is my character whose name I post under at Fanfiction.net, Rydia Erdrick Landale. Her name and look are both a combination of three old-school video game RPG universes: Rydia is from Final Fantasy 2/4 on the Super Nintendo, Erdrick is from the Dragon Warrior/Quest series, and Landale is from the Phantasy Star series for Sega, of course. Her green hair comes from the original Rydia, her helmet is the same as "The Descendant of Erdrick's" helmet in the first Dragon Warrior game, and her pointy cat-ears are those of a Numan, which is a race from the Phantasy Star series. Not my best picture, but I whipped it all together rather quickly.
Rydia Erdrick Landale Gets a Makeover.
Now THIS is more like it. This full-length, far more detailed picture of my Fanfiction.net character is way more like what I REALLY had in mind. Her long green hair and the bits of flowing, ripped-up-looking green robes and sleeves and so forth come from Rydia's hair and outfit from Final Fantasy 4. Her armour was inpsired by the Dragon Warrior's armour from those games. And anything _pink_ you see is from Alis Landale's original costume from the first Phantasy Star. She's still a Numan with those ears, and other touches you may see I just put in because I felt like it. Example: The detached sleeve held on by a buckled strap was inspired by Vyse from Skies of Arcadia, she gets her belt from Aika from the same game, and the huge pointy-toed platform boots are the same as the type worn by the male Force Newmans from the Dreamcast game, Phantasy Star On-Line. Why? Because I said so, that's why!
Anyway, silly as it may be, this is one of my BEST computer-drawn pictures ever.
Robin Chesterfield, Student Wizard.
Robin is basically my character for the Discworld universe, she was made up for the GURPS role-playing game that is based off of the books. (Yes, this is a real thing, it really exists, you can find it in bookstores and game-shops.) I never had a chance to actually play as her, but I made up a very detailed background for her and she became almost "real" after a while. I also have to confess that, the way I drew her, she is supposed to look like a cartoony version of me. ;)
"When In Rome"...--NEW! (April 7, 2002)
Here we have a generic Ancient Roman dude; in this case, a centurion soldier. Notice the aqueduct and the paved road; both were accomplishments the Romans were famed for. Also notice the detail on his armour 'cos it took me FOREVER so you are GOING to notice it, dangit. :P
Sandy Corman.
My own character from the silly story "Escape from the Planet of the B-Movies"! Inspired by the show MST3K (Mystery Science Theater 3000) and the horrible movies shown thereupon, this story is the tale of Sandy Corman, a lowly young janitor, who is thrown against his will into a very STRANGE alternate universe. In this mind-bendingly cheesy and illogical new world, things that can only happen in movies are REAL--rubber monsters _can_ stomp Tokyo, six-shooters CAN shoot an endless supply of bullets, and cardboard rocketships CAN fly you to the moon!
WILL Sandy ever find his way back to his own world?
CAN he stand this place for much longer without going insane?
DARE he try to win the affections of the lovely and brilliant Dr. Elsa Van Horn?
TUNE IN NEXT WEEK when we'll hear our hero say:
"THAT doesn't look like my sandwich!"
Until then, adventure-fans...FAREWELL!
Susan Sto-Helit
Okay, ONE last Discworld character (for now...she says evilly). This is another favourite character, Susan Sto-Helit, Death's granddaughter (by adoption) and a very intelligent, cold, calculating young lady whose fondest wish out of life is to simply be NORMAL. However, that seems to be for other people, not her...She first appears in Soul Music but has become a staple of the series since, appearing in several other books.
Trillian and Tricia McMillan.
Inspired by the fifth Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book, "Mostly Harmless" (which, truth to tell, I didn't LIKE much and feel it was totally the WRONG way to end the series), here we have both Trillian and Tricia McMillan. Same woman, but two different lives, two different time lines. I just thought the idea of going back and seeing how she would have turned out if things had gone the OTHER way, was rather interesting, so I had to draw both. Their appearances and Trillian's outfit on the left, were inspired by the 1981 TV miniseries version, which most fans of Hitchhiker's Guide didn't like but _I_ did. (Trillian was SUPPOSED to be a sultry Indian (INDIA Indian, not Native American) brunette from London, not a bubbly squeaky-voiced American blonde! But I liked her just fine that way.)
Light Cycle Warrior
Based off the 1982 movie "TRON", the first movie ever to have extensive computer animation, and also the first movie to introduce the concept of "cyberspace"--before that WORD existed--here we have one of my favourite older pictures, a colourful yet still strangely dark and gloomy scene of a young "program" posing inside his video-game tank, before going off to fight for the glory of the Master Control Program or get de-rezzed. I don't do well with straight lines and geometric shapes usually; which is why pictures such as this are so rare for me!
Greetings, Programs!
Same movie, different picture: This is kinda supposed to be the character named TRON himself, standing in front of a typical computer-world landscape. I loved the stark, surrealistic, black-and-neon world of "inside-the-computer" in the movie, it was SO cool. Had a stylistic look and feel all its own. Modern day computer effects may be far more realistic, but TRON was truly original and _different_ looking, and still is today.
Ukyo Kuonji.
And here we have another of my favourite anime characters, Ukyo Kuonji from Ranma 1/2. Ukyo is one of Ranma's suitors, a tricky, hustling little fast-food merchant and deadly martial artist. That giant spatula and the little ones in the bandolier across her torso are her main weapons. No, really. I TOLD you it was a silly show!
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