Art Appreciation Day

Here is some of my art. Appreciate it! ^.^;;

The spread winged raven below is used as my sig on several forums I haunt. It is a transparent PNG file with the text and main image highlighted by using a Drop Shadow effect. The actual image is a bit bigger than this one (500px wide compared to this 400x). The tail shadows are truncated because I sorta of messed up when creating it, but then realized it needed to be that way due to the allowed sig size limitation.


This little image is of my elementalist from Guild Wars. I use her as an avatar at some forums. She is wearing an older suit of armor and a 'shopped on jester's cap. There is a new, in-game jester's cap, but I like my faux one better. The title of Guild Jester was given to me for my bad puns, awful jokes, and silly antics. I wear the badge with pride ... and a little embarrassment.


This image was 'shopped from some Internet one I swiped using Google Images. I just made the moon a waffle and the rays yellow because in my GW guild we have a fellow we call Waffle. He is always called upon to help with tough missions or hard runs. So I made this for him as a joke a looong time ago. He's been missing for a few weeks, but today he posted he was alive and well, just busy. So I am happy, and the breakfast pastries of the world are rejoicing.

Last, but not least, for this little impromptu gallery showing, is an image I did over the Christmas holidays. It began as an off the cuff remark in-game and turned into one of the mind nibbling ideas that would not stop until I let it out. This is the result. It was actually used by Tek Phreak in one of is videos, but I cannot find the link to it. I composited dozens of images to make it, and did all sorts of picture trickery to it.

Oops, I lied. This is the last image. I made it as a companion piece to the Santa Jack Sparrow one above. Believe it or not, this one gave me more trouble. Lousy candy canes wouldn't render right for the longest. Grrrr.

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The Greatest Guild Wars Video Ever

Guild Wars [gild wôrs] – mmorpg / corpg

Guild 1. an organization of persons with related interests, goals, etc., esp. one formed for mutual aid or protection. 2. any of various medieval associations, as of merchants or artisans, organized to maintain standards and to protect the interests of its members, and that sometimes constituted a local governing body.

War 1. a state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties. 2. a concerted effort or campaign to combat or put an end to something considered injurious.

Guild Wars 1. an award-winning [game] played by millions worldwide, created by ArenaNet® and published by NCsoft®, the world's leading developer and publisher of online computer games. 2. a Cooperative/Competitive Online Role Playing Game (CORPG) with emphasis on skill selection similar to collectable card games.

GuildWars.com , MMORPG.com&Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

As some of you know, I am an avid Guild Wars player. (Raivynn Flamesister, if you wish to look me up in game) Yesterday, Allanon754, of the Fellows of Mythgar guild (an allied guild to my guild, Rebel Dragons, along with Kings Beyond the Wall), posted a link to what I consider The Greatest Guild Wars Video Ever. It is as good as, and way, wya cleaner, than my previous favorite game video, Internet is for Porn. (I did not link to this video as it is NSFW (Not Safe for Work), or small children, for that matter)

So, here is the simply titled Guild Wars MV created by Luke Yeoryids (Jack McDaniels of Fire of Spirit) and set to Heeding the Call by Hammerfall.