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Excellent Sci-Fantasy Illustrations
by Yap Kun Rong
Here's a look at another great sci-fi illustrator and painter, Yap Kun Rong. I really love the style, and how he isn't afraid of using lots of colour in his work. Not everything in science fiction has to look like Bladerunner, and Kunrong obviously doesn't mind bringing a little bit of an optimistic, cartoony palette to bear on the genre. (although there's some darker stuff mixed in as well)
Wood Nymph
Ah, the pressure's off. After three weeks of busy, busy, busy, the schedule has slowed down to a pace that's at least sane. After wrapping a few major projects I've decided to take only the work I already had booked between now and Christmas, so that I can use the rest of the time for myself and family.
After all, there's shopping to do.
But after days and nights of doing creative stuff for other people, I also had a hankering for doing some of my own imagining. So I sat down at Photoshop over the weekend and started drawing pictures of crazy fantasy-creatures, indulging in the sort of nerd-fare that still floats my boat.
That's what you see here. I call it 'Wood Nymph', and it's based on one of the many strange images that come into my head from time to time. It's a combination of a photo I shot on Vancouver Island this summer and the hand drawn character I added in. I had imagined some sort of giant, gentle woodland being still hiding from human civilization - basking in the morning sun after a long night of avoiding the encroachment of man upon his realm.
My wife says he doesn't look gentle, but I disagree. The wood nymph is a ten foot tall teddy bear, I assure you. I mean I know.... he's from my dang head after all.
Click on the image to see larger.
The Non-Diary
Some way back thoughts from 1995 about the inventing of tippy-toes and the banishment of make-believe.
Psychic Alien Ghosts from the Planet Heaven
I imagine that the vast majority of those that inadvertently land on this page care little about rationalistic nitpicking, let alone giving a rat's ass about whatever the hell it might mean to be skeptical. Nonetheless, to my few regular readers, whether they be real or a figment of my most optimistic fantasies, I thought it only fair to come clean. Since many of my posts, and indeed my general view of the world is largely coloured by these ideas, it seemed unfair to be anything but perfectly honest about what they are.
