.:earthen vessel:.

album art doodle for foxtail "autumn's dream", originally uploaded to tumblr May 08, 2012



I was listening to Shine by Rurutia when I drew this, May 10, 2012



discovered the binary tool, May 15, 2012



originally uploaded to tumblr May 17, 2012



trying to remember how prince relta looks like May 22, 2012



trying to remember how archbishop shigatse looks like May 29, 2012



originally uploaded to tumblr May 29, 2012

originally uploaded to tumblr March 04, 2012

Minami carrying Aushen. April 2009.


August 17, 2009


Experimenting for the first time with artemis_elric's tablet. Various characters. Clockwise: Ceru, Minami, Seseragi, Eirendi, and Aaya. Originally completed September 12, 2009.


September 23, 2009

A more whimsical portrayal of "Shisaa" (Aaya)'s character. Created for her inspiration's sweet 16th. Originally posted to deviantART on November 5, 2007.

"Lines on your face."

"Hm?"

"Is that what makes you old?" asked Eirendi.

"Quite the contrary; it is the being old that puts the lines on one's face," Haolan chuckled.

"Then what makes you old, Grandfather?"

"Do you know what old means, Eiri?"

She shook her head.

"It simply means that one has been around for a long time."

"Well, that doesn't explain anything."

"No, it doesn't," the doctor admitted. "Not much."

"But then...you aren't old at all, Grandfather!" Eirendi beamed. "You haven't been around very long."

The old man laughed so that the afternoon sun bounced on his bald crown, and the sparse gray of his beard and whiskers and eyebrows quivered with mirth.

"No indeed, dear child. But I daresay I do have a few years on you."



A salty wind from the southern sea
Up hill country it blew
The rain had scarcely touched the lea
When up sprang the bamboo!

Strings twanging as the gourd-curved body of the vielle thumped against her back, the girl