Apologies for the absence. I've recently found myself completely obsessed with the Orange Box. I've never been into PC gaming so I managed to miss the phenomenon that is Half Life 2. Always wanted to play it, never got around to it. Got an Xbox in december and ordered the game. Started playing it probably a month ago and kinda just didn't stop. Played HL2, ep one and two pretty much back to back. Damn it's an amazing game, hard to believe how old it is. Also played through Portal in almost one sitting. Loved it to bits. The still alive song brought a tear to my eye ( [link] < for anyone wanting to reminisce). And now I finally know what all the fecking 'the cake is a lie' crap is about

Anyways, sorry, I digress. That was more of a journal entry.

This is Verity Quesada. The half werewolf sniper chick from the one shot (tentatively titled 'Security' I'm doing for Oztaku's annual. this is as much an experiment in style as it is an exercise char design. I'm going for a splattered watercolour effect for the comic, and I'm kinda digging the direction it's heading. Half of what you see here is accidental, I had an idea of what I wanted but mistakenly throwing things on different layers showed me something much better. It needs a bit of tuning, but I'm looking forward to seeing how everything turns out in the end.

As for Verity, I was really wanting to give her and intricate and interesting haircut, but I couldn't find inspiring enough ref so she is stuck with 'generic Rocksalt cut number 4'. I also want to give her heaps more details like accessories, tats, piercings and stuff. But this will do for now until I can think of stuff that isn't stoopid.

Anyways, as per usual, I've let my devwatch skyrocket again. Best get to that. Anyone done anything interesting lately?