A concept user-interface for Amiga Workbench 5.0. Not nearly as good as the GUI QNX made for Amiga (under the ownership of Gateway at the time). Of course, Gateway dumped QNX in favor of Linux before canning the OS altogether.

Isn't there anyone out there that knows what to do with the Amiga?

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Augh! Cover your eyes! Its... not furry!

That's probably why I look so bored, too.

I drew this for Samual Lienhard's “FoxFire” Fanzine, a fanzine entirely dedicated to... what else?

This is one of the very few times I've drawn in a semi-realistic style. I still like it, if only I had done better work on the shadows and cloth.

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This was made for a poster ad for my school newspaper, though the final poster was never printed.

And, yes, I know the tail lights are wrong. I drew this completely from memory.

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Another pic for Sam Lienhard's “FoxFire” zine. The original was shaded entirely with Letratone, so it was very difficult to scan and the visual quality is below my usual standards. I can't believe I cut wasted all that plastic dotscreen adhesive.

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I drew this for Zephery Hughes' “Evil Cat” portfolio.

I couldn't think of something really evil for her to do, so I figured this would work. I didn't include myself as a way of flaunting my ego — I just really, really suck at meeting deadlines. :)

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Comptuers get faster every year — faster at not working.

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Intended to be one of several trading cards for a fanzine, this never got published. Of course, I think I was the only one to actually submit a card.

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No, I'm not overly pretentious — “Intuition” is the name of the Amiga's graphical interface library. This is a test GUI for an Amiga sound editor called Technos, which I never finished programming. Even today, I still haven't found a single sound editor that I really like using — not like there's many choices, either.

Blue buttons will pop up a window with more options. It takes some getting used to, but it works great.

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A refined version of the Technos GUI, using a custom graphics set. NTSC version lacked the piano keys, because NTSC televisions have less resolution than their PAL cousins. In the Amiga world, this meant NTSC images were 640×400, and thus the bottom of a 640×512 PAL picture was chopped off.

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A slight variation of Waccoon, except this guy is a fox.

Originally, Waccoon was just a character I played (breifly) on FurryMUCK, and was a real psycho. I was new to furry back then, but it didn't take me long to realize why a raccoon spazzing out on shiny rocks and pennies wasn't a good choice for a role-playing character.

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Samantha O. Wassan, looking all dressed up. She is an assassin by trade, and can usually be found being crabby, blowing people away with big guns, posing for government propaganda photographs, and her favorite passtime, spending quality time with a variety of consorts.

Despite the spelling of her last name, she insists the proper pronunciation is “Way-San”. Don't ever call her by her first name. Address her as “Sam”, and you may very well end up becoming target practice.

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It's Kayak, a MUCK character played by my old friend Chris Kurs. Colored during a long session in DPaint.

This looks so corny to me, now. In fact, it's worse than corny — it's fandomy!

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This is one of the first works I had widely published, in an old furry fanzine entitled, “Fanzine”, published by JW Kennedy.

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A lame attempt at creating a CD cover in Deluxe Paint on my Amiga 1200. “Arctech See” is the band name. Don't ask, I don't really know why I once thought that was a cool name.

Here is the original sketch, TurbulanceTest.jpg

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Ah, Deluxe Paint! Just for fun, I thought I'd throw in my typical drawing environment for 1990-1994. Yes, things did have to be done one pixel at a time with a maximum of 32 colors on the Amiga 1000. The A1200 could go to 256 colors, which barely edged out the PC VGA standard (which can only display 256 colors in low res). How much of my life did I waste doing dithering by hand?

Now that's when computer illustration was actually fun. Today it's just work. :)

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A logo for my first, unofficial studio, Blue Coon Software. This is an AGA version of my logo. The AGA chipset in the Amiga 1200 had more colors available than the OCS chipset in the Amiga 1000.

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My very first attept at using a brush to ink my drawings, made in my elementary school art class. My teacher was very unimpressed, as were most of my teachers concerning my art.

* THHHHPT!!! *

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I thought Lemmings were too stupid to get mad at each other.

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A side view of a Fokker DrI. Although the DrI is the most easily recognized machines from World War I, and it was one of the most maneuverable airplanes ever built, it was too slow to be of real use in combat. Faster aircraft using hit-and-run tactics were far more effective. It also had quality control issues — the glue used to attach the fabric to the wing would disolve in moisture, and the top wing would fall apart in flight!

This was mouse drawn a long time ago in Deluxe Paint 3 on my Amiga 1000.

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