I drew this while sitting in a conference at the IBM IMPACT event in Las Vegas in 2008. I was worried about my flight the next day; the weather was horrible in Minneapolis and I feared a delay. I needed a little confidence booster, and this image (and the person who motivated it) helped me through.

The sketch is really messy since I only had one pen at the time. I tried to clean it up a bit -- remove the prep lines, fix some obvious errors -- but I could only fix so much without redoing the entire image.

A really quick sketch of Tre'ana. While there's a number of things wrong with this image artistically, I really like the emotional intent of the piece.

This is just me playing around with character designs. These two are Rama and Rasa, brother and sister who's role in the story tends toward the comedic. The remainder of the scene that goes with this image involves the Strangers from the film Dark City and Kilngons. The argument being that had Kilngons the ability to Tune -- as the Strangers did -- it would result in "three quarters of the universe being converted to Blood Wine".

Obviously, the two spend far too much in geekery

I haven't drawn Tre'ana in quite some time. In recent years, I've had reason to ignore the spiritual in exchange for what my friends call "dark complexities". Recently, however, the character has become more interesting. In a new variant of the story, Tre'ana is a conflicted character, stubborn although selfless, and secretly addicted to Codeine.

This is from a scene in that story, where she is reading by the bedside of another character, who is currently recovering from battle injuries. She's reading an religious text, passed on to her from her grandmother. The pages have their own design, a sample can be found here. The term StarReader comes from the fact that the language the book is written uses star consellations as part of it's syntax.