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How I only just discovered your page is beyond me. Loving the hell out of the Shadowrun pieces! Brings back some fond memories.Β
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Great gallery, I really dig your shadowrun artwork! Any chance you'll upload your latest shadowrun missions stuff as well? Keep up the great work!
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Hey there! Glad you like my SR stuff. I actually haven't been a part of the Missions line since early 2012, give or take. The art director was originally using the Missions covers as a way of breaking in new artists, though I don't know if that's still the case. After I got my feet wet, I was moved into the printed line and have mainly been working on those since. I will get around to uploading some new stuff pretty soon, though!
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wassup? howre you doing? i'm reading the mahabharata. sheesh. rereading 1001 nights. check out my journals
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hey whats up? facebook is a bit of a hassle for me because its blocked over here. i have to search for a vpn to get on. i'll add you when i do.
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I could swear I was watching you already! My mistake, it's solved now
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have you read any arthur machen? i'm really gettin into him right now. you can find a lot of his stuff on line free.[link]
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Your art is awesome! I'm so watching you!
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Your AVGN vs NC poster is amazing. I hope it wins
And your other work is awesome as well
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Wow, your stuff looks also pretty neat O__o
great!
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Thanks for the kind words. Glad you like it. Check my portfolio at leerodriguez.net for more of my commercial work.
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Thanks for the comments and stoping by my table at DragonCon.
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No problem! I enjoyed stopping by and talking with you.
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haven't seen new stuff in a long time. where you at?
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dropping a line. i just got a new scanner and I did a bit of an upload craze. Check em out
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hey check this out:
"Then," says Thrain, "we will turn our way lower down the Fleet, and then they will come to meet us if they
have any business with us."
So they turn down the Fleet. "Now they have caught sight of us," said Skarphedinn, "for lo! they turn their
path elsewhither, and now we have no other choice than to run down and meet them."
"Many men," said Kari, "would rather not lie in wait if the balance of force were not more on their side than
it is on ours; they are eight, but we are five."
Now they turn down along the Fleet, and see a tongue of ice bridging the stream lower down and mean to
cross there.
Thrain and his men take their stand upon the ice away from the tongue, and Thrain said, "What can these men
want? They are five, and we are eight."
"I guess," said Lambi Sigurd's son, "that they would still run the risk though more men stood against them."
Thrain throws off his cloak, and takes off his helm.
Now it happened to Skarphedinn, as they ran down along the Fleet, that his shoeβstring snapped asunder, and
he stayed behind.
"Why so slow, Skarphedinn?" quoth Grim.
"I am tying my shoe," he says.
"Let us get on ahead," says Kari; "methinks he will not be slower than we."
So they turn off to the tongue, and run as fast as they can. Skarphedinn sprang up as soon as he was ready,
and had lifted his axe, "the ogress of war," aloft, and runs right down to the Fleet. But the Fleet was so deep
that there was no fording it for a long way up or down.
A great sheet of ice had been thrown up by the flood on the other side of the Fleet as smooth and slippery as
glass, and there Thrain and his men stood in the midst of the sheet.
Skarphedinn takes a spring into the air, and leaps over the stream between the icebanks, and does not check
his course, but rushes still onwards with a slide. The sheet of ice was very slippery, and so he went as fast as
a bird flies. Thrain was just about to put his helm on his head; and now Skarphedinn bore down on them, and
hews at Thrain with his axe, "the ogress of war," and smote him on the head, and clove him down to the
teeth, so that his jawβteeth fell out on the ice. This feat was done with such a quick sleight that no one could
get a blow at him; he glided away from them at once at full speed. Tjorvi, indeed, threw his shield before him
on the ice, but he leapt over it, and still kept his feet, and slid quite to the end of the sheet of ice.
There Kari and his brothers came to meet him.
"This was done like a man," says Kari.
"Your share is still left," says Skarphedinn, and sang a song:
"To the strife of swords not slower,
After all, I came than you,
For with ready stroke the sturdy
Squanderer of wealth I felled;
But since Grim's and Helgi's seaβstag (1)
Norway's Earl erst took and stripped,
Now 'tis time for seaβfire bearers (2)
Such dishonour to avenge."
And this other song he sang:
"Swiftly down I dashed my weapon,
Gashing giant, byrnieβbreacher (3),
She, the noisy ogre's namesake (4),
Soon with flesh the ravens glutted;
Now your words to Hrapp remember,
On broad ice now rouse the storm,
With dull crash war's eager ogress
Battle's earliest note hath sung."
"That befits us well, and we will do it well," says Helgi.
Then they turn up towards them. Both Grim and Helgi see where Hrapp is, and they turned on him at once.
Hrapp hews at Grim there and then with his axe; Helgi sees this and cuts at Hrapp's arm, and cut it off, and
down fell the axe.
"In this," says Hrapp, "thou hast done a most needful work, for this hand hath wrought harm and death to
many a man."
"And so here an end shall be put to it," says Grim; and with that he ran him through with a spear, and then
Hrapp fell down dead.
Tjorvi turns against Kari and hurls a spear at him. Kari leapt up in the air, and the spear flew below his feet.
Then Kari rushes at him, and hews at him on the breast with his sword, and the blow passed at once into his
chest, and he got his death there and then.
Then Skarphedinn seizes both Gunnar Lambi's son, and Grani Gunnar's son, and said, "Here have I caught
two whelps! but what shall we do with them?
"It is in thy power," says Helgi, "to slay both or either of them, if you wish them dead."
"I cannot find it in my heart to do both ββ help Hogni and slay his brother," says Skarphedinn.
"Then the day will once come," says Helgi, "when thou wilt wish that thou hadst slain him, for never will he
be true to thee, nor will any one of the others who are now here."
"I shall not fear them," answers Skarphedinn.
After that they gave peace to Grani Gunnar's son, and Gunnar Lambi's son, and Lambi Sigurd's son, and
Lodinn.
After that they went down to the Fleet where Skarphedinn had leapt over it, and Kari and the others measured
the length of the leap with their spearβshafts, and it was twelve ells (5).(~24ft)
Then they turned homewards, and Njal asked what tidings. They told him all just as it had happened,
The Story of Burnt Njal (Njal's Saga)
i always get a kick out of the battles in these histories because they have this sort of haphazard wildness that has a strong flavor of truth to it. the culture is hilarious too. i installed a program called text to speech with att natural voices (kate) and i've been making it read these old books to me while i'm doing my artwork. i think modern fantasy writers would do well to read all this stuff. tolkien stole most everything from here.
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Hey, thanks for that link. I have a few of these stories bookmarked individually, but this is the most expansive compilation I've ever seen on-line.
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It's nice to see local talent. Thanks a lot for the watch.
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Just browsing the thumbnails of your gallery gestures to a truly intriguing world--what are your inspirations? I hope to see more!
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Thanks for your comments and the watch. I'm pretty much inspired by everything, but history and mythology make up the biggest chunk of my inspirations. Listening to music has also helped me visualize some of my weirder ideas.
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Great gallery *_*
You are quite talented!
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Great artwork. Keep it up. Fellow Athenian, Jeff.
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Hey, thanks for the flattering comment, but I don't know if "infinitely deserving" is the right term. Your gallery is full of great stuff--in fact, I should really be watching you.
I was thinking about this the other day, and I've decided that I would be more popular if I did fan art or more genre-specific stuff. All I ever do is concept art for my own stories, but I haven't built up enough interest in them to have word-of-mouth name recognition. That's okay; art shouldn't be a popularity contest. I'll keep refining my craft until it's good enough to seduce the masses!
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How do you have fewer pageviews than me? The universe doesn't make sense. You are infinitely more deserving than I.
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Hey, thanks for the flattering comment, but I don't know if "infinitely deserving" is the right term. Your gallery is full of great stuff--in fact, I should really be watching you.
I was thinking about this the other day, and I've decided that I would be more popular if I did fan art or more genre-specific stuff. All I ever do is concept art for my own stories, but I haven't built up enough interest in them to have word-of-mouth name recognition. That's okay; art shouldn't be a popularity contest. I'll keep refining my craft until it's good enough to seduce the masses!
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I always tell myself to do fan art, but I never get around to it. 
I think it speaks very highly to your integrity as an artist that you draw to enrich yourself. I think you have more to offer as a result.
And... thank you. You didn't have to watch me.
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Hey there i just browsed through DA and saw your fantastic work!! GREAT STUFF YOU GOT HERE!! 
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I stumbled upon your gallery as an accident, or maybe it wasn't accident. Either way, I am very impressed. 
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I have to DOUBLY watch you. You rock just THAT MUCH.
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Hey, the feeling's mutual . . . ya heathen Commie!
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hey dude. if you want, you can come over here and visit this summer. i can put you up for free. i have 2 houses over here. we could travel around and see the beautiful countryside. its cheap. also very awesome.
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Hey, thanks for the offer; it's tempting, but I doubt I could get away from work for that long. No one can stand in for me.
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you're invited to western china to the city with the most beautiful girls in the entire country, with free food and a free place to stay for three weeks in the summer and you can't get off work long enough to go? 
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*LMAO* Rub it in, already! I'm a very dedicated team player. 
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I enjoyed having a look at your other work....I thought you said it wasn't fantasy enough?
It's wonderful
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