While some of you may laugh at me for it, I'm deeply saddened to hear about the passing of a brilliant and creative mind. He created something that helped so many of us dream bigger and more vividly than we thought possible.

Starting a new project - the Little Warriors. I'm going to be doing a series of images of kids in costume with the archetype they're dressed at behind them.

There's a couple of things I would love some feedback on:

1. I'm not sure yet whether I want to make the background figure 'ghostly' or 'tangible'. Right now I'm leaning a little more towards ghostly - with a slight shift. I was thinking about making them look more tangible the closer they are to the kid in the foreground. Any thoughts?

2. "Little Warriors" or "Lil Warriors"? Again - I have a direction that I'm leaning towards, but I don't want to sway anyone. I want all of your gut reactions.

I selected viking as the first archetype as a sorta advance fan art for gdg's Wolves of Odin. (I really can't wait.)

Oh, and no - this one is not done - not by a long shot - but it's late and I need sleep.

Well kids, I finally finished up the Nightcrawler colors. Took a little longer than I would have liked for a piece of fan art, but yeah well. I'm more or less happy with the results. I went for more muted colors - which seem to be all the rave these days. It's a pleasing effect and adds to the 'believability' of the image (which is amusing when it's Kurt). Also went for a better spectrum of tone, and I think that I managed it moderately well. I'll be doing more in this style in the near future.