A Guide to the Gallery:

Mainly Romans and Griffins right now, the Griffin being my favorite Legendary Beast; also some photos of me and the pups. I've recently scanned a stack of my Roman artwork, and more awaits; the batch after that will probably be wolves.

Romans

• Shield-pattern for one of the Legions on Trajan's Column. Each Legion had its own design; the coloring here is conjectural. I'll be putting up more images from my research into this subject; they will appear in the Historical Re-Creation section.
• The Greek Hoplite from one end of my bumper-sticker design (see home page, "Support Our Troops")
• The other end of the sticker: a Roman Legionary. These two figures are based on the artwork for RAFM Miniatures' Historical line.
• Lucius Marius Fimbria feeling the weather on the Wall
• My rendering of a Roman coin reverse. A priest is making an offering at a brazier in front of his temple.
• Camillus, an Elven Standard-bearer in my Roman Dungeons & Dragons world, Roma Subterranea. Much, much more about 'Sub-Roma' will be showing up soon in the Role-playing Games section.
• Lucius Equitius, a Roman Centaur who joined the Legions. (And why didn't they assign him to a Cavalry unit, one may ask...?) Character inspired by Donna Barr's Stinz.
• My Cyberpunk character Sertorius, perhaps the Future's only Roman 'Netrunner
• A Tamagoci Legionary I designed, back when those electronic pets were popular

Griffins:

• Auryn Skarabrae (color pencil mostly)
• Griffin in Tenebrism, an inking technique where you draw the shadows and let them define the subject
• Dragon-and-Griffin design I doodled while awaiting inprocessing at Williams AFB, AZ (now closed)
• Griffin in a fighting stance
• The male Griffin was supposed to be flightless and was often drawn with spikes radiating from his body; here I have interpreted the various projections as vestigial wings, a crest, and leg-spurs
• A different raptor, a different cat: the African Plains Griffin (cheetah x secretary bird)
• Griffin in Paradise! (She has just found more than enough gold to line several nests with.)

Photos of Marius...

• ...playing System Administrator at the Barstow Community College computer lab (Ft. Irwin Campus); we had no login errors that day, for some reason...
• ...perhaps this was due to the presence of his Internet Service Provider...? (All nineteen cold Roman steel inches of it)
• Marius in Civvies!! (A lotta folks didn't think I owned any civvies!) >({|;-)

...and the pups:

• Rudi and Pepper...ages 10 and 13, respectively
• Pepper at age four
• A little sketch I made of Pepper when he was about three and a half. The wording next to him was our code for "Are you ready to go?"
• Pepper at thirteen...by which time he'd been Combat Poodle Pepper for five years; ever since we returned from Desert Storm. Yes, he was ready!!
• A Cairn Terrier who looks a lot like Maynard... Maynard himself is extremely camera-shy. I have no good pictures of this dog. He always sticks his head in a hole...or under a chair...or between my knees... Maynard will slay dragons on my behalf, and the vacuum cleaner doesn't even merit a blink. But I cannot get him to face a photographer. So, if the pooch in the picture is your dog...I'm sorry, but thank you!
• Heidi Poodle was living with an elderly couple in Topeka, Kansas. When the wife died, the husband surrendered the dog to the Helping Hands Humane Society. Heidi was 15 years old. You see this coming, right...? --Yes, I drove from Dallas to Topeka to rescue her. A thousand-mile round-trip. Best thing I did all year.
• Bonnie Bone, an Australian Cattle Dog/Corgi cross. While I had her, she appointed herself my Handicapped Helper Dog: She provided back support for me when I was sleeping, and helped me get out of bed in the morning. She is now with a great family who take her on walks by the lake every day; all the same, she is missed.
• ...which brings me to my youngest, Curli-Su, a Tibetan Spaniel mix (with maybe a little bit of Papillon?) who was dumped in my neighborhood as a tiny five-weeks pup. I snatched her away from a bunch of kids who were torturing her...jumoed a four-foot fence with a five-foot quarterstaff and got Medieval on their butts. Picked her up, took her home, fed her good, treated her right. She's six years old now and feels relentlessly responsible for me. Look at that Attitude! [g]
• A better look at a black-and-white 'Tibby' like mine, so you can see the body shape and such.
  And lastest but not leastest...
  ...THE funniest 'Under Construction' icon I've ever seen in my life!