Many years ago, I went through a one-month drawing phase. It took only one month for me to realize my lack of talent and give up. lol.

These are the better pictures. Yes. It's shocking. You should see the rest of the junk. Big-headed-muppet-lookin'-loin-cloth-wearin-barbarians. And the reason the top two pages are yellow? Because I thought they were cool enough to HANG ON MY WALL! YES! O_o

This guy here took me way longer to draw this than it should have. It was a character on my brother's Judas Priest t-shirt, riding this monster motorcycle. You can tell I took no time at all on the motorcycle. Why? Cuz it wasn't hot, like the armored dude on top of it!

Dragonlance. Before I discovered DBZ in May 2000 and evolved into a huge anime geek, I was all about Dragonlance. Most of you are probably too young to remember it, but it was huge in the early 90's in the fantasy fandom. I read all the books, collected the art books, and fell in love with the characters. This pic also took me an enormous amount of time to draw, going off of one of Larry Elmore's paintings. I adored the way he painted his characters.

Now. I doubt anyone out there knows who this is, but this guy occupied my daydreams for nearly a decade. I read the Crystal Shard when it first came out and was smitten from the get-go. Drizzt Do'Urden. Drow Elf. A tragic character born of an evil race, conditioned to manhood by violence and animosity. He revolted against his culture, and journeyed to the surface where his kind was feared and loathed. He suffers so much solitude, racism and prejudice in Salvatore's books, you can't help but to feel for him. And through it all he is loyal to his sense of discernment and his hard-earned friends. And he is unmatched in his skills as a warrior! I've never loved reading action sequences so much in my life. A total stud!

I drew this craptacular piece from the front cover of The Crystal Shard. To this day, after all the cover art and Forgotten Realms art that has attempted to depict Drizzt's character, I think Larry Elmore is the only one who truly captured how Salvatore describes him in the books. He was young for his race, and his expression sincere. I even emailed Larry Elmore, and he sent me an autographed print of the front cover of the original Crystal Shard, which is hanging neatly in my office. :) But yeah. Drizzt is on the top of the list of my fictional crushes in my life. He got the most daydreaming time out of them all!

And finally, if there is any soul out there who has read these books, then this is a pitiful attempt to capture the moment towards the end of Halfing's Gem, where we all realized that, Hey - Drizzt and Cattie-brie would make a really cute couple! Cattie-brie sacrifices herself to save the others. Everyone falls apart except for our boy Drizzt, who herds the rest of the gang out of this perilous dimension. Even Cattie-brie's boyfriend, Wulgar, is totally useless. Then at the last moment instead of going with them, Drizzt stays back to save her. And when he's got her in his arms, unconscious, he inadvertently kisses her.

Oh yes. He kisses her. :P I know. I'm a huge dork, but I must have reread it a billion times.

This is the scene - or it's SUPPOSED to be the scene when he makes it out of the perilous dimension with an unconscious cattie Brie in his arms, when everyone had written them off for dead.