Orthaevelve

I am a crappy digital artist.  I am aware of that, so let's move on.  Years ago, I was asked by House Eclipse to design a set of symbols for use by the members of the vampire community who did not want to swear allegiance to Father Sebastian (which he demanded of anyone who used his words or glyphs).  It has been years and I honestly have not bothered to update the original crappy files.  However, I recently saw a Therian "borrow" the work of an artist on this site and decide it was not a tattoo design, but in fact an international symbol of Therians.  If there is that severe of a need for this kind of art, well, here it is.  Licensed under C

 I have been a leather worker since childhood.  My mother did traditional leather carving and had my brother and I stamping, sewing and dyeing leather by the fifth grade.  I made belts, knife sheaths and later, armored vests and sword scabbards.  Various sets of my armor have been lost over the years, but I still have my last two sets. The first set is leather brigandine, a vest, shoulders and bracers with helmet, and it kind of sucks.  I had little money at the time for craft materials and made do with steel from Home Depot ducts, rivets, scrap leather, artificial sinew and a dremel.  The full set can be worn but is not polished and finishe

I use a lot of odd materials in my art, like bone, paper, seeds, resin, gems, circuitboard, metal scraps, homemade paper or jade.  One of my new favorites is definitely mammoth ivory.  It carves like bone with silver files or a jeweler's saw with a 0 blade but has a finer grain with subtle pattern variations.  It can be scrimshawed, (a graver works well for this) but I prefer inlaying it with metal, gems or reconstituted block stone (from Thunderbid Supply).  Abalone inlay works well too, but flattening out the curve on the shell is a pain in the pink bits. Looking at ivory reminds me of Neolithic sculptures, so I like to make ancestor figur