Kes Beacon, author and artist

I've been digging through my art archives today. I had the strange idea that I would like to do a longer term retrospective, realised I couldn't because my hard drive with all my ancient scans on it is back at my own house, and then realised that I didn't need scans - I'm staying with my parents! All the originals are here!

Well, my friends. I found some weird shit. (Some very, very sad shit as well.) Not all of it was art, although I do now have art examples going back to 2010 - and it's very obvious that some of my shaky early digital work is because, well, I was shaky on the computer! Compare my physical-media 2013 Great and Terrible art to my 2014 digital-media Padme and Anakin art and, well.

Anyway, without further ado, a list of the Weird ShitTM:

• An AQA qualification in team working that I picked up somewhere along the way, in 2009


• A letter from my deceased grandmother, which made me cry


• Really good hand-drawn heavy metal posters - I replicated Ozzy and Dio's logos perfectly


• My first ever hand-drawn pornography, from when I was probably about fourteen


• An awful lot of kink art, just. there. 2008-2013 approximately.


• A letter from a teacher telling me to enjoy Oxford, which I missed my grades for by two marks


• Anatomical studies including the phrase 'are heads meant to be bigger than arses?'


• Some really, really disturbing poems about how humanity is doomed to die and we should hurry up about it


• Stupendously good character designs


• Old gender thoughts


• Poetry indicating I have always been tired

Today's been a busy day on my art blog.

First off, today's big deal art, a painting of Breq floating in space from Imperial Radch - spoilers for Ancillary Mercy! I'm quite chuffed with it. I did it yesterday but held off posting bc I was trying to stay off tumblr.

I had my scheduled reblog of old art, showing ZGRXF, Esaci's best friend from the big game. I really wanted to draw a dragonborn and get really into it, so I asked my friend if I could draw his character. Z's something of an arrogant git quite often, but they're Esaci's arrogant git - and Esaci is a reckless, wrathful, stubborn git when ze wants to be zirself.

And then this evening I've been playing around with CSP's Colorize function - I don't like it most of the time - but it did produce this beautiful portrait of Sir Bors. He's the only male character I've ever played and like, he was a giant psychic metal man, he was only a man because the 70s British government thought Arthurian knights should be. End of the Line was a fucking wild ride and I can't do it justice in a few words, but Sir Bors was a really great character and I'm glad I had him.