Art

Click on the thumbnail to see the larger image. I made these by combining darkroom and computer manipulation.

These images are Copyright 1999, Billy Callis. Use without my permission is prohibited.

Not much of a thumbnail, I know. ^_^ But for some reason I can't get it any smaller. A stunning piece of anime-style artwork drawn by Leareth.

More of Leareth's fantastic manga style can be seen hosted at Elfwood.

My best friend Cameron's drawing of his Roleplaying character, Adrian Black.

A picture I made in the Spring: I can't decide whether it's called "Join Hands" or "Shivers", but I'm leaning toward the former. This is what happens when you combine scratchboard and The Birthday Party...

Shivers

Two pictures of my Vampire: The Masquerade character. (No thumbnails.)

Locke Shwarz 1

Locke Shwarz 2

An explanation of the swastika necklace:

This is doubly ironic. The character is of Jewish descent (like me), and the symbol of the Nazis was the Swastika. However, contrary to popular belief, the Nazis did not invent the Swastika. It has been a Buddhist symbol for thousands of years. It represents a turning wheel, change, and the cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth. This is ironic because young Locke was a Buddhist in life, and by being Embraced (made a vampire), rather than escaping from the chain of pain of life and death into the state of never being reborn, he escaped the cycle into living, and essentially feeling pain, for eternity. I thought that probably needed some clearing up.

Photographs I've taken:

Holetown Methodist Church, St. James, Barbados- manipulated.

Holetown Methodist Church 2- manipulated differently.

An Island picture that would go fantastically at the end of a slideshow

Background MIDI: Dead Souls, by Joy Division. Covered by NIN.