This one is for Megan, who asked so nicely. Sometimes, especially when animating a character, the character takes up residence in your head. It's obvious that she's "related' to the Q2 model I recently completed, but is not /quite the same. Occasionally she sits in myhead and asks to be let out onto the paper, and oftne I have no clue what she wants to do.This is her using her weapons. Pencil on paper. Scott Ruggels 1999

A lot of times, a character will show other sides of themselves unexpectedly. I never expected her to be "nice", but she seems to be. This is a cropped version of a larger sketch page . the full page I will post to "binaries" as it has (gasp!) humans in it. But a lot of this is exploring character. Finding out what they are like. (not that this does me a whole lot of good, as I have lots of characters, and a poor ability to tell stories.) If I have to animate her again, I'm ready. Scott Ruggels 1999

I like to find out about new animals, for example, yesterday I learned of a large, spider-legged creature, called a House Centipede. Apparently they live in my dorm... um.. and I hate killing things, so I trapped the one in my room in a cookie tin and let it go outside... it was like three inches long. They say bigger ones live in the basement..

It's a cat pirate, complete with sexy wide open shirt letting his wonderful chest fur blow in the breeze! As you can see, this is in a style that is very rare for me.. or at least in finished pieces. As for the tail (or lack thereof) let's just say he's a manx :P

Rough sketch of a soon to be markered and inked pic.

My lady cat knows the story behind this pic. ;)