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let's play:
count the stolen items!
concepts not included.

i was going through my old art looking for any gems i might've missed from my hi-skool dayz (my talent's "heyday") and i found this. i can't believe i'd never scanned/shared it before.

well, before LOA, before vector--shitting hell, before i could do ANYTHING artistic on the computer, i had a 'little' project called Silicon Half.
i didn't know the meaning of inking one's art for presentation.
i didn't know the meaning of one having one's own style.
i colored laboriously with watercolor paints and rarely changed out my rinse cup. and i drew and painted all on copy paper.
i also was several years into a gender crisis i began in the sixth grade, and dressed like this. well, at least i thought i was hot.

Silicon Half (or Si/2 as i thought was so super kewl) was basically a plagiarized bastardization of everything i liked about anime crossmutated with my older fantasy writing that became a giant very bad story. cyberpunk, necromancy, spaceships, dragons, you know the drill. early influences included Euro fantasy and the Animorphs (hey it was the 90's!) i later found a taste for Asian fare and borrowed freely from my alltime faves Ghost in the Shell, Armitage III, Saber Marionette J and oh-- can't forget GW and DBZ! so basically Jen was an orphaned alien cyborg teen mom in the military who had an obligation to the city in which she lived to also protect it from evil dragons. oh, and none of this took place on Earth, but a lot of humans in the military on her other-other home planet lived there in secret. she had a killer "true form" that was a giant saber toothed snow leopard with horns and she retained the tail (and originally the ears) of this form.

no one really addressed me face to face about how lame and stolen it all was. i abandoned it after some-odd eight years of sluggish, unrealistic "production." i had started refining it into something of my own in the early 2000's, but i couldn't rescue it. i was really good with the different styles i copied but there was just no trace of myself in it; by my junior year i had already developed an odd daydream about the world inside of my head into a full-fledged story item that later became LOA. JnJ was also very strong on my mind a lot. both revolved around iterations of my life and featured main characters based off of myself-- one a lot cooler and stronger, and the other a lot more of a hapless love victim.

the bottom of my gallery is full of this crap, as well as some scattered JnJ art and proto-Law of Averages work (i called it the Private Lives of Major Ka back then). it's aight i guess. interestingly different from my stuff now. i revisited and rewrote much of this, and also cleaned up the image a lot so i thought i'd uncheck the minor edit and let folks see it once more.

it took a long time for me to realize it, but... Jen sucks. i'm glad i trashed the project, but it will always have a special place in my heart (and in the Eden box office records XD)

Description
let's play:
count the stolen items!
concepts not included.

i was going through my old art looking for any gems i might've missed from my hi-skool dayz (my talent's "heyday") and i found this. i can't believe i'd never scanned/shared it before.

well, before LOA, before vector--shitting hell, before i could do ANYTHING artistic on the computer, i had a 'little' project called Silicon Half.
i didn't know the meaning of inking one's art for presentation.
i didn't know the meaning of one having one's own style.
i colored laboriously with watercolor paints and rarely changed out my rinse cup. and i drew and painted all on copy paper.
i also was several years into a gender crisis i began in the sixth grade, and dressed like this. well, at least i thought i was hot.

Silicon Half (or Si/2 as i thought was so super kewl) was basically a plagiarized bastardization of everything i liked about anime crossmutated with my older fantasy writing that became a giant very bad story. cyberpunk, necromancy, spaceships, dragons, you know the drill. early influences included Euro fantasy and the Animorphs (hey it was the 90's!) i later found a taste for Asian fare and borrowed freely from my alltime faves Ghost in the Shell, Armitage III, Saber Marionette J and oh-- can't forget GW and DBZ! so basically Jen was an orphaned alien cyborg teen mom in the military who had an obligation to the city in which she lived to also protect it from evil dragons. oh, and none of this took place on Earth, but a lot of humans in the military on her other-other home planet lived there in secret. she had a killer "true form" that was a giant saber toothed snow leopard with horns and she retained the tail (and originally the ears) of this form.

no one really addressed me face to face about how lame and stolen it all was. i abandoned it after some-odd eight years of sluggish, unrealistic "production." i had started refining it into something of my own in the early 2000's, but i couldn't rescue it. i was really good with the different styles i copied but there was just no trace of myself in it; by my junior year i had already developed an odd daydream about the world inside of my head into a full-fledged story item that later became LOA. JnJ was also very strong on my mind a lot. both revolved around iterations of my life and featured main characters based off of myself-- one a lot cooler and stronger, and the other a lot more of a hapless love victim.

the bottom of my gallery is full of this crap, as well as some scattered JnJ art and proto-Law of Averages work (i called it the Private Lives of Major Ka back then). it's aight i guess. interestingly different from my stuff now. i revisited and rewrote much of this, and also cleaned up the image a lot so i thought i'd uncheck the minor edit and let folks see it once more.

it took a long time for me to realize it, but... Jen sucks. i'm glad i trashed the project, but it will always have a special place in my heart (and in the Eden box office records XD)