Dee Moyza

With these pieces, my little zine is nearly complete! I have one blank page at the end of the zine, and I'm debating whether to leave it blank, make another illustration for it, or put a little author's note there, maybe just a thanks for reading to an as-yet-undetermined audience. :)

Anyhow, piccies!

( Cats' breakfast )

( Completed Valancy picture )

A few more decisions, a couple of layout tweaks, and then printing. 😱 I'm afraid I'm going to be spending the better part of an afternoon at FedEx Office.

And afterward, I'll have to see about converting this to a PDF. Just because.

He'll be making his debut on Tumblr tomorrow morning, but I figured I'd go ahead and post him here, as well. Based on the comments to this post, I have taken a cracky little idea far too seriously once again!

Now, I present to you, Sorcerer Seifer:


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I didn't bother with shading this time, but I'm still really happy with how he turned out.

( Lineart! Because I'm super happy with it, too! )

Fanwork-wise, 2020 was definitely a year of firsts for me.  I branched out and wrote my first fics in several fandoms besides FF8; I participated in my first fic exchanges (Press Start, Yuletide, and SGG Secret Santa), and, along the way, I ended up writing my first E-rated fic 😳; and I even dabbled in a bit of fanart, to the best of my limited artistic ability.

Fanworks were my refuge during the crazy year that was, and I thought it would be nice to put together a little retrospective.  For this list, I'm only counting works that were first posted in 2020, whether they are complete or still in progress.

Looking back on what I've done this year, I feel a bit better about the state of my creativity in 2020, and hope to keep this momentum going into next year!

( Transistor )

( Final Fantasy VI )

( Final Fantasy VIII )

( Final Fantasy X )

( Bastion )

( Ocarina of Time )

( Illusion of Gaia )

Since I first played the game, I've been fascinated by this design on some of the windows in Transistor:

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It's most notably seen in Fairview, but it also appears at the Empty Set. While it is most likely just a very pretty motif, my overeager little brain can't help inventing stories for it. Perhaps it is the personification of a virtue, or of Cloudbank, itself. Or perhaps it has a spiritual connotation: I can't help noticing the plant life in the clouds, and the city inverted beneath. A personification of the Country, perhaps? Or of some sort of deity? There's no indication of what religion looks like in Cloudbank, but Wave Tennegan having been a vicar suggests that it's not entirely absent.

While I'm definitely mulling over interpretations and their implications for headcanons (and possibly future use in fics), I decided to pursue one interpretation in visual form. I present to you the WIP of "Our Lady of Cloudbank":


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I have to fix the dress, color it (arrgh!!!), and add a background, but I'm pretty satisfied with the way it's turning out. Though I do not consider myself an artist, per se, I do so enjoy dabbling in it when the mood strikes. :) I finally got a small tablet to work with, and learning how to use drawing/editing software is really fun (though a bit frustrating at times). I don't know how long this will take me to finish, but I'm decently proud of the progress I've made so far. :D