Balance

If I was going to have just one picture here, it would be this one. "Balance" was my submission to the Vanguard fan art contest (the fox people, the Raki, were one of their three races, though we didn't know much about them at that point), and it was the winning entry. Which meant that this artwork is supposed to actually appear in game, but...well, with the way things went down with that game, I'm pretty sure they never got around to it.

As far as the picture, here is the blurb I wrote for it at the time:

"The ironic thing about that is that no painting I have ever done has ever been so much for myself. It's almost biographical. I drew it at a time when everything else I did was for someone else, and so I think I channelled all my need for a "me drawing" into this. My fox and my bluejay (which is expressed in the blue dress and the fact that she's in the air). My struggle to have grace in the face of adversity; to find balance. The ground which she walks on is unstable and icy, and the winds that oppose her are unpredictable and fierce. She is one moments slip from falling to her death, and yet she is poised and confident (though she probably has very cold toes)."

The artwork "Balance" is reprinted with permission from Vanguard: The Saga of Heroes © 2005 Sigil Games Online, Inc.