davidasnyder

A few new shirts

2011-12-18T12:06:00.000-08:00

Sister's business card

2011-10-05T10:11:00.000-07:00

Excerpt from Dragonlance Legends:Time of the Twins

2011-09-22T13:09:00.000-07:00

The sunlight had just about disappeared and the kender was growing more and more anxious when he heard a noise outside. The door was kicked open violently.
"Caramon!" Tas cried in horror, springing to his feet.
The 2 burly humans dragged the big man in over the doorstep and flung him down on the bed. Then, grinning, they left, slamming the door shut behind them. There was a low, moaning sound from the bed.
"Caramon!" Tas whispered. Hurriedly grabbing up the water pitcher, he dumped some water in a bowl and carried it over to the big warrior's bedside. "What did they do?" he asked softly, moistening the man's lips w/ water.
Caramon moaned again and shook his head weakly. Tas glanced quickly at the big man's body. There were no visible wounds, no blood, no swelling, no purple welts or whip-lash marks. Yet he had been tortured, that much was obvious. The big man was in agony. His body was covered in sweat, his eyes had rolled back in his head. Every now and then, various muscles in his body twitched spasmodically and a groan of pain escaped his lips.
"Was...was it the rack?" Tas asked, gulping. "The wheel maybe? Thumb-screws?" None of those left marks on the body, at least so he had heard.
Caramon mumbled a word.
"What?" Tas bent near him, bathing his face in water. "What did you say? Cali-cali-what? I didn't catch that." The kender's brow furrowed. "I never heard of a torture called cali-something," he muttered. "I wonder what it could be."
Caramon repeated it moaning again.
"Cali...cali...calisthenics!" Tas said triumphantly. Then he dropped the water pitcher onto the floor. "Calisthenics? That's not torture!"
Caramon groaned again.
"That's excercise you big baby!" Tas yelled. "Do you mean I've been waiting her, worried sick imagining all sorts of horrible thing, and you've been out doing exercises!"
Caramon had just strength enough to raise himself off the bed. Reaching out one big hand, he gripped Tas by the collar of his shirt and dragged him over to stare him in the eye.
"I was captured by goblins once", Caramon said in a hoarse whisper, "and they tied me to a tree and spent the night tormenting me. I was wounded by draconians in Xak Tsaroth. Baby dragons chewed on my leg in the dungeons of the Queen of Darkness. And, I swear to you, that I am in more pain now than I have ever been in my life! Leave me alone, and let me die in peace."

Summer in Istar ended. Fall came, one of the most beautiful in anyone's memory. Caramon's training began, and the warrior did not die, though there were times when he thought death might be easier. Tas, too, was strongly tempted on more than 1 occasion to put the big spoiled baby out of his misery. One of these times had been during the night, when Tas had been awakenedby a heartbreaking sob.
"Caramon?" Tas said sleepily, sitting up in bed.
No answer, just another sob.
"What is it?" Tas asked, suddenly concerned. He got out of bed and trotted across the cold, stone floor. "Did you have a dream?"
He could see Caramon nod in the moonlight.
"Was it about Tika?" asked teh tenderhearted kender, feeling tears come to his own eyes at the sight of the big man's grief. "No. Raistlin? No. Yourself? Are you afraid-"
"A muffin!" Caramon sobbed.
"What?" Tas asked blankly.
"A muffin!" Caramon blubbered. "Oh, Tas! I'm so hungry. And I had a dream about this muffin, like Tika used to bake, all covered with sticky honey and those little, crunchy nuts..."
Picking up a shoe, Tas threw it at him and went back to bed in disgust.

2011-09-06T07:26:00.001-07:00

http://downloads.khinsider.com/?u=660719

Summer Airbrushing

2011-09-05T13:10:00.000-07:00

Funtraptions Work-Moody Gardens, TX

2011-07-02T18:56:00.000-07:00

2011-06-22T20:37:00.000-07:00

Funtraptions Work

2011-06-02T15:38:00.000-07:00

2011-04-30T19:51:00.000-07:00

Airbrush Mastery class, Vegas

2011-03-06T13:09:00.000-08:00

snowboard

2010-12-19T18:56:00.000-08:00

2010-11-30T11:23:00.000-08:00

Albacon pieces

2010-10-13T08:04:00.000-07:00

Summer Airbrushing

2010-09-07T17:03:00.000-07:00

2010-05-25T09:43:00.000-07:00

2010-05-20T16:41:00.000-07:00

2010-03-12T20:12:00.000-08:00

2010-03-04T19:08:00.000-08:00

2010-03-02T22:38:00.000-08:00

IF-"propagate"

2010-02-24T13:29:00.000-08:00

2010-02-19T09:56:00.000-08:00

2009-12-28T11:10:00.000-08:00

IF: Hatch

2009-12-13T19:18:00.001-08:00

2009-12-13T19:17:00.001-08:00

Greatest Gift

2009-11-10T09:57:00.000-08:00

2009-09-21T19:58:00.001-07:00

2009-09-14T14:09:00.000-07:00

2009-08-23T12:22:00.000-07:00

Tower from Neverending Story

2009-08-07T15:42:00.001-07:00

1925 Baldwin Grand Piano

2009-07-29T21:06:00.000-07:00

2009-06-23T21:30:00.000-07:00

2009-06-21T21:57:00.000-07:00

cover to my sister's wedding invite and a few other things

Dad's lawnmower

2009-05-15T14:19:00.000-07:00

For some reason wasn't able to get a glossy shine to the clear coat, and the base coat ended up being kind-of rough, think I needed to add acetone or something to the paint to help it atomize better/make it smoother.

Mini-Moose Mural

2009-05-04T14:34:00.000-07:00

Airbrushing on metal

2009-04-26T20:22:00.000-07:00

Illuminated scroll

2009-04-10T15:58:00.000-07:00

Birka Fight

2009-02-04T22:19:00.000-08:00

2009-01-22T20:12:00.000-08:00

2008-12-27T23:38:00.000-08:00

2008-12-20T11:02:00.000-08:00

2008-11-08T21:37:00.000-08:00

2008-10-26T14:51:00.000-07:00

1, 2??, 3 - don't think I'll be painting over my old paintings again

2008-10-08T12:50:00.000-07:00

1, 2, 3... 5'5"x2'2.5"

2008-10-05T11:18:00.000-07:00

Wolf

2008-10-01T14:08:00.000-07:00

2008-09-03T19:56:00.000-07:00

more airbrush

2008-08-22T09:27:00.000-07:00

airbrush hats/tshirts

2008-08-01T09:07:00.000-07:00

IF: Baby

2008-06-03T13:18:00.001-07:00

figure i should try to get back into doing these IF assignments again, think i skipped more than a month of them

2008-05-17T20:38:00.000-07:00

this is what was done of the mural after the initial 4 days i had been working on it, since then i've only been back one day to take care of the outside of the doorway, still don't know when i'll get around to finishing it

2008-05-12T20:51:00.000-07:00

the startings of a mural for my mother's church...this was after two days, they wanted to get the entire room done in 4 days, maybe it would've happened if i didn't have a job, but as things stand now, don't know when it'll get finished

2008-04-21T15:22:00.000-07:00

Today a coworker asked me if J.R.R. Tolkien was the guy who wrote/illustrated Calvin & Hobbes......said the name sounded familiar......

Oh, I'll get around to finishing them sometime....

2008-04-13T19:57:00.000-07:00

2008-03-28T14:23:00.000-07:00

Was doodling at work between the time it was taking for images to scan

2008-03-05T21:59:00.000-08:00

IF: Leap

2008-02-29T13:28:00.000-08:00

$#!#, maybe I should have started at outrunning a bullet, and then worked my way up to the leaping tall buildings.

IF: Multiple

2008-02-26T19:56:00.000-08:00

Did these as tattoo designs for people, just did the one with the female angel the other day, since I had so many of them thought I might be able to pass them off as this week's IF assignment of multiple.

2008-02-25T07:16:00.000-08:00

2008-02-17T20:46:00.001-08:00

IF- "Blanket"

2008-02-05T13:03:00.001-08:00

IF- "Tales and Legends"

2008-01-30T11:42:00.000-08:00

2008-01-29T21:13:00.000-08:00

more old stuff b/c my little sister was complaining i didn't have enough junk up

2008-01-24T21:03:00.000-08:00

Little animations from last year

2008-01-24T12:29:00.000-08:00

Used a stupid conversion program since I couldn't upload flash files to the blogsite, put some sort of floating watermark-like thing over the animations and made them a little jerky, so 2 of them ended up being loaded as mpgs and the snake animation was loaded as a wmv file b/c it wouldn't let it load as an mpg, then there was a longer animation with Odysseus and Polyphemus the cyclops which even though I never finished it was longer than any of these other ones and was unable to be loaded either way which kind of sucks, oh well.

IF-"Plain"

2008-01-19T20:06:00.000-08:00

IF-"Stitch"

2008-01-16T02:14:00.000-08:00

2008-01-10T13:47:00.000-08:00

2008-01-08T21:46:00.000-08:00

2007-12-30T23:29:00.000-08:00

some more older stuff

Thought I'd put some older stuff up

2007-12-30T23:18:00.000-08:00

2007-12-29T14:59:00.000-08:00

2007-12-29T12:29:00.000-08:00

2007-12-28T13:37:00.000-08:00

2007-12-27T09:45:00.000-08:00

these paintings were all done for christmas, 3 as gifts, the other for a commission.

2007-12-27T09:44:00.000-08:00

made a blog the other day but decided this name for it just made more sense