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Raphael Koster.
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Pencils

Seashell (71k)
This I think was my favorite piece. The original is exactly 3 inches square. The shell I drew it from was maybe 3/4 of an inch long. I had to use a magnifying glass to see the detail on it. In the end I faked it: the shell is much more detailed than the drawing is!
Tulip (73k)
A great example of inability to scan soft pencils. This tulip actually has a background of bricks behind it, and a penciled border around it, and lots of very soft shading you can't see in this scan. Oh well.
Bottles and a glass (242k)
This is actually maybe a third of the full drawing, which is maybe 36 by 18 inches. This was done with white charcoal pencils on black paper. One of the artists at Origin asked to buy it from me, and I had to tell him no, because it's one of my wife's favorites.

Doodles

These days I am a lot more likely to doodle during meetings than to actually draw. So this section is a collection of doodles!

This demon was done during a UO team meeting.
The meeting kept going, so I ended up with this slug too.
A week later, a different meeting yielded only a little guy. It was a short meeting.
By this time, co-workers were starting to peek over at my pad to wonder what I was doing. I decided to convey my opinion of the meeting with this frog faced thing.
At the latest team meeting, our producer wondered out loud what the heck would be in my notebook that week. So I produced this tentacled dripping cut in half demon with medusa hair and fins just to make him happy. It was a fairly long meeting, so I was able to get elaborate.
Here's a less monstrous doodle of a little girl sleeping.