30 Days Writing Meme -- Question Twenty Six

26. Let's talk art! Do you draw your characters? Do others draw them? Pick one of your OCs and post your favorite picture of him!

(Warning - some of the links in this post are NSFW)

I don't draw very well *laughs* I wish I could. Having said that, here's a pic of Vance and Ayan in their pre-Afterthought guises (though they still look the same).

I had work in the Yaoicon anthology in 2006, and those stories were illustrated (by Liv Lingborn — scroll down to `Switching Sides`, that's the only pic in this gallery of the original set of…five, I think?), which was a huge kick for me. It was the first time I'd had any (non-me) art drawn of my characters, and I admit something about seeing them for the first time sent a shiver down my spine. Covers do the same for me — I've had some fantastic covers (you can see 'em all here, and the newest is further back on the blog), but on some level it's always just plain weird when you first see your characters `in person`, the way someone else has interpreted them from your description. There's something almost unnerving about seeing the contents of your head in pictures *laughs* Awesome, but strange.