Smile Like You Mean It

aw, Tori looks just like any other normal teenage girl that obviously shops at holister and sits in windows to watch the sunset. :] yeah, he's an odd erson. if he were real, he' be one of the strangest people i know.
  anyways, i just had to draw Tori smiling for once. this picture came to me in a very weird dream the other night and i was at some park and there was a treehouse and this old lady and . . . nevermind. i kind of failed at . . . most everything in this picture, but that's okay. i wish it would have turned out better, but it was the best i could do.
again with this certain kind of coloring. i think it might develope in to a style. who knows. i used to suck at it, but i've gotten a bit better at it. i just thought it fit what i was doing.
   also, sorry for posting so many pictures of this haracter. i always have fun drawing him an he's my character in my book so there's another reason for you. yes, my character in my book is a guy. i didn't really mean for it to be this way as my character originally was Kira, but I realized I gave him more qualities that I have. In fact, he has more in common with me than any other character and there’s no rule that says my character has to be the same gender. All in all, I will try to get some other person up after my next post (since I know that one will also be of Kira and Tori)

Hold my Heart

   well, this is actually something i had to do for school. In class we were reading the Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe and we were supposed to make a movie poster with . . . stuff in it. Anyway, this is what i did and i'm really proud of that heart there ^. it looks like glass. i've never done something like that before so i think it's pretty cool. by the by, its very rare that i like one of my drawings. I only like the heart in this one though. everything else could be fixed up.

   sorr for the bit of blood that's there. i hope it's okay to post a picture with that. in the story, someone dies and my teacher said it was okay. Ms. Dickson, if you need for me to take it down, i will.

   happy bloody, late valentines day!

The Lone Travelers

   well, this is the cover of a book called the Lone Travelers. i made it for my friend who is getting it published soon. i hope she likes it! i haven't exactly shown her the finished version yet, but i think its up to standerds.

   there really isn't any more to say about this so . . .

Taunting Death

"so, are we friends then?"

"of course we are."

"always?"

"and maybe even forever."

this is the cover for the first book of my series, Chasing Ember, called Taunting Death. from left to right the characters are, Tori Haruno, Risa, and Kira Asakura. they are three of the many main characters in the book. i chose them because they are the three in who's point of view the book is being told from.

   some of you may know, but not a lot of you, that i have been interested in writing for a very long time now. i started writing the beginning of this book one night when i was away with my parents and i had already decided that i wanted to write a book sometime in my life. as l kept writing, the plot deepened and more and more characters appeared that i got attached to. i got pulled in to the writing and i couldn't seem to take my pencil off the paper. i have been working on this series for almost three years now. i would be done with the first book, but i decided that combining the first and the second book would make much more sense.

   the first book explains the plot of the series. four people across the world were sent strange dreams by a person who had long since been dead in the world they lived in. depictions of spirits, demons and mysterious temple were passed to them through sleep. when wanting rest from these tiring dreams, a girl, Kira Asakura, finds that all of the strange happenings around her seem to be leading to this place called The Temple of Ember. she and her newly found friend, Tori Haruno both set out in search of this place they know absolutely nothing about, to try and find the meaning behind these visions. when they arrive, they could have never guessed what awaited them there. New faces, old places, a lot of training, and a dark tale that foretells the coming rise of darkness and the death of the one who can stop it.