Author Montage picture...

[seawasp]

Here's a pic of me that I Photoshopped together with stuff relevant to my writing, etc.







(Click on the picture for a full-size version)

I put this together for Genericon, but I think it's just overall a pretty good pic of me too.

Comments

[melchar.livejournal.com]

It's a very nice picture - and the subject of it looks quite distinguished, as well. Well done.

[nycshelly.livejournal.com]

Nicely done.

[fallenpegasus]

You don't look at all like my mental image of you.

[alex swavely (from livejournal.com)]

Is your forehead really that yellow? Or is my monitor off?

[claidheamhmor]

I like the pic! I always wondered what you looked like.

[callahanshappy.livejournal.com]

Fascinating.

[noctyrnus.livejournal.com]

This is a good picture of you , Ryk. You look content :)

[zizban.livejournal.com]

Pretty neat!

I haven't seen you on LWE's newsgroup in a while so it's good to see you still live.

[nerem.livejournal.com]

Hey, have you seen any of the Hades - Inferno chapter yet? The anime is also making a brand new story arc not in the manga, but I dunno what to think about that... I'm not real happy with the animation of the recent OAVs, since they seem a lot less then what they could do, but maybe I'm just spoiled.

I blame you for getting me into Saint Seiya, by the way.

Photographic critiques

[lexomatic.livejournal.com]

I don't remember your hair looking like that -- so very, if I may say so, boring. Of course, I last saw your hair a full decade ago, and it may have changed. Or it may just blend into the background of the image.

Next photo, I'd go with a solid-color collared shirt. Stripes just don't say "professional," and in this case, there are already too many textures in the image. I don't like the blue-grey, but it might look fine as a solid.

Also, there's no energy to that pose. The asymmetry is bland. Your crossed arms are tangent to the lower edge of the image, which is a compositional no-no; your face isn't at the magic one-third position; and it looks like you have stubs for fingers.

Your facial expression and head position is very bland. You're not baring your teeth in challenge, quirking an eyebrow, or turned to three-quarter view. You're leaning towards the camera, so your neck is foreshortened. You look positively vapid.

I think the upper frame of the eyeglasses obscure your eyebrows blend together in this shot, and they also bend down at the corners -- it looks a bit dour. And the yellow tint gives a jaundiced tint to the area around your eyes.