Rydain Darkstar
Artist | Hobbyist | Digital Art

United States

I'm a software engineer with an artsy fartsy side and an addiction to adaptations of Three Kingdoms Chinese history and lore. I enjoyed drawing back in high school, fell off the wagon, and have been working my way back on ever since the fan art bug bit me.

My main interest is black and white line illustration featuring people. I sporadically work on digital painting as well. My formal art education stopped at an intermediate level, without any strong focus on anatomy or line rendering, so my recent progress has largely been self-taught. Follow my scraps if you'd like to see the studies and preliminary sketches I'll be posting from time to time. I also make an occasional banner or wallpaper.

I'm more of a writer than a visual artist, and I'm lazy about cross-posting. My website links to the fiction archive accounts I keep most up-to-date.

If you'd like to ink, color, or iconify any of my drawings - have at it. I put them under Creative Commons license for a reason. Just give me fair credit for my work, and please link me to yours so I can see the results.

rydain.org