Reina commission, and OTEP.

A couple days ago, Holly Bell sent the FINAL final version of my Reina commission. She's a really nice person, and a growing talent worth supporting, IMO. I've thanked her so many times already. :D

I've posted the finished piece on my journal here: 3 Views of Reina. I still had to reduce the picture size quite a bit because of the width. I may try and crop to get the details on each pose later, but I'm lazy right now. This is the largest size I've got in the gallery at the moment.

While I was out earlier I ended up buying OTEP's The_Ascension. I admire Otep as an artist, she is seriously hardcore in a genre (metal) that is largely male dominated, *particularly* in vocals. Also, her "confessional" style of writing takes a lot of (proverbial in her case) balls to express as raw and unabashedly as she does through her music. I think I have a decent, expressive voice, and can put a fair amount of power in it when I'm not shy, but I doubt I could be THAT intense.

Not that intensity of that type is always desired... but, damn. I kind of want to be her. And kinda not, because her life must have been hell to be able to express herself in that way. Otep >>> me. :O