Welcome to Drakken Hallows

Just a gallery of images I have created in various design programs, from Paint Shop Pro, to Maya, to Krita, to Revit. Games will have their own page.

Above is my main character in wow Amortis on US East Dalaran Server as I would want him to look. This shows off the progression from Byö aka Byórðæįr Vas'Ðrakken my first paladin in world of warcraft and an one of my pc in dungeons and dragons, who was a paladin dedicated to Freya, who in world of warcraft dies fighting the scurge and is raised by Arthas Menethil as a Death Knight. He rebels against the Lich King and makes peace with Freya as a scared Templar and Death Knight in her service once more. This took a month and time from gearing up my character in game. The point was to have it actually look like me, and have it as joke about being Óðr Freya's husband and warrior in her service.

There is about a hundred layers so if I want to re draw and do the armor I don't have to redo Freya.

To the right is Babble Vas'Drakken my mage casting a portal spell. More stuff with the Northrend expansion in mind.
I used a photo of myself that the barber who cut my hair in Toronto, took and I liked the way it came out but I think I have the head scaled too big for the body. Part of the problem is I only have a 11x17 or A3 scanner. Likely I am going to have to draw my face by hand scan and paint it in krita to get it to look right.

This is what my warlock in world of warcraft should look like. Blacks for negitve space blue and green accent colors and silver for the metal.

The sucubi in green and purple to pay homage to the game's original class locked colors and they just look good. Blue flaming sword for the demons of Northrend. I added brown leather items for contrast. 

    Every time I am in Hawai'i I end up talking with some locals about pele stories. I have heard some crazy ones over the years, but my favorite was an origin story how pele was a French noble woman who snuck on board the ship captain cook took around cape horn and sailed to Hawai'i as a cabin boy. One version I heard she was a noble woman leaving before the stevedores guild kicked off the mess and another as a nun. How ever she got on the ship they all agreed that it was French ketch with Dutch rigging as Galiote à bombe meaning no foremast to leave space for the mortars. I know ketches sailed through rough seas all over the world so a French ketch could have made the trip.

     So I created a image could exist in Hawai'i but I could not get the lava to look like the volcanos in Hawai'i and still have a layout that gave me room to draw the woman in it. The volcanos in Hawai'i are lots of steam and lit bits of lava mostly. All the mountains are volcanic in nature but the hole that created the ring of fire is not like it was when captain cook showed up in 1778 but he might have seen the volcanos flowing down to the beach in Kuai.   So it is mix of cliffs from Hana and volcanos from my imagination as much as the only on that goes down to the water Kuai. I made Pele a French noble woman dedicated to the catholic church ascending as an angel to look after the Hawai'ian people. To the Hawai'ian Pele is a sprite as much as a God that looks after them, and many are Shinto and Catholic as a French priest showed up in the 1800 so Pele as an angel or aspect of the virgin Mary many Hawai'ians would shrug and say as long as nature is respected it fits within the culture. As an ordained knight of the roman catholic church I should be careful with my views as thinking God is a woman or something greater than male or female but God created humanity wither it was through designing the DNA to adapt until something that could speak and reason developed or as spark of the divine in the garden or Eden then creating something that thousands of years later would look and think like her vision before she created earth.

     ​No one knows but DNA is too complex and Intelligence requires so many pieces to actually happen that was not random chance. But in Hawai'i I saw a people that things like ohana means family was more like the concepts in the bible most Catholics would not recognize if you quote them to them. Most go through the motions not even understanding why they are there and pay lip service to actual faith. The number of times I should have died and did not at this point in my life is scary to think about. I think I must have amused God at some point because while somethings have repeatedly happened that should not have, the number of times I was flirting with a woman who decided to sleep with me because she was intrigued in in the three digits at this point. Most data suggests most people do not actual risk getting hurt and only ever date a handful of people and most do not even share fluids with more than five to six. So even where it was usually talking a handful of women into sleeping with me that spiraled all out of control at least mine, to fifty of there friends wanting to find out guys are worth trying out. Maybe it was being in the right place at the right time, the Type O Negative tour was pure charisma and the fact most lesbians get confused around me even when I have a beard. Several have told me I flirt like a woman, I shrug and say so is it working and that usually gets a laugh.

     To me what matters most is one I don't die due to the weird thing my cells do when they come in contact with male hormones. The heart wants what the heart wants but informed consent matters the most, know what you are going to inflict on your descendants but don't let media tell you what the ideal look is it changes every few years. So no hookers or married women for me. that is four to six hundred virgins. After about two years all my cells are gone from a woman's body so they can play around if they want but the ones I have kept in touch with ninety percent are sleeping with women like they were before they met me. This effects my art style and view point on life. The screen actors guild non sense in 2012 was due them being told they would be in the film actors guild if they were not straight. For all I know Zany was just messing with me, but I had my landlord thinking I was selling myself due to all the woman who came through my apartment in Los Angles. I only know for certain about Michelle's three kids and Joan's one but most got drunk afterwards during or before, so that might have something to do with it. When I went up to Toronto in 2014 to 2015 prank week was at it's worse in decades since they started do it at valentines day. So I was trying to get one of my co-workers to sleep with me. I didn't know she was having problems with other staff and I was making things worse so we are walking to get food and I say getting a women to sleep with you is 90 percent confidence and 20 percent luck. So she says prove it. I sigh and say pick any women but if she is not a virgin I'm not sharing fluids with her, and I will get her to sleep with me. She grins and says you didn't say what you would risk so I get to pick it. I laugh and say as long as the woman is viable I can do it. I was probably a wee bit manic that month but she picks a group of college girls. I walk up and say I have a bet with my friend back there I can get you to sleep with me. I said if I can get you to orgasm I win the bet, if I can not you can do anything you want to me. They argue back and forth for about fifteen minutes and then say we have a place close by prove it. So I win the bet but what I don't plan for is they are members of the lesbian alliance which was getting sick of straight guys claiming to be gay then trying to sleep with them. So when I said I want to sleep with you in what fantasy would that make me gay? Sealed the deal. So prank week happens and I wake up in my bed covered in grease and my sheets are tied in a bow with my arms inside. It took me wriggling off my bed and bumping into my dresser which had a knife on it. So I should have been dead I don't know how many women since they bloody roofied me, but a couple friends sent me video afterwards and taunted me but I could see the scars from were I got my gall bladder taken out the weird arrangement of veins and messed up toes and fingers. the middle finger on my right hand I broke on the way to high school and the splint the doctor put on it caused it to heal twisted. The color and the fact they shaved my balls which I have never cut the hair before so it was clear the number went up by how much I have no idea, but random women means I should have died. So a male god would not find me funny, a female god might be half the reason weird stuff happens.

 ​    This leads to why I decided to create an origin story for Pele the Hawai'ian goddess of fire, because to many Hawai'ians they are not gods but spirts or angels. Shinto is basically catholic but you have to respect nature so for a large portion of the Japanese and Koreans they go to catholic church, respect nature and thank the spirts that protect Hawai'i. Being an angel she would have been born mortal because the choirs that have the most impact on humanity they were born mortal and God found them useful. The catholic church has process they think people go from good people to saints to angels and so forth but I question if God sees a need for a new angel taking that long to fill a need.

     I took the stories the Hawai'ians told me and captain cook got to Hawai'i before the heads rolled so painted it as if she left because God told her to leave early. The blue of the royal family since the ones in nunneries are really the only ones not accounted for by the French government I think there was twenty people that could tracer their ancestry to the French nobility in 1998 when I was visiting the French mint. The black leather because it showed all the imperfections while the brown might be from several animals and the dye used to make leather tended to be a navy blue from squid ink and expensive, while brown was from umber and cheap. A halo and sun coming out with god rays because it suits the time period. The process is more lengthy for me because I start with pen and ink. I tried Wacom tablets several times, I can use a cintiq because I can see where my pen is drawling but the disconnect I get trying to go from one paper to another kills the tablets. So I draw on plain white 11x17 and scan it with my Epson at 600 dpi and move stuff around I never get starting point right on the paper the first time. So once I get everything in the right place for layout reasons I print it out and add details this is normally a multi day thing because I don't have blocks of time I have to sleep and go to work to pay my bills. Some times I get tired sitting at my computer for no reason and have to sleep for at least twenty minutes before I can focus. Once the details and layout is right I work on the secondary elements and draw and scan those to add to a different layer. It gets interesting because once I start adding color to the image printing it out is a problem because if it looks right the paper is not right to draw on, if the paper is right the color looks wrong and often most of the faces are only color. I might draw stuff for proportions and cover the ink with color but if I need to change anything big I just start over. At some point next year maybe I will break down and get a Wacom Cintiq Pro 27 to be able to do the entire process digitally but 4k is a lot of money right now.

These are images I did in a mix of paint shop pro and photoshop as the cintiq they had at full sail university had photo shop and that was it. So I would draw stuff at school then come home and convert it to several png images take them into paint shop pro and tweak them with a mouse and filters to get the glow right I could not to save my life in photoshop. The water was just not happening in photoshop. But they are old they were what I did to get into the finals department along with the 3D watermill I edited into a real image so it looks like it belongs. The watermill I did in a week because they told me at the last minute what I needed to do. 

Boeing had a competition and for it I kind of skirted what I could do and recreated the ship I was working on in October of 1997. So I am prohibited by the Department of Defense from ever experimenting with the technology I designed for an Air Force project, as we could have killed someone with the sonic boom we created. General Higgins told me he had to repay 4.5 million dollars to the USAF because of the windows we blew out with an new propulsion system we didn't ask to permission from headquarters or congress to test. I personally didn't think it was going to get off the ground and was just hoping if it blew up it didn't kill me. It worked as a propulsion system. As something to put out to bid it was not ready. 

The problem is I was not an engineer or electronic guy. I understood physics and chemistry. I think it worked on the principle of increasing the density of the air until it collapses similar to how iron in the sun becomes heat and light. Nothing is ever lost just converted to something else. So when Boeing had their contest I recreated the propulsion system with the half we did not have back then the electronics and better flight controls. A heads up display and a universal keyboard completed the image. I know what it takes to create a seven or nine stage system with the tech so stage one to two is a linearly increase in power much like an afterburner, from stage two to three, it starts ramping up but still linearly. From stage three to four exponentially increase in power. Stage four to five stabilizes what is similar to fuel air bomb at that point, and exponentially increase. Most flight systems could stop at stage four. From stage five to six it becomes logarithmically more powerful due to the magnetic fields interacting with the increase in ions I have a feeling when it goes logarithmically more powerful there is exotic particles involved like higg bosoms. From six to seven the flames coming out of the exhaust are blue and green something is burning to cause the green flames and it was not in the steel we used. This is where the test rocket was supposed to stop. Merle Paytas's class had more room and she may have asked me when they were building it but I don't think so. From stage seven to eight what is coming out of the exhaust is high energy particles. Since there was room in our f-104 starfighter hull for nine stages they built nine stages. 

Ten gallons of JP-8 jet fuel and three and half minutes to get me blue flight suit instead of a green one that drew enough questions as it was. So for the contest I built a model of what I had designed before no new tinkering. What was new was the body the engine went in and how it would exhaust because if we had waited until tech was ready we might not have nearly killed people. It would have been more useful as the F104 is great for learning to pilot rockets which is why NASA uses them, the controls suck and the electronics don't exist. I recently reached out to the USAF research company because while I may be prohibited from experimenting with the technology we have several companies in the country that have scientists and engineers who likely can figure out how to use the technology in a safe manner. It was for an air force project and general Higgins said we lost control of it years ago but I figure if the USAF paid for the windows they paid enough to make it a work for hire project. 

With the cost of fuel getting worse and worse, the tech they are using to get to the ISS and the moon is barely covering what they need it to do. They need this technology and with Biden dead the last person who was opposing putting it out to the tech companies is gone. To the right is the google maps image in 2026 it is kind of blown out but you can still see the flight path on the main runway where the blue line is. The green is where it was on the ground from the lower green line before lifting off and landing at the green line at the top. Needless to say the controls in our test frame was a joystick that went forward and back. In use it went full forward and I did a loop de lope and had no control on what it did. I stopped and inch from a row of concrete pillars at the end of the runway were the concrete stops.
 
    This post is really for the keyboard models and idea of integrating the virtual keyboards in windows with a small lcd or similar tech to display what ever character was active on the keyset in windows. I have built keyboards in the past when Norway was recreating their national language and they wanted the dead key which took a bunch of people to figure out how to get all the characters Norse uses. For the contest I had a an English one a Scandinavian one and an Asian one based on kanji and few others more interesting ones. I priced the lcd when the contest was going on it would have cost like 300 dollars to build the keyboard and that was with keys that would not depress unless a magnetic glove was worn to unlock them.

    For steering I looked at how subs steered and realized that I could use the amount of thrust being varied by bigger and smaller cyclotrons so the exhaust plume behaves like a flame and leave the body shape of the airframe to control the air flow so one set of controls for in and out of atmosphere. I rented time on a supercomputer in Toronto to simulate the effect on the plume they were breaking in their new super computer so it was like thousand dollars to simulated what the fields would do to the plume.

I have played too many flight sims over the decades and two things stand out playing with a stick that is not designed to fit your hand is going to slow down how fast you get used to controlling the airframes. I knew it needed a system to swap out flights and to only use right hand and left sticks but this means the flight software had to know which stick was in and which was throttle. 

Writing this in 2026 several mfg. design planes that do this but it was revolutionary in when I did the sketches so I am very glad some one got the idea to point it became a useful product. The heads up display takes the idea in the F16 and places a clear display with information projected on to so flight commander from his raised seat can see both consoles and their screens from his seat. In the final design I added a station forward of the two for navigation when looking out the canopy is pointless. I went through about 200 dollars worth of Lexan samples before I found one that would work but it would still need to be covered in quartz for heat reasons.

The Lexan was made by Sabic and since that was a decade ago whatever they have now is likely better. But glass has a bell which can break easy and polycarbonate melts so you combine the two like I combine quartz with m42 steel to create the skin of the hull which out performs the tiles used on space ships. You just have to have more power as the weight is an issue if you were having trouble lifting enough fuel, oxygen and stuff before you add the weight of what is basically granite.