This is the other picture I got permission to scan and post. Note the 1996 date and the fact that my last name is written as 'Cook' still. This is an interesting picture in many ways. Firstly history wise is shows a lot of the neat things I had introduced Uriel to artwise. He played with shading film (before digital shading became easy to use and manage, us old fogies would buy sheets of plastic with dots printed on it and cut and stick it to art so it could have reproducible shading effects). He also used white ink and pigma pens for the first time here.

The junk on the ground is pretty symbolic too. I'd just shown him My Neighbor Totoro and he fell in love with it, so he stuck a picture of a totoro in the ground. I have a chocolate obsession so he put a chocolate bar there. Plus our RPG gaming dice, miscellaneous pencils and paper that tend to litter our wake, and the little plastic dinosaur that had a song written about it. Also, be wary, you may be eaten by a grue hiding in the shadows.

And finally, Uriel's engineer side shows in many aspects here. His perspective on the gun, book, and crucifix still amaze me.

That's it for the Uriel art for now. There's nothing in the history books really worth scanning. Although when he does his yearly picture I'll try and scan it in!