Ordinarily I'd have a nice friendly dialogue or something here, but I've been up all night, meaning it's about my bedtime, so my brain is slightly fried. Not too fried to dream up a great new layout for one of my pages and possibly code the entire thing in one sitting, but much too fried to be conversational and pleasant. Which should tell you where I'm at on the social activity scale, vs. the loner HTML slave scale.

   The first gallery today has just about every kind of artwork you'd expect here; from tsunami's cute portrait of Chrono Cross' Serge and Kid, to a graceful and gorgeous Rinoa CG by MonkeyJay. In between we have a nostalgic piece by Cyph, with "FF Classic: Black Mage", three handsome portraits of the leading men of FFVII by Hendrick Sukardi, Merit Tuyet Le Nguyen, and Maggie, and a couple really bizarre pictures - Lord Itlan's "Guess who's coming to dinner...KUPO!" and DancingMadKefka's portrait of a rather startled-looking Kefka.

   In the second gallery, we've also got a wide range, starting off with Simon Woon's "I promise...." featuring Squall and Rinoa. Landale's "I kinda Messed things up, didn't I??" shows Zell in the midst of what seems to be a very bad day - particularly for his hair! Another first-time contributor, Jillian Denkmann, debuts with an impressive Grandia piece featuring Justin and Feena. Two Lunar:SSS pictures appear today, a very cute and humorous one by Sarah Collins, and a darker, realistic portrait by Laura. And finally we come to two superfans, Sakana and YC Tan, who each contribute a picture from the games they're best known for in the pages of Sketch Artist: Saga Frontier and Sakura Taisen respectively.

   And with that, I go to sink back into a Daravon-level stupor... or perhaps to play SO2 or FF1. Darned addictive games.

   -- Andrea Hartmann is a Hartmann tat is Andrea.