The Art of Cosmic Citadel
The Art of Cosmic Citadel

The Art of Cosmic Citadel

I create art. I use that term loosely. And I'll even share it with you.


The Smellster | A Very Short Story

1 May 2019 1 minute read 0 comments CosmicCitadel

The king brushed jellied meat from his fingertips onto his robe, then wiped his robe on the tablecloth. “Bring in the smellster!” he said. Duke Humphrey toyed with the lace at his sleeve. “My king, what’s a smellster?” “It’s like a jester, except ins...

A Simple Background that Could be Used for a Game

30 Apr 2019 1 minute read 0 comments CosmicCitadel

I was just playing around with Krita, the free open source digital painting application (https://krita.org), and I came up with these simple shapes. After coloring them in, I thought they looked like they could be from the background of a game. Worki...

A Duck on a Pond and Drawing Thoughts

29 Apr 2019 1 minute read 1 comment CosmicCitadel

Sometimes you feel like drawing something, but you're not sure what.  Whenever you're in the mood to draw, you should just sit down and start drawing and let the pen or pencil or mouse go where it may.  Sometimes you get interesting results. With thi...

Squiggly Color Art

26 Apr 2019 1 minute read 2 comments CosmicCitadel

This bit of art was yet another experiment with drawing tools.  I had recently installed Krita (https://krita.org/en/) a free and open-source digital painting program available for every major desktop environment, and I was exploring its tools. Krita...

A Technological Bunny in Space

26 Apr 2019 1 minute read 0 comments CosmicCitadel

It's a bunny, in space! This is a rather interesting little experiment I created with a recent testing version of Blender 2.8.  I had downloaded the latest version of the free 3D modeling program (http://www.blender.org) but I hadn't used it yet, so...