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Douglas Herring
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Artist. Geek. Been going to conventions and faires since the 70's... Cat person. Photographer. Artificer. Movie Props. Ink Art. Watercolors. Sculpting. Casting.
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Exactly!
March 22, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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No
March 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Photos taken on April 24, 2014; of my big wonderful Maine Coon, Rufus the Doofus. He will always live in my heart.

#mainecoon
#tigercats
#gingercat
February 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Thinking of the King In Yellow...
February 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Supporting, as always, Ukraine against Russian aggression...
February 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Incredible new vendor this year at the Seattle Flower and Garden Show - his work has an alien-cephalopod look that I absolutely love! onedreamdesign.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Kitties looking cute... February 18, 2025
February 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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As a devoted Star Trek fan since day one, September 8, 1966; I was immersed in Trek fandom as soon as I found it (August 1972). I did the older map here in 1973, it's based on speculation and canon as was available at the time. See the alt text for more info.
My 2007 update of my original Star Trek Known Space map from 1973. I changed none of the original design, and didn't add any of the later additions to "canon", I think there is a 1973 purity to Star Trek here. Note that the decadent and crumbling Vegan Tyranny is from James Blish's City in Flight Novels, added to Trek canon by Blish in his prose adaption of "Tomorrow is Yesterday". Similar, Kzinti Space is added by the adaptation of Larry Niven's "The Soft Weapon" to the animated episode "The Slaver Weapon". The Vegan Tyranny is based on the Star Vega "Vay-ga", and the people "Vay-gans". Not to be confused with modern dietary followers Vegans "Vee-gans" As I saw the Star Trek Universe in 1973. Long before TNG put the Romulan Star Empire and the Klingon Empire right next to each other, something that didn't make a lot of sense. The original Neutral Zone was over a hundred years old in Balance of Terror, when in theory warp drive was far slower, and perhaps non-existent to the Romulans. So how did it get so gigantic 170 years later in the 24th century? #startrek #startrekfandom #startrekearlyfandom #tos #fanart #startrekfanart
February 13, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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One of my sketches from January 11, 2011. I sketch different ways, this is one of the start drawing a face and just keep adding to it types. The other major style is to rough things out and add detail. I think these freestyle ones have more character...
February 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Friends gather for a photo shoot - May 20, 2023
February 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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The orange pair of the old and the new... not that Ogon is that old... totally different markings, and wildly different eye colors...!
January 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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I guess I am officially a crazy cat guy... both "sets" of the older and the new are getting along fine...
January 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Gotta love The Daily Show... From January 9
January 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Lady of the Dragons - Ink, watercolor, digital color - June 5, 2011 - Ink drawing scanned in and colored digitally, with a separate watercolor background experimenting with salt technique...

#dragonlady
#firelizard
#inkanddigital
#douglasherring
#douglasherring07
January 23, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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I called this one BrontoGod, a character concept for a comic, June 1990. Ink with Brush on vellum bristol board - digitally colored years later

#inkandbrush
#inkart
#brushink
#douglasherringart
#douglasherring07
January 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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The Berry Faerie done up for the Faeries and Berries Festival in Enumclaw WA - August 2009 - Pen and Digital Color

#faerieart
#faeriesandberries
#douglasherring
#douglasherring07
#inkdrawing
January 23, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Starting a string of classic Seattle Knight photos... this is Darragh Metzger as Dame Rowan of the Green - Kent Canterbury Faire, Kent WA - August 18, 1997. My first Knights show where I brought a camera!

#seattleknights
#theseattleknights
#stagecombat
#blackknight
#womenwarrior
#medievalknight
January 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Starting a string of classic Seattle Knight photos... this is Dameon Willich as Captain Markos Lazarevi, riding the Warhorse Knarr! - Bridle Trails, Kirkland WA - August 23, 1997.

#seattleknights
#theseattleknights
#jousting
#stagecombat
#redknight
#medievalknight
January 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Starting a string of classic Seattle Knight photos... this is Lauri LaSabre-Grell as Dark Moriah - Bridle Trails, Kirkland WA - August 23, 1997. Easily the best helmet crest ever done by one of the Knights...

#seattleknights #theseattleknights #jousting #stagecombat #blackknight #womenjouster
January 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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The day I "owned" the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine set. In the sense I had a grip and a photographer who were helping me take reference for a Computer Game... Bridget, and the writer and producer from the soon to be dismantled Paramount Interactive development team...
November 10, 2024 at 8:26 AM