*does happy dance of joy*
Its always neat to find people you like and have missed (even if you've never actually met them) when wandering aimlessly through some place (dA in this case). I looking through some of my recent watchable happy people I found Armored Raven's dA page. Hooray!
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She is an excellent chainmail artist (my work pales in comparison), a spectacular poi/fire dancer, belly dancer, and makes really neat tribal artwork ta-boot. Which pretty much covers nearly all of my favorite forms of artistic expression.
I was amused at one point, after having visited her home page when I first started learning chainmail. Several months later I remembered the lace pattern chokers she had made, and wanted to try making a variant of my own, which is what spawned the Gothic Lace collection. for a few months after making the Nightrose, and Rachel's Waltz I was trying to find a name for the series. The only thing I could think of was "Gothic Lace" which fit the pieces perfectly. It wasn't until a few more months after that, when I revisited Raven's page that I found out/remembered that's also what she had named her pieces that use the lace chain pattern.
Either way, go check out her work. Its very impressive and well worth the time.
Doom
Artistic
Joy
