original lara croft

Here's my original version of the recent sexii post. It was one of a few small
uncolored ascii 

screen captures and pen drawings that I sent to a Tomb Raider fan site (dead now
I think) about 

eight months ago. Some of the drawings soon had nude interpretations (For every
piece of Lara 

Croft art on the web you can bet there's at least one x-rated copy, so I rather
expected it.), 

but sexii's was the first ascii one I've seen. As for the sexii art, it
certainly is extreme for 

my taste, but I find it not so much offensive as juvenile and  silly (sillii?);
nothing worth 

concerning myself with. [We all had to have a good peek at them though, didn't
we?]. 

This is part of a series called The Essence of Lara Croft, a figure each for
blood, sweat, tears, 

nerves, brains, etc. This is the only one done. A couple are half finished, the
rest I've never 

even started. I haven't worked on any Tomb Raider art for a long time. I wasn't
planning on 

posting it until I had the entire set done, but since the sexii post I've been
barraged by emails 

requesting the original. (Five is a barrage isn't it?) (p.s. if you see any more
x-rated copies 

of my stuff, please don't email them to me again. It really isn't necessary that
I see it.)

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Here's another one (not part of the series). This has been fixed up a little
since the screen 

capture. It's pretty much the same face only looking up.

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|                 /     !   !     \  Lady Lara Dreams
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|                jjs \         /
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|      __            _M___,     C>__C>      Once again the day
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|       c>////Z3     c>////Z3     c>////Z3    John Stachowicz
|_jjs__________________________________________ jjs...@yahoo.com