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I’ve been creating 3D art since 2009. My workflow includes Daz Studio, PaintShop Pro, and Comic Life 3.

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Renee turned eighteen last night and was eager to show off her nubile assets. No longer restrained by her parents' conservative fashion sense, she cut the legs off her favorite pair of jeans and paired them with a ruffle top and stiletto heels she bought that afternoon. Tonight, she was going to her first club to celebrate her adulthood with a group of friends and was intent on losing her virginity to a one-night stand.

As the night progressed, she learned that a guy she'd been flirting with left with another woman. One of her friends noticed her long face and tried to console her.

"I'll be ok, I Just need some air," Renee said, and left the club through the rear exit to sulk.

A tall man in a hoodie was leaning against a construction beam nearby and started watching her. She didn't see him. She was weary from dancing with her friends and started a slow walk down the alley while wondering if she'd been too forward with the other men she'd met inside.

The tall man had other plans for her. He was a serial strangler who killed five women two years ago and had been lying low since then. Renee was about to become victim number six.

The Chronicles of Darth Gar’rote

The Star Wars franchise is so ingrained in pop culture that any display of telekinesis (read ‘choking’) in my work has invariably drawn comparisons to The Force. As a fan of the original trilogy, I won’t deny that I’ve been influenced by Star Wars, but I never meant for my characters to be viewed as Force users or Sith Lords.

The Force is a term coined by George Lucas when he wrote the first movie to describe where certain characters’ telekinetic abilities came from. A few of my characters have been telekinetic, but they weren’t part of the Star Wars universe, and their ability to strangle their victims from afar simply proved a convenient alternative to avoid having to MacGyver ways to realistically pose throatlifts. I love throatlifts, but they are a time-consuming pain in the ass to set up for lots of technical reasons I won’t bore you with.

Nevertheless, as the old saying goes, “If you can’t beat ’em… join ’em…” I figured why not just create a Sith Lord trapped on present-day Earth, so that’s what I did in 2021, and Darth Gar’rote was born. These are his victims.