Poem, painting, song, novel… What artistic work have you created that you are most proud of? And what makes it so good?
Why am I proud? I think I got the “story” across pretty well, which is harder than you’d think. I also think I got the “pulp spaceship” look just right.
At the risk of plugging it yet again, SCP-1529.
For 3 years I scored most of the battery (drums) book for a high school marching band. It got compliments from some pretty well-known people in the marching percussion world.
This is actually the fifth book I completed, and it’s a sequel to a book I started in 1986 and finished in 1995. Why I am the most proud of it is, the other books I wrote, I did it kind of as a hobby writing whenever and taking years to finish them. This one, I set out to write a sequel and finished a 670 page book in 14 months, and at least in my opinion, it’s the best thing I’ve ever written. I am not going to pretend to be objective enough to compare it to other science fiction I’ve read, but I can say it’s the best I’ve written myself.
I could say my first novel (see below), but I think the story that I’m most proud of overall was “Playmates,” which appeared in Fantasy and Science Fiction, a magazine I always wanted to sell to.
You definitely have some enthusiastic readers/reviewers 
I built an analog clock from digital logic chips and LEDs. It’s pretty cool. No pics but it works great 20 years later.
But this snowman sculpture built from LEGO pieces is my favorite. I wrote a computer program to generate files for a CAD program, a layer at a time.
It’s the largest sculpture I’ve built as a single piece, anything that size gets built in sections now.
I self-published a comic book, a collection of comic strips I wasn’t able to syndicate. It came out pretty good. And my collaborator became a mild celebrity for something she did later.
It’s far from the “best” picture I’ve ever taken, but I think this is one of the absolute best *moments *I’ve ever captured: Townshend and Entwistle–Oakland 1980.
One of my best friends died recently; I hadn’t seen him in some years. His widow told me that one of his favorite things was a small painting that I did and gave him probably 30 years ago. It was a night winter scene of a lone cabin in the snow with light shining on the snow from a window. It makes me happy that it made him happy to look at it.
This book that LavenderBlue and I wrote together. It’s the culmination of years of involvement with the vaccine issue, including battling vaccine and science denialists here on this very board. We actually “met” here on this board, when she made an off-hand comment in a thread: “If I had a co-author, I’d write a book for parents on this issue.”
I contacted her by PM, and the rest, as they say, is history.
I wrote a 90,000-word fanfiction novel that was getting about 15,000 hits per day while I was actively updating it. I am too embarrassed about it to actually provide a link, but I was reasonably pleased with how it came out, and the reception of the fan community to it. It was my first venture into long-form writing and I did it partially to prove to myself I could write something that was novel-length.
I had an idea for a comic back in college, finally drew it a couple years later.
I’m proud of it for a couple reasons. It’s a Peanuts parody, and I feel like I got the characters and the look about as well as I possibly could have. Ordinarily, I can’t draw worth a damn; but that idea inspired me enough to really work at it. I slaved over that to get it just right.
Well, my technically best piece is probably either the walking stick I carved into a wolf’s head for my niece, or the mixed-media dragon statue I made for a friend. But the one I’m most proud of is the tree-topper angel I made for my mom: It’s not nearly as intricate as the dragon was, but my mom was just so happy with it. My sister had recently moved into her own place and claimed Mom’s old angel for her own Christmas tree, and mom was kind of depressed about it, so I made her a new one, right under her nose, without her fathoming what I was doing (she knew I was up to something, but couldn’t imagine what I was doing with all of the materials I was getting ahold of).
I’m fairly pleased with the Dalek Transformer I designed and printed on my 3D-printer:
I started Oh My Void Monks, a blog about Hero Academy, the strategy game. Probably the only strategy focused blog, and got a few thousand hits over the last year.
Probably my only wide contribution to the public ever, and I’m glad I tried it.
There’s a number, but as a photographer, my favorite wedding moment captured was this one right after the father of the bride handed the bride off to the groom. Those are the kinds of moments I live for.
That is one of the most perfect photos I’ve ever seen. The “this crap again…” look of the groom and that just-a-little-out-of-DOF gasper between the bride and the father…amazing.
My gut reaction was that it shoulda been cropped just left of the groom, but then I realized that would be cropping that goofy groomsman. Bravo.