oooh colors

I've somehow amassed a ridiculous collection of Copic markers over the years, but I've never actually used them for anything. Luckily, the guilt has finally gotten to me, and I'm trotting them out now, sketchbook style.

 

 

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the hills ARE alive with my balls. 

that is my arm can I please have it back.

Boobbears n girl

Two little mini paintings. I'm all about giving people extra eyes these days.

It's probably rough being Link

Aside from being doomed to save the same dumb princess and the same dumb kingdom every two weeks for the rest of eternity, it seems like poor Link suffers a pretty high number of minor indignities from townsfolk and monsters, to boot.

You STILL haven't finished my potion? HOW MUCH LATER DO I HAVE TO COME BACK???

Watch where you grab, watch where you grab!

Bad Idea

I actually forgot what I officially titled this, but I think that's probably pretty close. This one's for the And We All Fall Down show at Monkeyhouse in Silverlake. There were a couple little paintings I did for the show, too, but I forgot to photograph them. Nar.


Still not making any progress planning out my paintings! Yeah!

Attacking the canvas with spray paint seemed like a good place to start.

I was really set on using totally bad colors for the monsters, for some reason. Also, trying to draw on spray paint sucks. I couldn't find a grease pencil. As usual. I don't know where those things all go.

At this point my color sense kicked in and convinced me to use something a little more complimentary.

And that's it!

And the show was fucking amazing. Naturally I managed to not photograph half of it, as I am awesome.

An Eggplant in Angeland

Finally finished! I'd forgotten how long it takes me to put the finishing touches on a painting. What should be the quickest part I somehow manage to drag out for an absurdly long time.

I really thought I had a sketch of some sort for this painting, but I guess not. Man do I suck at planning ahead. I found the canvas in a pile of canvases I started painting and then abandoned, and just started slapping down color.

I did these first two shots in a couple hours. I think I had wanted to keep this one somewhat clean and pastel, which of course was overcome in the end by my love of dry brushing and dark colors.

Everything up until this point was painted with one of the crappiest, oldest brushes I have, because I like it like that. Actually, most of the stuff after this point was painted with this brush, too.

Starting to put in details...

And baa-naaa! Painting! There may have been a few more steps in there, but I forgot to photograph them, so feel free to imagine whatever you like.

Stop crying, Otacon!

Poor Otacon, it's not easy being the designated trauma character. I'd like to point out to any storywriters out there that a little trauma goes a long way. Killing everyone your guy's ever taken one too many lingering looks at is good characterization for your genocidal maniacs, not so much the sad nerds.

I feel ya, dude.

SNAKE WHAT ARE YOU DOING OVER THERE CUT IT OUT WE'RE ON A MISSION HERE.

Why was there a parrot in a top secret weapons development lab? Seems....stupid.
Aww.

Frowns all around!

The Title Would Suggest his Name is 'Icarus'

NOT 'Pit', which frankly, is dumb. I was a big fan of Pit, though, even in horribly obnoxious form on Captain N. Plus, the Eggplant Wizard makes no sense at all and is one of the best game villians ever.

I love how whenever a game needs a color scheme for player 2, they're usually given a ManTan and the worst color scheme the devs could come up with, OR they get to be 'evil' colors. I'd go with the evil, personally.

 

Kenshins New and Old!

Somewhere in college I read (well ok skimmed) the gigantic Kenshin epic, and of course found him to be SO adorable. How can you not? He's so tiny and polite and could seriously murder you and everyone you know if the need arose.

I remember doodling this in my comic class sketchbook in 04, I think. He's right, I never got the hang of comics as a medium for conveying anything other than dick jokes. Look, I enjoy a good dutch angle as much as the next person, but I think they cap out at about 30 degrees. '04. Kenshin, succumbing to the final stages of girl-hair. I must have had one of those terrible cream colored sketchbooks at some point. '04. And finally, some new sketches I did while watching clips on youtube this evening. He's still so damn cute.