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!

Some old FLCL sketch action

I think all these sketches are from early 2000-something, right after the fandubs started floating around Hotwire. This was the series that made me feel like animation might actually be worthwhile again, afterall. Not that it actually had any effect on my animation plans (or rather, total lack thereof) personally, but still. What a fantastic series.

It's the moment when Ninamori sticks her finger through the glasses that will always stand out as one of my top animated moments, ever.  

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.

 

Why am I Drawing Strawberry Shortcake Fanart?

I believe the official answer to that question was 'Because I'm Stupid." Regardless, at some point there I was really into SSC, for about 5 minutes. I never could get into it as a kid, altho I will admit, I really loved that the plastic mini-dolls were scented. I had one that was fucking pumpkin. That is some serious dedication to the art of making plastic smell like stuff. I think the two on the left are Peach or Apricots or something, and the other is Angel Cake, despite cake not actually, technically, being a fruit. Maybe she was the exchange student or something, I dunno. '04

IT'S A MYSTERY. '04

Dude, half the cast of SSC has bitchin' dreads. '04 I dunno, the whole deal still strikes me as weird, and that's not even getting into the Pieman guy. '08

More 2004 stuff

Still trying to get my old stuff uploaded before I start on the new. Also, the new doesn't actually exist yet, so you know. Filler.

I really liked the Angry Beavers! Come on, Norbert was so fucking smooth. How can you not be into him. Also, 'All Rude Dog, All the Time' = words to live by.

FUCKING MC GRUFF THE CRIME DOG.

And some random crap.

Did I Do Anything...?

I forgot I used to make wallpapers like nobody's business, too. Did I ever have homework, or what?

Some more old sketches

2004 - Holy, I must not have paid any attention in any of my classes...I remember drawing all of this when I should have been learning about the Impressionist Era or someshit.

I actually wore one gigantic pirate earring for a couple months there. I have no idea why, other than I got it on sale for $5. I finally lost the thing when it my ear kicked it out in shame.

Tea slushies are pretty much the best idea in the universe, even more so if they're of the Long Island variety. Why this amazing beverage doesn't yet exist is beyond me. And Crystal Light ones don't count, so don't even suggest it.

I really like that bunny on the right. I feel like we could relate.


I love it when I come across drawings that are clearly not my style. I had literally just found a style I was happy with for the first time ever, and I was still trying to be something I clearly wasn't. WTF? I'm glad I grew out of that shit, more or less.

Little Wooden Do-bobbies

I made little wooden guys for a couple people, and now I have a bunch of extra wooden thingies floating around my house. I suppose I could make stuff with them, but EH. LAZY.

I love this guy cause you can set him by anything and he will be absolutely appalled by it.

I've noticed that my characters tend to be VERY ANGRY ARGHHHHHHH.

How did you climb that tree without any limbs? Curious!

What's awesome about me is, I took this picture in wet grass, never thinking that the watercolor I painted the damn thing with would SMEAR WHEN WET. Dar.

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.

misc recent pages

I don't recall what exactly the Meatmoat joke was about, but it was drawn for a good reason, I'm sure. And if only I had a job writing for fortune cookies, my life would be awesome.

Being the giant nerd I am, I love SMB II sprites. I also love mustaches, especially the mustachopus. Real life mustaches, though, not so much.

Jungle Book sketches

The Jungle Books are some of my all-time favorite words on paper, and I admit the Disney movie has some pretty amazing bits despite taking a gigantic dump on the stories its based on.

Beware the Vampraisin

More old sketches, mostly from 2004, I think. I've never been into vampires, although I do find them an easy source of hilarity, what with the degree of total SRSNSS they seem to evoke in budding novelists and squealing teenage girls.

My favorite vampire-related plan was for one of my comic classes. I was going to tell the story of the dreaded Vampraisin, an evil undead sun-dried creature who sucks the juice of the other fruits in the produce dept. Then when he's full of their precious juice, he plumps back up into a grape. Sadly for the world of comics, I got lazy and never actually finished that assignment, although I do have some sketches.

Vampire arms must stay above the head at all times! This guy was going to be sharing a heart, 50's-maltshop style, but I never drew his companion for some reason. Possibly because drawing girl vampires somehow feels even nerdier than guy vampires, and I couldn't handle the crushing nerdgirl shame.

Another plan I had for something-or-other involved this guy, who is as embarassed by the vampire mythos as I am, and spent most of his time trying to avoid having to do anything vampire-y. I like that if he turned into mist, he would always reform in cliche vampire style; brooding sideburns, flouncy blouse, long flowy hair tied in a velvet ribbon, the works.

He had this little bird friend that wore a bear mask, but I have no idea why.

 

Perhaps the awesomest vampire thing ever is a little show called Vampire High. It mostly involves teen vampires hanging out in the basement of a university, (where they're the "night school students" GEDDIT???) being angsty and wearing increasingly absurd outfits.

My fav was the token "hot" girl who I swear to god was wearing cinnamon rolls on her head in one episode.

Another episode insisted on combining vampire lore with traditional samurai code, for some misguided reason.

I can't blame them for trying, but the only good use of vampires, Count Duckula, has already been done.

I'm not entirely embarrassed about

liking Rumiko Takahashi, because Ranma will always be one of my favorite things ever. But MAN, I just could not get into ANYTHING else she did. How the hell does that work?

I tried SO hard to like InuYasha, especially, since it came out right after Ranma and I still cared, but it was pretty much one of the most boring things I've read.

Also, I feel like it COULD have been interesting, and pretty easily, which just makes its suckiness that much more aggravating.

Ah well. In the end, it wasn't bad, and a zillion other people loved it, so I probably shouldn't be so judgmental.

12 Eyes of the Toxic Everglades

3" Dunny, Paperclay, beads, acrylic
2008

Progress:
I originally imagined this guy as being somewhat ordinary; multiple eyes and lack of pants nonwithstanding. I couldn't really see how to do that and attach any kind of reasonable and interesting story to it, though, so I ended up doing him as kind of a Godzilla/Swamp Monster-type affair.

The paint job is a little weird to me, but the eyes came out unexpectedly kick ass.

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sketch fail

Still not getting anywhere actually trying to draw stuff, so I may as well post some old stuff. My art crisis is no reason not to have pictures to look at!

So these are for an animation I was going to do back in 2005, but the band whose song I wanted to use, while amenable, also seemed kinda 'neh' about the whole thing. Which led to me being very 'eh' about it, so this is all the farther it ever went.

Koala

I've never been into koalas; their noses are too creepy. I do like that they're the assholes of the outback despite their fuzziness, tho.

The OctoUmbrella, however, I'm totally on board with. Octopi must be waterproof, right? I mean, they would dissolve if they weren't, I like to think.

Felt Autopsy

Felt Autopsy

Done for the Wild Wild Kingdom plus show at Monkeyhouse Toys in Silverlake.

In my defense, I did try to sew something, but honestly, I think it's time to admit that particular ship has sailed, sprung a leak, and sank in the harbour. So, needle felting. I'm good at stabbing stuff.


This is a major occurrence when I'm felting.

Using pliers to hold the felt, pros : no stabby fingers. Cons : stab metal, needle breaks, flies, hits me in the eye.

He has pretty little toenails. And one Penn nail, for some reason.

Almost done! Except for the signs, and organs, and painting the wood, and figuring out how to attach everything to said. Siiiiiiigh.