We'll miss ya, Captain.

The fourth panel is also how I look at the end of the last episode of Cowboy Bebop.



Man, I got a game over on the first enemy of the first level. I'm really bad at this.

If ya haven't heard, Captain Lou Albano passed on recently. I'm sure most people will remember him for his wrestling career, but I and possibly many other gamers will remember him as playing Mario in the Super Mario Bros. Super Show. He did both the live action segments and the voice of Mario in the animated segments. It seems kinda weird now that Charles Martinet has become Mario's official voice, but back in the NES days, Captain Lou essentially was Mario.

He will live on through my daily "Do the Mario" routine.

Swine Flu

I think this is gonna be the next Pink Floyd single.



This is an idea John got a while back. He actually drew an image on a napkin when he thought of it:

With skills like that, I don't know why he insists on me drawing his ideas.

Take from this what you will, but I swear we aren't cop haters and we fully support and respect law enforcement. Heck, we have two cousins that are pigs... I MEAN COPS! They're cops! Donut eating pigs shouldn't be called cops. I mean... D@MMIT!

...erg...

OINKOINKOINKOINK!

Bustin' Out

Oh look. It's a rock or somethi--HOLY CRAP!




Here's another Intermediate Ceramics project. Not much to it. If ya couldn't tell, I aint much of a clay person. Although it's mostly a big mound, it had to be hollow, so I had to do the time honored tradition of getting a huge mound of newspaper and building the clay around that, so that the newspaper would burn in the kiln. But before it when off to cook, I put in that dude trying to break out of said mound. Don't know why. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

Cranialrectumitis

Enlarge the image at your own risk.



Cranialrectumitis is a very serious medical conditon discovered by my uncle Kevin. Symptoms include delusions of grandeur and irritability.

Oh, and also, your head is stuck up your @ss.

Just Don't Win Anything

Or at least don't announce it when you do. It'll make things a lot easier.



I swear, this is the last Kanye comic I'll do, so don't worry. I know it's stale by now, but I couldn't resist.

Let's talk about this contest, shall we? Ignition finally announced the winners of their King of Fighters XII fan art contest. Rather than announce them on the game's website and let others view the winners art, they thought it'd be more fit to just list the winners with their first and last names reversed on their forum. Class act, guys.

Here's the post on my entry, if'n ya want to take a gander.

Shelby's teh Awesome.

As are the Williams in general.



This is a sketch of an actual person who is a regular at the bowling alley I work at. Her parents are friends with mine (who also work at said bowling alley; it's more or less a family business), as they've been regulars since they were kids. Anyway, one of their youngins, Shelby, got a hold of my mini sketchbook, looked through it, approved, and asked me to draw her. This, my friends, are why kids are the best kind of people in the world. An adult would never ask me to draw them. If an adult sees my work, they say, "Not bad. You should work at that sign place." Yeah. Thanks.

She seemed to like the cutesy anime stuff I drew, so that first one is just a straight up anime-ized portrait, which turned out good except for that dark spot on her left eye. My stupid mechanical pencil for jerks poked a hole through the paper. Then I tried a more cartoony sketch of her actually bowling:


I'm rather proud of how the pose turned out. I've been working at this bowling alley for years, and I still find the bowling pose awkward. Not just in drawing, but in general. The attempt in the sketch ended up being much better than I thought I could do.

I also found out that Shelby's older sister, Stephanie (who is also teh awesome), is quite the artist herself. She drew a quick contour sketch of Dad on a napkin, which I documented rather poorly with my iPhone camera.

Should I go out on a joke? Nah, this post is big enough.

Happy Birthday, Melissa!

Nothing could go wrong on this wonderful occasion!



Bah! Stupid Kanye! Keep your douche-baginess to yourself!

This is yet another comic written by John for a friend of his. He was quite particular about how Kanye looked and had me sketch him a few times before finalizing. One of these days I'm gonna make him rewrite a script just for the sake of making him do it over again. Then on the 10th draft, I'll say, "Actually, the the first one was the best. Let's go with that."

Then I'll wake up on a hospital bed with several cuts from a broken beer bottle on my neck.

Oh, and happy birthday again, Melissa!

Golden Axe, Part 2

What's this about Jenny?



The actual happenstance of getting the gold axe in the game doesn't resort to this, but I might have gotten it quicker if it had. In the game, you just hafta wait for her to be randomly nice and give it to you. And she hardly aint ever nice.

Eye Made Another Painting

Why did I put this on the ceiling right above my bed?



Here's another Intermediate Painting... uh... painting. I can't remember the exact directions the teacher had for this one, but I remember something about "micro" in there, thus the meticulous painting of veins and lines in the iris.

"Creepy as hell" might have been part of the criteria, too.

Sending Some Pies

Better not be rhubarb.



Happy Labor Day! Now get back to work!

Not much to say about this comic. Just thought I heard Rob 64 say "Sending some pies" once, thought it was funny. So... uh... yeah.

*UPDATE*
John tells me the "some pies" thing was his idea. I say he's a little too drunk to be thinking straight, but just incase it was, I'll say it might have been his idea. Brothers. Oi.

And now for something completely different.

Nintendo thought it fit to make not one, but two bug eyed Animal Crossing characters to scare the crap outta me:


"We'll kill you when you sleep!"

Get in the Car Again

So you know where I coming from, here's a pic of the entrance to the bowling alley I work at with the recently placed, gaudy address numbers:


And now here's this thing:


I think I'll put this up somewhere in the building knowing full well that almost nobody will get it, as most of are customers are seniors. As in old, not, like, hispanic males. But if a few young people read it and get it, it'll make my day.

Hot Daisy

Well, hotter than usual, anyway.



Well, I'm now screwed for life. I've have stepped into the boundaries of perversion. God help me.

Within the context of the games she appears in, I like Princess Daisy more than Princess Peach. Don't get me wrong, no one can replace Peach as the damsel in distress and occasional playable heroine bent on revenge for the numerous kidnappings, but in all the Mario sport and party spin-offs, Daisy's a more likable character to me. More of a tomboy, not as prissy.

I also think she's cuter. I like her shorts.

Ahem.

Back to being a pervert. Now that I've done this and gotten away with it, I fear I'll become too comfortable doing this kinda stuff and become one of those hentai artists that have nothing better to do than stay in their houses 24/7 and draw characters not of their own creation in sexual poses while secretly pining to have them, knowing full well they can't, cuz they're, like, not real.

The below sketch illustrates this:


I mean, I already "secretly" pine for EVE. So I'm doomed.

Old, OLD School Muramasa

Foolish samurai warriors wielding magic swords.



No comic, entering fan art contests again, brb. This one is for the upcoming Wii game, Muramasa: The Demon Blade. If ya don't know about it, look it up, cuz it's a beautiful looking game. For the website's fan art dealie, rather than make a pathetic attempt to get on the level of detail of the official game artwork, I figured I go with something more stylistic. The game takes place in ancient Japan, so I tried drawing the two playable characters, Kisuke and the pretty Momohime, in the style of the figures found in those old Japanese scrolls. The catch is that those types of illustrations usually aren't too actiony, so I looked to Samurai Jack for the poses and angular style. I could be wrong, but I think I remember hearing that Samurai Jack's look was inspired greatly by those old Japanese scrolls too, so it seemed like a decent choice.

Once again, here are the original sketch and line art. I tried to do that thing were the words are in english but kinda resemble kanji. Meh.



And here's a bigger image so you can see the Photoshop filter I used to give it a srollish texture.

Tree Full of Lead

This is how pencils are actually made.




Here's one of my projects from my Intermediate Ceramics class. I can't remember if we had a specific criteria for this one, nor do I remember if I had any particular meaning to this, other than to say that pencils come from trees. The wooden ones, anyway.

This wasn't one of my greatest works, as the roots kept braking, and I didn't coat the bottom, having been told that it would make it stick to the kiln. Later, I was told that just means I shouldn't paint the bottom surface and that painting up to the edge would have been perfectly alright. But my teacher, Lauren, was pretty easygoing about it, and just pretty in general. She was quite a good teacher, for a grad student.

The University of Delaware ceramics department blog can be found here. It's run by Lauren, Abbey Donavan (another awesome teacher I had for Beginning Ceramics), and several other teachers and students. Heck, even former students, as I'm still officially an author of the site and no one has tried to kick me out yet. It shows whatever the teachers may find interesting as well as many of the students' work.

Meet the New Boss

Same as the old boss.



Here's another comic written by John. Terrill (the one sporting the black cap) is one of his fellow asset protectors at Wal Mart, and according to him, Terrill's talk with a couple of wannabe shoplifters in the first three panels is exactly what went down in real life. The fourth panel seemed like a natural addition.

For this, I figured my usual cartoony style wouldn't fit, so I used a more edgey style with lots of straight lines and harsh corners. This was inspired by the 90's Batman animated series, which is one of the best shows ever made ever. If I ever need to draw edgey comics again, I'll just keep doing it the Batman way, as trying it on my own as I did with Ironic Commando makes for ho-hum results.

It's a Stapler Remover

Oh boy.





I figured I should post this project to get it out of the way, as it's one of the less interesting ones. For this Design I project, we had to make a large, cardboard scale model of some object that was not so large. I chose a stapler remover. Go figure. This project was eventually used as part of our last Design project, which I'll eventually post if I can find the photos for it.

I was rather pleased with the way it turned out, and I got good praise from Drew, my design teacher. But even so, you can only get so much out of such a mundane object.

Maybe I'll do a paper clip next time.

Eyebrows

Like the Wind Fish, Moose is in name only, for he is not.



I thought he was gonna say sideburns. Moose also has wicked chops, which is another sign of awesomeness.

Finally, a character other than Hopper who'd I'd prefer to stay in town. But that's two men so far, so some girl characters need to start moving in before there's too many d**ks on the dance floor.

And now for something completely different.

Hopper's face does not work:

Not So Hidden Mickeys

Although they're probably still in those stupid "Find the Hidden Mickeys" guide books.






This was my first project in my Intermediate Painting I class. It was more of an exercise to get us to try four different painting techniques. The subject could be whatever we wanted, as long as it was a silhouette and the same image was used on all four paintings. When listing some of the random stuff that we could use as the subject, my teacher looked at the Mickey shirt I was wearing that day and said, "Or you could try Mickey!" I then immediately rubbed my chin and thought out loud, "Mickey, eh?"

I can't remember the exact process of these four different painting techniques, but I do remember they all involved heavy layers of paint. I remember the angular Mickey was done with an initial coat, then making the desired shape with masking tape, then painting on another coat, and then finally peeling off the tape when everything was dry.

Nice work it you can get it, and you can get it if you try... and pay the tuition fee.

Anime Danae

I don't know why. I guess cuz it kinda rhymes.



This is an anime version of Danae from the Non Sequitur comic strip, incase you couldn't tell from the convenient writing in the sketch. Like several other "young" artists, I sometimes get the urge to anime-ize my favorite characters that aren't already from and anime. Always seems like a good idea at the time.

Where I work, before I had the miraculous iPhone, one of the ways I'd kill time other than drawing was reading the daily comic strips, albeit only the good ones. Those are Peanuts, Get Fuzzy, Pearls Before Swine, Mutts, Shoe, The Boondocks, and of course, Non Sequitur. Danae is one of those cute, tomboyish girl characters I like, so drawing her in anime style seemed necessary. Again, I don't know why. I stopped reading the strips on a regular basis ever since they stopped printing The Boondocks, but I do occasionally read the Sundays, and Non Sequitur is still one of the comics I go to.

The flow of her oversized t-shirt is a little pervy in this sketch, which was a bad idea, as she isn't old enough for that to not be creepy on my part. Plus having the shirt like that askews the skull/heart design.

Let's just never speak of this again.

Believe it or Don't

I heard EPCOT has its own space station orbiting the Earth.



Okay, this obviously isn't exactly what we saw on the Backstage Tour. There really are underground tunnels beneath the Magic Kingdom, but we weren't allowed to see everything there, so there's a lot more than what this comic portrays that I don't know of or have been sworn to secrecy about.

The wall and map were made in Illustrator, hence all the straight lines. This makes the first time I've used it in a comic. I may use it more as I get a better grasp of it with the lynda.com tutorials.

This'll be my last Disney World themed comic, as we got back home last Saturday. As usual, we didn't wanna leave. Especially Mom, who of which made us go to a Scrapbooking convention on the day we were to start heading back home. She also slashed our own tires while we were there to keep us from traveling.