… you see, because he’s got an arrow tattooed on his head. COMEDY FUN JOKES!
It’s Aang, AKA the Avatar, AKA the Last Airbender:
Return on Friday for more art and hilarity, won’t you?
I bet he drinks Arrowhead brand water…
Grr, Snikt, Bub, etcetera, etcetera…
My Favorite Martian (Manhunter)
Here’s the Martian Manhunter in marker:
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It looks like MACHO WEEK wore off on me, at least temporarily. I’m feeling MACHO enough to see if I can go back to posting twice a week. No promises though! Let’s see how this goes first…
MACHO WEEK!!! (Part 3 of 3, So long Randy, and thanks for all the Slim Jims)
There used to be a cartoon called Powerpuff Girls, and before that there was a cartoon called Dexter’s Laboratory, and that cartoon featured a segment called Dial M for Monkey, and one of the best episodes of that segment of that cartoon was titled, “RASSLOR.” Macho Man Randy Savage guest-starred as the eponymous Rasslor, a masked neon-hued wrestler whose power was on a cosmic level.
So, here’s Rasslor executing a Macho-esque flying elbow:
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And thus does MACHO WEEK draw to a close. I’ll be back to “normal” posts next week. Until then, have a great weekend, and stay macho, my friends.
MACHO WEEK!!! (Part 2 of 3, The Moldy Oldie Edition)
MACHO WEEK continues, with a piece of vintage nerdery from my archives, drawn and colored in 1999. TWELVE years ago.
Let’s think about this people. That was before 9-11, before the dot-com bust, before the (still ongoing) energy crisis, before I owned a car or a DVD player. I was fresh out of college, just starting out full time at the day-job after interning there for 2 years (same day-job that I have today, by the way), and living in a tiny studio apartment that paradoxically had a huge walk-in closet (which I filled up with comic books and action figures–mostly Beast Wars at the time).
So… I confess, this was drawn to impress a geeky girl who I was talking to at the time. Believe it or not, the subjects in the illustration were our common points of interest–and there’s the Macho One himself, front and center! Oh, and I’m in the picture too, inbetween Optimus Prime in Pikachu, because apparently I have a raging ego. For what it’s worth, I think the girl was in fact impressed by this. However, things didn’t work out for a number of complicated reasons which I will not bore you with. You know how it goes.
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Man, just look at this thing. It was one of the first things I ever colored in Photoshop, and I thought I was pretty hot stuff, using the Dodge/Burn tool to render the shading. WHAT WAS I THINKING?
And yet, here we are, twelve years later. My drawing is a little better, and my coloring is much better. And I still pretty much won’t shut up about Macho Man, Transformers, Batman, Pokemon, Miyazaki movies, and Bruce Lee.
Tune in on Friday for the final installment of MACHO WEEK!!!
MACHO WEEK!!! (Part 1 of 3)
I’m officially declaring this week to be MACHO WEEK. Make it a MACHO one everybody, for Randy. OH YEAHHH! DIG IT!
I tweeted that on Monday. Of course, I have no authority whatsoever, and I then failed to do anything about it for the first two days of the week. But better late then never, right?
Of course you’ve heard by now that Macho Man Randy Savage has died. The buzz on Twitter about him was overwhelmingly positive and affectionate. And if you ask me, it all felt pretty sincere. I apologize for obnoxiously re-tweeting myself, but I think my thoughts about Macho Man’s passing are best summed up by my tweets on Friday:
RIP Macho Man Randy Savage; the best face, the best heel, the best talker, and my favorite peddler of Slim Jims.
Pomp and Circumstance and MACHO MADNESS!!! RIP Randy Savage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewOQQ8ZUSI8
Was texted on the way in to work with request to bring in Slim Jims for the office. Currently snapping into a Slim Jim w/ co-workers. #macho
Macho Man as the cosmic villain Rasslor on Dexter’s Lab/Dial M for Monkey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klx3epFHlSs
Slim Jim is trending. :D
Heard Black Machismo retired his Macho Man gimmick, so I think I should live the rest of my life as Yellow Machismo to honor Randy Savage.
I love when Macho Man would turn his back to the camera while cutting a promo. So pimp.
Guys we should not be mourning the man’s death but celebrating THE MADNESS! It’s what he would have wanted! OH YEAHHH!
This one is for you Macho Man!!!
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Since I resumed blogging, I’ve only been posting once a week, but this week I will be posting not once, not twice, but THREE times! That’s two more MACHO posts coming your way! OH YEAH!!!
Kal El
Still red and blue, and there’s several things I don’t like about this one, but it’s a big improvement over last week’s marker sketch. And posted in a relatively timely matter. Unthinkable!
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Plenty of marker sketches on the way. I’m much more fond of the ones I did after this one.
Plumbing the Depths
So I actually finished this drawing on Friday night, but didn’t have time to post it until now, which is, you know, super-lame of me.
Aaanyways, here’s everyone’s favorite plumber:
I’m just playing around with doing some marker sketches (actually, there’s color pencil in this one too). I do not consider this experiment a success. Will be playing around with markers on and off in the coming weeks, please humor me.
Puns & Ammo (See what I did there?)
I’m posting super-late again, but at least it’s a real post and not some cobbled-together BS. Here’s a cartoony, but still very pissed-off Frank Castle, AKA the Punisher:
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Less talking, more sleeping.
*Cue Danny Elfman*
I sketched this up for Dustin last weekend during the Long Beach Comic Expo, inked it up when I got home, and colored it this week. And here I am posting in a reasonably timely manner, as promised:
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I did my best to channel Alex Toth, Bruce Timm, and Derek Fridolfs when I drew this (please go to Derek’s DeviantArt page, look at his awesome black and white ink sketches, and give him some compliments–it makes him very uncomfortable). There are some other influences at work as well… the general leanness of form is from Neal Adams (whose influence I’ve discussed previously), and of course the crescent moon eyes are from Dick Sprang. I think there’s a little Jeff Matsuda in there too.
This started out as a pretty static sketch, but I’m trying to be more dynamic these days, so I consciously tried to move away from that. The big experiment for me on this one was spotting blacks heavily. I usually do all my lighting in the coloring stage because I’m uncomfortable with my ability to execute heavy inks. I feel okay about the result though–you can tell because I was actually willing to show you what the original lineart looked like.
(For those who care about such things–of course he has the yellow oval on his chest.)
Squawk.
Sometimes, like a jerk, I waste hours and hours playing Angry Birds, a game meant to be a casual distraction, which has instead become an obsessive… obsession. Other times (still like a jerk) I post a super-late blog. Here is such a blog post now:
On Friday night I was too tired to draw, so I went to bed with the intention of playing a few levels of Angry Birds and then going to sleep. Fast forward to: me staying up until 9:30am, when I finally went to sleep (cursing at myself all the while). Woke up a few hours later and headed to the Long Beach Comic Expo, where I hung out with Dustin and Peter Nguyen (they are not related!), and drew this. Peter was kind enough to lend me a pen so that I could ink it. I drew another piece too, which I came home and inked, and will be posted this week in a timely manner, unlike today’s sketch.
I’ve been in sort of a rut lately, in addition to being busy with assorted other things. It was very eye opening to me that I was able to go hang with some friends, and even on very little sleep, bust out two drawings very quickly. I guess even weirdo recluses such as myself need to occasionally leave our secret lairs and get a change of scenery.
(But seriously, Angry Birds is really fun.)
Who’s got two thumbs and hasn’t posted a blog yet this week?
THIS GUY!
*gesturing to self*
Blog is painfully late, but will be posted tomorrow (Sunday).
Parlor Tricks
Hey kids, look! A super simple drawing (which I had lying around) dressed up to appear to be a real blog post! But at least it’s super late as well!
I want you to know that I’m giving myself a judgemental look:
e_e
Brother Vs. Brother
Powering Up.
I’m powering up right now, which is my shifty and dishonest way of saying that today’s post is merely a preview of a real post. Started an iPad sketch that got a little too ambitious to complete with time in short supply, so here’s just a portion of it:
The entire complete sketch should come next week! Sorry I’m such a lazy slacker these days!
Ever dance with the (Dare-) Devil in the pale moonlight?
A late post, a multi-layered nerdy title, and another practice sketch from my iPad 2:
All is right in the universe. Or not, but what are ya gonna do?
Pokeballs To The Wall
Been a looong week (note extra O’s), so I’m about to give myself a little break and get started on my copy of Pokemon White. Before I go, here’s a little something I drew in Sketchbook Pro on my new iPad 2, with a capacitive stylus from Boxwave:
This is rather primitive, but it was fun to draw. I will be posting the progress of art that I produce on my iPad over the next few weeks and months, and I might even write up a super boring post detailing my thoughts on the device. But for now.. TEPIG, I CHOOSE YOU!
Have a good weekend, and please donate to Japanese earthquake and tsunami relief in any way that you can. Here are a few ways:
– Text REDCROSS to 90999 to Give $10
– Dustin Nguyen art auction
– FansProject Blessser
In case you were wondering…
Time is in short supply. Work on vaguely referred to stuff continues. Come back for a real post late Friday or early Saturday. Word is bond.
Bang Your Head
Heh… heheh…
Been a little busy, working on stuff not yet ready to share, and I found myself banging my head against the wall trying to figure something out. I figured it out though! Will share progress as soon as possible (which won’t necessarily be all that soon). Love, Me.
G.I. Ginger
In a bit of a time crunch this week–here’s something I drew while the blog was on hiatus:
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In the interest of full disclosure: the gun was loosely photo-traced for the sake of pseudo-accuracy–that’s not a technique that I typically employ. And for those who are interested in such things–it’s a Heckler and Koch UMP 45. And lastly, I will end this post with… an awkward sentence… thing… like so.