Glamour lost..

Alas, for the poor fairy has lost her glamour. She let a little girl borrow it, and now the girl has run off and signed a contract with Disney Studios, and she's all alone and can't fly away.. Such a tragedy. Perhaps another kind and gentle creature will come along and clap three times to restore her fairy magic? :)

All right, you caught me. This was supposed to be for the cat week, but I didn't make it in time. But with a little story embellishing, it allllmost works for 'glamour'. :)

Illus friday, quickie..

Here's a quickie I did up for a friend who tries hard to keep people happy around him.

Got a more finished piece coming later tonight with luck. Cheers!

The Punisher is online!

Sweet gloriosky, look at what just popped up!

Kevin Pun, aka "The Punisher"

Will we see some head to head Punishment of brother vs. brother in a punishing art duel supreme? Man, I sure hope so, that'd be some kickass art! :)

Here's a game char I did in honor of Mr. Pun's addiction to metallic weaponized cuteness.

More Hoodnix..

The game was basically a satire of different game genres, set within the scope of an RPG where you play Gordon Fink "L33T GameMaster". Your new Uber Game System blew up in a magical lightning blast caused by the Indian ghost of the tree you used for your clubhouse, and now video games are taking over the neighborhood! Your school friends have all been sucked in and turned into Bosses, who you now have to defeat to save them, all before your Mom turns off your game for dinnertime!..

..Yah, well, it would've been fun. :)

Here's some more art:

A schoolgirl who's panties you don't want to see..

From a game idea I had that got about as much attention as my collection of toenail clippings. Good times for all! Ah well, just need to try harder next time. :)

Enter the Walrus

Class, this is Walvis. Walvis, say hi to the class... ... ...or don't.

This guy's been battering around in my head for while. He's kinda a fusion of Elvis & Che Guavara. Basically he's a happy normal walrus until a CIA shipment of cocaine, hidden inside a box of Elvis Impersonator outfits, falls on top of his head from a plane. Gaining new insights and bipedal motion, he dons the pompadour in search of Justice. His first stop, Disneyland, where he takes up the People's Fight against rampant sucky animated movies.

Along his side travel his good polar buddies, Deano the Seal, and Frankie the Fish with his Amazing Aquatic Powers of being able to live and thrive inside a bowl of pure gin.

If I ever stop being lazy, I'll do him up in 3D for a short. Kinda like Warner Bros, but with caddy's and guns that shoot real bullets.

Can't believe I didn't see this before..

My art radar is so busted, I need to have it replaced. Check out this absolutely fluid little movie done by the supervising animator from Iron Giant..

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Pumpkinhead went on a diet..

After almost a year of neglect in the corner of my office, I pulled this feller down and finished up his head and one arm. I'd done the basic body shape during a very cool class offered at Arena Net, taught by Jordu Schell, FX sculpter extraordinaire and a fellow cracked-in-the-head grouchy-pants.




I love Super Sculpy. A year of sitting, and a little work and it's as good as it ever was. If only everything else was as forgiving.. Anyways, the goal with this guy was to kinda do a gangsta version of Pumpkinhead, with creepy old man skin. Still needs work, obviously. Feel free to submit any name ideas, the only one I came up with was "Me Gusta Carne!"

Here comes Peter Cottontail...

You'd best be putting away that chocolate right now sister, before I hafta do anything we'd both regret..

Eldritch buggery...

2 things..


1 - Hey all, new blog, yada yada.. Blame it on Sweet Gene, I saw his and felt ashamed at my massive neglect of socialization and doodling. I am a poor poor excuse for an art monkey. Consider me schooled.

2- Dungeons & Dragons Online SUCKS. Anyone who says it doesn't really should be sterilized immediately, and frozen alongside Walt Disney's delicious headcicle. The game design sucks, the art sucks, the engine sucks, and the UI sucks. Reasons? Examples? My god, can you actually ask for such things after playing that heaping Cleveland steamer?

Yes, the basic idea of how the game is supposed to work is interesting, and the narrator almost brings back some of that feel of table-top..

But c'mon!! They had 25+ years of art, story, adventures, & ideas to draw from, and we end up getting this laggy thing with a hundred people stacked up like cordwood in front of the tavern door because it's the only place in the world you can heal??... Then they take an already slow-for-this-age level based rules system, and make it freakishly slower to rise in levels and survivability.

Then to top it off, the one part where the limitations of the implementation could disappear, in the actual adventures, turns out to be mind-numbingly poorly designed things with a handful of occasional monsters, a bunch of knobs and levers, and the rare 'magical tetris built into the floor' to spice it up.. Where's the Tomb of Horrors? Where's the Temple of Elemental Evil? Where's the Keep at the Borderlands or White Plume Mountain for crying out loud??... They could've just copied existing adventures for a decade's worth of expansions, and they'd have been better than what they put in... So - very - very - lame.

Admittedly, it's quite safe to say I'm jaded to the extreme, but hey, I've been tossing dice longer than I've been tossing off, you do the math. With other fine MMO's like City of Heroes, Guild Wars, and WoW already out there, for Turbine to roll out something so obviously unbaked, and that feels like it was designed by people who thought Napolean Dynamite was a documentary, is simply not acceptable, and the market will undoubtedly punish them more than my rabies induced blogging could.

Honestly, they should've done what studios are doing with those horrible Uwe Boll movies, and not allow the public to see it until release, in the hope of getting at least enough sucker sales to pay the rent.

This is, however, the company that brought the world that exercise in the extremes of boredom, Asheron's Call, which single-handedly caused a massive tilt in gaming back towards text-based-adventures.. Do these people even own a copy of any other game?

In honor of DDO's undenyable lameness, I have turned my back on D&D forever, and handed down all my books to my 11 year old son, who, at least, should be perfectly content filling dungeons full of Lyger's and Bunicorns for another few years, before hormones force him to leave behind the blissfullness of a world without worrying how you smell.

OKay, sorry for the long rant.. I'd built my hopes for DDO up way too high, and the game fell tragically short beyond even what my jaded senses could believe.. I'd just hoped it would've provided even a smackeral of a taste of what once was something that kept my minds off the horrors of the public school system and abusive older brothers. Ah, sigh for those long gone sweet halycon days of pizza, mountain dew, and utter lack of mortgages and Honey-Do lists..

I promise, the next post will have art in it.