MIGHTY MOUTH

is now officially part of Mutant Mondays!! ...they grow up so fast. *sniff*

"He once bested a great wizard with a single 'yo mamma' joke.  Sorcerers and Enchantresses of the dark arts fell to their knees with his sharp comebacks and stinging whit.  Only equal to the power of his mouth was his might and skill with a blade - until one fateful day he was cursed by a very powerful and pissed-off pixie.  Now he wanders the realms mouthier and mightier than ever, known only as.. MIGHTY MOUTH!!"

go check out the rest of the mutants over there.  for they are RAD.

been a little silent as of late on the inter-verse..  a freelance job doing character designs fell from HEAVEN right into my lap.  which is cool, because i needed money/a source of income/looking for jobs can really suck sometimes.  next couple of months should be interesting...  (more interesting than your usual kind of interesting.. that's not cryptic at all, right?  haha..)

later!!

BIC DOODLZ

computer died (again...) two and a half weeks and almost $300 later, we're back in business!!

speaking of business, i've been happily doodling at work/school/wherever else i can when i'm stuck in a room with someone else talking, with my weapon of choice (the bic pen.)

speaking of bic pens, did you know that most english speaking countries (including australia) call bics biros??  it's true.  turns out some french dude (bich) bought the patent from some hungarian dude (biro - who i believe was moved from his native country to escape religious persecution with his brother) when he saw the pen in argentina, and later started selling them in america.


speaking of... america?  it's already 12 days since INKTOBER started....  all over the world actually.
gotta play catch up, and bust out some INK and some TOBER.  you'll see...  TOMORROW.

Mariachi-Dachi, and BATTLECATTLE

figured i'd post something and breathe some fresh life into the blog.


all content, ideas, and secret projects slightly revealed are © ME. (previous sentence typed mostly so i can sleep tonight. easy to get paranoid over stuff like that for me.. heh..)
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so. i took this ridiculously sweet comic book appreciation class taught by Jared Greenleaf. i swear he was like Morpheus, chucking red pills all over the place.. GOOD stuff. can't get enough of it now..

here's a style test for a potential 10pg short story comic (for my BFA project) of a Mariachi Band stuck in Ancient Japan.
i already have 6 pages roughed out, and almost ready to ink/color... just need to do some more research and development stuff..

for the moment, i'm calling it "Mariachi-Dachi."





next up is what i promised to show last post.. the more i think/talk about this, the more excited i get (even toying with the idea of doing this first instead of Mariachi-Dachi.)

SO. what do you get when you throw extraterrestrial encounters, forged WEAPONS, and irritable livestock together with a dash of He-man, and a LARGE helping of REVENGE?? there's only one possible answer, and that answer is BATTLECATTLE.


to be epically and VENGEFULLY continued...

*edit - i googled "battlecattle" the other night, and found out that a card game already exists with the same name (though it has a space between "battle" and "cattle") and the vision and content is COMPLETELY different. on this site
they even use the text "moo-ve" written and hyphenated like i did in my background.. i honestly thought i had been copied, and freaked out for a second. haha... obviously they have a WEBSITE, and didn't create all the content they have over night. that would just be ridiculous. just figured i'd document this, so nobody thinks i'm ripping THEM off. i honestly had never heard of the card game before.

BATTLECATTLE came from an inability i had trying to design this cow, shown in this post
to get the juices flowing and expel my frustration, i just started sketching hardcore cow stuff - and battlecattle was born. also, Stephanie saw/named the sketch the same day i drew it, and i thought the name was just too awesome to pass up.


also, here's a good 20pg sketch dump from my 60pg sketch book i did while taking Ryan Woodward's most excellent gesture drawing class. things got kind of tricky with a couple weeks left of class, since i was offered (and TOOK) an internship opportunity with Disney Interactive/Avalanche studios as a concept artist (started June 1st). Too many awesome guys over there... LOTS to learn, and having FUN!

so yeah. here's some of my favorites that i'm thinking about painting up or something..























so there you go. more stuff on the way.
also, you guys prefer daily updates? or rather prefer me doing nothing for MONTHS and then sporadically dump pictures into the blog? or some kind of balance in between? it's easy for me to get frustrated with doods i'm stalking online when they don't update stuff, so i thought i'd check in with a you guys and get some feedback. (leaning towards a daily or weekly thing myself..)

up next, that other stuff i said i was gonna post but didn't - plus some stuff i didn't say i wouldn't post, but will.

kay bye.

He-MAN: masters of paradise

figured i'd color this He-man picture i did in my sketchbook a little over a year ago. very fun learning experience as well. and in case you haven't heard about He-Man, you're probably a jerk.

He-Man is pretty much THE man.

He-MAN: masters of paradise

Hey!!! Seems like it's been a while since i've had a good blog... what's new? life is becoming progressively better in ways i'm not able to perceive...

so like, this one time? i drew he-man. i let this cook for a little bit in my blue sketchbook - i just wanted to draw him somewhere in hawaii, with some local like-skirted people, as they hunt some fish beast or something for the upcoming luau festival or something... or the fish beast keeps crashing the luau party, and they're finally putting an end to it. either way, it's He-MAN. did you know there was an episode where He-Man meets his grandfather?? crazy stuff, i know.




more He-Man fanart/other nostalgic pieces to my past in drawing form to come.

i think i've finally found a way to manage my mind/time to do things i like doing more often. sorta like he-man. i mean, it's when he decides to do something by the power of greyskull - he does. so, i guess the time between when you decide to do something by the power of greyskull, to the time you actually DO it, is a good measure of how committed you are.

plus there's always a moral at the end of each episode. that's gotta count for something.

later!