shikamaru + dolphINK + Antimo: King of Shadow + RYU highscore (vs Guile) + urban samurai in color = art dump!

welp... no real thoughts for the day that have completed themselves yet..
let's get on with the art dump, shall we?

old shikamaru picture colored up:



another IOU off my checklist - dolphink :


some doodles from work... first, Antimo: King of Shadow



second, RYU newhighscore!! (vs. guile)


and last but not least, Urban Samurai (old pic i colored up to gain some PS experience and level up a bit)

everything slowly comes together.

on a few other notes, i ran to jordan landing and back - i ran into the wind both ways, which was perfect because it was hot. and hot is a fag. plus it rained .. rain-core (possible band name?). which was awesome. i never liked hot... such a fag.

other news... it's become PAINFULLY SICK and OBVIOUS that tupac is living. if you don't think so... you're ridiculously ignorant, or don't really care. same difference... but still. it's ridiculous how LIVING this guy is.
- life, etc... to be continued.

Cubampire

so.. here's the most recent installment of work doodles.
i just kept staring at the paper, but nothing happened. . . so i decided to just draw a bunch of random crap to see what came out, and it sorta evolved into this cuban/vampire looking guy.


still having ink in the blue bic pen = awesome.
heheh... today, we got so many calls i didn't even have time to doodle though.. i started getting really impatient, and grabbed a brick of sticky notes, and started animating some stick figure figures beating the STICK out of each other. i think this is my new favorite thing to do at work...

there's gotta be a program that works like a flip pad on the computer where you can create your own animations.. right? people?? cry for answers??? too much fun.


other random news - i tried to do a back flip.

i snapped my head back, right on to the carpet, which is lovingly spread over a slab of CEMENT!! wow... i felt like there was an entire floor pressing on my head for a few minutes.. and the next few days i felt a little more dazed than usual...

i will do a back flip. i swear - it's physically WAY easy to do, but the mental commitment to do one demands 100%... i think life is full of mental back flips too, but they work the same way - if you're not 100% committed to making some kind of choice, nothing's gonna happen. that, or something really bad'll happen. success=commitment.
which makes me think... since success=commitment, even though my back flip sucked all sorts of racial profanities, if i was 100% there mentally, would i have still landed on my head?? maybe. maybe not.. reminds me of a quote from like, some inventor or something.

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do - not that the nature of the thing has changed, but the will to do has increased."

if you could perfectly acquire a talent or ability the very first time you tried, trying wouldn't be as meaningful then... would it. you in essence would have no will, yourself, if that's how life worked for everybody.

hmmmm..... interesting.

Majin Mario: The Red Kamehameha

Mario is freaking INSANE!! i've always sorta had this funny story line in my head, where Mario pretty much just loses it, and goes on this violent rampage throughout the mushroom kingdom universe. here's a glimpse of his madness.


it's kinda like a Majin Buu or Majin Vegeta thing, if you ever saw that part of dragon ball z. or kinda like Ryu's dark hadou thing, if you tried following street fighter II, after the... ummm... original street fighter II. so yeah... like that, but Mario.

more secret photoshop moves welcome (*coff* Kory! *ahmm*) - i played around with all that jitter stuff for pen pressure. AMAZING. anyways - anybody got any quick/effective ways to digitally ink stuff? so far, my best move is adjusting levels after i scan my pencils.. that's about it.

as for life, it's good.. i'm back in this cycle of death where i stay up late, wake up late, and miss out on doing lots of little important things.. and feel like i'm not progressing as a human soul... but then my will meter keeps building up and up, until all my will-fluid howls and blasts out of my veins, and i'm able to ride this wave of gushing will for a splurge of time. being so obsessed with free time, now that it's constantly sucked up by work motivates me to do what i want to do, but if i sit still for too long, my eye-lids get heavy, and the only thing i want to do, is just help them tuck my eyes back into their sockets, and have a deep... deep... nap.

bat girl begins

so.. not really - it just wouldn't work for me.
but, doodling at work+somebody paying me for the doodle=not bad. right?
request was to draw them as bat girl - here it is.

weapon of choice at work is still my blue bic pen.

in other news, i guess it was my birthday yesterday. that was pretty cool - got a mountain of brownies, food straight from the imperial chinese courts of his majesty FONG, and some high octane giftcard action to purchase goods to my heart's content. no real thought provoking literature to provoke your thoughts with at this moment.

will to draw drowns will to write at this moment, which is mostly a good thing.
-to be continued.

Naruto: Enter the Tablet

i have... a tablet. AHAHAHAHHHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
couldn't contain myslef - these things are just WAY too much fun. i should've gotten a job to pay for one of these a lot sooner.... heheh..


anyways, i broke it in by coloring this naruto rock/paper/scissors fight that's been going on in my sketchbook for a few weeks now. i never do fan art of anything, unless it's of something nostalgic-ish, or there's some weird, strong emotional attachment to it... which is what nostalgia is, i guess. just strong emotional attachments that have fermented with time.. heh..

anyways, life goes on. anybody is welcome to drop any knowledge on how to take care of tablets, and how NOT to do anything stupid to them. plus any other extra masonic-like tablet secrets are always welcome, as usual. since i'm pretty new to this whole thing.

more tablet on the way. i think i'll do some stuff completely in photoshop and see how it turns out... i think i might try that whole no outlines look. some people pull it off really well.

Down with THE KING!!

or maybe, 'God save THE KING!!' ... both sound like great band names, or just titles for this exalted doodle i just finished up at work. MAN i hate working... but they give me so much FILTHY money i just keep coming back. . . . filthy filthy money.

a man once wrote 'the mo' money we come across, the mo' problems we see-eeeee' except a girl would sing that part, and it was ALL over the radio when it came out.

speaking of FILTHY money, and the mo' -ness of it, i actually went out and bought myself a new toy. a wacom bamboo drawing tablet!!! holy. crap. it's. amazing.
definitely makes up for the three days in a row i've been stuck not having any time after work, and that fateful night me and my brother went out to like, 3 best buy's, and they were all closed, and we went on an hour hunt not for hot eats, but cool treats, and there was just NO dairy queen to be found.
that sucked.

arab movie work doodle + victortle

so - here's my most recent doodle from work. the goal at first was to do an arab version of M. Bison, with a little visor on his teeny hat (which would have been hilarious...) but I didn't.
so yeah, turned into a mock cover of a movie, if they made one based off of where i work.

ps - i blurred the company name on the bottle. it's just better that some of you people just don't know that information. seriously.



and here's something that i finished up finally after the request had been made back in like, february? this is a friend at work, Victor, riding a turtle. title of picture=VicTortleyup... finally trying to draw more often, and succeeding? hahah.. hey Roger! maybe that means i might get into some of that hoodie love stuff before school starts! which reminds me, i still need to take a look at the primary-tees thing you were talking about...