Quickly drew some Wonder Woman fan art. I’m adjusting to a new computer, so I’m keeping my drawings relatively simple for now. Hope you all enjoy it!
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Sometime in the last couple of weeks, I got to see The Flash and Green Arrow team up. There was playful banter, crossing of super hero teams, and clashes in physical and mental approaches to situations. In the big crossover event between CWs The Flash and Arrow, I got to see in live action what I’ve only seen in animated movies and comic books for DC characters. Marvel has been dominant with their franchise so far. They were first to get a team of heroes all on one screen to fight a larger threat and it was freaking awesome.
And I’m saying that as a DC fan. Since 2008, Marvel Studios has hammered down their connected universe and are even backed with Marvel movies from Fox and Sony. Even though not all of these movies are true cinematic gems, I still watched them, I probably enjoyed them, and then they all made lots of money.
So where’s DC in all of this? 2008 was the latest highpoint in the DC cinematic universe with the release of The Dark Knight. We got Green Lantern, The Dark Knight Rises, and Man of Steel, but let’s be honest, no one holds a close enough candle to say Avengers, Captain America 2, and more recently Guardians of the Galaxy. And comparitively, Marvel and the affiliated studios have been releasing up to three movies a year vs. Warner Bros./DC’s 1.
So all in all the cinematic candle won’t come close until 2016 when DC finally kicks off its connected cinematic universe with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. And they still might not come close. But action stews further away from the silver screen. But what about the smaller screen candle?
DC has taken to television before. Besides animated favorites like Justice League, Teen Titans, and Young Justice, shows like Smallville, The Flash (1990), and Birds of Prey were somewhat popular. But now in this age of where superhero and comic book based media isn’t lame anymore, DC has really let their shows fly and their audiences with them.
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So watching Attack on Titan heralded in an era of trying to catch up on some of the best anime Japan had to offer. I tried and tried very hard in filling the void of incredible storytelling, beautiful animation, and compelling characters Attack on Titan held. My journey has led me high and low with a lot of time invested. I’ve recently finished three more anime, all recommended from close friends (Hybrid Zone) and some of my favorite websites like Kotaku. Here’s more coverage on what I watched, what I liked, and what I didn’t like. I’m also opening the floor for even more recommendations.
Recommendation reminders to keep in mind: I like to keep things short, with whole series ending after 24 or 40 episodes. I like recent stuff, because animation has really progressed since then. I’m looking for some good drama. Everything I’ve watched lately has mechas and fantasy. Maybe toning that genre back would be good. Unless you’ve got something I REALLY need to see.
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It’s my last finals week before I graduate and I decided to draw a little sketch of my last battle. Buzz is guiding me, as always as I fight against the four classes I have to beat. Here’s a little backstory to the characters I’m up against:
PSYC 2210 (Social Psychology): Psychic Sarah. She uses her psychic knowledges of social psychology to get my anxiety levels above normal.
ChBE 4310 (Bioprocess Engineering): Biomass Betty. Betty overwhelms me her shear mass in biotechnical mumbo jumbo that I know nothing about.
ChBE 4200 (Unit Operations): U.O. 2000. This robot from lab class is going to take full advantage of me not brining my goggles and lab coat to the fight.
ChBE 4535 (Product Design): Designer Desiree. Designer Desiree gives me vague and ill-defined riddles and expects me to solve them.
Now I should probably stop drawing and go back to studying…
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I had a wonderful time with Season 1 of Telltale’s The Walking Dead. After so much critical praise, everyone was curious about what the next step was for Telltale. They ultimately headed in a direction of a lesser known comic book than The Walking Dead called Fables. Fables is a comic book by Bill Willingham. By the time the series was announced, I had read the first third of the series and fairly enjoyed the story of how society’s beloved story time characters live in a separate society from the rest of the world. While the series kind of fell off for me, the hype around Telltale’s The Wolf Among Us may have just pulled me back right into the world. The first episode was released in October 2013 and has gained critical buzz until the first season of the series concluded in July 2014. It was only this past month when Telltale released the whole 5 episode package on the PS4 and I immediately attacked it. With my background knowledge on the Fables universe and familiarity with Telltale’s story medium, I thought I was prepared for The Wolf Among Us. I was wrong. On so many enjoyable and juicy levels.
Here’s how I was absolutely blown away by The Wolf Among Us and its titular hero: Bigby Wolf
Minimal spoilers, none that would ruin the game.
Posted in Books, Video Games | Tagged big bad, bigby, dc, fables, snow white, telltale, the wolf among us, vertigo | 4 Comments »
Some ways back I did a drawing of my webcomic series’s leading lady, Gillian Akers. I recorded the drawing and finally had the chance and internet speed to upload it. Enjoy!
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I’m 4/5 episodes done with The Wolf Among Us. I can’t help bringing myself to finishing the 5th episode knowing my time with Bigby will be over soon. So I stalled even longer with drawing some fan art. Bigby and Snow’s relationship is something that’s a lot of fun. The way Bigby dotes on her, but how he is ashamed of his rage and true form is tragic. I play my Bigby as a very angry man who isn’t hesitant to use violence on anyone standing in his way. But he also has a heart of gold, willing to help individuals who really need it. I’ve had a fantastic time with The Wolf Among Us. I really like being bad, something I couldn’t really bring myself to doing in The Walking Dead with Lee and Clementine.
Here’s some dialogue I kinda ran with it.
“Bigby, we should get this body to the wishing well, before the Mundies find us.”
“Just a little longer Snow…let me…just a little longer”
“…”
“Am I a monster, Snow?”
“…”
“Yeah…that’s what I figured.”
The next piece of video game fan art will be my Herald of Andraste from Dragon Age Inquisition. Look forward to it!
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Lazarus was the first player I beat Mom’s Heart with in the Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth for PS4. I’m really happy this game was free for PS4 this month and I’ve really enjoyed my time with it. It’s such a subtly perverse game with incredibly (and hilariously) dark moments. Since playing and beating Mom’s Heart (which I wasn’t even able to see the epilogue because I died immediately after I killed her), I’ve lost 10 times in a row.
I was so happy with this game, I decided to draw up some quick fan art. Here we have Lazarus with some random monster (one I made up, don’t really think it’s a real one). I very much adore the art style of this game and it feels like something I would come up with in a horrific nightmare.
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Took a break from The Black Carnival Webcomic to make this graphic profile for our leading lady. I’ll (try to) slowly roll these out for all the characters introduced so far to help build the universe. You can tell I do a rush job on the comic strips for the sake of delivering content, but I enjoy spending some time and detail into making better drawings (this one took about 3 1/2 hours).
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Black Carnival #7
Some notes: I’m going to experiment with how other comics deal with large walls of text. By the end of the fourth panel, I was getting upset that I would draw a whole panel only to have it blocked out by a wall of text (Panel 3). So I either have to be more concise in the writing or experiment and come up with solutions like I did in panel 4.
I normally (try to) participate in National November Writing Month, but this year I decided to do something a little different. Instead of a 1500 words a day, to get to the coveted 50,000 word novel, I’m going to try a panel a day (they do say a picture is worth a thousands words…). I’ve already gotten Black Carnival written up to #16 and I’m very excited for having what’s in store for the story. I’m already several days behind, but that’s not going to stop a man like me.
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A different, if slightly violent style. Pretty sure I ran the nib down pretty far on this one. I’m pretty in love with Saga right now, with these two at the helm as some of my favorite characters (but honestly, who isn’t my favorite).
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Yay another Black Carnival. In this page we introduce Lady Valora who has had a major character redesign since last time I drew concept art of her. And of course our main characters have also gone under another character redesign. As mentioned before, will keep experimenting as I get more and more comfortable with a specific design. More Black Carnival kinda soon. Will probably continue to go at this sluggish pace unfortunately. Too many other things to draw at the same time.
For example, got something cooking up for Halloween. Let’s hope I can make it in time.
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Over a year ago, I drew a piece on my new Cintiq drawing tablet that involved 9 characters and a pool party.
It was my first piece on my new drawing tablet. As proud of it as I am, I’m happy to know that I’ve grown a lot over the year in terms of skill & patience.
So today I present to you a redrawing of that first piece containing the same nine characters in the same environment, a pool party! It was a lot of fun, can’t wait to get started on the next couple of projects I have lined up.
From the left: Ellie, Rose Red, Rhaegal the Dragon, Omar Little, Cloud, Steve, Viserion the Dragon, Drogon the Dragon, and Daenerys Targaryen.
I’ve included the original picture below. I’ve come a looooong way.
On another note, I have more projects on the way, Black Carnival, Saga fan-art, some Korra, I have a lot of ideas and hopefully the time to do them!
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A piece I tried with a thinner pen. I hadn’t drawn Harleen in a while so I figured it was time for a new piece. More comic book-ey, less cartoony. I like the results. Slow pieces will continue to make their way to Banana Scoop.
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In the past two years, I’ve spent an almost upsetting amount of time and money catching up on the greatest of what the last generation of consoles had to offer. On my PS3, I went into Uncharted territories, explored the BEAUTIFUL world of Ni No Kuni, fought the Reaper threat with a squad of my best fictional friends, assassinated political figures, saved the world by becoming electrifyingly inFamous, became the man in the lighthouse that took me into the worlds of both Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite, thought with Portals, fought my way through the west to get back to my family, slain Colossi beneath their shadows, became the Batman, went on a life changing Journey, slaughtered thousands of gang members and aliens as The Boss in the Saints Row gang, became a father in the zombie apocalypse, and felt a spectrum of emotions through The Last of Us.
I’ve played a lot of games. In short, when I got my PS3 three years ago, I caught up on gaming greats from all the way back when the last generation first came out. But my list of games to catch up on has grown incredibly thin. Sure the list is still there because I haven’t played all the greats such as Heavy Rain and Metal Gear Solid games, but I think I’ve hit a threshold on older games. I thought it was time for a change. A time to instead of living the glories of the past, it was time to live the glories of the present.
So in the name of glory, I bought a PS4.
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I made another shot at Wonder Woman because I wanted a wallpaper on my computer screen that I drew. My two previous attempts were okay at best and I’m much more satisfied with this version. This one didn’t take long, only about an hour and a half or so for the whole thing. Tried to record a speed draw of it, but my software crapped out on me :/.
Things will slow down even more for a variety of reasons:
- School career fairs
- General job hunting
- Crazy high level lab reports
- DESTINY
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After many hours of work put into it, I give you my greatest accomplishment artistically. I’m proud to announce ‘The Black Carnival Sheriff’s Office’. In this picture, we have a group shot of the team I envisioned to be a part of the Black Carnival Sheriff’s Office. Many of these characters we’ve seen in one form or the other, but I’m happy to say that I’m satisfied with the finished design with each and every one of them.
As long as I continue to ‘do’ the Black Carnival, I plan on introducing these characters one by one. Until then, I’ll leave a shroud of mystery between who and what they are and their relation to Gillian’s journey.
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I’m gonna be MIA for a while while I get work done on this large (maybe the largest) project I’ll ever draw to completion. At the current state of the Black Carnival comic book, we’ve only seen four members of the Black Carnival Sheriff’s Office. 1) Gillian Akers, our rash, feisty, and impulsive protagonist. 2) Flynt, Gillian’s Guardian Angel. 3) Sheriff Meiter, the fearless Satyr leader of the Sheriff’s office. And 4) Miss Darcy, the hormonal secretary. Well I’m working on a large profile shot that will feature 10 to-be-featured players at the Black Carnival Sheriff’s office. I’ve included a work-in-progress screenshot of a corner that features two the of confirmed profiles to be included. The other 6 characters to be included are influenced heavily on concept art I’ve done in the past and previous incarnations of the Black Carnival story, but will be reimagined as the latest canon concepts in this drawing. It’s a large project and in balancing it with school, it will be tough to promise when it’ll come out. I’m working very hard on it and will try to get it out as soon as I can.
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Gillian and Flynt go over the mission on their way to the Howling Siren. I know Gillian acts kinda bitchy, but I’m more trying to lean her towards a Renegade Fem-Shep from the Mass Effect series. She’ll have her chance to show more of her true colors and loyalty eventually. Once I get there. One panel at a time.
And speaking of panels, oh man, look at that production quality. Did I actually spend more than five minutes on a background? It’s quite astounding what happens when you put a little elbow grease in the less important stuff like backgrounds. You can obviously tell when I worked on certain panels on different days. Panels 1 and 3 differ in art significantly, though I think I’m really digging the character design of Gillian in panel 3. I love 4 panel pages because it’s a lot less intimidating to work harder on one panel and still obtain a sense of progress. I’ll try to maintain this quality when it comes to 6 panel pages, but we’ll see.
Probably a pin up or two before the next Black Carnival. I’m more on devoting my time to drawing over writing for Banana Scoop these past few days, but I don’t think you guys are complaining and I’m having a blast. Now about that DC pin up…
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