Neglecting a Blaugh

My artbuddy Kii over at Rakugaki has been getting on me to put some of this stuff in here, so here we go!
After the main course, I have some propositions, as well, so stay tuned to the end for those, please.

This one is purely for my friend Rin, who's a huge Bat-fan and just feels so bad for poor little Bruce Wayne's parents. The results, I think, are suitably adorable. I almost want to do this with other prominent comics characters (one with Spider-Man going "Uncle Ben is dead..." seems an obvious next step).

On a relatedly superheroish note, I decided to have a little self-assignment fun and draw myself as a superhero, so here's that identity: The Cricket. The mechanical legs I guess make him jump incredibly high/far? It goes without saying that that antenna is his connection to his awesome and helpful butler and/or precocious and computer-savvy childhood friend. I started on a supervillain version of the assignment too, but it didn't work out in the end. I might retry later. He was called The Tiktokman, and was basically an incredibly dapper, steampunk Dr. Octopus.

I started to colour Vitriol, from way back when I started doing a lot of entries like these. It doesn't look bad, but I dunno if I'll necessarily finish.

And speaking of the punk-girl-of-the-week, here was the last one for that quarter, Celeste. Anatomical errors abound, but another close friend, Mich, managed to very helpfully pick them all out so I can learn for next time! Hooray! The idea here was just to pretty much go crazy with the X's and uneccessary zippers and I think I succeeded in that regard.

And speaking of Mich, here's one of her characters that I drew for her as part of an art trade! His name is Corbin. He used to be an accountant but now is a streetwise artsy ruffian who loves himself a good beer. I kinda want that shirt. In return, she's doing a digital painting of my character Seamstress.

Here's another old leftover from my days on the MS Paint Adventure forums (I haven't hung out there in several weeks now), a picture of the Homestuck character Vriska from when people were still speculating about the placement of her other seven eyes. It turns out I wasn't too far off the mark--she's been shown now in flashbacks to have had her other eye be normally-shaped but have seven individual pupils. (Present-day Vriska only has one eye.) The text refers to her sort of randomly becoming the comics' sex symbol among much of the fandom after her introduction (despite her single eye, bionic arm, and being an absolutely terrible person), the "8" is due to the way she types (she replaces her all her b's with them).

Here's just a small piece (only a quarter or so!) of an extremely ambitious piece of fanart still in development. This is still pretty rough, and there's some line cleanup that needs to be done, but I was just so excited that I had to share at least a tiny snippet of it. Props if you can name all the characters in this section (at least the ones that are more than half-done.) At the very end of this post I'll put up a list of every single character I want to put in this thing.

My final project for a Photoshop class was to make a mock-up of an art portfolio webpage. I think it came out really well!

Oh hey this mask is finally done. I've only added a few more lines since last we saw it, but decided it looked good enough and spray-fixed it so it may smudge no more. It's now mounted on my wall in-between Guy Fawkes and that orange thing.

Lastly, I'm making a prop steampunk gun! This is exciting! I started with a cheap squirt gun I got for a dollar. I liked the shape of it, with the short muzzle and the little tubes along the sides, plus squirt guns are already hollow-bodied and lightweight. Now, as squirt guns often are, it was done up in all this garish neon orange and green, so I and my friend Ben gave it a good (if thin) coat of grey primer. Eventually I'll paint it, I think I want to do it mostly in bronze with some pearl and gold accents. The nifty cracked pressure gauge in the back we found in a junk shop, and Ben helped me gut out the water resevoir and epoxy the gauge into place (no, it's not functional, in fact, due to this alteration alone the squirt gun itself is no longer functional, but that's okay, because it's a prop). I also found some thick black industrial tubing and old metal couplings, I'll stick a few short lengths of that throughout the gun but have most of it trailing down to a prop "battery pack" thing that's worn on the hip. I need to start looking for other fiddly bits to add to this...rivets, vaccuum tubes?
Even already, when you hold this pistol at arm's length, you feel like a sky pirate.


Now that you've waited so patiently, here's a few questions...first, since I'm starting to get more comments coming in these days, what should be next for Sunday Comics? I'll let you guys pick:
The Filth, Grant Morrison
Transmetropolitan (volumes 1-3), Warren Ellis
Funny Misshapen Body, Jeffery Brown
Xombie Reanimated, James Farr
Wonton Soup (volume 1), James Stokoe
Or should I go back and spotlight even more of Concrete, Girl Genius, or Wet Moon since those have had additional volumes out and read since the initial featuring?

Question the second is, should I bring the webcomic I had over on the MS Paint Adventure forums over to this blog? Or at least, a linked and related blog? I stopped continuing the comic (called Lass Roam) over there once they changed board hosts, which made some of the formatting I was using much harder to attempt, but I was having so much fun with the project, I want to give it life somewhere, or at least preserve it somewhere other than on my hard drive...the thing is, its content is driven by audience participation, so commenters would need to be guaranteed if it were going to continue.

[Holden Out.]

[And now, the comprehensive list of characters destined to be in that ridiculous fanart.]
Concrete (Concrete), Spider-Man (Spider-Man), Bone (Bone), Bear (Bear), Paul Who Is A Ghost (Pictures for Sad Children), Jimmy Corrigan (Jimmy Corrigan), Max (Sam & Max: Freelance Police), Weapon Brown (Deep Fried), Agatha Heterodyne (Girl Genius), Steve the Robot (Here There Be Robots), Ogami Itto (Lone Wolf & Cub), Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes), Jason Fox (Foxtrot), Linus Van Pelt(Peanuts), Edda (9 Chickweed Lane), Batman (Batman), Rorschach (Watchmen), V (V for Vendetta), Enid Coleslaw (Ghost World), Cleo Lovedrop (Wet Moon), Death (Sandman), Craig Thompson (Blankets), Spider Jerusalem (Transmetropolitan), Cameron Spector (The Filth), Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics), Joe Sacco (Safe Area Gorazde), Chester Brown (I Never Liked You), 3 (WE3), T-Rex (Dinosaur Comics), Jeff Brown (Funny Misshapen Body), Jamie McJack (Girls With Slingshots), Robin DeSanto (Shortpacked!), Tycho Brahe (Penny Arcade), Rose LeLonde (Homestuck), Pickle Inspector (Problem Sleuth), Benjamin Glee (Intragalactic), Angry Little Robot (Bohda Te), Devi D (I Feel Sick), Axe Cop (Axe Cop), Will Eisner (Dropsie Avenue), Purple (A Comic For Girls!), David B (Epileptic), Wonderella (The Non-Adventures of Wonderella), Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant), Jughead Jones (Archie), Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis), Frank (Frank), Jim Bloggs (When The Wind Blows), Kaput (Kaput & Zosky), Frazz (Frazz), Lemont Brown (Candorville), Pierce (Zits), Iron Man (Iron Man), Lobo (Lobo), Nightcrawler (X-Men), Charlie (The Four Immigrants Manga), Black Jack (Black Jack), Mr. Gallows (Xombie Reanimated), Ramona Flowers (Scott Pilgrim), Johnny Boyo (Wonton Soup).