Mar 202014
Carja
Mar 192014
Wednesday! A day of reckoning! A day of mash-ups!
The Krull theme is still going strong. I’ve got a few more weeks to go before I finish all the characters I want to do. As always, click on the picture to enlarge it.
Here we see Big Oonch as the Cyclops. Was there any doubt that Oonchie would be the one to play a character who’s missing an eye? Cyclops wears a lot of fuzzy gear and the shading was a little more challenging for it.
Next week, Barnaby joins the cast of Krull. Who will he be playing? That will be answered next Wednesday!
Mar 182014
Mar 172014
I mentioned last week that I was having a lot of trouble updating the site. I’m happy to report that after a lot of frustration, things are back to normal. After discussion with the Bluehost tech support folk, I think the problem was related to an update of the Jetpack plugin for WordPress that went awry. They were able to remove the plugin completely and the site ran smooth after that though I wasn’t able to reinstall Jetpack. Two days later, even that problem had gone away, so everything’s good!
I stumbled upon an episode from season 2 of Young Justice a couple of weeks ago. I programmed my DVR to record any upcoming episodes. Just my luck, there was a season 2 marathon on Thursday so I was able to watch the whole season this weekend. Good stuff. It’s a shame that they cancelled the show because the finale was clearly setting things up for a third season.
I’ve been having new ideas for a game lately (AGAIN). I’ve been thinking that perhaps a Mice and Mystics-style game might be the way to go. It would combine my desire to make an Age of Animus game and to share the “real” (i.e. non-Funnies) adventures of Cyran, Red Rich, Sass and Todrick. I don’t know that I’d ever manage to do both separately, so combining the two makes a lot of sense. Now I have to act on these thoughts (always the most difficult part of any idea).
Sixteen flashback pieces have gone up so far. It’s been nice to revisit the themes and put in the effort to produce some drawings that I’m proud of. Including the three I have in the queue, I have 42 weeks of flashbacks to go. Who knows though? Maybe by then I’ll be itching to revisit some of the later themes too.
That’s all for this week! More bloggifying next Monday!
Mar 142014
Hey-hi-ho! Whaddya know? It’s Friday yo! Flashback time go!
Last week’s hint was that this week’s installment wouldn’t be purr-fect but that it would still be pretty sweet. Sass should have seemed like a safe bet. And what character was known for using the purr-fect pun? Why Catwoman (the Adam West Batman version) of course! And didn’t Sass play Catwoman that one time? Why yes she did! Mystery solved! As always, click on the pics you’d like to see enlarged.
I chose to go with the New 52 Catwoman costume this time around. It occurred to me that it’d be really hard for Sass to fit her tail in the costume and I considered having her tail be uncovered, but I didn’t like how it looked, so I chose to make it black like the rest. I had a picture to use as reference for the pose, but I still struggled mightily with her legs, particularly the left. In the reference pic, Catwoman’s right boot reaches to her mid-calf, but the left boot doesn’t look like it extends past her ankle. I was unable to reconcile the two so I fudged it.
Here’s the comparison piece. When I was drawing Iron Cat, I realized that if Sass were wearing a mask, the fur on the sides of her face would be pushed together instead of remaining in two separate tufts. I applied the same principle here. In the original drawing I chose to make the Catwoman a little more purplish because I wanted the line work to show through and there’s a precedent for Catwoman wearing purple. With the way I shade things now, I’m more comfortable using black to colour.
So that’s it for this week. I don’t have a fun hint for next week’s flashback but it’ll feature Deema. Find out which costume she’ll be wearing next Friday!
