Christmas Time is Here

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Dec 122012
 

Welcome back to the Wednesday Mash-ups. As I mentioned in my blog entry on Monday, this week’s theme is Christmas. Let’s get right to it, shall we?

First up, what would Christmas be without jolly ol’ Saint Deema. Yes Virginia, Deema Claus is coming to town. There’s a cheerful Grinch vibe going on in this one.

Deema-Claus

Next, we have Cyran as one of the toy-making elves. I would have coloured him in red and green, but I had already done Oonch in those colours, so I chose to put Cyran in green and white instead.

Cyran-the-Elf

Moving on, here’s Oonchie the Snowfur. I was going to use a top hat like Frosty, but I didn’t like the look, so I went with a snow cap instead.

Oonchie-the-Snowfur

Last for this week is my favorite piece of the set. Zoë and Popkin as Christmas angels. I drew and coloured them on two completely separate layers so I’ve included them as separate elements as well. I commented on Facebook this weekend how Zoë may be the smallest character in size, but her pictures always end up huge. The drawing software I use can’t always handle the size of the file and it crashes on me, usually as I’m shading. That’s why I always save my pictures before tackling the shading layers now.

The-Angel-Wing

Angel-PopkinAngel-Zoe

We’ve got more holiday goodness in next week’s installment. See you then!

AWWF Wednesday Night Raw – Part 2

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Dec 052012
 

“Hello everyone and welcome to Wednesday Night Raw! I’m your host, Carja McMahon along with good ol’ Popkin Ross!”

“Pickles!”

It’s sad thinking that’s the last time I use that gag. Well, not really. Anyway, here are the last of the wrestling mash-ups. As always, click to embiggen.

“From Sixtus, ‘The Model’ Rich Purpel!” This is my favorite of all the heel mash-ups. It just turned out so well (at least I think so). By the way, “Purpel” is not a mistake. It’s so you pronounce it like Martel. 😉

“From Burroughs County, the Big Boss Oonch!”

“From Vawsing, the One Bear Gang!” “DERRRRRRRRRP!” “From deepest, darkest Vawsing, the Pelarian Dream, Barneem!” I couldn’t decide whether to go with Akeem or the One Man Gang for Barnaby, so I did both.

“Finally, Mama Shango!” I started working on Zoë as Papa Shango and it wasn’t working. Normally, I draw Zoë in a three-quarters view and I couldn’t get the facepaint to look right. I trashed the attempt and actually started looking at other wrestlers, but I couldn’t find anyone I wanted to go with. So I tried again, this time, drawing Zoë more head-on and it worked so much better. I’m glad I stuck with it.

So that’s it for wrestling month. Next week, will be a return to basics.

AWWF Superstars – Part 2

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Nov 212012
 

“Hello everyone and welcome to AWWF Superstars! I’m your host, Carja McMahon along with Popkin “The Body” Ventura.”

“Pickles!”

Okay, so it’s the same joke I opened with last week, but I still like it, so sue me. This week, we continue with the wrestling mash-ups by concluding our look at the faces (good guys). In reality, every single one of these wrestlers (and those from last week) has been a bad guy at some point in their career…wait maybe not Warrior, but they transcended being bad guys by being so good at being bad that people started cheering for them, requiring the company to turn them into good guys. Let’s get back to our ring announcer, shall we? As ever, click to embiggen.

“Oooooh yeah!” “Approaching the ring, accompanied by the Lovely *mumblemumble*, the Intercontinental champion, Oonchy “Macho Fur” Savage!” The 80s Intercontinental title belt is my favorite title belt ever. There’s something about the design I really like which is why I’m glad WWE went back to it this year. I had to include it with someone and Macho Man was the titleholder when I started watching, so he gets the belt here (even though he was a bad guy at the time). There was nobody else to play him than Big Oonch (it helps that he always wore those sunglasses to cover his eyes) because really, who’s the most macho of all the Animus cast members?

“‘The Heartbreak Kid’  Nek Michaels!” I drew Nektara before I drew Zoë and I ran into the same problem with them as I did with the other girls…male wrestlers often go around bare-chested. Here I cheated (like I did with Zoë) and gave Nektara a t-shirt under her vest.

“From Parts Unknown, the Sassiest Warrior!” Sass was not originally going to play the Warrior. But I booted who she was going to play to the bad guy roster, so I needed another idea. Ultimately (see what I did there) I chose Warrior. He was one of my favorites for a time (until he started believing his own hype and went a little loopy). He did wear singlets once or twice, so I felt justified in putting Sass in one, even if hers doesn’t feature any airbrushed artwork.

“The best there is (in his mind), the best there was (in his mind) and the best there ever will be (in his mind), Pink “Hitfur” Rich!” I was going to stay away from the leather jacket, but in the one picture I found of Bret in the pose I wanted he was wearing it so I went for it. I like the buckle.

That’s all for now. Next week, we introduce the heels (bad guys). Seeya then!

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