Flashback Friday: Shipwreck

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Jul 042014
 

It’s Friday! Time to look into the recent past and pull out something new. It’s flashback time!

A couple of weeks ago, I hinted that Todrick was coming up in the flashbacks and asked if anybody had any guesses as to who he would be dressed up as. CC guessed Shipwreck and I told her soon but not then. Well soon is now! Here he is, Ship-rick! Accompanying him is Popkin as Polly. As always, click on a picture to enlarge it.

Shipwreck

I love making new Joe cards. Here’s Ship-rick’s!

Ship-Rick-on-Card

And finally, the comparison with the original mash-up. The original was based on a panel from the Marvel G.I.JOE comic because I wasn’t ready to try the card art at the time. I used the same solution for the hat both times. I just couldn’t get it to sit right over both ears.

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That’s all for this week! Next week, Zoë comes back out to play! Have a good weekend!

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Ranma 1/2: Shampoo

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Jul 022014
 

It’s Wednesday. The first work day of the week for me. What’s even better is that Thursday will be the last work day of the week. Two-day work week! Aww yeah! Let’s get this day rolling with a mash-up. But first:

Ranma 1/2 is an anime that is aimed at an older audience. The mash-ups featured here are 100% safe for children of all ages, but parental discretion is advised before viewing the anime or reading the manga with children.

“When he’s a boy, she just wants him. When he’s a girl, she wants him dead.”

That sums up the early relationship between Ranma and Shampoo, a Chinese Amazon who follows female Ranma (she doesn’t know about male Ranma) back to Japan in order to kill her to restore Shampoo’s reputation after being defeated by Ranma in a fight, as decreed by her tribe’s traditions. When MALE Ranma accidentally defeats Shampoo in combat, she falls in love with him, again as per the traditions of her tribe. It’s okay to be defeated by an outsider, so long as he’s male. When she finds out the truth that male and female Ranma are one and the same, she runs off in tears. When she returns, she has her very own Jusenkyo curse. She turns into a cat when splashed with cold water. How fortunate that Ranma is terrified of cats, right?

Casting Sass as Shampoo was a no-brainer for me. Shampoo turns into a cat! After finishing the theme however, I wonder if it might have been better to have Sass dress up as Ukyou instead. I’ll talk more on why when I get to Ukyou. For now, back to Shampoo. I knew I wanted to feature the outfit Shampoo wears the first time we meet her. Little did I know how difficult it would be to find a GOOD picture of it. It’s not her most popular look so none of the promo art for the show has her in it. I had to rely on screen captures from the episodes. I went with my own pose as a result. With that said, here Sass is with both her normal and anime-inspired faces.

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That’s all for this week. Next week, we meet another member of the Chinese Amazon tribe.

Flashback Friday – Oonchie-Wan Kenobi

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Jun 272014
 

It’s Friday morning. Another four-day weekend looms on the horizon. All I have to do is get through today. A flashback will help!

It’s a return to the Star Wars theme this week. Here’s Big Oonch as Obi-Wan Kenobi. As always, when you click on a picture, you’ll get an enlarged view of it.

Big-Oonch

Now, you may have noticed that with the other Star Wars flashbacks I’ve been featuring the characters’ looks from The Empire Strikes Back (except for Barnaby’s second turn as Lando where I went with his uniform from Return of the Jedi). To keep the trend going, I decided to show Obi-Wan’s look from Empire…as a Force spirit. Interesting note: The ghost colouring took less than five minutes to do. Also, I always like to play around with the layers a little bit when I’m done a piece and when I hid the ink layers on this one, I thought the result was pretty interesting for the ghost look, so I’m sharing both. Which one do you prefer? With or without lines?

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Here’s the comparison to the original mashup. I think I made the robe hang off Oonch’s body so much better this time around.

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And that’s all for this week. Todrick is back again next week. See you then!

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Ranma 1/2: Kodachi Kuno

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Jun 252014
 

It’s Wednesday! Time for me to go back to work to pay the bills which allow me to keep bringing this website to you. But before I go, let’s Mash. It. Up. First though:

Ranma 1/2 is an anime that is aimed at an older audience. The mash-ups featured here are 100% safe for children of all ages, but parental discretion is advised before viewing the anime or reading the manga with children.

OOOO-hohohohohohohohohoho!!!!!!!

That laugh could only mean one thing: It’s time to meet the Black Rose. Kodachi is Kuno’s younger sister. She attends St. Hebereke School for Girls and is the champion of their rhythmic gymnastics martial arts team. Akane first meets her as she’s beating up Furinkan High School’s rhythmic gymnastics team so they’ll have to drop out of the upcoming meet between the two schools. Akane intervenes and a new enemy is born. Of course, Kodachi winds up infatuated with Ranma’s male half which only serves to deepen the rivalry.

Below we have Zoë as Kodachi ready for a match both in my traditional style and with anime facial features. Now originally, I wasn’t going to use Kodachi. I’ve already drawn Zoë in a leotard before (in her Cammy mashup)  and I had just drawn Nektara in Akane’s schoolgirl uniform so I wanted to do something different. I was going to draw Zoë and Skitter as the Golden Pair, Azusa Shiratori and Mikado Sanzenin. While I was doing picture searches for them, I decided that Skitter as Mikado wasn’t going to work out for me. Goodbye Golden Pair. That meant finding another female character for Zoë and really, Kodachi was the only logical choice. All things considered I’m glad I reconsidered and went with Kodachi. The leotard came out so much better this time. As always, click on a picture to enlarge it.

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That’s all for this week. Three more Ranma mash-ups to go! Next week, we meet the mighty Chinese Amazon, Shampoo!

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I’m Only Super Late…

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Jun 242014
 

Whoops! Forgot to post a blog yesterday. There was a point in the day where I said to myself, I need to write something but then I never went back and actually did and therefore…no blog.

Back during the holidays, I drew a picture of the whole cast hugging each other which was the most complicated piece I’d drawn for the strip yet. This past weekend I completed a strip which wasn’t as complicated but was certainly ambitious. It was for the 300th strip which pops up next Tuesday. It took me all week to finish, working a little bit each night. On Saturday I put everything together and drew the rest of the strip. I estimate the one panel took me about ten hours or so to draw in all which is about the time it took me to draw Steampunk Barnaby (the most intricate of the mashups).

What’s so special about the panel? Well, I don’t want to spoil it but there are 32 separate elements in it. I drew one big sketch in MyPaint with several pencil layers and then saved each layer separately and broke each down into several groupings of layers. When they were all done I used Photoshop to rearrange them all more tightly together since in the original sketch I tried to avoid overlapping too much. We’ll talk more in a couple of weeks when the strip is posted.

Today is the last day of my first four-day weekend of the summer. I still have one more strip to draw since I let myself get behind due to the work involved in the 300th strip and you know, wanting to take it easy. Next weekend should run a lot smoother and hopefully I’ll get down to working on some other projects.

Anyhoo, that’s all for now. This week’s first strip will be going up shortly. I wanted to post things in order which meant writing a blog first. Have a good week y’all.

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