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Run E! Run

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:36:46 PDT

Gonna move to scraps when I log in next (like in July). This one's a sketch of E! (who will be part of my standard character repertoire for a long time to come), which is actually based on a photo.

There's a story behind this:

E! hates having her photo taken. The moment she realises somebody is taking a photo of her, she'll pull a face. Not like, Calvin proportions, but she makes fish lips and refuses to strike any pose except this really awkward, grumpy and rigid position. Apparently it's something she's done ever since she was a kid. I remember the days when I used to do that too, except after I went to university I started posing like a jackass instead. Anyway.

My response is to take photos of her a) while provoking her b) while chasing her with the camera c) when she's not looking. The results are variable, sometimes hilarious, but always candid. And every now and then, it captures an essence, in all its blurry, haphazard glory.

I don't have the photo on me right now, so I had to draw this based on inspiration. As you may have gathered I took this one whilst doing both a) and b) at the same time.

No, she wasn't wearing explorer khakis then, but she asked that I draw her in them.

E!

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:51:38 PDT

This shouldn't come as a surprise, making a cartoon anthropomorphic version of my girlfriend, that is. Since we're both fond of horses she was all too happy for me to turn her into a horse girl. However, she emphasised that she has more class and taste than a lot of the things I have drawn in the past (especially Strip, of course), because she is the real deal!

So I made fun of her fashion-unconscious habit of wearing shorts and a t-shirt, except given her small frame the t-shirt ends up being so large it's almost impossible to see the shorts. Actually I have yet to see this ensemble because she's still putting on an effort when it comes to dressing for the occasion LOL (and also we generally see each other going for horse riding lessons, so she has to wear jodhpurs and boots anyway).

Unhappy New Years

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 03:11:11 PST

Draft of something bigger I'm working on. I'm going to stick mainly to large works that I can chip at bit by bit for the next 18 months at least as I don't have time to get lost in the moment until I pass my FRACPs. I'll move it to scraps when I finish.

From left to right: Cen, Kai, Lyra, Strop, Sai, Strip. They are all drunk, except Strop. Not that most people here would know what the dynamics are, but this pic is set to alternate universe rules that actually allows them to be all on the same page together (otherwise Strop and Strip would be universe breaking).

First, it's Summer in Australia, so I automatically drew everybody assuming it was like +30C out. I don't know where the AU is actually set though.

To revise then, Cen and Strop are friends and flatmates. Cen is a student, Strop is a resident doctor. Kai is some random mysterious bum who keeps breaking in/crashing/ruining all their stuff, so of course he's going to be at the party. Strip is Strip, who looks like female Strop, but her relationship (if any) to Strop is unknown and undisclosed. Sai is Cen's ex, and she invited herself, via Strop, because there's no party she isn't at. Lyra is Cen's current sort-of-girlfriend. Who doesn't like Sai. The feeling is mutual. And they're civil people so they're civil to each other but when they're both drunk... and it's not possible to invite either Sai/Lyra and not the other, and it's not possible to invite neither, so they have to invite both. And since it is apparently weird to impose a "no alcohol" rule on a house party with a whole SIX people in it, the host has to provide alcohol, which would be Strop, since he's the one with the paycheck. And Kai is not a cheap drunk. He also sure likes to dig around in Strop's stuff and take random items from his personal stash, so he can engage in swordfights with drunken Cen, who hopes that the racket of objects versus garbage bin lid will drown out the bitching in the background. And Strip is just Strip, who, after a few beers, insisted that she'd be just fine baking cookies (since when did she bake?) while wearing nothing but an apron. When I get around to colouring this, you'll find she's about five seconds away from setting off the smoke alarm.

The evening will end with them all ending up in the hospital and Strop looking relieved, so tells me.

Strop as per 2012

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:39:40 PDT

An AG user asked me for a picture of Strop. He then cited a reference from 2008 (yikes).

This made me realise despite new software and style, I haven't formally updated Strop's appearance in years. So to kill two birds with one stone, think of this as a patch of sorts. Along with all the info you really need to know about the ninja horse. There's not much more to him right now lol.

She Dropped the Soap

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:33:43 PDT

I've been grinding out project-related material in between bouts of "getting destroyed by my schedule" (see journal entry around this time), so naturally I didn't feel particularly inspired by anything I did for the project. Or rather I'm relatively happy with all of that material but it's all quick and dirty to the point I wouldn't upload them anywhere.

Things all came to a head when I just felt like I needed to take an hour out of my day, any day, just to indulge myself. That's right, when I indulge myself, I do this. I haven't done the whole monochrome thing much so I figured I'd try my hand at it, and for a slap dash effort it turned out not too bad, which was apparently notable enough for me to want to post it. Clearly, though, you can see where I was concentrating, and where I wasn't

EDIT: my bad, I accidentally uploaded the version where I was playing with GIMP filters. Here's the original.

The Merry Morons' Xmas

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:56:16 PST

First off, I know it's well late for Christmas. I was busy >_> I AM busy. But not so busy that I'd forget that apparently drawing "horses with boobs" (or our favourite horse with boobs, Strip) is a Christmas tradition. Therefore this.

Second, those of you who know the characters may be wondering why Strip and Strop are actually in the same picture and how this isn't a violation of the rules of the universe from which they came from. Let's just say in an alternate universe they co-exist.

Third...

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It all started when Sai presented Strip with her Christmas present. Haphazardly wrapped with many gaps, it, like the present itself, left little to the imagination. Strip was, naturally, delighted, and demonstrated as such by proceeding to change into it right then and there. This was immediately followed by Strop and Cen falling over each other trying to stop the other from glimpsing any indecent exposure, which promptly escalated into a running battle of sneaky-peeksies, which resulted in the giant Christmas-tree-that-was-clearly-too-large-for-the-room (courtesy of a certain lunatic who had gone out drinking the previous night and had as yet failed to return) falling over and wrapping paper from all the other presents being strewn all over the floor. Sai was too busy giggling to realise that Cen hadn't opened her present to him yet.

For her part, Strip was completely oblivious to all this, for she was already mentally on her way to the nearest mirror. But before she could go anywhere, her attention was drawn to the tall, lanky silhouette of a man plastered to the glass door leading to the balcony. Putting on a casual air, she sauntered to the door and slid it open.

"Hi there Kai, do you think this suits me?"

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Finally, what I've somehow done here is something I generally try to avoid... pics like these tend to fall in to that awkward uncanny valley of "wow that body is hot but above the neck is a HORSE HEAD AAAAAAAAA", and honestly that gets me too. That's why I've started going towards more cartoony styles. But I was having so much fun with the shading this time around I guess I got carried away, and subsequently had a lot of fun posting it on Armorgames and ****ing up a few heads lol.

Strop, Strip (c)
Cen, Sai (c)

Outfoxed part two

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 02:24:50 PDT

PUNCHLINE!

by which I mean the back of the T-shirt.

Outfoxed part one

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 02:23:33 PDT

The front of a t-shirt design I did for a friend, which I am publishing now that he has received said T-shirt.

I don't really know why I put him in a suit. I just wanted to.

The Glamorous Life of an Inter

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 04:47:46 PDT

-n FRICKING TITLE CHARACTER LIMIT

Yeah so a while ago I mentioned I wanted to compile a series of strips detailing the hijinks of a first-year doctor... my hijinks to be precise. It might be a few years before it's completed, but let's say there's been a development which could prove very exciting indeed.

Once I finish the original Way of Moderation project, that is.

I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOUR-

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:30:42 PDT

-MANLY TECHNIQUE!!!

Putting the Cen in censor.

Even if you know who Strop was, you may still be wondering why he's wearing a kilt.

And this would be it.

Cen is forever plagued by nightmares of what would happen if Strop volunteered (or mandated, rather) to teach him how to fight. Not just because it would probably result in his getting horribly maimed, but also because the end result would be of little use to a wuss like him.

...or so he might think. I say that the last two years of "character building" at the hands of Strop counts for a lot.

In the meantime: MANLY KILT SPARRING!!!

I have no excuse

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 05:37:06 PDT

for drawing this picture. I was in an art battle and one thing led to another.

Actually the real reason this pic eventuated was because a little while back I saw this pic. You can clearly see the resemblance, the close adaptation was very deliberate: I happened to know that my opponent was also a big fan of that very same picture, right, ?

Posted with permission. The lineart isn't great because I was planning for it to be a quick five-minute low blow, then I spent 2 hours colouring it instead. Then I figured hey, I'll upload it because out of all the stuff I post, the pictures of scantily clad Strip have more views than everything else combined, so it's obvious what you guys want

Doctor Strop: After

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 09:47:52 PDT

This is me at the end of my General Medicine rotation, which actually ended back in March or so. I didn't get much drawing done in the next rotation, General Surgery, because I was in the country and the hours were kinda long (though I'm not complaining, because while the interns might work 110-120 hour fortnights, the registrars probably did 150 on a regular basis!)

Anyway, I've been trying to get a blog up and running this year, and have content and all that planned but it's just a matter of doing it. Now that I'm in Emergency and we're strictly rostered to 38 hour weeks, I have much more time on my hands, so maybe it'll bear fruit!

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The Determination

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:57:21 PDT

A sketch, which will be moved to scraps whenever the right time comes. But a sketch I had to upload because I was pretty pleased with it!

Now Round 11 has begun, and the final showdown is imminent! Six of the remaining moderators of Armor Land have finally joined forces and between them, seem to have come up with a plan to save their beloved city and its million citizens. But they have just one shot at pulling it off, and it is fraught with liabilities, starting with whether the seventh and biggest piece of their puzzle, the thirty-ton dragon Devoidless, even shows up...

From left to right:

Strop, Asherlee, Dank, Dragonmistress, Moegreche, Zophia

Oblivious Until They Saw

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:54:23 PDT

Flipper & Snelly were too afraid to continue in the tournament after the explosive destruction of the obstacle course during the Steeplechase. Besides, they never really knew what the Way of Moderation was anyway, and were quite content to fish around in the moat, oblivious to Ubertuna's presence, or as it were now, absence.

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For now I'll be concentrating on finishing the ArmorGames OCT, The Way of Moderation. At nearly two years, about six dozen participants, and over 1.1 million pageviews, the first phase of this project really needs wrapping up, which means getting it over the hump that is the serious Rounds Ten and Eleven.

Round 10, just completed, saw the tournament completely fall to pieces. The City of ArmorGames was raided and turned into rubble by the /b/tard and anon legions from Newgrounds, incited to riot by an embittered Klaus, who earlier, instead of seeing his dreams of becoming a moderator come to fruition, was exiled after going on a drug-fuelled rampage and eating one of the contestants (the giant banana, Banana King). The moderators and citizens alike were completely unprepared for this nightmare, and overwhelmed, suffered heavy losses. The bank quickly fell, the economy collapsing as news of its capture spread and looting consumed the city. With Nemo missing in action, and Moe incapacitated thanks to their encounters with Zophia's F-bomb, Strop found precious few capable of helping him sort out the mess he started, until he found two powerful veterans, the spartan Asherlee and the Dragon Mistress, yet since both of them were not moderators, they were beaten back when they attempted to take the bank back with veteran and tournament finalist, Crimsonblade. Strop went on a quest to survey the city and find other moderators capable of helping him only to witness the spaminator bot Flipski sacrifice himself in a desperate attempt to stop giant mutant trolls from smashing the castle itself. The attempt to extract Dank resulted in the destruction of Armor Academy, and escape was only possible at the last minute intervention of Zophia and keeper of the moat, Ubertuna, who attempted to take them through the tunnels only to be taken himself by the shark with whom he had continuing problems financing his ocean lodgings...

In short, the end of Round 10 saw the city in ruins, and the moderation team sink to the depths of despair, to the point that there was no team to speak of. Internal friction and squabbling saw the emergence of unlikely but still capable leader Zophia, who set them back on the task of forming a plan of somehow turning the impossible odds... Round 11: For Great Justice will detail what plan this might be, how it will play out, and how the people of ArmorGames might rally to aid their cause. Which brings us to this page. What is going on? Maybe find out on the AG forums!

Felicia sketch

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:10:38 PST

Sketch. Will go into scraps when I load my next completed piece. Or maybe I might even try to finish this one.

I've been a closet fan of Felicia for a long while. Closet mainly because I knew nothing about her fic universe except that it was called "Darkstalkers", and that she had abnormally large paws. And hair. And I never quite figured out whether her markings were on her or part of her.

Anyway, recently Marvel vs Capcom 3 came out and I spent an evening playing it with some friends. It's good for a total mash fest but there's a deep system to master... more importantly the game has Felicia in it. Unfortunately she's really difficult to use!

So I got myself a copy of the original Darkstalkers game and... surprise surprise she's really hard to use in that one too. Goddamnit!

Felicia (c) Capcom. This is strictly fanart.

Kirby the Badass

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 05:26:36 PST

As usual, there's a story behind this one.

It stems from the very drawn out OCT I'm running on armorgames. Work has severely hampered my ability to update regularly (as I had feared), but I was still able to touch base.

However I had noticed that for some reason the thread where the OCT was being held was a lot more popular that I figured. It was registering in excess of 2000 hits a day, and thus the millionth hit was looming. So I decided to offer a quick sketch for anybody who could screencap the 1M. I didn't think anybody would get it.

Turns out some people are more dedicated than I thought.

After the declaration of 1M GET, said winrar requested some fanart of Kirby. It was to be a Kirby version of this meme.

Was pretty easy enough. Now I just have to catch the guy and tell him his request is done.

Paperwork Intern Strop

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:46:20 PST

I don't have my own placard, yet.

Hapless Intern Strop

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:11:45 PST

So I just finished my first week working as a doctor in a relatively busy metropolitan hospital. Apart from feeling completely lost for the first few days, I now experience first hand what my seniors were always warning me about. I'm a slave to my pager. I have very nice bosses who are very helpful and understanding... but they're not there ALL the time to hold my hand. Suddenly I have to stop being the faceless student who always stands behind the curtains and start being the one actually doing stuff and answering questions and stabbing people etc.

Internship, in a nutshell, is about mastering the paperchase while not actually killing any of my patients. But by "paperchase", I mean the paper chases me. Always.

Reckoning

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:10:32 PST

FIRST SUBMISSION OF 2011 YAY.

Part of the bonus of enduring the long haul that is the Way of Moderation OCT is being featured on increasingly cool cover pages. At least I hope it's been increasingly cool. As the story progresses I've settled more and more into this high contrast B&W comic style. Only I'd never attempted to draw clouds noir before, and it proved to be a frustrating exercise in "colour by numbers" until I felt I got something right. I dunno. Maybe?

Anyway, the final two left in the OCT are Crimson and Leon. Leon has a shiny new suit of armor and chainmail, which had me spending extra time designing it (note particularly the modification to the "rampant lion" heraldry.)

As participants already know though, their match has been, uhm, postponed due to extenuating circumstances i.e. PANIC.

EDITS: just changed it about a million times to make Leon look more hyena-ish (because he's a hyena-man), and the hood less tri-pointy.

Xmas Strip

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 21:13:04 PST

So I did something obvious, what's new lol. I thought I should upload it before New Year's as opposed to after.

EDIT: I fixed the feet, so those of you who downloaded this file should probably re-download it. Now it looks like she's wearing those fetish pony boots. Not that I know anything about them. Nuh uh!

Legendary over 9000 shoop

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:48:07 PDT

Some dude on ArmorGames was creating pictures to celebrate every 100 post milestone he achieved. People thought this was pretty funny so they started posting pictures composed entirely of their post count.

I felt the need to contribute >_>

As Spring Approaches

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:22:35 PDT

This is like the 250th page or something I've drawn for the Way of Moderation OCT (and that's saying nothing about the novel's worth of writing which the images supplement). That is to say, fifteen months and 4600 forum posts later, the tournament's been whittled down to the final two characters!

But what is this dark portent we're seeing on the eve of the final battle!?

The Lives He Touched in pencil

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:12:58 PDT

Will move to scraps when I upload the second version for comparison.

This is part of me sorting character drawing processes in Strugglers. The style I favour and the style I will use to actually draw the characters (see this poster) differ quite a lot.

Some of these characters I have not included in a DA submission before, so I'll quickly list them, starting clockwise from top-left.

Nes: The protagonist, a hapless coward who has to take control of his life or remain forever a victim of the whirlwind circumstances that blow and batter him around.

Raigeki: The gangster turned gentle giant, he keeps the demons of a violent past at bay by maintaining his dream of a peaceful life teaching ghetto kids Capoeira.

Pat: A water-buffalo refugee from Cambodia, who fled during the height of the turmoil of the Khmer Rouge in the early 80s. After an itinerant life spent in camps, has finally settled in the US, and seeks to create a refugee liaison, and was persuaded to become interested in dance by fellow refugee Nagesh. Not particularly good at it.

Nagesh: Bengal Tiger from the Northern area of the Indian subcontinent, a refugee from more recent religious persecution. Nagesh and Pat are good friends, but frequently get into loud arguments.

Quinn: Nes' eventual and bitter rival, the so-called Queen and Ruler of the underground bboy scene. Attracts powerful dancers who seek only to rival her, whilst others share concerns her continued domination is skewing the scene, but feel powerless to do anything about it.

Hal: Nes' eldest brother in a family of nearly a dozen. What he lacks in book smarts he makes up for in loyalty and initiative. Very protective of Nes but was separated from him in the wake of the flooding of New Orleans.

Aeryn: This twisted mercenary broods over a history of abuse during her time in conscripted military service, and subsequent desertion following the blatant mishandling of her case by the administration. She lives by a maxim of survival, but what if she were to chance upon the opportunity for healing?

Defiance

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:20:14 PDT

Surgical rotations are a killer. I'm at the hospital 10 hours a day starting at 7:30am, and I also get 4 hours of Saturday classes plus after-hours teaching during the week, meaning I don't have much spare time anymore.

Oh wait, yes I do. It's called sacrificing sleep!

Did this in an evening while trying to tweak a "pencil emulating brush" in SAI. No matter how I try, it just doesn't feel the same as that visceral sensation of furiously hatching across the page. But the end result wasn't too bad for what it was. Looks a lot more like I did it with a pacer, though.

So yeah, this is Orlestat, the character I've kept around for yonks trying to create a novel for. The novel's almost set to take off (i.e. start actually getting written), so I guess I got really excited and wanted to get an actually DECENT visual of what the character was like. If you're wondering where the right wing is, it's not there. He lost it. How, is for me to know and for readers to find out!

But more importantly this is the first picture in which I'm really happy that I've caught his current character, situation, *hinted* at a story in a single image. So it'll be the official image I bandy about when talking about the character now. For the first time, I also kinda glossed over certain anatomical details such as the exact structure of the shoulders, and I think I prefer it this way. Shaping him entirely like a human would really mess up the aerodynamics.

Yearbook Portrait 3

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:14:03 PDT

This is the head of the Medical Education Unit of one of the clinical schools I'm attached to. He holds like a million postings, including senior consultant of the Intensive Care Unit among many others...

However for such an illustrious character he sure doesn't take himself seriously. The photo I was provided had him in a moose hat, snapped while on conference in Canada (go figure). So I decided to upgrade the hat. Props if you get the reference to go with it.

Yearbook Portrait 2

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:48:22 PDT

This is one of the admin staff at the clinical school. My brief was to make it relatively realistic (so I did), but add several weeks onto her pregnancy (so I did). It's her first, and the baby's due a couple of weeks before the yearbook is to come out, so hopefully this will be a decent memento with which to remember this time. The subject of this portrait was quite thrilled with the result, which is good, because I was too

Yearbook Portrait 1

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:53:58 PDT

The first portrait I did for the Yearbook project. This is one of the sub-deans of one of the clinical schools I'm attached to. He had a very clear preference for a big-head caricature, so I also took the liberty of making his mouth a tad larger again. He's also a massive 'pies (Collingwood) fan, hence the jersey and the red footy of AFL.

Signature is blurred out as to you people, my "real" name is Stroppy McHorseguy

Our Children

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:43:40 PDT

I was discussing cultural elements that made modern parenting difficult in a forum thread, and wrote this ripper of a line: "Chaos in the name of freedom." I then noticed it sounded like it belonged in a song, and what usually follows is "I should write that song!"

So I did. I've been listening to Jesse Stiles' music to this game: Every Day The Same Dream, so in its current form, that's where the music comes from. I've also been listening to Radiohead's album Hail To The Thief a lot lately, so the style is heavily influenced in that direction.

I'm not 100% sure about these lyrics, but they get the thrust of what I was aiming to say. Hope it's a little thought-provoking.

Turtleneck

Thu, 27 May 2010 09:37:58 PDT

Aeryn has aged alot since I first thought up the character many years ago. She's now about two decades older than she originally was. Hence the turtleneck: a middle-aged way of saying you still got it!

I also wanted to do some lines practice- initially a sketch but then I got a little carried away I guess.

I shall now resume my normal programming of not posting due to exams and job applications.

My Body My Sacrifice

Sun, 16 May 2010 22:53:20 PDT

Tanktop slipping down her arms, Quinn paused to stand in front of the mirror, staring at her reflection. This was her body, her sacrifice to her art and the relentless pursuit of perfection. How such an improvisatory, evolving form such as breakdance could ever attain perfection was the impossible paradox, so the closest measure was to simply be the best.

Until recently, that was what Quinn was. The crowned champion of all the breakdance world. Not just queen of the bgirls, but supreme ruler of each and every one who would front up to the stage and get down. This, in a world in which the rule had always stood that a bgirl simply couldn't ever beat a bboy at the game. They may be more flexible, but they simply weren't strong enough.

Without the title of world's best, Quinn was nothing. That was it, wasn't it. Why she trained, day in, day out, until the softness and the curves left her body, replaced by the angular, stony plating that encased her cold heart. That was how she came to earn her bgirl name: she was the Ice Queen. Nobody had the same unyielding resolution, not even the rivals and admirers who came to aspire to emulate her, forming the Icebreakers crew, which had also stood at the world's top.

Behind the Ice Queen, behind Quinn, nobody knew her real name was Usagi Sayo. They had known she was Japanese. They had all seen her in her white tracksuit with the red stripe. Her country's colours, they all said. She must be proud of her country, and that much she knew was true, so she never said anything to the contrary. That was why they never saw her without her tracksuit. But they didn't ask any further, because all they had to know was that she was the one to beat, and she wasn't going to let them do that.

None of them asked her name, and none of them ever saw under that tracksuit. But every day, when she undressed to shower, she would see it for herself. She had known that if anybody else ever saw too, they would suddenly understand, and her steely grip on the world of breakdance would shatter. World's best. Female. There was no room for compromise in that impossible identity.

And so while the fruits of her labour could confront her daily, she held that world in her paws. Until she herself fell, defeated by that bumbling fool of a rabbit, Nes. After that, all the determination in the world meant nothing. She was nothing. And the world realised that yes, after all, it was only a matter of time that another with talent would bring her reign to an end, and they could and breathe again while she faded away and was forgotten like the nobody she was. Except now, she had as a memento her body. The sacrifice now rejected, but unworthy of any other purpose.

Quinn felt a sudden draft and the fur on her back prickled. She turned around, about to reach across the tiny bathroom to shut the door again, when she noticed a silhouette in the doorway. A silhouette with big floppy ears, gradually lighting up as the door swung wide open.

"Sorry," Nes said.

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This is Quinn as you're not supposed to see her: naked. Yet, the story of her life is held in this confrontational image.

I won't be drawing another like it.

We're All Ugly Inside

Sat, 15 May 2010 01:37:36 PDT

Finally. This took me #(%*&$^(*@ing too long. Furthermore I didn't even know what I was doing. At least, I had a vision but the execution, the technique, even the program I was using changed while I was doing it. So it looks a little different to how I originally envisaged it. Either way I really hope the original effect I was shooting for still comes across, as the essence of the composition is preserved.

Anyway, I don't even know whether I like it or not as I have burn-out. What I do know is that it's done as far as I'm concerned!

Nes, Loretta's boys, Raigeki, Quinn, Hound Dog, Aeryn (c) strop
Khale, Palidor, Jahari used with permission.

The Final Eight

Sat, 01 May 2010 00:41:02 PDT

Phew. This was a LOT more work than I intended, but since The Way of Moderation OCT has been running for a year, I thought I'd give the guys who made it all the way to this point and into the final elimination rounds a little treat. I hope I know them well enough by now to know how to draw them!

, my reliable co-host, helped me pick out the matchups. They're rather apt.

Frank, played by Poisonarrow, is the most rugged looking.
Pixel, played by Pixie998, is the most refined looking.
The Bullman, played by Gantic, is the most heroic.
Leon McAcid, played by Xzeno, is the most troublesome.
Manta, played by Manta, is the most lighthearted.
Thoad, played by Thoad, is the most deranged.
Crimsonblade, played by Crimsonblade55, is the most senior of veterans (alongside KingRyan, who is also still active in WoM).
Chill, played by thisisnotanalt, is the youngest.

Both Frank and Pixel can fly.
Both the Bullman and Leon are... animal characters <_<
Both Manta and Thoad like to fight.
Both Crimson and Chill have magical abilities.

So now I've let them loose. We'll see what happens.

Summer Aeryn

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:36:27 PDT

Old lineart, coloured just now. I think I sketched Kazia in the swimsuits after watching too much Burn Notice, lol.

But the project Strugglers is nothing like Burn Notice. Consequentially you're not going to be seeing Kazia in those skimpy swimsuits, either. The version in the bottom left with the faded tank top and shorts? Yeah, that's going to be her *actual* summer wear, because hell is too hot to be glamorous in.

The other character I scribbled in on the top left is the saber-toothed tiger Dolph, Kazia's "boss". I'll flesh that out later.

Long Dragon is Long

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:55:10 PDT

Quick collaboration between Klaus and myself. There's a new contest on AG which was attracting all these big names, so we had to throw our lot in there. Thing is, I have a million things to do, so we had to figure out an approach that would still be effective but minimise the amount of to-and-fro between us.

So we came up with a before and after concept. Those who know mandarin will recognise the godawful pun I've used, not to mention the whole visual joke. I place myself at your mercy and may you plead for clemency from the pun police, who would otherwise surely shoot me.

WoM Round 6 title

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:16:23 PST

Yeah, it's for the OCT I'm *still* running. Holiday delays set me back more than a month, so at this rate maybe I'll be finished by... April? Better be a whole lot earlier than that since I have to apply for intern positions soon...

Anyway. In this picture is Sai. And Cenere (the one getting smacked by a basketball.) Both Sai and Cenere were created by I'm told Cenere is actually decent at basketball, but hey, faceballs happen to the best of us! (I bet Strop passed it to him. I had a reputation for bullet passes. I didn't have fancy tricks like all the good players so I made up for it with speed and an aggressive drive.)

Sai is a new character to the WoM. What is her role and just how is she going to add to the chaos of the land of ArmorGames!? (You can bet she will add chaos, though. Every character does.)

stick strop doc

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:12:09 PST

Strop when he isn't fighting for great justice through Internetland.

stick strop

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:04:25 PST

Based on an awesome thread:

[link]

Not-So-Velociraptor

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:33:51 PST

This is a Christmas present for , well, actually, her sister. So indirectly for her. Originally it was for this really nifty book project and the pic here was going to be part of the cover. Unfortunately we had a bit of a communications mishap, and Elle had to print the book yesterday. I thought I had until tomorrow to finish it.

So yeah, no book cover for me! Still, I went and finished the picture anyway. This version looks a bit blank because I removed the personalised message.

My keyboard is not working properly. Half this description was typed with the on-screen keyboard.

Strip character sheet

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:34:01 PDT

Now that the 5th round of the Way of Moderation has started: [link] I can finally reveal everything.

Not that it wasn't obvious earlier, since I had so many pictures of Strip up already, but I'm making it official. I wonder how the other users are going to react, to put it in the words of one: "Please don't bring Strip into the WoM. Or please do. I can't tell which I prefer."

I have no further comment.

The Klaus Landing

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:08:45 PDT

Finally, another page from the Way of Moderation that I can actually upload to the main gallery here.

The previous page can be found here:

[link]

Yeah, I know, that doesn't give you a whole lot of context. How about... this! [link]

Yes, there is a lot of stuff in there!

The Way of Moderation project has now been underway for five months, during which time we've only managed to get through about a third of the plot. Or possibly less, as it gets infinitely more complicated after the next round...

Anyway, this is Klaus. In the previous round Strop banned Klaus for a week because Klaus broke into Strop's tower, used his latrine without permission and ruined his favorite pair of panties, which resulted in Strop accidentally destroying Armor Castle. Strop, in desperation, forced Klaus to promise to rebuild the castle from scratch before the admins found out, and Klaus, thanks to some help from the Freemasons (lol), delivered.

In gratitude, Strop hit Klaus so hard with his banhammer that he went orbiting around the world for an entire week.

What goes up, must come down. Klaus has just come from a week of intense training, with laser penguins, consisting of smoking a looooooot of recreational drugs and playing videogames while blazed, so he comes back with massively upgraded stupidity.

What happens next!? Let's just say that the Way of Moderation trial progressively gets more insane as it progresses.

Labelled

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:51:13 PDT

This is all the label I need.

p.s. stupid freakin thumbnail preview broke the image because the background is transparent. Lame.

Seafilly

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:06:58 PDT

HEY ALL YOU GUYS WHO FAVE THIS!!! More recent (and better) Strip stuff here: [link]

I have a number of disclaimers to make:

* Once again during this self-indulgence, I ask myself about the balance between my personal impulses, females who do enjoy this image without any problem (I know at least two) and females who might feel insecure because of this image (I know at least two), and how this reflects on just about everything. After weighing up the risks and the benefits, I realised that I'm a risky person anyway, so here you go.

* Just in case you're wondering where all my moral fibre (hahahahaha) has gone, I've been drawing heaps of stuff other than the female version of Strop, seriously! Just that it's all sketches and all Way of Moderation related. The next thing I upload here will probably be an animation that I guarantee will knock your socks off.

NO I DON'T FEEL GUILTY AT ALL!!! 8D

* I will probably be going to furry hell for making one of the worst puns in existence. Australians are likely to recognise the pun because it relates to designer swimwear brand Seafolly: [link] I therefore declare this piece to be a parody and nothing to do with the actual swimwear brand.

* Funny thing, I'm uploading this here, now, because this image was deleted from Photobucket. Apparently it violated TOS. A search of the TOS left me scratching my head, as the closest entity I could find:

"8.4 contains nudity, excessive violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to an adult website;"

Wasn't quite a match in my books. Then again PB *did* pull a photo of my post-paintball butt off its site, so perhaps they use the butt-crack litmus test, hahaha. So that makes 2 images. I wonder if they use a 3-strike rule.

That said, somehow they missed my lineart version, which was incompletely coloured. From my own experiences, my guess was they didn't bother taking a closer look because it wasn't worth looking at, whereas this image is fully coloured and kinda jumps off the thumbnail.

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What I found interesting about this exercise was that it somewhat goes against my agenda to push my style in a cartoony direction so as to paper over any uncanny valleys or the strangeness of whacking an animal head on a human body, because I decided it would be a good time to practice colouring instead. What you get therefore is something that looks different depending on whether you take it as a whole or in its various compartments.

Either way, you get a horsegirl in a skimpy g-string.

The Uniform Look

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:57:16 PDT

HEY ALL YOU GUYS WHO FAVE THIS!!! More recent (and better) Strip stuff here: [link]

I know I'm going to cop flak for this:

All female friends = "You dickhead, Strop."
Parsat = "AUGH PERVERTED FURRY STUFF D:"

I know it. And best of all I'm not going to bother explaining myself because now is not the time to do it, bwahahahahahahahaha.

For now, please assume this is the workings of a twisted mind. Also I'm going to tactically ignore the whole politics of furry porn and all that.

Also for the record, I'm not fantasising about actually BEING a member of the opposite sex, despite being of the opinion that transgender is a legitimate expression of perception of being!

P.S. Image slightly edited, as the lateral head of tricep on the right arm of the right "Strip" was attached in the wrong place.

Sexy Strop by Cenere

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:19:20 PDT

I'm going to call this "fan art".

Anyway, done by , not . I am uploading this because I allegedly promised to use this as my DeviantID, although I honestly do not recall agreeing to that...

Note that I also had no part in having this picture drawn, wanted to do it all on their own volition.

Link to submission: [link]

Way of Moderation Victestants

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:02:26 PDT

This is huge in many ways.

Here are the 32 non-moderator characters of the Way of Moderation original character tournament, created by 29 unique people. It took me ages to do it- I had first to ask people to submit a character sheet, then I took each and every single person through a vetting process until I was satisfied that it was workable with the story and the other characters. Some people are more experienced than others. Some had delays. Some of the characters here have since withdrawn due to commitments but are willing to play a partial role in the tournament.

I then sketched all the characters and checked with each and every single person that they liked the representation given to them. This is, as far as I can tell, the final version of the lineart.

The plot is ready to go, but it is ever evolving on a day-by-day basis. Due to a reassessment of my work commitments, I've had to change my approach drastically, but since it's been more than six months since I started planning this project and getting it underway, I'm determined to see it through properly.

In a list, the victestants (Cenere and my little joke about the nature of the WoM), and their respective handles are:

Frank the Sky Pirate - played by Poisonarr0w
Pixel the Pixie - played by Pixie214
El Cholo the Mouse & George the Duck - played by Cholokid
Chill - played by thisisnotanalt
The Banana King - played by Zega
Dudeguy the...dude - played by himself
Hojoko the Ghostly Lurker - played by himself
The Bullman - played by Gantic
Firefly the Spectral Graffiti Wizard - played by FireflyIV*
Garrett and Richard the Street Kid Duo - played by jdoggparty*
Bluydee the Bounty Hunter - played by himself
Thoad the Zombie Slayer - played by Thoadthetoad
Parsat the Chinaman - played by himself
Lufffi the Swashbuckling Seaman - played by Lufffistudios
Randy the Shapeshifting Stickman - played by Random_player_of_ag
Crimson the Mysterious Swordsman - played by Crimsonblade55
Manta the Fish-man - played by The_Manta
Goumas the Alchemist - played by Goumas13
Flipper the Penguin & Snelly the Butterfly - played by Skater_kid_who_pwns
Gametesta the Game Tester - played by himself
King "Since Beta" Ryan the Archivist - played by Kingryan
Klaus the Bear - played by Klaushouse
The Spamlawrd - played by Jaza_m*
Jess the (Pommie) Phoenix - played by herself
Nichodemus the Princely Lycanthrope - played by himself
Mary the "not-bogan" - played by Pazx
Vise the Heart of Darkness - played by Zlith
Leon McAcid the Deranged Gnoll Trader - played by Xzeno

and last but not least...but certainly not most (relax, ::, it's a Dilbert joke):

Cenere the Sincere - played by himself

There are a number of funny stories behind some of the titles that I just decided to give the characters. Cenere will in fact play a slightly altered role, since Cenere is the co-host of the WoM.

* These characters had to withdraw due to commitments, but along with some others may play a partial role in the story nonetheless.

Well that's it. This will be the last major work from me for a while, as I'm going to be really putting my head down until the end of my course, then god knows when I'll have time to draw anything after that.

Funktastic

Sun, 31 May 2009 10:49:12 PDT

FULLVIEW DAMNIT.

asdfasdfasdfadsfasdf choosing a category is killing me.

All I know is that I'm *not* calling it street art. I'm merely referencing the style. Heck, I've never even held an actual spraypaint can in my hand. Ever. Or an air-brush for that matter. Never done a tag, never done a throw-up, let alone a piece or production.

So Zophia nominated the theme "purple injection", which made me go wtf cool! I then saw several entries which had purple eyes and...purple injections in it. Very morbid. Even the inspiration for the theme was euthanasia.

But when I think "purple injection", I think wah-guitars and saxophones and Shaft in a pimp suit, if that makes any sense whatsoever. Probably doesn't, in which case, even better!

This is probably the craziest idea I've managed to put on the page, which is saying something because it's a real struggle for me to draw crazy. My brain spazzes out when I draw things out of proportion.

Anyway, I threw in some of the key cast from the project Strugglers. Strop (and the homeless dude) aren't in it, but from left to right, Khale, Nes, Crimsonfire and Jahari are. The reason I'm using them is because in doing this piece I've finally managed to (somewhat) capture the style I want to use for the comic.

Now I can proceed!

After exams.

You Dead? Dying?

Mon, 25 May 2009 06:16:26 PDT

Low quality sketch but it was fun to do. This is my interpretation of the characters "Bullman" and "Crowman" in the AG-based story "Reaching Out and Touching No-One" by Gantic. He recently resumed the series after a long hiatus. Nobody really gets it. Maybe nobody's meant to.

[link]

And I just love drawing horrified and confused faces. They're almost as much fun as super-angry-wrinkly-veins-popping-out-of-your-head faces.

Moderator Asherlee

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:55:48 PDT

ASHERLEE WILL CRUSH YOU.

Not necessarily. If you're bad. That's if she were active, which she's not.

Asherlee was one of the earliest moderators of ArmorGames in its complete incarnation. Many of us who remember are sad that she's not around, because she was quite a likeable character. She definitely does not look like this in real life (just thought I'd say that), but I've taken her powerful, larger-than-life personality and this is the result!

Out of the complete roster of moderators she would be one of the most strongly "good" aligned.

Note also that I didn't at all reference Wonderwoman while drawing this...but I guess I was subconsciously channeling it!

EDIT: Why the hell did I draw Asherlee's hair black? It's not! It's more like auburn...so I changed it.

The Way Of Moderation cover

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:31:58 PDT

HUGE EDIT: I TOTALLY GOT PERMISSION FROM DRAGONMISTRESS LIKE AWESOME!!!

Pictured is almost the entire roster of moderators of ArmorGames. It took a while for us to decide on their appearances, and a couple haven't entirely been finalised but here it is!

Estel- otherwise known as Esteltree. I honestly don't know how Estel will react to this seeing as, well, he's off being a manly man playing soccer. He also specified that he wanted to carry around an axe-guitar...which is an interesting combination because we wanted to give him a theorbo, haha.

Asherlee- currently inactive. Asherlee was one of the earliest moderators but went on hiatus middle of last year, shortly after I became a moderator. I did, however, manage to contact her and have permission to portray her as a 7' tall warrior woman with disturbingly large muscles. No resemblance to real life is at all intended.

Dank- Didn't like his original design and informed me that he wanted to look like his avatar (I had forgotten this), which, in brief, is a short, round, armoured dwarf with a big hammer. And the only hammer of the "banhammers", I would note. My problem now is that dwarves generally don't like magic and Dank is supposed to be a super powerful mage, who teaches the magicks at ArmorCollege. Hm.

Devoidless- the massive dragon up back. A well known figure, with a wicked sense of humour...well just generally wicked. Possibly the most villainous of the moderators, with his parody-religion Breakfastarianism and his habit of "burning" things.

DragonMistress- Specified that she wanted to be, well, a dominatrix. Leather a must. I obliged. I also spent time and a lot of discussion with the other mods and about how to design the dragon tattoo on her back. You will see this in full detail eventually. As a character Devoidless (being a dragon) has a huge crush on her and thus DM is the only one who can keep 'voidy (mostly) in check.

Moegreche- Brain in a jar, on a chuck wagon. Resident intellect and philosopher, who speaks in a Stephen-Hawking's-voicebox tone. Actually has powers of telekinesis but is too lazy to use them most of the time.

Flipski- the Spaminator. Purpose-built robot designed to destroy spam and spammers alike. Somewhat on the iffy side, with a tendency to randomly attack people and make unwarranted off-the-cuff predictions about the future. There is a giant button in the middle of his chest that reads WARNING: DO NOT TOUCH. It should not be touched.

Carlie- Administrator and therefore Queen of ArmorGames. To be specific she is the appointed Community Liaison Officer so she's the admin we always contact and the one who is seen most often around town. The other admins tend to be mysterious deity-like figures that fix stuff and create things. Carlie is rumored to have an alter-ego but this has never been reliably verified.

Ubertuna- a.k.a. "I'm a scaley manfish." Fancies himself as grandiose, and mysterious but is in fact snivelling and pathetic. The equivalent of Magikarp. Powers consist of doubling the effectiveness of soap and blowing bubbles, but I really would not want to be hit with his banfish, I would stink for a week.

Strop- ninja pony. Yours truly. I think that should do for now.

Zophia- recent character change to a half-mammal half-reptile which is apparently truer to life. Resident artist. Keeps green fuzzballs as pets. Zophia's character (and the fuzzballs) is her own.

Nemo- the loner in a wolfskin. Habitually wanders, taking things and occasionally speaking pithy words of wisdom before disappearing down the nearest alleyway.

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Absentees- Calm, who likes the idea but doesn't have an idea for his own character yet. I might end up making him a talking mist lol.

All characters here, except Zophia, were created by myself in consultation with their respective owners. Used with permission.

AHH NOT A WEBER C

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:54:11 PDT

Title is an orthopedics joke. Weber C means fracture of the fibula above the level of the ankle joint. This usually means that the syndesmotic ligaments that join the distal fibula and tibia are also torn since the forces shear down the interosseus membrane and often resulting in an avulsion fracture of the medial malleolus.

In short, Weber C is bad because the ankle joint is rendered unstable. The tibia would simply slide off the talus if weight were borne on it.

Anyway! That I know this off the top of my head stands testament to the efforts of the orthopaedic registrars at my teaching hospital. Our group was particularly impressed by them and so some of the girls had the idea of making a card, and asked if I'd like to contribute. I did, and for no apparent reason thought of this.

I'd also like to add that the girls spent several more hours on the card afterwards, but that's probably another story.

...hm. I think I'm short 2 pairs of ribs. Otherwise the anatomy seems about right.

Character Sheet- Raigeki

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:09:31 PDT

This was originally a request (of sorts) from a user on ArmorGames by the name of Raigeki. I said yes mainly because I was already interested in developing the character as part of the Strugglers project.

I was just about to finish this when I had the presence of mind to Google "Raigeki", when I realised it was the name of a "thunderbolt" attack in Yu-Gi-Oh!, of all things. So I did a flailing save and named the character Mestre Relampago (which, according to my Babelfish Portuguese, means "Master Lightning"). I'm not sure I want to call the character "Raigeki" ever again xD

So yeah, the basic info is there. R plays a fairly minor but pivotal role in the story, being a kind of mentor to Nes and giving him a useful tool to develop his skill and interest in breakdance, as well as the confidence to finally take the step from breaking out of his hellhole to treading the path to a bigger world.

I shall now breathe a sigh of relief as, bloody hell, those dreads took me too long.

Strop ID

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:06:23 PDT

I said that I would draw Strop eating a carrot one day...in fact I first sketched it out back in 2005. This one doesn't look anything like the original sketch.

So it's essentially taken me 4 years to get around to doing a picture of Strop eating a carrot. Which sounds ludicrous but there you go.

My pixel art style is still developing- I'm still in two minds as to whether I'd like to use heavy dithering or not, as I'm not sure how to make it work. At this point I use a fairly simple flat-colours + highlights style.

As far as I know there is no such brand as "colt athletic"...I'm taking the piss. I've done the same thing on precisely one other drawing before this, and I highly doubt that most of you have seen it! >:3

WTF I can't draw this

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:24:57 PDT

Done as a showpiece sketch for the AG art contest. Incidentally I'm wearing the t-shirt drawn in the picture.

I'll eventually work up a range of 320x480 pics in different styles that I'll flick around when the notion strikes.

If Dostoyevsky Were High...

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:28:38 PDT

The person who is responsible for this, you know who you are. For the ArmorGames art contest, in which the devilishly tricky theme was as follows:

"But to be stopped on the stairs, to be forced to listen to her trivial, irrelevant gossip, to pestering demands for payment, threats and complaints, and to rack his brains for excuses, to prevaricate, to lie--no, rather than that, he would creep down the stairs like a cat and slip out unseen."

-from Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment", indeed! I haven't finished reading it myself but I am familiar with the book so after a little uhming and ahing I decided to go with the "taking the piss" approach. Because I don't like taking the Gothic tone seriously.

Please ignore the fact that Superman wasn't even a figment of imagination when Dostoyevsky wrote C&. What can I say, he was high in this comic!

The caricature of Raskolnikov was shamelessly based on a very apt version of him as shown here: [link]

Aeryn

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:31:45 PST

This is Aeryn, I forgot to write "AS SEEN IN STRUGGLERS" like with the other character sheets because yes, the most complete version of her is in that project. Not that you'd necessarily know what the heck I'm talking about soooooo...

This character has undergone a heck of a lot of change since I first conceived her in the context of a project I was supposed to be doing with a friend which never took off *significant look in random direction*. Actually I just remembered what my initial motivation for drawing this character was, and no, I'm not telling you >_>

At any rate she started out as a feminine space-cadet who was proficient at firearms. Not very realistic, I know. She eventually got her own crazy backstory which was even less realistic until the whole thing passed the critical mass of unrealistic and collapsed on itself.

Years passed.

A sandbox project called Strugglers emerged, an amalgamation of all the characters from the past as well as that of several friends and cameo appearances and all that...it centers around Nes (yes, you can find his character sheet as well as a few pages in the gallery) and his bungling attempts to survive the raw malice of the slums and ghettos of the places most people would rather forget about. However it was here that Aeryn ended up gaining the most complete (and compelling, despite the warped setting) history which I'm about to outline:

Originally I had nicknamed this character "ponnie" because as far as I could tell that was a traditional Polish nickname meaning "little miss". It's been so long since I came up with that I now have just about no way of actually verifying whether I'm right or whether I'm plain talking out of my arse, so that's on hold. I also recently found out Aeryn, despite appearances, is a male name, not a female one but that's acceptable seeing as it's a codename.

Why codename? Aeryn is purportedly a deserter from the Soviet military, which technically makes her a traitor. Reasons for her leaving the military in such fashion will never be given but it's worth noting that she is Polish by birth (Polish-Russian tensions have always run throughout the course of European history, though I'm no expert on this) and that she now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, which should give you some idea. What you do get to find out was that she was an operative in the Spetsnaz (special forces), which means she's a pretty hardcore survivor.

Which leads us to the live she's living now. Strugglers is set in a gritty forgotten neighborhood that runs on drugs, sex and groups of thugs with guns. There are several local figures struggling to gain influence, as per the usual gang warfare situation, and once you come to this area it's expected that you'll somehow be swept up into this until you submit, die or miraculously escape. But most lack the means to do the latter.

Once Aeryn deserted, she was both technically and psychologically unable to return to what we'd call a normal life, and so found herself here where there is practically no presence of the law to take notice of her, which is important as in this setting, unicorns are rare. Furthermore she has grown accustomed to her militant ways and so it was natural that she accept a position offered to her as a sniper in the local mercenary union called LAST, named first as an acronym and strangely because of the nature of its members...(more on this later, since I'm here to talk about Aeryn, not LAST.)

When she is first introduced, Aeryn is firm, uncompromising and intensely private. She protects her brittle psyche and way of life and thus far there has been little in the way of change to the status quo to challenge this, until Nes, the novak (new guy from elsewhere) puts his great dirty big feet in just about every place imaginable that he really shouldn't have. Aeryn starts discovering things about herself that came from places she would rather not be reminded of, and thus her personal conflicts are brought back to the surface, confronting her with decisions she had hoped to put off with a life spent "liberating condemned souls".

Yep, that's it in a nutshell.

Final note: Aeryn strangely carts around a museum piece of a Dragunov SVD- while this is not a sniper rifle by today's standards, it's still a good piece and given Aeryn's environment, far more suitable for her line of work.

Map of ArmorGames

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:14:07 PST

Yes, big file, but like you'll see the detail without fullview.

This is...how do I put it, a map of a website. Like, if somebody were to portray a virtual space. Yeah, so just imagine that I've interpreted the dynamics and the features of ArmorGames in this way.

There are like 27 or so headings in glowing technicolour so I can appreciate actually reading the map might be confusing, but since I'm thinking about developing other things related to the site, I think I'll probably redo this at some later date (read: way down the track) in a flash app.

There exist other interpretations of ArmorGames, so this is in no way official, just mine. I just happen to think it's also the most comprehensive!

The Narcoleptic Dragon

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:43:19 PST

Yes, this does have a source. It comes from here: [link]

Thanks for the MOST RANDOM POETRY CONTEST TOPIC EVAR, ubertuna.

Given due allowance for the translation from dragons to humans, the information in the poem above is in fact entirely medically correct. CPAP = Continuous Positive Airway Pressure. It's a mask fitted onto OSA patients which, as the name suggests, creates a continuously positive airway pressure that keeps the airways open so that the patient can breathe normally while asleep and actually get a good night's sleep, stop snoring and maybe even start sleeping in the same bed as the missus again (unless the missus is a real gallant girl and stays in the same bed for the purposes of whacking her husband every time he chokes and turns blue). If the patient has OSA really bad, you can use a BIPAP (bi-phasic intermittent PAP), which makes it easier to exhale compared to CPAP.

Yes, obstructive sleep apnoea is serious business indeed!

DnD Fail

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:19:08 PST

This piece was a 20 minute MS Paint job done specifically for the purposes of validating my off-topic remarks on a forum thread.

But that doesn't mean you can't appreciate the piece for what it is, right? 8D

Capoeira sticks

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:58:30 PST

Preview pic unrelated. From now on, if I have to use a preview pic, I will use this one!

If you don't trust that this is actually an animation, at least click [link]

This is such a lazy flip-book animation. But I thought what the heck. Been a while since I did something like this.

Since it was a .gif I decided to be a little lazy and as it's just a concept, well. I got really impatient at the end so forgive the choppiness.

I note that not many people animate capoeira. If at all. I think all I've ever seen was like five seconds' worth in something done by Ryanide and...Capoeira Fighter 3.

Well...since this was stick figures done in two days, it's more like fifteen seconds but yeah. Hope it's not too bad.

Strop's Banhammer

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:15:26 PST

Having changed the appearance of the banhammer so that it is now a little more family-friendly, I drew up this page. It's a very big page because it has a few sketches on it etc. etc. which demonstrate how Strop actually uses this thing.

One thing that bothered me about action-based comics is that certain characters had very unusual weapons, and all that was emphasised was that their weapon was also used in an unusual way. BUT COULD THE AUTHOR TELL ME HOW!? Probably not.

I'm the kind of person who likes a method to his madness, so while this weapon is unusual, I tailored it to usage. As it's symbolic and use in proper context is highly regulated, so too is the use of this banhammer.