Illustration, Design, and Nonsense

Watch this dude swing man boy I tell you what he’s got a real wind-up just don’t ask him what he thinks about politics I tell you what.

A lot of times when I’m watching a sci-fi or action movie (or really, any movie) I like to play what I call the Coverage Ratio Game.

How much skin are the women vs the men showing? How practical is that, really? Does it make sense for this to be the case?

Then I switch the percentages and re-design all the costumes—sometimes in my head, and sometimes just down on paper.

This is especially fun for: any video game ever, any movie ever…I was going to list specific movies and games and then I realized that things like all of Final Fantasy and Soul Calibur and Tomb Raider and Resident Evil and things like Boob-slots in Armor or wearing fur-bras to war when everyone is wearing bulletproof vests and…this is no longer a sentence, this is just disappointment.

This guy, however, is rad because he is going to kick ass in shortshorts and asymmetrical drapery. He is a sniper and does not give any semblance of a fuck. His lady counterpart will be played by Milla Jovovich, who is wearing pants and a leather jacket.

Projecting, 2012.

Full-view for best effect. Oh tumblr, you and your image-compression.

(Continued from the inks from here.)

Sometimes I painstakingly plan through an illustration, and sometimes I get overtaken by a sort of ink-mania and scratch and pen and poke at an illustration until it’s done. This one was definitely in the latter category.

I am giving this the 24-hour-sleep-on-it treatment. It will make sense tomorrow.

And a prelim sketch for a more serious piece of artwork.

Occasional thought processes include:

1)”What would be the worst thing?”

2)”Ok cool draw that.”

An extremely accurate and serious self-portrait.

If you are having trouble finding me in a crowd, just be on the lookout for a short-ish, stocky female hadouken-ing steaks furiously.

The Lovely Annabel.One of Chelsea’s characters from Ruth and Annabel Ruin Everything, which you should totally read because it is hilarious and awesome.

This is a combination of fanart and Chelsea prompting me to use the word “dainty.”

Dainty.jpg.

Many moons ago, I promised Chelsea over at uglyfun that I would do an art trade with her. Our prompt was “dainty”, so I read some ladies mags at the gym to make me good and mad and then came home and drew this. This is part 1 of 2 of “Dainty.”

Our Lady of Perpetual Skullbashing.

Burn Out Your Madness

Let it burn, let it sear, don’t let it settle.

Sharp Tooth and Silver Tongue,2012.

Finally finished a version of this with colors that I like. Continued from the inks of this guy.

Sharp Tooth and Silver Tongue, ink, 2012.

Saw Avengers last week, which was pretty funny. I am more familiar with Norse mythology than the comic book canon, so I was immensely amused. So much fun! So many capes.

Regarding the former—I always thought Loki was more interesting out of the whole Thor vs Loki sibling rivalry. Hilariously, he and Thor do go on silly adventures and he tends to mess with everything and run intellectual circles around Thor (who, bless his heart, can destroy most things but is canonically not that bright) and Thor smashes things out of the way. They have bro adventures together and Thor goes “Let’s go kill that thing!” and Loki goes “No Thor you are too stupid to do this alone oh fine god” and manages to try to trick everyone and almost destroys everything and then Thor smashes everything and they go “VICTORY” and it is great. (In other news, I am almost done with my little Norse mythology folktale collection and this makes me sad).

So, yes, um. Loki fanart. Avast, internet!

Bizarre Spring Ritual, 2012

Coloring old doodles for practice whilst putting together some semblance of a unified mythos for all of these characters that I have puttering about.

They do spring a little differently over there, I guess.

She’s not necessarily bad per se, but she does freak people out.