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May 28, 2012
Thor: My fellow Avengers; it is my turn to go to the place you call the “super market” and buy the meat and mead we need for feasting after our victory. When my friends and I saw the Avengers film, my non-comic book reading friends laughed every time Thor swung his hammer to fly. Just prior to seeing the film I had ordered some new minimates sets from the ever awesome Luke’s Toy Store and knew when the sets arrived, I would need to do a pose like this and send it to them. Alas I couldn’t think of anything clever to have Thor say, nor did I feel I captured his speaking mannerism properly but hey hoo.

Thor: My fellow Avengers; it is my turn to go to the place you call the “super market” and buy the meat and mead we need for feasting after our victory.

When my friends and I saw the Avengers film, my non-comic book reading friends laughed every time Thor swung his hammer to fly. Just prior to seeing the film I had ordered some new minimates sets from the ever awesome Luke’s Toy Store and knew when the sets arrived, I would need to do a pose like this and send it to them.

Alas I couldn’t think of anything clever to have Thor say, nor did I feel I captured his speaking mannerism properly but hey hoo.

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May 24, 2012
The Summoning of the Sea Serpent ————— Okay, lets get this out there. Lego is made of win and awesome. Granted I think it’s one of the factors as to why I haven’t had a date in over two years (though I have been busy being awesome). … What was I talking about? Oh yeah, Lego. It is awesome. A few months back I saw this My Own Creation (MOC) on tumblr and decided to re-blog it, as one does on tumblr. Then, while sitting in the longue watching TV I decided to sketch my own version. As you can see, the rough lines of the summoner can still be seen and I feel the anatomy could do with a bit more work (I do feel the limbs are a bit short). Additionally, the sea serpent/leviathan is also quite short. I wasn’t too sure how I wanted his body to curve, which is why there are two sets of lines. However, this also flags up the problem with using an A5 sketch pad; lack of room to have a creature such as that tower over the man, especally if I want to do my own spin on the Lego set. I did start to re-draw it in a slightly larger sketch pad I have but I have made the summoner too big so I don’t think it will balance out properly… Still, now that it is scanned in I should hopefully be able to finish it in the glory I originally imagined.

The Summoning of the Sea Serpent

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Okay, lets get this out there. Lego is made of win and awesome. Granted I think it’s one of the factors as to why I haven’t had a date in over two years (though I have been busy being awesome).

… What was I talking about?

Oh yeah, Lego. It is awesome. A few months back I saw this My Own Creation (MOC) on tumblr and decided to re-blog it, as one does on tumblr. Then, while sitting in the longue watching TV I decided to sketch my own version.

As you can see, the rough lines of the summoner can still be seen and I feel the anatomy could do with a bit more work (I do feel the limbs are a bit short). Additionally, the sea serpent/leviathan is also quite short. I wasn’t too sure how I wanted his body to curve, which is why there are two sets of lines. However, this also flags up the problem with using an A5 sketch pad; lack of room to have a creature such as that tower over the man, especally if I want to do my own spin on the Lego set. I did start to re-draw it in a slightly larger sketch pad I have but I have made the summoner too big so I don’t think it will balance out properly…

Still, now that it is scanned in I should hopefully be able to finish it in the glory I originally imagined.

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May 24, 2012
Generation 7 Noir Odonic ————— Long time followers of my work may recall my old spriter days; heck about fifteen minutes ago I uploaded a sketch of my original OC from those days. Anyway, while my art style, names of characters and general direction in both my creative and personal life have changed since I first started playing with pixels back in 2002 (jeez…) my characters have stayed with me one way or another. Noir was originally a re-colour Sonic character created purely for one storyline with the intention of throwing her away when done. However as time went on and through discussions with my good friend StanleyDeimos, I decided to revive her. Since then Noir has gone on to be a staple character in my work (or at least I intend for her to be, even though I’ve done nothing with it for a while). A few weeks back I decided to scrap my current “Generation” and the idea from another, more relaxed comic I did during THOSE days and along with various other OCs, Noir will be carried over. I decided to therefore have a play with sketching her and, well, here is the result. Body wise I’m really happy with how she came out. Granted I’m not fond of how I’ve done the bust and the clothes need finalising but all in all I’m happy with it. However the face… Yeah. That was something I added on a few days ago (until then she looked like The Question, and if you don’t know who he (or she), you fail! Stop reading Batman books and look at some of DC’s other heroes (Booster Gold says hi).) and while initially I didn’t mind it, when I looked at it after scanning, well, I think I may have issues sleeping tonight and it’s not due to the heat (though my body is water/ice based, so I can be defeated by anything about 25 degrees). Sufficed to say, that needs revising.

Generation 7 Noir Odonic

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Long time followers of my work may recall my old spriter days; heck about fifteen minutes ago I uploaded a sketch of my original OC from those days. Anyway, while my art style, names of characters and general direction in both my creative and personal life have changed since I first started playing with pixels back in 2002 (jeez…) my characters have stayed with me one way or another.

Noir was originally a re-colour Sonic character created purely for one storyline with the intention of throwing her away when done. However as time went on and through discussions with my good friend StanleyDeimos, I decided to revive her. Since then Noir has gone on to be a staple character in my work (or at least I intend for her to be, even though I’ve done nothing with it for a while). A few weeks back I decided to scrap my current “Generation” and the idea from another, more relaxed comic I did during THOSE days and along with various other OCs, Noir will be carried over. I decided to therefore have a play with sketching her and, well, here is the result.

Body wise I’m really happy with how she came out. Granted I’m not fond of how I’ve done the bust and the clothes need finalising but all in all I’m happy with it.

However the face… Yeah. That was something I added on a few days ago (until then she looked like The Question, and if you don’t know who he (or she), you fail! Stop reading Batman books and look at some of DC’s other heroes (Booster Gold says hi).) and while initially I didn’t mind it, when I looked at it after scanning, well, I think I may have issues sleeping tonight and it’s not due to the heat (though my body is water/ice based, so I can be defeated by anything about 25 degrees). Sufficed to say, that needs revising.

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May 24, 2012
Minx Hamusta ————— Many moons ago when dinosaurs roamed the earth and all machinery was powered by steam, I mentioned I had passed on my old OC, Minx the Kung-Fu Hamster/Minx Hamusta to a former contact of mine in the spriting community, :devAkumaTH:. I also stated I would draw a picture of him as a final send off (though later came up with the idea of doing Minx vs Akuma; three guesses how well that’s gone). Well despite the on-again-off-again artist block I have constantly suffered with I have succeeded in at least starting this picture. And thus, like with everything else I have drawn in 2012, it gets added to my gallery with the “Rough Sketch; please give me helpful critic so I can improve upon it when the moon turns blue and I actually carry on working with it” stamp I have often used. ————— Honestly, I’m happy with how this has come out. The anatomy, which I often struggle with is generally good and I like how his clothes have been done. Sure his neck may be too long, he has no hair, his face could do with work and his hands are too small and have no detail, but I am generally happy with what I have done so far and hope, unlike my other pieces, I can actually move forward with this one. Plus, it felt good to go back to Minx. I’ve been meaning to revise his sprites a little more to help Akuma (even though it breaks a small vow I made with myself) but honestly, the  character vanished from the line light in my work as time went on, so it was good to put the spotlight back on him. If you never saw the original article, it can be found here.

Minx Hamusta

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Many moons ago when dinosaurs roamed the earth and all machinery was powered by steam, I mentioned I had passed on my old OC, Minx the Kung-Fu Hamster/Minx Hamusta to a former contact of mine in the spriting community, :devAkumaTH:. I also stated I would draw a picture of him as a final send off (though later came up with the idea of doing Minx vs Akuma; three guesses how well that’s gone).

Well despite the on-again-off-again artist block I have constantly suffered with I have succeeded in at least starting this picture. And thus, like with everything else I have drawn in 2012, it gets added to my gallery with the “Rough Sketch; please give me helpful critic so I can improve upon it when the moon turns blue and I actually carry on working with it” stamp I have often used.

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Honestly, I’m happy with how this has come out. The anatomy, which I often struggle with is generally good and I like how his clothes have been done. Sure his neck may be too long, he has no hair, his face could do with work and his hands are too small and have no detail, but I am generally happy with what I have done so far and hope, unlike my other pieces, I can actually move forward with this one.

Plus, it felt good to go back to Minx. I’ve been meaning to revise his sprites a little more to help Akuma (even though it breaks a small vow I made with myself) but honestly, the  character vanished from the line light in my work as time went on, so it was good to put the spotlight back on him.

If you never saw the original article, it can be found here.

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May 16, 2012
Easily my favourite scene in the film. This, along with his fight with Loki turned Hulk into a scene stealer IMO. lukestoys: My son asked me to recreate his favorite scene from #Avengers using Minimates. :)

Easily my favourite scene in the film. This, along with his fight with Loki turned Hulk into a scene stealer IMO.

lukestoys:

My son asked me to recreate his favorite scene from #Avengers using Minimates. :)