Tasuke ni kita yo 助け に 来た よ

欲 頑張ってた ね。
Yoku ganbatteta ne.
気 着けて 御帰り。
Ki tukete okaeri.
The Theme song that really made me love Gin:

Read this song's translation it is sad , beautiful, and haunting.

I :heart: Ichimaru Gin (市丸 ギン). And Shinsou (神鎗) was fun to draw.

Drawn with: Prussian Blue nuPastel
Kneaded Eraser
Chamois
Love

Also, the card! A picture of DOG. Drawn with: Water color on arches paper, masked with masking fluid to get that 'silk screened' look. Actually, that was an accident.

Both drawn for the author of the web-comic Pomegranate Milkshakes. Hooray!

Happy Birthday, Sausage!

(Amfrony, is my Japanese correct?)

Tanks!

It's Tanks-giving! The holiday where we go out into the woods, blow innocent birds away with our caterpillars treaded panzerkamphwagons and go home to give gifts of tanks to each other.
Or not.
Oh well!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

And here's a random picture of Sokka from Avatar: the last air bender.

Mercedes and Me

This is Jen's rat, Mercedes. This is Mercedes climbing all over me. She's a good girl, she just has bad eyesight.

Like my hair cut? OK OK, it's old hat news I know I know...

Manamana and Cat girls

Read left-to-right.
So I'm experimenting around with ink and white out and tone. Here is just an example of ink and white out, the tone is just some quickly done Photoshop gray scale.
Before scanning it my ink exploded all over the page; and so that's why the lines are kinda wonky in areas - used a lot of white out. And, oh the glory, the eraser in Photoshop.

I hope this reads. Aka you 'get it.'
It's going to be a short comic-story I hope to put into a small collection and sell off at ComicCon '08 and also give to people as a portfolio. :dances:
Oh and I got my hairs cut. Short pixie cut. Yey.

MANLY things Astro Boy and Nietzsche

Because I don't want to shaft you guys I'll post some crappy sketches at the end of this... but first! A list of some of the AMAZING comics I've read in the past few days. Comics that INSPIRE. Comics that are EPIC.

It's a bird by Steven T. Seagle
Three others that I know have read his and have all said the same thing. MASTERPIECE. Just read it. It's awesome. It's intense.

Off Road by Sean Murphy
Great art. MANLY story line. Super funny. Overall: amazing! I read this in one sitting and felt the need to do MANLY things. 'Cuz, that's what it's about! Being manly and conquering nature! And then I looked down and realized that I was wearing a M.A.C. shirt. ...
I thought it meant Macintosh! Like the computer? But then I find out later that it's some LAME makeup brand. I don't wear make up. I'm manly.
But that's just the problem! Lately I've been swinging wildly back and forth between wanting to be girly and falling deeply into my natural state of violent tomboy.

I'm getting my haircut today, and for the past few days my internal dialogue (and believe me it IS a dialogue) has been something along the lines of: "I want it shaved! I want a bob! I want a flat top! I want a cute cut! I want to be Sigourney Weaver! I want to look like a girl!"
My mother is probably weeping. With joy or sorrow I know not, but it's taken her 20 years to at least get me to the halfway point. :sigh:
Oh yeah, and a lot of 'your mom jokes.' Rad comic.

I'm reading Blankets right now by Craig Thompson. SAD. VERY. but it's the size of a phone book and I'm definitely reading a comic book that big. And it builds character. I forsee getting nothing done over Thanksgiving break. Especially now that I have the entire first season of Avatar on DVD courtesy of Lyvia.

So, back tracking a bit, I go to the library to get some comics and a book called 'Death and Sensuality' that I've been trying to get for 4 months now. It's out 'til March. SUCK. Some professor must have it. So I get Nietzsche instead. And Astro Boy. And a comic with Dinosaurs tearing each other apart. I'm like a 12 year old boy! What is wrong with me!? :weep:

In recent news: http://arjandpoopy.com/
http://www.arjandpoopy.com/ep10.html
AMAZINGNESS.
What will they do next.

And... I'm re-living my childhood. Pinky and the Brain, Animaniacs, Histeria and ... Freakazoid!. Yes. Only two of those are on DVD. Pinky and the Brain is even re-airing! Sad times are upon us. Cartoons aren't what they used to be. This is proof that being politically correct is bad for culture! Yeah I know, I'm sad. Freakazoid needs to be on DVD right NOW. :dies: It's a weird obsession but it's hilarious.

And the pictures I promised:
Yeah yeah, I know they're old and crappy. Shutup.

A quick update

Just a doodle painting I did a few days ago. I want to do a few short stoy comics for ComicCon 2008 and sell then in a small collection booklet. This is a character from one of those stories; I like her. And she likes tomatoes. TOh-Mah-Toes. TOES.
We'll see how many pages get done. But I'm a fan of cheap staple binding; there's just something timeless about it...

Wagawagawaga...

:Dances:
How've you all been?
Yep, I'm updating! Again! :gasp shock:
First to start: Serious pictures! Mostly.
Figure drawrings.
A cat I painted like a YEAR ago. 3 hours, gouache.
Doodles I did when I should have been drawing the model...

I'm really starting to love Gin. He used to creep me out, but he's become a sympathetic character. Ironically. Don't look at the Japanese! I know I got at least two of the characters wrong... :cries:

He will take over the WORLD. And he's so happy about it!


I did not draw this! Jake drew this to show a friend of ours at a Halloween party who Spike Spiegel is. Because her boyfriend looks like Spike. Yeah. Look at those hips.
Go to Jake's Blog NOW. And then never come back because he blows me out of the freaking water. :cries:

That's it.
Now go 'way.