you wanna design a character

ask yourself these questions before you go into absurd stockpiling of stuff onto him/her/it

what does the character do?
how does the character do it?
what tools does the character use to his purpose?
and how does the character carry his tools around

who the character is is a base which doesnt concern me, the questions asked above are what distinguishes a functional character design from a random overload of decorations without a purpose

so if you feel upto it try a lil excercise

draw a character with these questions answered on him
the post it on devart with the questions and answers defined in the description and shoot me a link

ill come and post a critique

dont get me wrong, im not the best or the supreme authority, and there is no one solution to design direction, im just.. kinda bored, since is topped playing mmos, day has too many hours

yeah thats a title thatll raise an eyebrow or two

and heres why. so, last week my wife and i went to see tangled, and thoroughly enjoyed it...

riiight up till the very end when the biggest of all cliches happens... fake hero death.

after the movie my wife and i went on a rant as to how its friggin annoying so i started to think.. who the hell was the one who did it first and as i was flipping through movies in my memory i realised

JESUS!!!!

you cannot be annoyed by this cliche.... cause all those heroes are acting upon a simple imperative focused around a question.....

what yould Jesus do?

answer.. come back to life

and so all the movie and cartoon heroes are just following in the footsteps of Jesus ...

dammit....i cant even get properly pissed off at the cliche anymore ugh

okay lets see who will get the joke on this one as it has been making me laugh ever since it popped into my mind

one book or a movie that just must get made is:

little red riding hoods great pamplona adventure

and now we see who gets the joke XD

title says it all, so far i devoured the bare basics, lotr, harry potte , but i need to get my nerd on with more good fantasy witings ...sooooo,, hit me



okay thanx everyone , i just got me a great , massive list of stuff to read, now i gotta look into which ones of them i can get as audiobooks as im a great audiobook junkie, listening to a good book while drawing, rare things are as good as that

some people are utter morons XD, had to be said

so i was just rewatching the trilogy for a bajilionth time
after listening to audiobooks for the bajilionth time and something hit me

now this is true lotr geek teritory here so others might find this lil joke to fall on deaf ears

so--- you make a lotr real time strategy game

whaaats the slowest unit possible

huorns

send in a legion of huorns-----------------------3 days later theyll be there

aragorn : huorns-- CHARGEEEEEEEEEE
aragorn : um treebeard why arent they moving

treebeard: theyre charnging---- now dont be hasty




aah the stupid stuff that cracks me up

well i can tell you this, mmos arent for everyone and certainly not for me,

after destroying all my characters  and giving away and npcing all my gear i stopped playing dragonica and in the next 2 days i ended up making 6 ravine comic pages and a teaser image

i feel..... FREEEEEEEEEEEEEE

that monkey ifs finally off my back and now full force ahead

a small thought that made me chuckle


a knight comes to a bridge, he heard the rumors of a vicious troll living there, and so eager to carve his name and build his glory on the corpse of that troll he boldly descends to the creek ,
approaching the bridge he is surprised by the sheer amount of woodland creatures , he sees nothing under the bridge but a sign

i moved to the internet

a raging voice echoes through the forrest

DAAAAAAAAAMNNN YOU INTERNEEEET

okay so whats the most epic lost batle ever

king:  assemble me an army of scantilly clad fantasy warrior chicks we will win the war with their mighty poweeer

enemy: ----um get my archers

sound effect: ---- SHSHSHSHADDATHONK---AAARGY MY NIPPLECAPS WERE INSUFFICIENT TO STOPP THE ARROWS, HOOOOOW?????

king: --- oh fu%$  should have went for realistically armored army




seriously cracks me up, also what works for a chuckle---- imagine the scene of clash of armies in the first lots movie, just replace orcs with scantily clad fantasy chicks and turn on the elvish meatgrinder----

yikes--- practicality wins XD

so i was browsing devart and as i was looking at the nipple armored fantasy chick number 4353436 i realised something

fantasy chickes are like achilles

their bodies are invulnerable cept for their nipples and vaginal area
so aparently that what they were held for while getting dipped in river styx

my brain has too much random crap polluting it
so, yknow---welcome to my junkyard

so there seem to be some legal issues with giving ma high rez stuff, some chain of responsibility for copyright infringements if i do it

weird world, so for now imma have to keep them stuck to this site, but also apparentlly i can host them on my own... and thats something im avoiding like the plague----- im nerdy enough as it is

still il have to look into how big of a file can devart host and edit my uploads, if its large enough then theres no problem, but i will not be using torents to spread them, nope... those higher rezolution ones will neeeever be on a torrent XD ever.... shadap i know im right !

heureka,  a few days ago i realised i was a torrent and today it dawned on me, thisll solve a problem i was having for a while now,

since i never make prints of my fanarts--- legal issues, i dont own the characters, but have been asked for them many times, imma do something unusual,

imma compose a few yousendit files with high resolution fanarts

tmnt, harry potter motu , sailor moon and .. dunno if there were more,

and i would be thankful if someone who knew how to torrent them would make a torrent and send me a link to have pasted here for all who wanted to have those works as prints, now theyll be able to get them and have them printed


now, a fair warning, yes i know many will resell those prints and im ok with that, i dont care about it , its ther own decision so no need for links of this person or that person stealing my works, this is a gift for those who will apreciate it

the rest... its their life and their decisions

now, tomorrow ill post the yousendit links, those who can make a torrent and are willing to do it, id like a torrent link for other people to be able to take it

so anyone had lenovo laptop power cable burn ..... twice????

being left handed is becoming a costly business, second power cable went sparkly-smelly-flamey

but to lenovos credit.... laptop handled it without a glitch

so... wow... theres like a bajillion torrents with my compiled works ....from a free site....  sooo someone took the pics from here... a free site... and posted them as a torrent

yknow, so people can get it for free...

i mean i know piracy has gone insane.. but wow... DEVIANTART IS ALLREADY FREEEE

we live in a weird and isanely stupid world

i understand when i see comcis scanned there, thats atleast purposeful, its a theft, but as a theft it makes sense, but this just makes no sense


am i just getting too old to understand the world???



btw after checking the torrents content i gotta say it has more stuff that i have here so... whoever did that has more patience than i ever had

i guess my confusion speaks a thing or two about my own lazyness

title says it all i just noticed i have llamas... what.... the...$%&%
are llamas???????

and no i dont mean in the natural sense i mean in deviantart sense, WHAT AM I LOOKING AT HERE???????

and since i dont know when ill get the next hole in my schedule allowing me to draw for fun  between witchblade and ravine being pounded out i had to end the vote and do the drawing, but seeing the interest and this proving itself a real fun challenge to do something i dont usually do i decided to sdo these lil vote artworks more often so imma post a new vote journalas soon as some fre time presents itself..... yeah.... i reas from drawing.... by drawing.

i need professional help

so for fun imma take suggestions fora 2 million views artwork, suggest when ud like me to draw and what i see to be in greatest demand ill draw

why?..... cuz i never did this and it might be fun to dabble in topics i usually wouldnt touch with a 20 foot pole. this oughta be interesting

for all those who enjoy reading witchblade and angelus

i apologise for the lateness of issues... i had some thyroid problems diagnosed, and it took some time till i got a proper dose of medication that wouldnt leave me nauseated woozy weak and depleted...

now my medicine kicked in and im back in business but alas ill have to skip san diego comic con this year, i got to get my schedule
back under control and that means discipline

now for all who are interested in comissions please, refer to thisa site
one of my few best firends is helping me  with organising a mass of comission work so there u can order the comission and be sure ill get to them

cause at this moment my mails and all the sites im a member on are getting buried and i just dont have the time to reply all the   messages

id love to but im allready late w work schedule due to health

so for comissions go here

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back to work for me now ...ugh

so, linda and i spent us a day at the convention.. it was a busy hectic day, between roaming the con, signing stuff and calling to check about our bag...long story

at the very end of the day after top cows panel i was gonna sign at the arcana boots , sean being a good buddy of mine and i did an arc of kade which was my first published book

and there was not much traffic.. given to the fact that it was an hour before closing for the day... buut they did have a 21 inch wacom cintiq set up there and i wanted to see what that was like. i work on my tablet pc which is 12 inches and perfect

so i started messing around and that went on for 45 minutes.. as weirdly enough the pen that was there didnt have any buttons.

cintiq was borrowed from the wacom guys that were at the same stand and itt ended up being a doodling experience that was fun  for me and profitable for them as in that 45 minutes they sold a few of the 21 inch cintiqs

the reason why im even writing this is... apparently someone at arcanas booth was takin video clips of this

so this is how i do it without my brushes as i was lazy zo make any, except for the blender... that thing is set up in a manner of seconds

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this is the adress where you can see me bein dead tired but still veguely intreagued XDXDXD, linda doed have some photos of the process and of the finished pic too, ill see about uploading some of those

this one came as a surprise but cow made ravine prints  so well have those at tcbooth