Homo-Robotica!

The term "homo-robotica" refers to the general topic of homo-sapiens-like robots. Such as this character I drew for my d&d group.

Alder is a robot with a penchant for smiting evil and pretending to eat food.

That's right. D&d. It's what the cool kids at frog design do when they're not reading comic books...*pushes up glasses and grabs a fistful of cheetos*

So Much Pressure

I'm back on the pill. That's right, the blood pressure pill, because apparently eating handfuls of salt is not the best for your heart. So now I take half a pill before I consume vast quantities of sweet sweet salt.

Anyway, picked up Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters and The Ghost Map in the middle of the day because the current work project is actively destroying the thinking center of my head parts. Harrible, just harrible!

So to combat my high blood pressure and relieve the megrim of the word day I picked up my painting utensils and painterated! Also, a sketch! Double-whammy!

Fanciful! Wondrous! Tree-ey!

Thugs love cricket bats, binoculars, and over-sized walky-talkies.

Tea hee!

Just finished drinking two pots of tea and my hands are shaking and i don't think i'm going to bed tonight but hey i started sketching out the subject of my next painting and it seems like it'll be nice but who knows right oh and here is a quick sketch of a man named truth based on the song by the monsters of folk which i would link to but i'm oddly lazy at the moment hey i'm hungry i think i'll make a sandwich with some hard-boiled eggs i made the other day oh man i'm tired

Sneak preview

kinda a bag of Ds.

People Open Windows

The steroids are kicking the rash's assssssss, so I spent the weekend cleaning up the apartment because it looked like a hobo exploded and left his crap all over the place. Kinda surprising how good I feel when the fridge has been emptied of all hazardous material (an astounding 3 dozen rotten eggs this time!) and everything is in its right place. I feel very responsible.
So today was the kind of day where you cook up a good lunch (left-over homemade okonomiyaki), play some Prince of Persia 3, listen to Joe talk about the past five seasons of Lost for a few hours, try a new chocolate cookie recipe, read your niece a few books, watch some infuriating Mad Men, and finish off the most ridiculous piece of fanboy art ever. A fine day indeed.

Oh, the fanboy art? So awesome!

Daredevil can see – with his heart!

Despite the subject, this is probably my best marker work to date. I don't know what that says about my motivation.

That was fun

So the aforementioned mosquito bite was cured by the antibiotics by wednesday. by saturday, however, i became aware of my allergy to the antibiotics. I became aware when i got overwhelming tired at my sister's (so tired i left before eating dinner – what?!) and spent the rest of the night shivering and piling on the blankets as a headache split apart my face. I became further aware when I couldn't get out of bed for the next two days, broke out in a full body rash that left my body looking like someone dumped pizza sauce all over, and had energy only to listen to episodes on hulu.

But now I'm on new meds and I have enough energy to at least post again. And post this!

Perhaps a new painting, perhaps a waste of your time. Or perhaps both!

Immediately after doing this I had an idea for another daredevil piece. It's so ridiculous that i have draw it. So I apologize ahead of time for anyone that cherishes that marvel franchise. But seriously. So. Good.

Marvelous!

A quick note:

Last thursday I swatted a mosquito away from my itchy left hand (the hand I use to do everything. EVERYTHING). The next day, there was slight swelling, but nothing i could say was beyond an allergy. As the day progressed, something was definitely going awry, as I asked a friend, "What kind of elephant man crap is happening to my hand?" along with my sister confirming that yes, I really should see a doctor.

So I asked my brother, who is a doctor. Yes, he said, that is not normal and should be taken care of immediately.

Wimmy wam-wam wozzle, a hospital trip and several days of antibiotics later I'm back. The drugs have me sleepy almost all the time, but that didn't stop me from attempting horrible drawings for the fazulak challenge. Fortunately, a few came out not bad, and although he wanted an acrobatic daredevil i felt like this was easily better:

Little known fact: Kingpin suffers from a disease that shrinks and cripples his left hand!

Double feature:

In the battle between East and West, people often forget the Darkseid.

Yeah, that last comment was terrible, but then again, I OWE YOU NOTHING! Hahahahaha...time to sleep.

Death and Icecream

Talked to Faz today and came up with the idea of asking him to ask me for sketches. I've always drawn whatever I feel like, so taking requests is really interesting to me. How will I draw Darkseid? What pose will I put Spiderman (or Daredevil) in? Who will they be kissing?

Point is, if you have anything you've been dying to see, or a spare minute to come up with something, let me know. Hopefully it'll get posted relatively soon.

They work hard. They play hard.

McMatt, the intern from last year and the tabletop gamer extraordinaire started work today, but I had no time to stop by and give him the welcome back slap to the face (as is the tradition at frog) because the project is reaching critical mass. Apparently I was sighing so much today that a coworker took me out and bought me some truffles (cinnamon/almond/chili and vanilla bean cream!), so that was quite a welcome break. Left at a good hour, made a potato and mushroom gratin, and spent the rest of the night drawing and finishing the above piece. I love having all this creative time, but feel guilty that i've stopped going to the gym and otherwise get out of the apartment.

Meh.