mix 'n' match

recently i've been thinking that it would be great if the 3D character models could carry over from game to game on PS3 or xbox 360 the way a "Mii" can on nintendo wii. specifically, it'd be great to play skate 2 as street fighter 4 characters.

you could do the same thing with 3D environments, too. how great would it be to bring in your skate physics and ride around inside a halo level? or star wars battlefront?!

dude, i can't wait for the future.

ryu wins. perfect.

actually, this comic was going pretty well - maybe i'll still finish it. this comic was inspired by my early enthusiasm for street fighter 4. i wanted to draw some of the characters, but didn't have a plan.

this comic is the most recent in a long tradition of art depicting the death of my former coworker "hays." back in college, i made a terrible geocities website to host all these "dead hays" drawings and comics, a site which will probably have dissolved by the time anyone ever clicks this link: website of dead hays.

UPDATE: free geocities pages have indeed become defunct.

film critique

i had originally included edward norton's american history x tattoo as another way to tell the 2 hulks apart, but that doesn't work out so well when you accidentally give it to both of them in the same panel.

i think the reason i never finished this one was that the references were becoming increasingly obscure and i didn't know how to get past the escalating violence. sometimes i'm not "making a comic" as much as "drawing people fighting" with a tacked-on ending.

aimless comics #1

i realized today that this comic, which i totally believed i'd finish one day, has been sitting in my "immediate-access" drawer at work for over a year. just now, blogging, i realized that "droor" is not a word.

this would have been a sequel to parts one and two, if there had been anyplace to take it (wow, i really enjoyed using "anyplace" as one word just now). unfinished, you can see all the mistakes that normally i would have photoshopped out.

in case you don't know, daxflame is a hilariously awkward kid with a (fake?) youtube channel.
my favorite dax videos include:
1. halloween special
2. a convienient truth
3. a christmas carol's dead

the scooter reference comes from his other channel, BerniceJauchTalk.

bar-bar-bara anne

i find it odd that conan the barbarian, a model of masculine instinct, has bangs. how often does he get them trimmed?

this is also the day that i decided it's fun to draw wolverine's hair, but not his mask. those wings on his head don't make spacial sense - no wonder the movie had to skip the costumes.

in the bottom right is my freehand attempt at the weapon x helmet. the ones on the left were referenced on google images, but even then you can't really tell what's going on. still wish i was better at tech gibberish.

free (notepad) association

a random sampling of some things i think about over the course of the day.

spider-man practice.

what if all these poses were part of one fight sequence against just me? or, i dunno, a dance routine.

arf.

this page started out as rorschach practice, but when i moved on to an action shot (top right), i got hung up on why my dogs don't look right. 13 dogs later, i'm not sure how much closer i got.

eventually i worked my way back to the watchmen theme, but not before being compelled to copy john locke's pose from a LOST promo i happened across.

who doodles the watchmen?

last week, i had been working out how to draw "nite owl" from the watchmen, as the release date of the movie drew nearer and my excitement built, so he was where i started at our weekly meeting.

somebody must have mentioned star trek, cause captain picard and diana troy also showed up.

the female superhero is my attempt to remember atom eve's costume (from the comic "invincible"), but i forgot that she wears long sleeves and no skirt. not bad for freehand, though, i think.

and lastly, 2 more recent attempts to recreate the arm-break scene in watchmen. of course, nite owl wasn't in costume in the real scene, and this is the costume from the comic book, not the movie, but i can draw whatever i want, so leave me alone.


and speaking of watchmen, here are some earlier costume doodles, starring my good friend greg steele as the comedian and the undoodlable kyle almas as ozymandias. you can see i tried and tried to work out a way to draw kyle's face, but to no avail. that giant head looks nothing like him and is inexcusable.


i don't know if this is more or less flattering, but i really like it. a lot.

metroid mania

clearly during one of my nintendo DS spells. cameos by daxflame, dana snyder in a astronaut costume, an elf and an ogre. why? i just don't know anymore.