A Smaller Ocean

It was a long weekend

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:51:00 +0000

And everything seems to be working. New layout that, at least on the parts of things you can’t see, is much friendlier to running multiple comics at once.

It’s also a little more interesting to look at than the last format, AND it’s still pretty sweet to look at on an iPad.

You may notice that some posts have traveled back in time. There’s a long and technical explanation for why I did this, but the nutshell: I wanted to give some impression of progress, so the old (pre-2009) images were pushed back to whatever year I did them in. Anything old that I discover from here on in will get posted when I find it. Or at least, I’ll mention it and post it where it’s supposed to go in the gallery.

Or something.

I am so damn tired.

Sam & Max 303 for the dark, smoke-filled office

admin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:52:21 +0000

Somebody had said the Sam & Max 303 picture made a kickass wallpaper, so here you go – high res for the discerning private investigator.

Sam & Max Episode 303: Sans Max

admin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:17 +0000

I’m a sucker for noir, and upon hearing that one of my favorite video game series is going hard-boiled for its latest installment, I had to do something.

… I’m still working on other stuff, guys. Really!

Are unicorns, by definition, un-manly?

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 23:45:31 +0000

It was the girliest thing I ever drew, and there wasn’t a girl anywhere near it.

Which isn’t entirely true, since it was a girl that made the request on DeviantArt. She asked for a picture of one of her characters as anything I could think of, be it a “bad-ass with a knife or a man in a unicorn suit.” I figured, hey, I could use the practice. Unfortunately, it was a week and a half before I actually got the time to sit down and draw it.

My schedule opened up this morning, so I fired up IllustStudio and got to it. One hour later, a manly beer-powered unicorn – a compromise between unicorns and bad-assery.

Though some might insist unicorns are the dark horse of manliness.

Metal Gear Saiban

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:42:22 +0000

In the “Let’s Play Metal Gear Solid 2!” thread on SomethingAwful, a forumgoer by the name of Beastruction suggested Revolver Ocelot would become “Resolver Ocelot” were he to become a judge. Franziska obliged with a rendition of the Judge as Resolver.

I felt it necessary to continue this idea.

Ultimately, it led to a fantastic remix by fivegears4reverse.

THE PROJECT continues: Tuesday

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:41:18 +0000

Still working on concept art and characters for THE PROJECT, which will probably end up trumping Dead Clowns as my debut story because it’s become more interesting.

Then again, I might just combine them somehow. WHO KNOWS?

Also this should auto-post to LiveJournal. Not sure how well that’ll work out, but there’s only one way we can know for sure. That said: I’ll be making some attempt to integrate LiveJournal and this site to make comments more easily accessible. I know not everybody uses email or wants to bother with it, and it’s not exactly the most social way to hear from you guys – but then when I had this site open to comments, it was either spam or utter silence.

So! Maybe that’ll work out.

And it’d be good to have an actual comment system in place once the comics start up for real, so there’s that.

Warmup for wanton destruction

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:44:10 +0000

A quick warmup sketch for a bigger piece of fan art I’ll be doing later. You may recognize this … white-ish rabbity thing from a certain crimefighting duo.

Remember kids: pinky out! Justice never sacrifices proper etiquette.

Getting out of a slump: Muramasa Fan art

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:40:23 +0000

I got almost nothing done during the month of February – nothing fun, anyway – so I needed to break the artistic slump with something intensive. This is the first major color picture I’ve ever done, and certainly the first that didn’t rely on line art. Funny that it would be a fan piece for Muramasa, a fantastic game I played last year. After attending the Picasso exhibit in Philly (in spite of February threatening to make me cancel the trip with my dad), I decided it was time to pay tribute to George Kamitani with some painterly-looking technique.

So here we are after twelve-ish total hours and a staggering number of color tests. This is new territory for me so I’m still very slow, but I certainly wouldn’t mind more practice.

I also have a new appreciation for pink and purple.

Finale

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:26:03 +0000

Hourly Comic Day

admin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:36:24 +0000