Thunderskull Lives!!!

Here it is my new tattoo. Megan and I decided that the 6th year anniversary was the ink anniversary, so we each went out today and voila! My inspiration for this was from a character I've been developing for a while now and my love of music. I like that it's open-ended so if I want to add onto it, it should be fairly easy. So here he is: The Amazing Dr. Thunderskull.

Danger! It's Electric!

Fear not, friends, for I am back and am indeed NOT dead. As TJ mentioned in a twitter post, I was in a car accident this weekend on my way back to Estrella War (if you didn't know, I'm in the Society of Creative Anachronism).

I am completely okay physically, but my car is totaled, so now I need to spend some time looking for a new one. I am a little bruised, a little beaten; but not broken, and never defeated. No matter what, this comic will be completed, and will be excellent. This is my goal, and this is my promise.

Just working on it...

The Process pt. 1

Well, working on pg. 9...still. Haven’t had a lot of time to tackle it the past couple of days, but I would put it at a 89% completion. Mainly the background is the beast of it. So, I thought I’d take this time to actually talk about the process I use when drawing this thing. First of all, anytime someone watches me work I get the “what the fuck are you doing?” reaction. I use a laptop to do all my work, and I use the little nipple in the middle. That’s right I like the nipple. My mouse crapped out 5 years ago and I never spent the $10 to replace it. I got used to drawing with the nipple, and I’m pretty damn good at it. I do all my “inking” in Illustrator; I’m a sucker for the vector art, and the point manipulation is easy to use and modify. Doing everything in layers allows me to pencil something loosely then throw it in and “ink” over it. Sometimes it does take a bit longer to do anything too detailed, but the result is something I’m very happy with.

Instantaneous

Man, it's been a...(insert adjective here)...couple of weeks. Been busy at work still; the christmas spirit still alive and well (buy, buy, buy). I haven't had a whole lot of time to do much else, but I was able to paint this batgirl for my brother.















I was able to get a couple more pages of the comic done too. That's the important thing. Um...I'll leave you today with a little of the Konamis band, and the lyrics to

'Instantaneous':

It's Instantaneous how I fell for you
you're made of spare parts and I was made for you
and you were made for me

I didn't find out until it's too late
I fell in love and isn't it so easy to see?

1,2,3,4,5,6,7 we get together always forever tonight
1,2,3,4,5,6,7 we know that'll be better than ever before tonight

It's like lightning how the spark ignites
it's electric running through my brain
my senses overcome me, it's driving me insane

It's Instantaneous how I fell for you
you're made of spare parts and I was made for you
and you were made for me

it's electric running through my brain
my senses overcome me, it's driving me insane