Category: Doodling

And now we dance

There have been some rumors going around lately, and I’m happy to tell you all that they’re all true. It has taken a while, but now an event of super-sized proportions has come about, and I’m quite proud to announce… that I’ve written a new article.

Not what you were expecting? Too effin’ bad.

In any case, you know where to find it. It’s in the back with all the others. I have other things to discuss. Like last night. Here we are, big company meeting, and of course I’m not listneing. See, they’d left paper and pens on the tables, and true to form, I spent the evening doodling. In itself, not worthy of mention, but it’s what came about halfway through that amazed me. People at my table were awed by my stuff, and I guess word traveled through the room, cause at one point, people were crowded all around the table to take a gander at my stuff. I was honoured by a few people asking if they could have some of my stuff, and even did a few (free) comissions. By God, I’ve gotta improve and start charging. Anyhow, I’m gonna post all the stuff that wasn’t given away as the February edition of the Work Blog, so be prepared for that to happen anytime soon. I think that’s about all I needed to say for today.

Of shitty crossovers

Just posting to let ya know that I added seven (six, really) new pics to the second art gallery. Most are of a single nature, while some are original, and is the horrifying result of my tendency to “improve” other people’s ideas. Other than that, nothing doing.

I would like to bring up the point that, when using the Opera browser (which I currently use), the post titles show up all small and wrong coloured. They look fine in Internet Explorer, and I’m sure it’s a simple matter of a misplaced < div >, but damned if I’m going to figure it out. Maybe I’ll do that tomorrow.

Speaking of tomorrow, expect my final impressions of the Nintendo DS. Later on in the week I’ll be bringing up some other choice items, such as Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Viewtiful Joe 2 (the latter of which has gotten more attention than than both Metroid and the DS, amazingly). All great stuff, and I’m even gonna try my hand at some videos, so make sure you check back daily or so.

Tweaking on Pepsi and sleep deprivation…

Yeah. Not feeling too good right now, and very very twitchy. As you can see above, new banner is made, but looks like crap. Sorry, accidentally saved it as JPG and don’t have copy of source image. I’ll fix it tomorrow… later… or something. And I’ll add up some new pictures and such to the gallery between now and Wednesday. Holy crap, need sedative. Scanner for birthday, and working nicely. That is where my new gallery posties come from. I’ve told you they’ll be there, so not gonna make a new post when I put ’em up. Even this post is containing very little. Must stretch out longer, but want to go run in circles. I drew two really cool things today. A battle-damaged robot man and a cowboy. The cowboy is bad ass. He’s got a huge chin. And stubble. Those will be up, and there will be different drawing phases of them too. Like penciled, inked and colored and that stuff. Not going to go into CG for them though. I like the hand-done stuff good. OK, that’s enough for now, I need to go run a few laps around something. Adios.

Looks like I made it

I go to the cottage for four days, and look what happens. My hit counter made it to 1000! Huzzah! I am the new Webmaster Grand Champion*. I guess this deserves some kind of celebratory something. Maybe I’ll learn Flash and make an animation by tomorrow. Nah, too much trying invoved with that. Instead, I’ll just whip up some kind of article or something. Actually, that shouldn’t be too hard… I have just recently acquired some great material…

Anywho, my birthday is in about ten days. Buy me this. Seriously. I’ll be getting a scanner in no less than that amount of time, so I’ll be able to add tons and tons of my “artwork” to the site for all to see and critique. I drew a few “comic strips” this weekend that I really like, so you can expect to see those up right as soon as I get that scanner. Those, and a whole art book full of crap that contains a lot of drawings and sketches, even some from years ago.

Now why am I getting all excitied about being able to scan up my art book? Well for one, I love to draw. And when I draw something that I like, I want people to see it. Drawing is my single greatest passion. I may love to play video games and writing for this site, but I love drawing even more than those. I’m very much an artist, and I guess subconsciously I started this site mainly to show off my work. And rant. I love to rant too. Not necessarily angry rants like most people do, but just ramble on about stuff that nobody would really care to hear otherwise, like this. Putting my ideas into words or pictures and putting them up for everyone to see. I really wish I could put those doodles I did this weekend up now. They’re not too original or funny but I like them. It’s probably because they mainly feature my oddball personality.

Getting back to things I can do now, I’ll have a new article up sometime tomorrow. I promise. It will be done, come sleep or Mario Sunshine. I’ve been playing that a lot lately, and after five whole days sans-Cube, I’m need a lot of CC’s of Nintendo goodness. I predict it’ll be up either just before noon or around 5-ish. There’s no way I can tell for sure, but I’m starting to think this paragraph is getting to be more procrastination than explaination. So it’s off with me for now. I’ll catch you alls on the flip side.

*Ryan is in no way the Webmaster Grand Champion

Of things that should come

I’ve totally forsaken sleep for it, but it brings me great joy to present you with the very first CG strip of my “Spare!” comic. I made it all by myself. Click for proper-sizedness.

As you may have been able to tell, I did it in MS Paint, like so many before it. I just don’t know how to use any of the advanced tools in Photoshop to make it look all pretty and such. But how I made it isn’t important. It’s why I made it. And Hell if I’m going to explain that.

I said I’d post again today, but this isn’t what I’d intended to put up. See, I was reading my new favorite webcomic “Real Life”, and decided I should go back to producing my own comic. Then I realized that I’ve totally lost all will and patience to draw. The problem is: I need a class to slack off in. Seriously, math class was one of my most productive comic-drawing times. But now that I’ve defeated high school, I have no proper comic making environment. It’s just not the same, and I discovered while making this one, that if I were doing it on the computer rather than by hand, I’d have a much easier time (thank the G man for copy/paste!) producing it. So I guess that I’ll have to learn Photoshop skills if you ever want to see more than this little teaser of sorts.

A little behind the scenes commentary: The last line used to be different, but I felt this new one was more sarcastic, and therefore would better suit the character’s personality. To see the original ending, you’ll have to get your mitts on my holy notebook or wait for the DVD.

I think that’s about it. I’ll post again tomorrow. I hope.

Pride

Some of my art has been posted. Search the fanart galleries here to see a couple pics. Of course they’re in the Gallery already, so you’ve probably already seen ’em. Nothing else yet, but soon. Very slowly am I extending my influence on the internet like some sort of harmless plague. The new article isn’t exactly an article, and you may feel a bit cheated this coming Sunday, but I think it’s good enough to pass as a proper submission. The comic is going to be up soon. I’ve got a few strips ready, and enough drafts to cover myself for a year and then some at a rate of one a week. So that’s what I’ve deemed worthy to be mentioned today. More to come tomorrow. Maybe.

~Ryan out.

Ride the wind

I’ve got a lot of new material for articles, and my comic may finally make it to the web sometime this week or next. It all depends on how motivated I am. I’ve drawn some really great strips today, and I’d love to put them up for everyone to see. On a competely unrelated topic, I’ve fired off fanart into the deepest reaches of the internet, and I’ll keep you up to date on when they make their appearances. Of course, most of it is already in the Gallery, so don’t expect much new stuff. I just like the idea of being able to show my work on other websites.

~Ryan out.

Man of action

Upon the advice of several of my friends, I have decided to start a comic of sorts. Now, before you go gettng all hyped up, it’s not going to be very consistent, because I’m like that. I might have one every two weeks or so at best. As for now, I have 4 rough sketches and one ready to scan strip. Everyone who’s seen ’em so far thinks they’re pretty good, and the best part is that they’re 98% true! I can’t remember the exact dialogue of some situations, but the events all actually happened. And they might end up sketched or done up in Paint, it all depends on time and how much effort I feel like putting in. I might even have one up by the end of next week. In other news, Christmas is close and you can expect to see what kind of cool stuff I get. Sorry if it’s a bit redundant, but it’s an easy article and I take ’em where I can get ’em. Speaking of which, I have work to do! Later.

~Ryan out.

For the love of 2D

Just after I finished up that last post I opened my inbox and found a delightful little pic I drew at school recently. It’s total crap, but I decided that I’d like to put it up anyway, just for the sake of being able to make a new post and so I could have a more filled-out gallery. Course, there’s some other stuff that shouldn’t be there that I could put in there. And who knows, maybe I will. Maybe I will.

~Ryan out.

Pictures he drew

I’ve got a new program which I can use in conjunction with Paint to produce any type of graphic file I want. It’s called GIMP, and it’s pretty cool, but rather complicated. So if I get some time later today (may as well be tomorrow) I’ll work on the new pics, or I’ll just upload the sketches. Some are a bit inaccurate, but they look pretty good in the end. And the new article can no longer be held off. I think I’ll just mix a few pics together rather than creating hardcore pics so that I can post it up faster. So that’s what I’ve got planned for the next couple days. Until my next post, adios!

~Ryan out.