Daily Sketch Challenge...(aka My Tumblr is down)

A few of my internet artist-friends are doing a sketch for every single day of 2012. So far... so good...

Except... I have a Tumblr account that I post these daily-sketches; Which I've only had for about a month and a half (that I started using at teh beginning of this year-long experiment) and it is a LOT buggier than I'd like. Today, it flat-out won't update images at all. It's a real pain in the ass for something that promises to be a really easy blogging experience.

Well, since it's been hours and I still can't upload images, I'm doing it here.

To see everything I've done up to now, check out the Tumblr feed, Thepartyboatisalsohere (yeah, great title, eh?

There's also a February Daily drawing challenge over at the Satellite Soda message boards... I'm doing a 29 "panel" sequence for the month of Februrary. And that's what this image is for. it's day 7 of that story...

Don't make much sense? well, it might make sense on February 29th. Read it in context, That's over here...

And y'know, check out the amazing art by the people who got me into this insane YEAR LONG sketch challenge.

Captain Chants (Tumblr, website)
Shaz EggaBo (Tumblr, website)
Alex Picar (Tumblr, website)
Timmy Cupcakes (Tumblr... Hey Timmy, you got a website? lemme know. I'll plug it)
(there are more doin this challenge, but these are the folks I chat with most to keep me goin....)

Follow us all on Twitter with the Hashtag #366dpi

THEES WIK on der EPIK MEEL TIEM!

THIS WEEK ON EPIC MEAL TIME. We've got BURGERS! We've got LAZA-GUN-A! WE've got Bacon Strips and BACON STRIPS and

- - UND BIKUN STREEPS! Und Poppen Rockens! Und Cannz oof Soooder Poppens! UND

JACK DANIELS! That's Right! It's a Swedish Meatish Candy Glucose Explosion, all Wrapped up with Muppet Burgers in a LASAGNA!

First... Muscles Glasses... creating another special SAUUCE with his mind. Creation of Jack Daniels... Soda and Pop Rocks?! Stupid. But Smart.

- - Und next, we Makken de Bikkunny Streepins in der WEEVE... Wit Der Sauteeiny SOOOOOOOOSSSE...

That's Right! Bakin that Bacon in a Concoction from Muppet Labs, Savory SAUUUUUCE... Mutation Sautee Creation! Smart!

""GROWWWWWRRRRRR....""

- - OOO NUU! OOO, BIKUNY WEEVIL CREATURA HUMONGA!

Next time... we eat a Yip Yip... Yup... Uh Huh....

Seriously. How awesome would this be? The Muppets comeback is partially due to their awesome YouTube videos, and how cool would it be to have a Muppet Meal Time crossover with YouTube cooking show Epic Meal Time? This was drawn as a (very belated) birthday gift for my buddy Amanda, two of her favorite things is Epic Meal Time and the Muppets. She's also a real sport for having to wait this long for her damn birthday gift. so, Happy Birthday, Amanda!

Wibbly Wobbly, Timey Wimey, Matrimony

I don't always take commissions. But when I do, I make sure the project is awesome.

So when Joe dropped me a line and wanted his brother and soon-to-be sister-in-law flying away in the TARDIS, Just Married, with a bunch of Dalek and Cybermen parts dangling from the back (instead of tin cans)... I said Allons-y!

(Well, no, I actually said "yes" and then we talked price... but you know what I mean)

Viola.

A note of the image: I do have a scan of this image, it's in four parts (because the art was larger than my scanner) and I have to stitch it together in Photoshop. But the problem is, my computer currently can't do heavy lifting in Photoshop because it starts to overheat & sound like a plane trying to take off. I gotta get the computer fixed* So until then, here is a photo of the finished piece, framed, straight from the Alta, Timelord Bride herself!

Congratulations, Alta and Peter! All the happiest to you.

*or I might even need a new computer... :(

Protecting the world from evil.

How was it that this powerhouse duo came to be the protectors of this world? Lynn St. Martin remembers it thusly... "the way I remember it, Amanda expressed her hatred of sharks, I expressed my hatred of pandas (they are evil), and we offered to take care of the other for each other."

Thus began a century of a subtle blend of anarchy and justice. When asked about the violence against panda-kind, Amanda countered with "He had flames coming out of his mouth! What was I gonna do? Hug it?"

Fight on!

HOW ABOUT A LITTLE CROSS-PROMOTION CRAZINESS, PLAYA?!?

My good buddy Amanda is quite the intarweb social-media warrior. Community content co-ordinator of Spill.com, she also ranks among the earliest of Twitter-ers, and she has a vacation home built right on the cutting edge of Memes, Lulz & general internet tomfoolery, AND has an upcoming Video Game Podcast coming up on Lounge Geeks SOON! Smart!

I did this humble little drawing of her. See how casual she is about her rad-ness.

soon after this pic was taken, she turned into a blue lazer & flew into the air like Mega Man.

Follow her on Twitter!
Visit her on Spill!
Watch her show (eventually) on Lounge Geeks!
(and heck, because she turned me onto it, watch one of her favorite web programmes here!)

Another Album Art Mash-up: Dr. Who vs. The Clash

Fresh off the heels of creating an incredibly intricate mash-up Album "The Wire vs. The Beatles" I was looking forward to something a little easier to handle, So when my friend Beau requested a parody of the Clash's first album with the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Doctor, I could hardly contain my excitement. But art is never easy. This one had it's own slew of challenges.

title: Police Box & Thieves. (rejected title: Hate & Time War)

Namely, the inking... I like to have a nice clean, yet textured look to my inks. This album cover I thought would be a snap since the photo is all 100% black and 100% white, no greys... but there's a lot of splotchy almost-stippling-but-not-quite-stippling going on here that wasn't easy to duplicate. But, duplicate it, I somehow managed to do.

Here's a colored version (I freaking love that it only took me one minute to color this piece)
and the original, for reference.

This is not the last Album Art Mashup that I will do. I plan to do MANY More.
(especially more Doctor Who ones) :)

A Mash-up of a different kind: The Wire vs. The Beatles

It began as a birthday gift to a friend (and it still is, BTW. Greg, pick this up already!) and ended as a return of an idea I wanted to continue since I did the "Dr. Who/The Who" album cover mash-up way back in '04.

Today, fine people, I unveil to you the newest Album Art Mash-up: taking The Beatles album "Revolver" and populating it with characters from HBO's "The Wire"

Go ahead, click it, zoom in and take a gander. That's over 30 characters, elements from opening credits, props and more (yes, that is the musical notations for "The Farmer in the Dell"), and over a month of sketching, planning, and inking.

(The big heads) Jimmy McNulty, William "Bunk" Moreland, Omar Little, Stringer Bell.
(The little heads) Jay Landsman, William Rawls, Commissioner Burrell, Major "Bunnie" Colvin, Tommy Carcetti, Lester Freamon, Kima Greggs, Leander Sydnor, Ellis Carver & Thomas "Herc" Hauk, Clay Davis (sheeeeeit), Augustus Haynes, Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski, Dennis "Cutty" Wise, Brother Mouzone, Rhonda Pearlman, Cedric Daniels, Wallace, Beadie Russell, Bodie Brodus, Poot Carr, Michael Lee, Namond Brice, Randy Wagstaff, Dukie Weems, The Greek, Spiros Vondas, Marlo Stanfield, Snoop, Chris Partlow, Bubbles (and family), Proposition Joe, Waylon, Maurice Levy, D'Angelo and Avon Barksdale,

It was a beast of an illustration, but DAMN I'm happy with how it turned out. And this won't be the last Album Art Mashup from me. Expect more in the near future.

(and for reference, here's the original... slight changes were made to layout to fit in people, and to keep certain groups of people together...)