Hi there! Yeah, I know that I’ve been neglecting this site some, but it’s for a good cause! I’ve been working on bigger things!
I can’t share much about them now, but they include music composing, more work on that Wii game idea I had, and card game codenamed “Jacks Out The Window”.
However, it’d be pretty lame for me to end my first post in over two months like that, so here’s something new for you. A fan named Zach e-mailed the idea that Screenhog should meet Porky Pig, so here it is:
I was at a family gathering last night, and there was a dog there. The dog’s name was Duchess, and she looked like this:
Yeah, she was one of those Ewok-faced dogs, who’s breed I can’t remember the name of. Despite the fact that I’d expect a dog named “Duchess” to most likely be pretty snappy and mean, she was quite friendly.
It was rare that I was able to draw a dog while they were awake. Usually, when I’m trying to draw a dog from real life, they move around too much from place to place to get a good drawing, unless they’re sleeping. I have quite a few drawings of sleeping dogs, and it’s nice to have an awake one as a model for a change.
People should learn something new every day. Today, I learned that if the show had instead been called “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turkeys”, no one would have watched it.
A few months ago, I said to myself that I should design a blob monster of some kind. Blob monsters always looked kinda fun to animate, so today, I finally got around to designing one. The first few drawing attempts (top row) were pretty dismal, but I eventually found a design I liked.
He’s a little rough around the edges, but I like how he could go from being “totally disgusting” to “happy and only partially disgusting”. I hope I remember to animate him someday.
The question isn’t “Why do a quick sketch of an octopus on a swing set?”
The question is “Why NOT do a quick sketch of an octopus on a swing set?”
I was getting ready for bed last night, and I was struck with the idea that I should do a quick drawing of Yoda freehand. Do these kinds of thoughts ever happen to you?
Anyway, I got out a nifty variable-width inking pen I have, and just started drawing from memory. In about 7 minutes, this was the result:
Meh. He looked like half-Yoda, with a mixture of a gremlin and Tweeg thrown in. Not great… so today, I actually found pictures of Yoda and started again. 12 minutes later, I had this:
Better. It was still freehand with ink, which means that once you’ve drawn a line, you’re stuck with it, so I’m pretty happy with this. Light sabers never look right without color, though.
This has been a busier week than most, and coming to today, I knew I wouldn’t really have time to make a new thing for this blog, so I went searching through old stuff, and this caught my eye.
A few years ago, I had an idea for a card game entitled Prop Ninjas. The basic premise of the game was that there was a group of ninjas from a remote part of the world who wouldn’t just fight with regular weapons… they’d fight with anything they could get their hands on. One ninja might fight with a rabbit, and his opponent might counter the attack by fighting with a carrot, which the rabbit would eat and get distracted from the opponent’s real attack.
It was an interesting game idea, and not unlike Scribblenauts in some ways. I created 80 cards for the game, and playtested it with some friends. It was an okay game, but it was somewhat flawed, so I let it go.
Anyway, had this game been made, the cards would have needed illustrations, so I started drawing ideas of what the Prop Ninjas themselves would have looked like. Here are the concepts:
I’m devouring Scribblenauts at the moment, and while I intend to do a video game review of it later, my short review is that I definitely like it.
In the story of Humpty Dumpty, “All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again.” Am I the only one that has ever asked why they even let the horses try to put Humpty together again? They’re horses, for crying out loud… it’s not like they’re out in hayfields across the midwestern United States weaving hay into blankets or creating mud sculptures. They do not have a particularly delicate touch when it comes to arts and crafts… for that matter, they don’t even have thumbs.
Come to think of it, the story doesn’t even mention that Humpty is an egg… I wouldn’t be surprised if that weird little rhyme actually has some kind of deeper meeting or political statement or something. If “Ring Around the Rosy” is about the Black Plague, who knows evil lurks in Humpty Dumpty.
About 4 years ago, I was sketching up concept drawings for an animation idea I had, and I drew a goofy-looking gopher. I loved the drawing, but it was forgotten until today, when I was looking through my old sketches. I asked myself what he’d look like painted, and…
Here is he, with a side-by-side comparison of the original sketch. I’m glad I tried it, but I still like my original sketch better.
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